Tag Archives: Slight

Slightly Out of Tune

Posted on April 22, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Softly Out of Tuneby Michael DoyleThe piano plays slightly out of tuneThe preacher is drunk, crazy as a loonA voice whispers hello old friendThe bemused look hints at the endLife is one continuing negotiationIt seems a program of collaborationIt is … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ashes, Bemused, Brave Enough, Cards, Collaboration, Conceal, Dealer, Decisions, Door, Drunk, End, Free Will, Heresy, Illusions, Irony, Life, Loon, Masquerade, Matters, More, Negotiation, Old Friend, Played, Poetry and Poems, Preacher, Regrets, Scorched Earth, Secrets, Skeletons In Closets, Skill Sets, Slight, Tatters, Tune, Victory, Visions of Dreams, Whisper | Leave a comment

The Death Head of Night

Posted on November 3, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

The Death Head of Nightby Michael DoyleThere in the darkest of the 20th CenturyWere pages to learn from in our historySuch evil as was darker than the nightWhere our traditions still bring us lightNo matter what the king tells usTruth … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 20th Century, Ability, Accident, Accusation, Adolph, All But Lost, All Peoples, Americans, Ancient Peoples, Apart, April Tenth, Arrive, Atmosphere, Atrocity, Auschwitz, Babies, Barren Fields, Believe, Betray, Bluffing, Buchenwald, Burn, Caged Ghetto, Captivity, Cattle Cars, Cleft, Communication, Cost, Crushed, Cry, Cup, Darkest, Daughters, Death Became the Mercy, Death Head, Deeds, Dehumanized, Demonized, Deportation, Desperation, Destination, Determination, Devil's Symphony, Doubt, Dread, Dying, Elders, Eternal, Eternity, Evil, Extermination, Face, Faith, Father, Fear, Few, Flames, Flick, Forced March, Forgotten, Germany, Ghost Train, God, God Be Willing, Going On, Goodness, Grapple, Graves, Grief, Grim Determination, Guide For the Perplexed, Hand, Happenstance, Haste, Hatred, History, Hitler, Hold On Tight, Hope, Huddle, Hunger, Incessant, Infernal, Jewish History, Kabbalah, King, Know, Learn, Left, Let This Be A Lesson, Light, Line, Literature, Live or Die, Living Skeletons, Loved, Madmen, Marginalized, Mengele, Mercilessly, Miracle, Mirror, Misery, Monsters, Mystic Union, Names, Necessary Lie, Night, No Coming Back, No End, Nothing, Optimism, Pages, Peace Alone, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Practice, Pray, Prophets, Prove Forgiving, Provident, Purpose, Question, Rage, Recall, Receptivity, Robbery, Rogues, Rule of Law, S;piritual, Sacred Ritual, Sake, Scarlet, Seek, Shame, Shed, Shrieking, Sighing, Slight, Slip, Snow, Sons, Soul, Spark, Suffering, Suffocating, Sunken Eyes, Survival, Survived, Surviving, Targets, Taste, Terror, Test, The End, The Jewish, The Jewish People, Track, Tradition, Transition, Transmission, Treasures, Truth, Ugliness, Unity, Water, Weisel, West, Whenever, Wherever, Wine, Wisdom, World, Worse, Worship, Yiddish | Leave a comment

