Tag Archives: Summer

From the Canyon’s Heart

Posted on November 7, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

A poem of gratitude #7. This one is from a sense of gratitude toward the music that came to life from the Laurel Canyon scene. I think that though I leaned toward progressive hard rock in my music, my lyrical … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Back Pages, Bob Dylan, Canyon, Craft, Echo, Feelings, Folk Rock, Generation, Gratitude, Harmony, Heart, Hollywood, Inspire, Joy, Laurel Canyon, Lyre, Melody, Microphone, Music, Orpheum, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poetry, Progressive Hard Rock, Reverberation, Rhyme, Rickenbacker, Santa Monica Mountains, Shift, Song, Sorrow, Soul, Speakeasy, Summer, Sunset, The Byrds, Three Part Harmony, Time, Tomorrow, Tone, Wade, Waft | 2 Comments

Taking Stock

Posted on September 4, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

The Summer of 1969 was a defining moment in the life of America. The currents that led to it swept away many of the traditions of the past in that season of our discontent. Taking Stock by Michael Romani Bethel, … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 1969, America, Art, Assassination, Bethel, Better, Beyond, Bobby Kennedy, Brotherhood, Change, Choice, Clear, Defer, Different, Disaster, Discontent, Disillusion, Dream, Edge, Flood, Generation, Groove, Happening, Ignore, Illusion, Know, Lght, Loud, Music, Nation, Notoriety, Pain, Parents, Peace, Photograph, Pilgrim, Plan, Play, Poem, Poetry, Possible, Proud, Rain, Reverent, Revolution, Satisfy, Scream, Society, Storm, Strife, Summer, Tears, Thought, Transform, Vietnam, Voice, Wrath | Leave a comment

Summer, Newport Beach

Posted on April 25, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Na/GloPoWriMo 2019, Day 25 and the challenge is to write a poem that incorporates: Is specific to a season Uses imagery that relates to all five senses (sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell) Includes a rhetorical question, (like Keats’ “where … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bain de Soleil, Balboa Pier, Beach House, Breeze, Brothers, Contact High, Cousin, Crab, Crash, Fire Pit, Growing Up, Huntington Beach, Jetty, Ladies, Na/GloPoWriMo, Newport Beach, Ocean, Older, Paddle, Park, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Question, Rock, Saltwater, Season, Sense, Shoreline, St Tropez, Summer, Sunshine, Surf, Talk, Tan, The Zoo, Water, Wave, Young | Leave a comment

Happy Fall Equinox!!

Posted on September 23, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

Goodbye to summer, Hello to Fall!

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Autumn, Fall, Fall Equinox, Goodbye, Hello, Seasons, Summer, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

Daily Prompt – Tourist

Posted on August 15, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

Out under the summer’s beating sun There are moments of such brilliant fun But none so fun as watching tourists on parade As they pantomime their crazed charade Leaving their footprint traces in the sand While watching lovers hand in … Continue reading →

Posted in Photographs & Memories | Tagged Bay, Charade, Daily Prompt, Dream, Fade Away, Footprints, Fun, Hand In Hand, Life, Lovers, Moment, Naive, Pantomime, Parade, Sand, Sand Dollar, Sandcastles, Summer, Sun, Sunset, Tourist, Wash, Yesterday | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: In the Depth of Your Winter, Find Your Invincible Summer

Posted on July 21, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“In the depth of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.” – Albert Camus

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Albert Camus, Challenge, Depth, Individual, Invincible, Resources, Sorrow, Strength, Summer, Thought For the Day, Winter | Leave a comment

Daily Prompt – Kinetic

Posted on July 16, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

Scenes like jazz paint musical colors in shades of blues Most of them dynamic and throbbing in kinetic hues Creative notes are strung together in memorable proclamation Breathing in to breath out in life’s heightened exclamation The music rains fire … Continue reading →

Posted in Photographs & Memories | Tagged Clarity, Colors, Daily Prompt, Dissonance, Heat, Hues, Jazz, Kindred, Kinetic, Night, Notes, Proclamation, Stick In the Mud, Summer, Swelter, Tones, Turmoil | Leave a comment

Daily Prompt – Heat

Posted on June 24, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

In the heated challenge of the inside out Where certainty is a near shadow of doubt There are moments pondered here and now When muddled conclusions work somehow There in the midst of the summer’s heat Is where the rubber … Continue reading →

Posted in Photographs & Memories | Tagged Apple, Daily Prompt, Do Over, Doubt, Error, Heat, Inside Out, Luck, Muddled Conclusion, Night Terror, Photograph, Rubber and Road, Simple Truth, Summer, Wish | Leave a comment

WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Slight

Posted on May 14, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

With only a moment’s slight hesitation I think back on a winter’s destination It might be that Summer came on too fast Or, that with a blink, Spring is past Whatever the plentiful half forgotten reasons I am nostalgic for … Continue reading →

Posted in Photographs & Memories | Tagged Daily Prompt, Destination, Hestitation, Neglect, Nostalgic, Patterns, Record Heat, Remorse, Season, Slight, Snow, Spring, Summer, Wilderness, Winter, Winter's Child, Wordpress | Leave a comment

Sonic Gems: War – Why Can’t We Be Friends?

Posted on February 23, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

Formed in 1969, originally as Eric Burdon and War, War is an American funk cross-over band from Long Beach, California. This band fused elements of rock, funk, jazz, Latin, rhythm and blues and reggae. Their best known hit songs are Spill … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Eric Burdon, Funk, Grammy Awards, Low Rider, Sonic Gems, Summer, War, Why Can't We Be Friends? | Leave a comment