Tag Archives: Sleep

Back Chat of Eternal Insomnia

Posted on June 21, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

So many of us spend countless hours into the we hours of the night staving off the limited hours until the morning light. Insomnia and its accompanying sleep exhaustion have claimed many of us and leading into less good than … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anxiety, Apartment, Audacity, Bed, Believe, Belong, Burn, Change, Chat, Clock, Company, Complexity, Connect, Control, Countless Hours, Cup of Coffee, Data, Do, Drone, Empty, End, Eternal, Eyes, Feel, Fellowship, Flex, Fog, Forget, God, Gone Wrong, Gothic, Gravestone, Gray, Guile, Hours, Humanity, Indignity, Infernal, Insomnia, Insomniacs, Keep, Late, Left Behind, Life, Lose, Lost Souls, Maniacs, Mind, Mistake, Mystical, Need, Night, Numb, Odd, Photograph, Piercing Mind, Poem, Poetry, Realize, Reasonable, Red, Relationships, Restoration, Rise, Rooftops, Seek, Shimmer, Sleep, Sleep Exhaustion, Sleeplessness, Slice, Sorrow, Sour, Surge, Tide, Time, Toast, Today, Tomorrow, Too Little Time, Torments, Tortured Souls, Trace, Unwilling, Virtual, Wake Up, Will, Words, World Peace, Yourself | Leave a comment

To Yet Be Wiser Than Yesterday

Posted on June 16, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

I can only wish, right? We can only wish? Well.. maybe some wishes do come true? To Yet Be Wiser Than Yesterday by Michael Doyle A held tongue leaves time to think Observing those things to be observed These often … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged A Little More Time, Animosity, Beautiful, Begin Each Battle, Best, Blackness, Blessings, Borrowed Time, Bring, Brink, Businss, Care, Ceiling, Contribute, Deep, Early Rise, End Each Night, Eyes, Felt, God, Head, Held Tongue, Humble, I, Infinite, Intensity, Knees, Know, Laying Back, Life, Loan, Lost, Make, More, Observe, Part, Photograph, Pillow, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Sleep, Sorrow, Stare, Sublime, Suffering, Swept, Thanking God, Think, True, Unchangeable, Undeserved, Unfair, Whisper, Wise, Wiser, Wish, Witch's Broom, Wonderful, Wondering, World, Yesterday | Leave a comment

On Being Eleventeen

Posted on May 25, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

My youngest daughter turns 11 tomorrow. She’s brilliant, witty, charming in her own ways and has a bright future ahead of her. Yes. I am a very proud father of both of my princesses. The only kingdom I … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Always Know, Answer, Attention, Beautiful, Become, Best, Birthday, Blind, Books, Brave, Brilliant, Celebrate, Change, Changes, Charming, Child, Communication, Confidence, Consideration, Cooking, Counting, Cuddle, Curled, Do, Ear, Ears, Eleventeen, End of the World, Eye to Eye, Eyes, Fascination, Fear, Feelings, Find, Friends, Good, Grow, Growing, Hear, Heart, Here, Hesitation, Important, Independence, Interests, Investigation, Joke, Kind, Know, Knowing, Learn, Learning, Like, Listen, Love, Loving, Magazines, Magic, Missed, Must, My Heart, Night, Nuance, Online, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pursue, Questions, Retention, Revealing, Right, Riled, Safe, Saturday, Search, See, Seek, Shine, Sleep, Stars, Step, Stretch Out, Surprise, Talk, Thoughts, Thoughts and Feelings, Transcendence, Treat, True, Truly, Trust, Turn To me, Walk, Watch, Witty, Wonderful, You, Young Lady, Youngest Daughter, Yourself | Leave a comment

Towards A Science of Yoga

Posted on May 24, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

More and more, my mind is increasingly turned toward the benefits and science of alternative medicine and self care such as meditation and yoga. To the degree that it does not conflict with Christianity, I cannot imagine where it … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adjustment, Alternative Medicine, Benefit, Body, Breath, Christianity, Connection, Correction, Day, Death, Delay, Detect, Difference, Ease, Evidence, Feel, Gain, Harm, Hatha Yoga, Heal, Health, Healthy, Imposture, Little Breaks, Management, Meditation, Mental Preception, Mind, Mind Body, Moments, Movement, Multiple Direction, Pain, Peace, Photograph, Please, Poem, Poetry, Posture, Prevention, Providence, Real, Reduce, Refrain, Science, Self Care, Sleep, Slow, Spine, Stress, Stretch, Temperament, Temple, Therapy, Useful, Way, Yoga | Leave a comment

