Tag Archives: Stare

Open Declaration

Posted on April 26, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Open Declarationby Michael DoyleThe cross is not a decorationIt is an open declarationOf how much love the Father bringsThese are the lessons of the hymns we singLooking carefully at all that we seeWhat brings happiness, what brings misery?Staring out bored … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Carefully, Contrary, Conversation, Cross, Cultivate, Decoration, Experiences, Finest Hours, God's Command, Happiness, Hit and Miss, Hymns, Learn, Lessons, Live Through, Living Life, Love, Misery, Nowhere to Live, Observation, Open Declaration, Plan, Poetry and Poems, Sanctuary, See, Shine, Sing, Stare, Strong, The Father, Timberline, Words of Power | Leave a comment

Take the Dice and Roll

Posted on April 11, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Take the Dice and Rollby Michael DoyleEvery choice that we makeCould be the wrong oneMake it anyhow!The best shot we takeCould miss the targetTake it anyhow!Wrong or rightIf you couldn’t live with youIf you didn’t do as you mightDo what … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anyhow, Best Shot, Bluff, Choice, Dice, End, Eyes, Find, Good Enough, Groove, Known, Life, Live, Make It, Might, Miss, Need To Do, Poetry and Poems, Right Move, Roll, Rolling Up Our Sleeves, Stare, Take It, Target, Unconcerned, Wrong One, Wrong or Right | Leave a comment

Six String Guillotine

Posted on August 25, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Six String Guillotineby Michael DoyleIt was a six stringGuillotineSummer sceneKind of a dreamRolling through the nightThe pompadourWho held the doorThat no one could ignoreSet the flames licking the TroubadorAnd said it would be alrightStruck by the thunderBeing pulled underBy a … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Air, Alright, Door, Dream, Everywhere, Fists, Flames, Guillotine, Ignore, Loud, Music, Night, People, Poetry and Poems, Pompadour, Proud, Pulled Under, Rocking, Rolling, Six String, Solid Wall, Sound, Stare, Struck, Summer, The Troubador, Thunder | Leave a comment

Firefighter 54 (In Memoriam for the Death of My Sister)

Posted on August 5, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

For those who remember Michele, I offer in her memory on this anniversary of her death: Firefighter 54 by Michael Doyle ..Firefighter 54, firefighter 54 This is Ashland Fire Department Firefighter 54, Firefighter 54 This is Ashland Fire … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 14 Hours, 14 Hours More, All I Should Have Ever Wanted, Angel Tears, Ashland Fire Department, Barrel Racing, Before Me, Brother, Brother In Law, Buddy, Cattle Cutting, Community, Compare, Death, Diamonds and Rust, Distinct Prairie Bonnet, Do you Know?, Doing My Best Cowboy, Doorways, Drive, Drove By, Early Morning Drizzle, Except, Fake, Father In Heaven, Felt, Few Stories, Final Journey, Firefighter 54, Firemen, Found A Way, Found Herself, Found There, Fullest Degree, Gathered, Go Ahead Cowgirl, Gucci, Hang My Head and Cry, Happiness, Hard Part, Harder, Heaven, High Life, His Long Face, I know, I must, Irony of It All, Joke, Joked, Joyful Pride, Knew At Least, Know, Laying you In the Ground, Learned In An Instant, Left Behind, Life Without Fear, Lifetime of Memories, Little More, Live, Lived As She Dared, Lived Just As She Wanted, Lost Up, Love, Love She Had Needed, Loved and Cared, Loved Her, Marbled, Memoriam, Michele, Middle of the Middle of Nowhere, Mind Distacted, Miss Her, Model, More Life, Move, Muddled Haze, My Best Friend, My Fatal Flaws, My Greatest Hero, My Sister, Mysteriously, Neighboring Counties, No Longer Responding, Nose To Nose, Nothing At All, Old Blue, Or Even Whimper Why, Our Father In Heaven, Out of Pain, Patted, Peaceful, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Quietly Taking It All In, Rain, Respond, Rest, Ride Your Ride, Riding, Sadly True, Sadness, Saluting, Selfish of Me, Share, Shared, Sincere, Sincerely Embraced, Sister, Slowly, Small Town People, Soul To Soul, Speaker, Stare, Stirred Up, Streets Lined, Such Are the Feelings, Sweet Photos, Tales of Admiration, Thank You For Your Service, Time, Too Much To Take In, Too Tough To Cry, Town, Trading In, Trail, Trying To Be Strong, Under This Steeple, Until the Very End, Waiting, Wake, Want In Any Way, Warmth and Truth, While She Had To Die, Who Knew Me Best, Wonder, Your Final Peace, Zero | Leave a comment

