Tag Archives: Somewhere

Thought For the Day: Lest I Keep My Complacent Way, I Must Remember Somewhere Out There A Person Died For Me Today. As Long As There Must Be A War, I Ask and I Must Answer; Was I Worth Dying For?

Posted on May 30, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer; was I worth dying for?”- Eleanor Roosevelt

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged A Person Died For Me Today, Answer, Ask, Complacent, Dying For, Eleanor Roosevelt, Lest, Long, Remember, Somewhere, Thought For the Day, War, Way, Worth | Leave a comment

Little Rocket

Posted on May 8, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Twinkle, Twinkle Little Rocketby Michael DoyleTwinkle, TwinkleLittle RocketTruth be toldAnd we must talk itUp above the world somewhereWhere you are we know not whereBut worse is that we do not understandJust precisely where you will landI hear that we will … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems, Uncategorized | Tagged Despite, Find Out, Hear, Hope, Hurt, Land, Little Rocket, Near Me, No One, Poetry and Poems, Precisely, Somewhere, Talk, Tonight, Truth Be Told, Twinkle, Under the Command, Understand, Up Above the World, We Know Not, Where, Worse | Leave a comment

Christmas Lights

Posted on December 3, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Christmas Lightsby Michael DoyleLooking out from the heart of the cityIt’s best to take things with humor so wittyAnd to know that children are our possibilityBecause they still see impossible things with claritySanta doesn’t have one child, he has them … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All, Better, Carry Your Song, Children, Christmas Lights, City, Clarity, Complete, Everywhere, Gentle Touch, Glide, Heart, Heights, Hello, Humor, Impossible, Life, Looking Out, Love, One Child, Path, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Possibility, Recall, Santa, Softly Said, Somewhere, Wit, You Belong | Leave a comment

Lessons From Life’s Jungles

Posted on July 27, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

There are laws that are met in all jungles be these forested or concrete. The two most vital are survival and truth. Lessons From Life’s Jungles by Michael Doyle The jungle has two laws Survival and truth There is no … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Always, Ample, Anger, Be Fair, Belongs, Best, Best Lessons, Best of Life, Bitterness, Change, Choices, Close To Shore, Concrete, Danger, Each Person and Thing, Earned, Escape Clause, Eyes Forward, Fate, Firm, Forest, Forget, Fortune, Humor, Ignore, Jaws, Jungle, Jungle's Laws, Jungles, Last, Learn, Learned, Less, Lesson, Lessons, Lies, Life, Life's Lessons, Live Life, Lwas, Moments, Monkey, Must, Narrow, Not Learned, Ones, Opportunities, Particular, Parts Unknown, Past, Path Taken, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Room, Self, Shelf, Somewhere, Start, Straight As An Arrow, Streets, Strong, Surprise, Survival, Taught By Example, Too Late, Trust, Truth, Tumor, Us, Vital, Want, What's In Store, Youth | Leave a comment

A Twinge of the Mundane

Posted on July 7, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

In the continuing series on seeing the world through a photographer’s eyes, we look at the question as to what is to be done about the mundane… A Twinge of the Mundane by Michael Doyle Seeing the mundane into extraordinary … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ability, Abound, All Places, Artistic, Atttention, Background, Being, Camera's Eye, Circumstances, Clarity, Clutter, Connections, Creative, Details, Done, Excellence, Extraordinary, Eyes, Flow, Focal, Forgot, Found, Glad, Grab Shots, Heart, Humans, Inane, Infinite, Known, Latitude, Life Lived, Meaning, Middle of Nowhere, Moments, Mundane, No Such Thing, Nuances, Opportunity, Ordinary, Page, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pop, Question, Quietude, Shown, Simple, Sky, Soft Light, Something, Something In the Something, Somewhere, Sought, Split Open, Stage, Stand Out, Subject, Surround, Tales, Truth, Twinge, Unexpected Moments, Where, Wide Open Spaces, World Is An Oyster, Zest | Leave a comment

