Tag Archives: Slip

The Importance of the Word

Posted on April 30, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

The Importance of the Wordby Michael DoyleIn this roll of yearsSoftly past the flowing tearsI think on words soughtTo connect the dot-to-dotThe words in mindI seek and sometimes findThat words are cultureAnd culture is the we nurtureSlipped into this elasticityIs … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Beginning, Being, Bond, Breath, Community, Complexity, Connect, Cousin, Crumble, Culture, Death, Define, Display, Dot-To-Dot, Elasticity, Find, Float Over, Flowing Tears, God, Grumble, Importance, Knowledge, Me, Meaning, Mumble, Nurture, Occurred, Odd, Past, Played, Poetry and Poems, Politely, Ponds, Quest, Refine, Roll of Years, Seal, Seek, Sense, Sleep, Slip, Sought, Sudden, Symbol, Table, the Word, Theories, Think, Thirst, Thought, Words, Words In Mind | Leave a comment

Discernment Revisited

Posted on November 21, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Discernment Revisitedby Michael DoyleI guess that’s the dealLetting Jesus take the wheelLike the wisdom of Solomon’s sealIt is what keeps it realGoing deep into the ScriptureWe find the things of GodSurrendering in devotion to ScriptureWe recommit to the ways of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Better Decisions, Buoyancy, Deep, Demanding, Destination, Devastation, Deviation, Devotion, Dimension, Discernment, Distracted, Do the Math, Drive, Dwell, Elimination, Eyes Set, Footing, God Is In Control, Grace, Grow Strong, Impediment, Inclination, Insecurity, Jesus, Know, Living, Lose, Loss, Maturity, Meander, Mindful, Narrow Path, Overestimation, Path, Personal Inadequcy, Played, Poetry and Poems, Prayed, Pressures of Life, Pushing Through, Put Aside, Real, Recommit, Reconsideration, Refuse, Revisited, Rhyme, Right Sentiment, Satan, Scripture, Serve, Significance, Slip, Solomon's Seal, Soul, Stay, Stay On the Path, Strive, Surrender, The Deal, Things of God, Thoughts, Time To Time, Tool, Tragic, Tricks, Truth, Understanding, Undiminished, Ways of God, Wheel, Wisdom, Words, Wrong Emphasis | Leave a comment

Na/GloPoWriMo #23: In Response To That Other Fantasy

Posted on April 23, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Na/GloPoWriMo #23: In Response To That Other Fantasyby Michael DoyleKeep your head on straightInstead of rushing head longWe’re always a bit short and latePretending our weak as something strongPartying on in our faded delusionThat we want to live foreverDisrespected as … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Best, Bit Short, Clever, Come A Time, Confusion, Decay, Delusion, Disrespected, Fade, Fantasy, Foe, Freddie, Friend, Head On Straight, Immortality, Late, Live That Long, Na/GloPoWriMo, Nowhere, Other, Ourselves, Partying On, Poetry and Poems, Pointless, Pretend, Rebelling, Response, Right, Rushing Head Long, Slip, Something Missed, Something To Say, Strong, Thinking, To Belong, To End, Want, We'll Let Our Time, Weak | Leave a comment

Na/GloPoWriMo #7: Spanish Flower Shadorma

Posted on April 7, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Na/GloPoWriMo #7: Spanish Flower Shadorma by Michael DoyleTime stands stillAs I turn awaySlowing downTides are feltDeep inside my fragile soulInnocence betraysCastle sandsSlip through my fingersWashed awayAs alwaysI look into setting sunsWondering at whyBest of timesPass away too fastIn your eyesIn … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Always, Believe, Best of Times, Betray, Castle Sands, Deep Inside, Felt, Fingers, Fragile Soul, Hate, Innocence, Look, My Eyes, Na/GloPoWriMo, Pass Away, Poetry and Poems, Setting Sun, Shadorma, Slip, Slowing Down, Spanish Flower, Still, Tides, Time, Too Fast, True, Turn Away, Washed Away, When You Leave, Why, Wondering, Your Eyes | 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