Na/GloPoWriMo #3: Words That Sound Good

Posted on April 3, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Words That Sound Goodby Michael DoyleThere is a bit of something That is eloquently rapped into nothingThat there are words that just sound goodAnd go together well like they shouldIt’s a bit of the simplicity That is found inside the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Apocalyptic, Best of Life, Bit of Something, Busy As A Bee, Chase, Clandestine, Complexity, Dictionaries, Eloquently, Equilbrium, Found, Go Together Well, Golden Ore, Good, Mine, Museum, My Heart, Mystery, Na/GloPoWriMo, Nothing, Pageantry, Pleasantry, Poetry and Poems, Precious, Preserve, Rapped, Simplicity, Sound, Square Root, Stare, Unapologetic, Words | Leave a comment

Na/GloPoWriMo Day 1: Distorted Images

Posted on April 2, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Na/GloPoWriMo* Day 1: Distorted Imagesby Michael DoyleI’ve learned in lifeTo keep each distortionThat brings me strifeIn their due proportionSeeing as clear as possibleDoing what I can to be capableTo do away with what’s improbableAnd live my best life as inescapableLooking … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All Things Shall Pass, Always Are, Best Life, Blue, Capable, Certain, Deceived, Dim, Distorted, Distorted Image, Due Proportion, Glass, Illusion, Improbable, Learn, Living Life, Mirror, My Best, Na/GloPoWriMo, Poetry and Poems, Possible, Recall, Rise or Fall, Seeing Clear, Shade, Since Youth, Sky, Stare, Stars, Strife, Sun, Test, Truth, View | 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

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

Looking Forward With Clarity

Posted on February 3, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on a 02022020 Sunday sermon.: Looking Forward With Clarity by Michael Romani If your eye is the light of darkness Not too speak too much in harshness But you won’t see so much with clarity That sometimes … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 02022020, Accurate, Align, Bend, Best, Clarity, Cloud, Complacency, Connect, Conviction, Correction, Cost, Create, Cross, Darkness, Deception, Deserve, Dream, Duty, Embrace, Equally Yoked, Eventual, Eye, Face, Fear, Fill, First Step, Focus, Forward, Free, Gear, Gentle, God, God's Truth, God's Will, Good, Grace, Grow, Guide, Harshness, Hear, Heart, Hearts, Holy Spirit, Humble, Inner, Intent, Know, Lesson, Light, Listen, Live, Lives, Look, Lord, Love, Matter, Mind, Missed Mark, Moment, Need, New Year, Noble, North Star, Pastor, Perfect, Persevere, Photograph, Plan, Poem, Poetry, Points of Grace, Power, Precision, Preseence of Mind, Protect, Pure, Reception, Rest, Reveal, Right Thing, See, Seed, Serve, Sin, Sincere, Skill, Soft, Sowing, Speak, Spiritual, Stare, Strength, Struggle, Submit, Sufficient, Teach, Think, Thorns, True, Tune, Understanding, Us, Vision, We, Weakness, Worse, You and Me | Leave a comment

Sizzle As It Fries

Posted on December 30, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

It’s hard to get better than today’s celebration! Happy National Bacon Day! Oh sure… some are going to say, hey… you’re supposed to be working hard on your health….. Yes, I know. However, you’ve taken brownies and chocolate chip cookies.. … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bacon, Bless, Bliss, Brownies, Buy, Care, Chocolate Chip Cookies, Choline, Clinch, Control, Counter Argument, Crispy, Decisively, Decrease, Delicious, Denial, Disapprove, Drizzle, Earth, Ensure, Excuse, Face, Fact, Fish, Fry, Gluten Free, Hair, Happy, Head, Health, Healthy, Heart, Important, Internet, Kitchen, Laugh, Life, Live, Love, Lovingly, Lurch, Mind, Mood, Morning, Move, National Bacon Day, Nose, Numbers, Nutritious, Omega Three, Part, Peace, Perfect Mate, Photograph, Plate, Poem, Poetry, Rude, Sad, Satisfying, Save, Search, Seen, Shake, Share, She, Sizzle, Smile, Soul, Stare, Steal, Stress, Strife, Strip, Sunday, Suspicion, Tease, Tolerate, Trans-Fat, Umami, Vigor, Vim, Vitamin, Wealth, Willing, Wink, Wrinkle, Wrong | Leave a comment

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