Indiana Back Hills

Posted on June 25, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

I am not sure really how Google’s mapping GPS works. It usually gives me the most direct and quickest route to my destination. On my way home last night, I received directions that could not have possibly have been the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All Too Near, Angel, Ask, Back Hills, Back Road, Being Alone, Belong, Blind, Bones, Burning Down, Capture, Catch, Close, Cool Breeze, Cross, Direct Route, Endless, Except, Explore, Fall, Feel, Fill, Find, Four Wheels, Good Kind of Tired, Google, GPS, Gratitude, Grow, Growth, Headlights, Here, Hold Me, Indiana, Last Light, Lonesome, Long, Loose, Map, Mask, Me, Meander, Memory, Mile, Moment, Moon, Need, Night, Photograph, Pleasure, Poem, Poetry, Probably, Raccoon, Rain, Read, Rearview, Rise, Road, Roll, Secrets, Seem, Shadows, Signs, Slow Down, Smile, Somewhere, Sun's Eyes, Sunrise, Surround, Takes Me There, Tears, Thought, To Do, Today, Tomorrow, Too Busy Looking, Track, Trees, Twilight, Two Angels, Unexpected, Unfold, Unseen, View, Whisper, Wish, Without You | Leave a comment

Dancing Cheek To Cheek

Posted on May 18, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Thinking on the Prohibition, flappers, gangsters and murder as she wrote… Dancing Cheek To Cheek by Michael Doyle Dancing cheek to cozy cheek Might bring us to ruin Libertine as it is It might lead to our undoing The habits … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alone, Begin, Brave, Breath, Cheek To Cheek, Confess, Control, Cozy, Crime, Daddy, Dance, Darkness, Death, Deceptive, Escalation, Explain, Fear, Fiction, First Light, First Warning, Flapper, Gangster, Habit, Him, Home, Implore, Inhalation, Lead, Libertine, Mess, Murder, Partnership, Perfect, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Point, Prohibition, Race, Real, Reveal, Roll, Ruin, Sad, Safe, See, She, Somewhere, Soul, Sublime, Time, Understand, Undoing, Volatile, Wrote | Leave a comment

It Came As It Did

Posted on April 3, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

First Friday and third day of Na/GloPoWriMo 2020. Today’s prompt is to create a word bank based on 10 key words and then not necessarily using all but keeping in mind an effort to echo the rhymes for these until … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Academic, Act, Allegory, Allow, Anomaly, Avoid, Badly, Behave, Beset, Bight, Biochemical, Bite, Brave, Bright, Bright Side, Bungalow, Came, Cave, Cold Sweat, Come What May, Community, Compare, Dance, Depression, Destination, Did, Dog Day, Domino, Elf, Epidemic, Even So, Everything, Fair, Family, Fight, Find, Finite, Foreheads, Gave, Government, Hand, Here, Hesitation, Hold, Home, Hope, I, Immunity, Impression, Impunity, Interest, Isolated, Isolation, Laugh, Library, Light, Love, Mandatory, Mask, Matters, Meaning, Memory, Middle, Might, Moment, Na/GloPoWriMo 20/20, Nation, Night, Noewhere, Noose, Old Play, Opportunity, Origins, Outline, Pair, Pandemic, Perfected, Photograph, Pledge, Poem, Poetry, Poor Me, Pour Me, Prayer, Promise, Psession, Question, Really, Recession, Regret, Roll, Rolling Wave, Rumor, Save, Science, Sew, Share, Shatters, Somewhere, Spread, Stare, Startle, Story, Stubbed Toe, Survive, Systemic, Tell, There, Threat, Time, Together, Tomorrow, Transparency, Travel Ban, Trite, Understand, Unity, Watch, Weaponize, Window, Woe, Word Bank, World, You | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Lovers Don’t Finally Meet Somewhere. They’re In Each Other All Along.

Posted on February 8, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.” – Rumi

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged All Along, Each, Final, In, Lovers, Meet, Rumi, Somewhere, They, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

Streets Made of Marmalade

Posted on January 16, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

A truly wonderful story for children of all ages. This is my small tribute to a tale that I probably love more than I should. Streets Made of Marmalade by Michael Romani Rather small Rather sneezy As you’ll recall It’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alone, Bear, Chance, Dance, Dream, Easy, Family, Far, Fate, Fond, Friends, Fur, Further, Glory, Heaven, Home, London, Look, Love, Marmalade, Memory, Paddington Bear, Poem, Poetry, Recall, Rolling Skates, Scrapbook, Small, Sneeze, Somewhere, Square, Star, Story, Streets, Wish | Leave a comment