Tag Archives: Summer

Thought For the Day: By All These Lovely Tokens, September Days Are Here. With Summer’s Best of Weather and Autumn’s Best of Cheer

Posted on September 2, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“By all these lovely tokens, September days are here. With summer’s best of weather and autumn’s best of cheer.” – Helen Hunt Jackson

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Autumn, Best of Cheer, Best of Weather, Helen Hunt Jackson, Lovely Tokens, September Days, Summer, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

Our Valentine’s Biggest Mistake

Posted on February 10, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Our Valentine’s Biggest Mistakeby Michael DoyleAs we lay around our houses like cantankerous catsIn the cold winter months, it’s easy to gain fatEach of us finding refrigerated delicacies late nightEntertained as we snuggle by the television lightIn our January resolutions … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Allowed, Appetites, Bake, Brownies, Candy Hearts and Chocolates, Cantankerous Cats, Chocolate Chips, Cloud, Cookies and Treats, Delicacies, Discipline, Dour, Eat, Effort, Entertained, Fat, Gain Inches, Gains, Gluttony, Goodies, Healthy, House, January Resolutions, Late Night, Limit, Lose Ground, Make America Healthy Again, Middle of Winter, Mistake, More, Morning, Nibble, Night After Night, Poetry and Poems, Prevail, Pushing These Away, Scale, Score, Sedentary Ways, Sin, Skies, Snuggle, Somewhere, Summer, Television, Urge, Valentine's, Valentine's Day, Win, Winter, Wonder, Younger Days | Leave a comment

Science Fiction and Frankenstein’s Creature

Posted on October 21, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Science Fiction and Frankenstein’s Creatureby Michael DoyleThough literary snobs can find it less than delectableScience Fiction has grown up as quiet respectableSnobbery has ever been fashionable even at HalloweenStill science fiction’s limitations certainly don’t meanThat there is nothing really scary … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Arrogance, Books, Children of Frankenstein, Cliche, Conscience, Creature, Cross-Current, Darkness, Distortion, Electrical Reanimaion, Electricity, Forget, Frankenstein, Future Society, Galvani, Ghost Story, Giordano Bruno, Gothic Horroe, Halloween, Headspace, Horror, Humanity's Hubris, Imagination, Irrational, John Milton, Late, Law of Unintended Consequence, Lesson, Literary Feature, Literary Snobs, Literature, Magnetism, Mankind, Mary Shelley, Mean, Mistake, Mistakes, Monster, Morality, Mount Tambora, Movie, Natural Philosophy, Nemesis, Nightmare, Nuclear War, Outcast, Overcome, Paradise Lost, Plausibility, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Rational Fate, Rationalism, Recompense, Rejected, Resemblance, Right and Privilege, Robots, Scary Stories, Science, Science Fiction, Seeds We Sow, Special Effects, Speculation, Spree, Summer, Supernatural, Technology, True Science, Unhallowed Ground, Universe, Victor Frankenstein | Leave a comment

Like Leaves In Autumn

Posted on September 24, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Like Leaves In Autumnby Michael DoyleA quintessential road trip brings to mindThat Autumn has come to leave Summer behindMany roads can be taken, traveling any wayTo capture the colors that make up our daysAutumn falls like leaves becoming flowersThere is … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Autumn, Baptismal Shower, Behind, Blanket, Breath, Breeze, Campire, Capture, Carved Smiles, Chill, Colors, Fall, Fall Winds, Flow, Flowers, Gift, Glow, Ground, Leaves, Life, Look, Mind, Mother Nature, Nature, Passing Hours, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Pumpkin, Rake, Reverence, Road Trip, Shift, Sky, Slow, Squirrels and Chipmunks, Summer, Travel, Trees, Winds of Change, Winter | Leave a comment

On Which Life Depends

Posted on November 25, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

On Which Life Dependsby Michael DoyleWe play games aimed to pleaseAs we touch and you teaseShowing me your personal spacesAnd touching me with your tracesThese linger inside my mindYours is the touch that I’ve wanted to findI am in a … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Action, Begins, Blur, Close, Connection, Depends, Emotions, Ends, Everything, Explore, Fear, Feelings, Forget-Me-Nots, Games, Heat, Life, Linger, Melt, Mind, Night, Paces, Passion, Personal Spaces, Please, Poetry and Poems, Practicality, Presence, Reflection, Sensuality, Stumble, Summer, Tease, Touch, Traces, Understanding, Walk Through | Leave a comment