The Wolf Knows Its Howl

Posted on April 23, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Enforced surveillance and censorship of the creative mind, particularly by oppressive government is nothing short of a crime against humanity. The Wolf Knows Its Howl by Michael Doyle When a writer must be brave To memorize just to save The … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Artist, Authority, Bitterness, Brave, Call, Censorship, Choke, Civilization, Conscience, Control, Creative Mind, Crevice, Crime Against Humanity, Cry, Culture, Dark, Days, Die, Education, Eradication, Falls, Fight, Free, God, Heart, Howl, Ink, Know, Labor, Light, Live, Mankind, Memorize, Night, Opportunism, Oppression, Paper, Pessimism, Photograph, Poem, Poet, Poetry, Poisoned Tongue, Power, Right, Save, Scrap, Shadow, Sheep, Sleep, Start, Stifle, Surveillance, Truth, Undertaking, Unmask, Watch, Winter, Wolf, Words, World, Writer | Leave a comment

In A Still Sleeping Place Inside My Head

Posted on April 4, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

The for the fourth day of NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo 2020 is: “…to write a poem based on an image from a dream”. … and so I did…. In A Still Sleeping Place Inside My Head by Michael Doyle The feeling comes … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2020, Above, Again, Angels, Another, Beauty, Become, Begun, Below, Beyond, Black, Bold, Bring, Center Point, Chance, Chorus, Circumstance, Connect, Count, Cover, Dance, Dancing, Dark, Deep, Dissonant, Dominion, Dread, Dream, Dreamers, Drift, Drop, Energy, Evil, Experience, Fear, Feeling, Flow, Foe, Friend, God, Happen, Happiness, Hard, Head, Hope, Hunt, Image, Integration, Intimacy, Jacked, Join, Lame, Learn, Level, Life, Light, Live, Marry, Mask, Merge, Mermaid, Mind, NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo, Numb, One, Photograph, Place, Poem, Poetry, Purpose, Reach Out, Real, Red, Reel, Relevancy, Revealing, Rip, Run, Sadness, Seal, Sing, Sleep, Slumber, Someday, Soul, Still, Supreme, Swirl, Syncrhonization, Tear, Thought, Times, Twilight, Undone, Unreal, Urgency, Vivid, Walk, Waltz, Want, Wax, White, Wild Card, World, Wormhole | Leave a comment

To Bring the Stars Closer

Posted on January 18, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

There are those who walk into our lives to not simply touch and fadeaway. There are those who from the moment met leave an indelible trace in your heart and soul. It is to this which has left me so … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Amaze, Attitude, Beautiful, Beauty, Belong, Brave, Bring, Change, Choose, Close, Closer, Compassion, Contentment, Control, Curl, Curled, Dare, Deep, Desire, Detail, Doubt, Dream, Duty, Embrace, End, Essence, Eyes, Fall, Fascination, Feel, Fools, Forgive, Forgotten, Friend, Give Up, God, Good Man, Grace, Gratitude, Harm, Heart, Heaven, Here, Hold, Hope, Illusion, Important, Inner, Inner Fire, Inspire, Latitude, Live, Look, Love, Lover, Lyric, Magic, Magnificence, Man, Mystery, Night, Obligation, Passion, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Praise, Pray, Purpose, Right, Risk, Serve, Significance, Silence, Sing, Sky, Sleep, Soul, Stars, Tears, Time, Token, Touch, Trace, Treasure, Truth, Violence, Watch, Ways, Weep, Well, Will, Wish, Woman, Wonder, Wonderful, World, Worth | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: When A Person Has Done Their Duty To Their People and Country, They Can Rest In Peace

Posted on January 1, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace. I believe I have made that effort and that is, therefore, why I … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Believe, Country, Death, Duty, Effort, Eternity, Inevitable, Nelson Mandela, People, Rest In Peace, Sleep, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

Llama Del Ray

Posted on December 9, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Happy National Llama Day 2019 to all my favorite llamas and those who love them! And that’s quite a lot of love when you think about there being something like 150,000 llamas in the United States alone…. Llama Del Ray … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Andes, Belong, Camel, Cameloid, Cheek To Cheek, Coquettish, Dance, Date, Drama, Dream, Family, Flair, Fun, Graze, Heritage, Inca, LLama, Mammal, Memory, Mountain Ridge, National LLama Day, Pajamas, People, Peru, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Range, Sleep, Song, Spitting Image, Steep, Stop, Strange, United States, Wind, Wool | Leave a comment

Between A Cookie and A Cake

Posted on December 8, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

December 8th is set aside by some and somewhat unofficially as National Brownie Day! That’s alright by me. When I was a kid I always thought brownies and chocolate chip cookies should be their own separate food group with still … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bacon, Bake, Bite, Cake, Calories, Chocolate, Chocolate Chip, Confection, Cookie, Count, Day, December 8th, Dream, End, Favorite, Head, Homage, Hot Fudge Sundae, Milk, National Brownie Day, Perfection, Photograph, Pillow, Poem, Poetry, Sleep, Smooth, Work Out | Leave a comment