Tag Archives: Trail

Intoxicatingly Lost

Posted on August 2, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Intoxicatingly Lostby Michael DoyleWe paraded all of our songsSinging on the trail to each otherStrumming our tunes to one anotherWondering where we might belongWe were tripping over the costFeeling intoxicatingly lostAs we fished for the starsInventing our stories on our … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 15 Minutes, Bamboo Flute, Believe, Belong, Best Friend, Blue Stone, Bows, Butterflies, Chances, Conspire, Cosmic Dances, Cost, Court, Darkness, Ends, Eventually, Explore, Fast, Fingers, Fire, Float, Focus and Emphasis, Fools, Full Moon, Gilded Screens, Glory, Gothic Cathedrals, Guitars, Gun Slingers, Intoxicatingly Lost, Life, Lived and Loved, Lonely Shadows, Lost Dreams, Metamorphosis, Moment, Moonbow, MTV, Night, Occur, Paraade, Poetry and Poems, Pyrotechnics, Ring, Rock, Seat, Sing, Songs, Sonic, Stars, Stories, Strum, Sun, Tell, Tides of the Moon, Too Soon, Trail, Trip, Troubadours, Tunes, Vampire, Wind, Wonder, World, You and I | Leave a comment

In Prayers for My Mother

Posted on May 13, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

In Prayers For My Motherby Michael DoyleMy ex-wife recovers from surgery on this Mother’s DayI gave up the weekend she owed to show in some sort of wayThat I wish her to recover and want my daughters to tendTo her … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alone, Best, Better Son, Call On God, Church, Daughters, Done, Every Day, Ex Wife, Family, Grace, Heaven, Imperfect Son, Jesus, Laugh, Lessons, Look Back, Love, Loving and Brave, Mature, Miracle, Mom, Momma, Mother, Mother's Day, My Mother, Nature, Personal Relationship, Poetry and Poems, Prayers, Precious Daughters, Present, Quietly Pray, Recover, Remember, Saves, Show, Sought, Strength, Struggle and Strife, Stumble, Surgery, Taught, Tear, Tend, The Lord, The Power, The Son, Think, Throughout My Day, Time, Time To Pray, Traces, Trail, Weekend | 1 Comment

Half Remembered Lines

Posted on November 7, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

As If the Last Timeby Michael DoyleMy heart keeps being hauntedBy these half-remembered linesThe ones that are never wantedLike a kiss given as if the last timeHere’s looking at you, kidShe half smiles, keeping it hidThat heartbreak is only an … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anticipation, Argue, Beautiful, Believe, Cafe Americain, Change, Chaos, Choice, Complicate, Cost, Deceive, Doubt, Drink, Emotion, Half Rememberd, Half Smile, Haunt, Heart, Heartbreak, Inner Voices, Journey, Kiss, Last Time, Lines, Look, Lost, Luck, Overthink, Poetry and Poems, Trail, Vacation, Want, World, Wounded Lives, Yesterday | 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

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

Thought For the Day: The Beauty of Trees, the Softness of the Air, the Fragrance of the Grass, They Speak To Me

Posted on June 26, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“The beauty of the trees, the softness of the air, the fragrance of the grass, they speak to me. The summit of the mountain, the thunder of the sky, the rhythm of the sea, speaks to me. The faintness of … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Air, Beauty, Chief Dan George, Dewdrop, Faintness, Fire, Flower, Fragrance, Freshness, Grass, Heart, Life, Me, Morning, Mountain, Never Goes Away, Rhythm, Salmon, Sea, Sky, Soars, Softness, Speak, Stars, Strength, Summit, Sun, Taste, Thought For the Day, Thunder, Trail, Trees | Leave a comment

The Good Fairy Tale

Posted on June 19, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

What then is a fairy tale? What elements are necessary? And what are the purposes served in these? The Good Fairy Tale by Michael Doyle From deep within the wishing well Comes the invention of the fairy tale It’s hard … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Acting Well, Ancient Times, Beast, Beauties, Beauty, Begin, Book of Job, Children, Convergence, Courage, Crux, Deep, Deeply, Details, Disaappear, Elements, Emulation, Equal Share, Eucatastrophe, Evil, Face of Fear, Faded, Fairy Tale, Familiar, Forgiven, Fortitude, Freely Given, Generations, Good, Goodness, Hallowed Place, Happen, Happy Ending, Hard Times, Hear, Hero's Journey, Honest, Hope, Humanity, Inner Beauty, Instill, Invention, Listen, Lived Happily Ever After, Love, Love and Be Loved, Magic, Measure, Misfortune, Moments of Joy, Moon, Nations, Necessary, Once Upon A Time, Outside, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pretending, Prevail, Pride, Prince, Reality, Rely, Rest, Restoration, Reveal, Rich Fabric, Righteousness, Royalty, Set Out, Shadow, Source, Story, Sublime, Survive, Tell, Traces, Trail, Treasure, Vanquished, Variance, Will, Win, Wisdom, Wise, Wishing Well, Woven | Leave a comment

Simple Saturday

Posted on April 18, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Day 17 of Na/GloPoWriMo 2020 invites us to poetically examine the simple pleasures that make up the Saturdays of our souls. Simple Saturday by Michael Doyle Simply Saturday Could be no other way But over coffee or tea To share … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2020, Able, Bad, Bare, Behind, Being There, Best, Brave, Care, Coffee, Cry, Depart, Face, Feel, Feeling, Fulfill, Gather, Give, Good, Grace, Happy, Heart, Hurt, Improve, Lay, Listen, Live, Look, Love, Mind, Move, Na/GloPoWriMo, Peek, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Read, Rest, Reveal, Sad, Saturday, Share, Shout, Simple, Soul, Speak, Spill, Table, Tea, Thankful, Thought, Trace, Trail, Truth, Way, Weather, Words | Leave a comment

An Obsession of Shadow

Posted on April 13, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

The challenge for the 13th day of Na/GloPoWriMo is to write something spooky or somewhat creepy. To me, there is maybe nothing more creepy than the shadowed, dark side of human nature. An Obsession of Shadow by Michael Romani Hiding … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Angel, Anger, Avarice, Beast, Better Living, Blame, Blood, Bury, Compassion, Creepy, Crime, Dark Side, Darkness, Demand, Desire, Detail, Eccentricity, Electricity, Embrace, Endure, Fulcrum, Ghost, Gloom, Hell's Fire, Human Nature, Land, Lick, Life, Lifetime, Lost, Luifer, Lust, Madness, Memory, Men, Mire, Mortals, Na/GloPoWriMo, Name, Nightmare, Obsession, Palm Read, Photograph, Pity, Poem, Poetry, Recall, Reveal, Room, Safe, Sail, Scorpion, Secret, Shadow, Ship, Slave, Sleep, Soul, Spook, Suffrage, Tears, Trail, Trouble, Unforgiving, Villain, Walk, Weep, Wolf, World | Leave a comment

Sacred Song

Posted on February 22, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

May your trails always be safe protected by the sacred song of life. https://flic.kr/p/tXBN9h Sacred Song by Michael Romani Sing your songs To protect my trail Offering safe passage Past the hounds of Hell My soul is troubled Here in … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Again, Best, Better Things, Chance, Close, Difficult, Find, Forever, Friends, Hope, Hounds of Hell, Our, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Protect, Remember, Rhyme, Safe Passage, Sing, Smile, Song, Soul, Spirit Dance, Times, Tomorrow, Trail, Trouble, Vision | Leave a comment

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Intoxicatingly Lost

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Thoughts On A September Morn

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