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The Paths Ahead

Posted on January 22, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

The Paths Aheadby Pure Love and Michael Romani So many roads yet to be takenSo many choices yet to be givenThe path stretches out beforeWith life yet for us to explore There is a magic in the moreWhen we open … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ahead, Believe, Bliss, Choices, Days, Door, Dream, Explore, Fear, Future, Given, Happiness, Holding On, Hope, Imagination, Life, Live, Love and Care, Magic, Melody, Moments, Open, Paths, Peace, Play, Poetry and Poems, Reality, Roads, See, Share, Smiles, Songs, Stream, Stretch, Sun, Taken, Ways | Leave a comment

Truths Seen

Posted on August 18, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Truths Seenby Michael DoyleSilent criesStrident alibisTruths seenFor human beingsCan be mortifyingAs we live death defyingTaking risks at every turnWe live as we learnCareful from feeling the burnYet, it is that we still yearnThe world keeps on turningNever certain what we’re … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alibis, Answer, Burn, Careful, Dancer, Desire, Done, Find, Fire, Flying, Human Beings, Learn, Learning, Live, Lose, Mortifying, Poetry and Poems, Remind, Risks, Seen, Silent, Struggle, Sun, Terms, Truths, Turn, Turning, World, Yearn | Leave a comment

First Principles: There Is A Chart and A Compass For Us To Study, To Consult, and To Obey. That Chart Is the Constitution

Posted on May 13, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

We may be tossed upon an ocean where we can see no land — nor, perhaps, the sun or stars. But there is a chart and a compass for us to study, to consult, and to obey. That chart is … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Chart, Compass, Consult, Daniel Webster, First Principles, Obey, See No Land, Stars, Study, Sun, The Constitution, Tossed Upon An Ocean | Leave a comment

Na/GloPoWriMo #17: Your Turn To Peek

Posted on April 17, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Na/GloPoWriMo #17: Your Turn To Peekby Michael DoyleA silver faceShrouded in thinnest veilShines of love’s embraceIn the greatest detailLines traces acrossScars whispering of lossYet, hopeful of fantasyLike star-crossed lunacyPlaying hide and seekUntil it’s your turn to peekThe day’s sun falls … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Across, Crown, Day, Detail, Embrace, Falls Down, Fantasy, Hide and Seek, Hopeful, Lines, Loss, Love, Lunacy, Na/GloPoWriMo, Once Again, Peek, Play, Poetry and Poems, Scars, Shine, Shroud, Star-Crossed, Sun, Think, Trace, Veil | Leave a comment

Na/GloPoWriMo #13: Yesterday’s Tomorrow’s News

Posted on April 14, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Na/GloPoWriMo #13: Yesterday’s Tomorrow’s News by Michael DoyleSitting watching the evening news hourWatching the sun go down as night devoursI fell asleep to the bleat of the LED displayDisrupting a poem meant written yesterdayHaving missed my embossed invitationI make up … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Beauty's Walk, Best Ever Lesson, Bleak, Bleak Veil, Blue Skies, Cheer, Consist, Darkness, Dazzlingly Beautiful, Deafening Wall, Disrupt, Embossed Invitation, Evening News, Exactly That, Exchanging Smiles, Filled, Finding that Moment, Fluffy Clouds, Gloom, Guessing, Harshness, Hear, Hello Back, Invocation, Joy, Last Year, LED Display, Let Them Serve Us Well, Life Is Better Served, Little Need, Matter of Fact, Meant, Morose Views, Na/GloPoWriMo, News, Newsman, Night, Off-Guard, Pleasantry, Poem, Poetry and Poems, Pointless, Presence, Punditry, Random Moments, Regardless, Remain, Risk All, Saying Hello, Serves To Fill Life, Simple, Sit, Slip Through, Sun, Sun Comes Out, Sunflowers, Sunlight, Sunny and Bright, Surprise, Talk, Task, Thousand Fears, Thud, Times, Today, Tomorrow, Tomorrow's News, Trapped, Truth, Unrequired, Verbal, Watch, We Are Best Served, Wipe Away, Wrapping My Mind, Yesterday | 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

That Works For Me

Posted on September 23, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

That Works For Meby Michael DoyleShooting photos from a different perspectiveIs easy, fun and a bit magically reflectiveSeagulls flying around the statue’s baseAnd twilight falls giving its new embraceSo many things seen all of the timeNothing hard in finding the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Activitity, Adventure, All the Best, Base, Blunder, Blur, Connectivity, Easy, Embrace, Faces, Fun, Good, History, Iconic, Metaphysical Poetry, Moments, Mystery, New Angle, New Day, Night, Perspective, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Ready and Willing, Reflective, Seagulls, See, Shooting Photos, Sights, Soul, Speed of Life, Sublime, Sun, Tangle, That Works, Time, Twilight, Unusual, Wonder, Works | Leave a comment

On Autumnal Equinox 2020 – Happy First Day Of Autumn

Posted on September 22, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

On Autumnal Equinox 2020by Michael DoyleThe world speaks of falling backThe world thinks on falling backYet, it is that as Fall comes to lockWe enter our Southward EquinoxThe Sun has shifts its celestial destinationNo longer balanced in the Libra constellationIt … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Algnment, Alone, Ancient, Autumn, Autumn Leaves, Blessing, Cardinal Point, Celestial, Change, Climatic, Colors, Constellation, Crown, Equinox, Expect, Fall Back, Falling Down, Farewell, Festival, Fragment, Gain, Good Cheer, Ground, Harvest Home, Holy, Hour, Libra, Life, Lock, Midpoint, Neglect, Oak King, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Seasons, Segment, Shadow, Shelter, Southward Equinox, Speak, Summer, Sun, Thanksgivign, Think, Turn, Virgo, Wane, Wheel of the Year, World | Leave a comment

Shorebreak Blues

Posted on September 9, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Shorebreak Bluesby Michael DoyleOut there on my hideaway, ride the bayI spend my moments in my casual wayHere to surf not to observe or talkI watch the waves crash on Jackpot RockI feel Autumn come creeping in Dreaming in my … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Autumn, Bay, Big Waves, Blues, Casual, Clouds, Crash, Creep In, Doubt, Dreams, Drizzle, Early Morning, Easy Enough, Everyday, Experience, Fake, Feeling, Gone, Hideaway, Island Girl, Jackpot Rock, Love, Make My Way, Moments, Observe, Oceant, Old Timers, Paddle, Paddle Out Again, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Preference, Reverence, Ride, Roll In, Shape, Shorebreak, Sizzle, Slipping On, Souls, Stay, Sun, Surf, Swimming With Iguanas, Take, Talk, Talk Story, Tides, Time Spent, Waiemea, Waves, Waves Meet Shore | Leave a comment

In What We Do

Posted on July 26, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Allegiance made, let us live our lives in accord with our beliefs. This poem is based in part on John 16:33: In What We Do by Michael Doyle In Christ, we find our peace While the world has its tribulation … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accord, All Things Said and Done, Alleigance, As One, Belief, Earth, Finding New Life, Freedom, Glory, God, Hands Raised High, Heart, Hearts, Heaven Above, His Love, Hymn, In Christ, In Him, In Spirit, Jesus, John 16:33, Kingdom, Live Lives, Nation, New, Our Best, Our Love, Overcome, Peace, Persevere, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Poured out, Praise, Release, Rise and Fall, Sacred, Sing, Sky, Story, Strength In God, Sun, Things We Fear, Transformed, Tribulation, Waking Up, We Do, What, What We Do, Whatever Comes, World, Worship | Leave a comment