The Good of the Middle

Posted on June 5, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Complex isn’t it? Good in the bad; bad in the good. And we swear our allegiance to one or the other while seemingly never getting it completely right. The Good of the Middle by Michael Doyle Is man good Or, … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bad, Become, Before, Born, Born Good, Breath, Burn, Candle, Change, Collective, Do Evil, Do Good, Evil, Good, Grave, Humanity, Know, Learn, Lesson, Little, Long Way, Mankind, Middle, Morality, Most Days, One Size Fits All, Perspective, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Priority, Slip, Taken, This Way, Time, Try, Twist, Walk, Want To Be | Leave a comment

Wild Romania

Posted on April 2, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

It’s the second day of NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo 2020! The prompt today is: “to write a poem about a specific place — a particular house or store or school or office. Try to incorporate concrete details, like street names, distances (“three … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ancient Forest, Autumn, Awake, Backbone, Beams, Beasts, Beauty, Bounty, Breath, Brown Bear, Carpathian Mountains, City, Conifer, Crisp, Cruel, Day, Deep Sleep, Drift, Eat, Embrace, Europe, Explore, Flow, Forage, Forest, Freeze, Frozen, Giants, Ice, Light, Mistress, Mountain, Myth, NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo 2020, Nature, Nibble, Photograph, Place, Play, Poem, Poetry, Reason, Rest, Rivers, Romania, Season, Shake, Skies, Slip, Snow, Spring, Story, Straggler, Struggle, Summer, Sunlight, Sunrise, Time, Wild, Wild Boar, Wilderness, Winding, Winter, Wolves, Wonder | Leave a comment

Happiness Is A Warm Cookie

Posted on December 4, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

December 4 is National Cookie Day!! It doesn’t get better than this does it? I’ll try to do the day a little bite sized bit of heartwarming justice. Happiness Is A Warm Cookie by Michael Romani As the holidays come … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bake, Balanced Diet, Bite Size, Blend, Bliss, Bowl, Business, Child, Christmas, Cookie, Cookie Dough, Cooking, Crave, Day, Delight, Fade, Fill, Gentle, Happiness, Heart, Holiday, Homemade, Ingredients, Inner Child, Kiss, Kitchen, Lifetime, Memory, Miss, Mistletoe, Mix, Mother's Love, National Cookie Day, Nibble, Personal, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pure, Raw, Shape, Slip, Smile, Snitch, Soul, Store-bought, Sweet, True Love, Unconditional, Walnut Chocolate Chip, Warm, Way, Yesterday | Leave a comment

Sunrise Calling

Posted on July 18, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

This planet of ours exists in just the right pocket for the life giving waters to be present in all of its necessary forms. Odd how some don’t see the miracle in that… Sunrise Calling by Michael Romani Slippery as … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ascent, Call, Day, Divinity, Dream, Drink, Drip, Drop, Earth, Fall, Form, Frozen, Heat, Ice Face, Life Giving, Melt, Miracle, Newbprm, Nighttime, Ocean's Daughter, Paradise, Photograph, Pocket, Poem, Poetry, Rearrange, Shape Shift, Slip, Steam, Stream, Structure, Sunrise, Tomorrow, Waters, World | Leave a comment

Music Like Ideas

Posted on April 13, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Post-Punk was a thing right? 😉 See if you can tell which band this poem alludes to if you can. Might be fun. Music Like Ideas by Michael Romani Coming from a time when Music sounded like ideas It was … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alien, Architecture, Chill, Cold, Complex, Disintegration, Echo, Fascination, Feel, Fixation, Folk Music, History, Human Beings, Idea, Ilusion, Incantation, Integration, Joy Division, Laurel, Layer, Life, Matter, Maxim, Moment, Music, Night, Otherness, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Post Modern, Post Punk, Post-Industrial, Primeval, Provocation, Ritual, Searing Light, Severe, Shard, Showbiz, Slip, Space, Sun, Time | Leave a comment