Tag Archives: Spell

Thought For the Day: The Sea, Once It Casts Its Spell, Holds One In Its Net of Wonder Forever

Posted on June 1, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“The sea once it casts its spell holds one in its net of wonder Forever.” –Jacques Cousteau

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In This Dance

Posted on November 8, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

In This Danceby Michael DoyleEven rivers know to ramble slowlyThe end comes soon enoughIf in the end, this world knows meSomeday, that will be enoughIn the interrupted dream shades of the nightI wander alone through this twilightBreathless as the thoughts … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Acrid Ice, Break Down, Breathless, Chance, Compel, Dance, Destinty, Dice, Dreams, End, Enough, Fal, Felt, God-Given, Hand, In This Dance, Interrupt, Know, Lead, Love of Life, Magic, Melt, Met, Moment, Night, Offer, Poetry and Poems, Ramble, Reminisce, Risk, River, Roll, Shadows, Slow, Someday, Spell, Sweet Kiss, Tears, The Bridge, Thoughts, Twilight, Us, Walls, Wander Alone, World | Leave a comment

A Harper Rises

Posted on August 29, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

A Harper Risesby Michael DoyleWhen a harper rises from his slumberAnd whatever the spell that he’s been underHe will find his answers become rightAs though illuminated by the lightNo longer trading in colloquialisms and slightBut speaking only the true, noble, … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alibi, Answer, Begun, Brdige, Brink, Clever, Conceive, Crumble, Dare, Done, Endeavor, Faith, Fog, Forget, Good fight, Harper, Humble, Illuminate, Journey, Life, Light, Love, Nobility, Noble, Poetry and Poems, Puzzles, Right, Rise, Saving Grace, Sensibility, Setting Sun, Slumber, Speak, Spell, Stride, Strong, Stumble, Think, Tight, Trade, Tragic Pride, True, Under, Victory, Way, Weak, Winds of Time | Leave a comment

The Mothman Cometh

Posted on July 7, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

The Mothman Comethby Michael DoyleGraceful yet frighteningI saw him by lightening With two red eyes glaringI couldn’t help staringPleading his wild eyed mysteryA part of West Virginian historyThis mysterious sort of beingThat the moonlight might bringA chilling whisper finds its … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Being, Blame, Breath, Bring, Cornfield, Courage, Danger, Death, Doom, Fear, Feeling Lost, Fog, Frightening, Game, Glare, Graceful, History, Late Night, Moonlight, Mothman, Mysterious, Mystery, Outrun, Poetry and Poems, Prank, Red Eyes, Run, Sight, Span, Spell, Stare, Stranger, Talons, West Virginian, Whisper, Wings | Leave a comment

We’ll Burn Our Memory

Posted on February 23, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

We’ll Burn Our Memoryby Michael DoyleThere is nothing more humanThen knowing that you are brokenAs time slips by as it canAnd words meander or are unspokenTime is fleeting and not to squanderLet me entreat you to spend yours wellThere are … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Armor, Ashes, Battle, Better Senses, Broken, Burn, Carry, Choices, Cracks, Dance, Defeat, Difference, Eyes, Fast, Fire, Fleeting, Forget, Hope, Human, Inner Essence, Inner Light, Inner Voice, Know, Life, Limits, Love, Memory, Nothing, One Last Time, Past, Paths, Poetry and Poems, Promise, Regret, Right, Shine, Skies, Spell, Squander, Streets, Time Slips By, Tomorrow, Unexplored, Unspoken, Victory, Wish, Won, Words Meander | Leave a comment

There You Are, It’s Spoken

Posted on November 12, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

There You Are, It’s Spokenby Michael DoyleOh, it’s a messy messIf only the truthYou would confessA shake of a handUsed to be the bondSincerity, we could understandBut when you pretendSnaking aroundAs if it’s something you can defendWhy you stalk and … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Act, Anger, Because, Believe, Bond, Broken, Confess, Dance, Deception, Defend, Familiar, God, Hand, Harassment, Hellhounds, Hellish, Hope, Hunch, Kindness, Knew, Know, Learn, Leashes, Leave Alone, Let You Get Away, Madness, Manipulation, Mercy, Mess, Mistake, No Control, No Part of You, Not Strong, Once, Peace, Pick Up, Pieces, Plunder, Poetry and Poems, Pretend, Seem, Seen Through, Shake, Sincerity, Skilled, Snake Around, So Much, Spell, Spoken, Stalk, Stand Down, Stop, Stranger, Terrifying, There You Are, Thought, Thrilled, Truth, Understand, Walked Away, Weak, Weakness, Woman, Wrong, You'll Never Own | Leave a comment

The Harder They Fall

Posted on November 10, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

The Harder They Fallby Michael DoyleThe harder they fallEither side of the lawIt’s the repeat and callIn the nature of it allSins of the fathers growIn a deeper shade of shadowDarker than the blackest blackIt’s righteousness they lackTwo sides of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Black, Blunder, Coin, Dark, Fall, Function, Grow, Hard, Heal, Hope, Join, Law, Light, Lightening, Nature, Night, Poetry and Poems, Righteousness, Safe, Shadow, Side, Sins of the Father, Soul, Spell, Thunder, Truth, Two Sides, Uncouth, Whole, Wonder | Leave a comment

Bloated Ramble

Posted on August 18, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Another sort of look at how monsters are just good challenged and not evil… 😉 Bloated Rambleby Michael DoyleHumans fear the hours of the nightAll the darkness and absence of lightAnd all of the sounds that bring human frightSimply because … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Absence, Among Us, Bloat, Bogeyman, Bright, Challenged, Crackle, Creatures, Dark, Darkness, Devil, Difference, Door, Explore, Fear, Fright, Frighten, Fungus, Hide, Horror Show, Human, Humans, Incivility, Joys, Light, Lights, Me and You, Monsters, Monstrosity, Mutual, Night, Not Evil, Overstatement, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Rainbow, Ramble, Rattle, Rubbing, Shake, Simple, Sound, Sounds, Spell, Squeak, Stone, Superstitious, Talk, Town, True, Truth, Well, Wish, Women, World, Wrong | Leave a comment

In Dream’s Shadow

Posted on July 19, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Sort of a word play on a Celtic adventure of romance, magic and dreams. In Dream’s Shadow by Michael Doyle Drowning in your spell My secrets to reveal Fallen to blade you wield I suddenly find, I yield To sleep … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adventure, Blade, Bring, Celtic, Day Breaks, Dream, Dream's Shadow, Dreams, Drown, Ebbs, Everything, Fail, Fair, Fallen, Find, Flows, Follow, Go, Hair, Heart, Hips, Inside, Know, Lips, Magic, My secrets, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reveal, Romance, Scarlet, Search, Seen, Shadow, Sleep, Snare, Spell, Two Hands, What Was Once Not, Wield, Word Play, Words, Yield, Your Love | Leave a comment

Tattered Hall

Posted on February 26, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

At times, life is a bittersweet drink and yet still it is what quenches our thirst. Tattered Hall by Michael Romani With the tolling of the bells The poet is announced dead All the mystery and half of the spells … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bell, Books, Cherish, Dark, Dead, Derision, Forget, Friend, Hall, Head, Lost, Mess, Muse, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poet, Poetry, Song, Soul, Spell, Stroll, Summer Dress, Suspicion, Tatter, Toll, Toss, Verse, Words | Leave a comment