In A Place of Longing

Posted on May 21, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on Augustine’s Enchiridion: In A Place of Longing by Michael Doyle I suppose there’s no sense in prolonging Stating that the gist of life is belonging The rumor has it that its in what we love And … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, Abudance, Ad Men, Attitude, Awe, Bad, Battle, Belong, Bible, Bittersweet, Blind, Bonfire, Breath, Christ, Cliimb, Confusion, Connection, Crave, Dangle, Daughter, Days, Death, Dedication, Deep, Deeper Relationship, Derision, Desire, Determine, Distraction, Divinity, Do, Do Right, Double Vision, Dust, Earth, Echo, Enchiridion, Entangle, Eyes, False, Father, Feel, Fight, Fire, Forgive, Fulfillment, Fumbles, Generosity, Gift, Gist, God, God's Word, Good, Grain of Salt, Gratitude, Heart, Heaven, Heavy, His Will, Hope, Illusion, Immediacy, Integrity, Intervention, Intrude, Joy, Know, Laugh, Learn, Lesser Things, Life, Light, Listen, Live, Lives, Longing, Lose Our Way, Love, Madison, Meaning, Meant, Mere Christianity, Mindful, Mood, Parents, Permanent Vacation, Photograph, Place, Pleasure, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Precious, Prolong, Promise, Promises, Reflection, Rest, Rumor, Rut, Satisfaction, Self, Self Focus, Selfish, Sense, Shape, Shelf, Sight, Slight, Son, Soul, Spark, St Augustine, Storm Chase, Stumble, Subconcious, Suffer, Surround, Taste, Teach, Test, Tools, Transfix, Treasure, Truth, Understood, Vanity, Verbosity, Ways, Weary, Yoke, You | Leave a comment

More Forgiveness Than I Deserve

Posted on February 23, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

The part of the sermon that I caught today had to do with forgiveness. Really I suppose it’s a matter of perception, correct? And it’s not about deserving. We all deserve ‘justice’. What we get is God’s mercy and love … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Behind, Blessed, Check, Christ, Conscience, Cross, Deserve, Embrace, Flow, Forget, Forgive, Forgiveness, Gift, Glad, God, Grace, Grateful, Happiness, His, Hope, Justice, Letting Go, Live, Lord, Love, Mercy, Mind, More, Perception, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Praise, Pray, Presence, Regret, Self, Sermon, Slight, Stress, Strife, Surrender, Trouble, Trust, Truth, Wrongs | Leave a comment

Wordplay In Homographic

Posted on April 14, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Na/GloPoWriM0 Day 14’s challenge is to use words that sound or look alike or are always confused for one another. This took quite some doing in that I have used this twice this year and was out of ideas. Still…. … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged About, Adieu, Ado, Allusion, Amiable, Amicable, Assume, Autumn, Bare, Bear, Bout, Flour, Flower, Gust, Homographic, Illusion, Knight, Knot, Leave, Life, Light, Na/GloPoWriMo, Night, Not, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Presume, Right, Road, Rode, Sea, See, Sight, Slight, Told, Tolled, Too, Two, Violence, Violins, Wait, Weight, Wind, Wordplay, Write | Leave a comment

Memory Inspires the Future

Posted on March 30, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Slavery is wrong. It was wrong in the past. It is wrong in the present. It’s a wrong that will go into our future. That is until we stand together to vanquish this evil. I cannot stress enough that the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Apology, Atrocity, Better, Consequence, Crimes Against Humity, Cultural Amnesia, Dignity, Dwell, Equa;ity, Evade, Forgive, France, Fratenrity, Free, Freedom, Future, Grievance, Guadaloupe, History, Humanism, Inspire, Isle, Legacy, Les Colons, Memory, Moving Forward, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reconciliation, Sidestep, Slavery, Slight, Stain, Sugar Factory | Leave a comment

WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Slight

Posted on May 14, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

With only a moment’s slight hesitation I think back on a winter’s destination It might be that Summer came on too fast Or, that with a blink, Spring is past Whatever the plentiful half forgotten reasons I am nostalgic for … Continue reading →

Posted in Photographs & Memories | Tagged Daily Prompt, Destination, Hestitation, Neglect, Nostalgic, Patterns, Record Heat, Remorse, Season, Slight, Snow, Spring, Summer, Wilderness, Winter, Winter's Child, Wordpress | Leave a comment

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Slightly Out of Tune

The Death Head of Night

In A Place of Longing

More Forgiveness Than I Deserve

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