Thoughts On A September Morn

Posted on September 19, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Thoughts On A September Mornby Michael DoyleYou can feel it in the airA discernable sense of changeAs you take in the world with careAnd watch the leaves rearrangeSummer comes to its endAs Autumn starts to beginEven before leaves start to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Air, Apple Orchard, Autumn, Begin, Bicycle Rider, Blend, Blur, Call, Care, Change, Chili, Cider, Descend, End, Fall, Feel, Football Season, Fuzzy Memories, Glass, Halloween, Handy, Heaven, Hill, Kids, Leaves, Long Lost Friend, Ninth, Pick, Poetry and Poems, Pumpkin's Cand, Rearrange, Reason, Scarecrows, School Year, Seasons, Sense, September Morn, Seven, Sky, Snuggles, Spices, Stove, Summer, Sun Sets, Sunflower, Thought, Thoughts, Trail, Treasure Trove, Treat, Tricks, World | Leave a comment

Summer Road Trip

Posted on June 22, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Summer Road Trip 2023by Michael DoyleAs my youngest approaches high schoolIt seemed a good time, as a general ruleTo take my daughters on an adventureIt might be seen as a matter of debentureOr the paying of my familial debtTo somewhere … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adventure, Cherry Pie, Chicago, Death's Door, Debt, Destination, Door County, Esker, Explore, Family Home, Fish Boil, Glaciation, Green Bay, Heart, High School, History, Ice Age, Indiana, Iowa, Journey, Juniper Bushes, Kames, Kettles, Lead, Lighthouse, Lumbeau Field, Memories, Mission, Mississippi River, Peoria, Poetry and Poems, Road Trip, Rule, Sand Dunes, Sea Gulls, Silos and Smokers, Sky, Spanish Mines, Summer, Transition, Wind-Swept, Wisconsin | Leave a comment

Da Vinci’s Glow

Posted on May 16, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Da Vinci’s Glowby Michael DoyleIt is said that the Master of All TradesWas a miracle worker coming up all spadesHe said that every painting is visual poetryAnd all poetry is a masterpiece verballyWhat others glimpse, the artist learns to seeIn … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ancient Riddle, Artist, Ashen Glow, Astronaut, Braver Souls, Charms, Clouds, Crescent Moon, Da Vinci's Glow, Darkness, Earthshine, Embrace, Error, Fear, Full Moon's Sight, Ghost, Glimpse, God Is the Greatest Artist, Heavens Above, In Motion, Iridescent, Know, Leonardo Was Here, Light, Light Pollution, Little Minds, Made Clear, Magic, Master of All Trades, Masterpiece, Mentally, Miracle Worker, Mistaken Gesture, Mistakes, Moon, Moon Dust, Mystery, New Moon, Night Skies, Ocean, Old Moon, Open Arms, Painting, Poetry and Poems, Quibbles, Reflection, Resolution, Sea of Tranquility, See, Simplicity, Sophistication, Spring, Stargazers, Summer, Swallow, Think, Verbally, View, Visual Poetry | Leave a comment

Seasons Shift In Meaning

Posted on September 28, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Seasons Shift In Meaningby Michael DoyleIn times filled with doubt and questionOne certainty stands without hesitationThat as the seasons shift in meaningThese changes influence every human beingHearts break on the shores of coincidenceIn this time seemingly devoid of justiceAs phases … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Autumn, Callous Truth, Calmness, Carefully Made Plans, Certainty, Changes, Coincidence, Cultivaation, Detangled Values, Dystopian Pandemic, Fliimsy, Hope, Humanity's Back, Justice, Liberation, Meaning, Morning Sun, Neolithic Observation, New Norm, Optimsim, Pessimism, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Pointlessness, Question, Romance, Seasons, Spring, Summer, Times, Trepidation, Undone, Weather This Storm, Whimsy, Winter | Leave a comment

Lisa (How To Love A New England Girl)

Posted on July 7, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Lisa (How To Love A New England Girl)by Michael DoyleShe was born a New England girlWith dreams of her own and the leaves in a whirlEvery fall, she knew comfort in her seasonAnd he knew that she made sense beyond … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Beach, Beautiful Name, Best Place, Beyond Reason, Blame, Boston, Coffees, Comfort, Conversations, Cotton Candy, Dreams, Driven, Dunkin Donuts, Embrace, Enjoy, Every Morning, Fall, Fall Foliage, Flowers, Glad To Be Alive, God, Granite Swimming Holes, Hand-In-Hand, Hard to Resist, Hayrides, Heart, Her Ways, Hoome, Hung Out, Incredible Place, Kaleidoscope, Leaves, Lights, Lips, Lisa, Longfellow Serenade, Love, Love Like hers, Love Like That, Love of Music, Miss, Moon, Music, Never Alone, New England Girl, North Beach, North Conway, Overgrown Surfer Boy, Oyster, Plans Made, Poetry and Poems, Posse, Promised, Reach, Red Hair, Sand, Season, Settler's Green, Shade, Shores, Smart Enough, Songs, Sore Thumb, Splinter, Start, Story Land, Summer, Sunrise, Take the Blame, The Wall, Toes, Tourists, Two Hour Drive, Understand, W.C. Handy, Walking, Warm, Warning, Wicked Slippery, Winter, Wintry, Woods, Worth | Leave a comment