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Retroactive Kaleidoscope

Posted on April 17, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

The optional objective for Day 17 of Na/GloPoWriMo 2020 is to write a poem incorporating a ‘forgotten’ technology. Well, my choice is not so much as forgotten but once a has been yet now a collectible among some. Retroactive … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2020, 45s, Angst, Artisanal, Aural, Bad, Bake, Believe, Brilliance, Bulge, Burrow, Capability, Capacity, Cave, Childhood, Days, Digital, Drive By, Economy, Fail, Favorite, Fear, Feet, Fix, Forgotten, Fulfill, Ghost, Good, Grasp, Ground, Hipster, Hope, Indulge, Kaleidscope, Last, Luddite, Millennial, Mind, Mistake, Na/GloPoWriMo, Need, Nostalgia, Past, Permanence, Phototgraph, Planned Obsolescence, Poem, Poetry, Portable Console, Reason, Reilience, Remade, Remember, Retroactive, Sage, Save, Savor, Silicon Valley, Sister, Soul, Sound, Sound Track, Sun Stroke, Technology, Time, Vinyl, Wallet, World, Zen | Leave a comment

An Easter Of Empty Churches

Posted on April 15, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

What an odd sort of Easter wasn’t it? But perhaps a lesson to be learned… An Easter of Empty Churches by Michael Doyle April of 2019, Notre-Dame was burning And in this, we were surprised and learning That there would … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All of Us, April 2019, April 2020, Assumption, Bar, Barren, Believe, Believers, Believing, Burn, Capable, Caves, Celebrate, Church, Churches, Comfort, Consensus, Contend, COVID-19, Cross, Curse, Deceiving, Distance, Door, Dread, Easter, Empty, Excommunication, Faith, Faithful, Fate, Faustian Bargain, Fear, God, Government, Grieve, Hearts, Home Church, Homes, Hope, Hues, Infection, Jesus of Nazareth, Jesus Saves, Know, Learn, Lepers, Loss, Love of Others, Meant, Need, Notre Dame, One, Order, Pain, Pandemic, Pews, Photograph, Plagues, Poem, Poetry, Poor, Pray, Prayer, Presumption, Question, Reality, Realization, Reappear, Resistance, Revelation, Rich, Shape, Shut, Son, Spiritual, Sustain, The Church, the Word, There, Thrive, True, Unease, Wait, War, World | Leave a comment

Dr. Seuss With No Excuse

Posted on April 14, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Two weeks in aka Day 14 of Na/GloPoWriMo 2020 and the challenge prompt today is: “to think about your own inspirations and forebears (whether literary or otherwise). Specifically, I challenge you today to write a poem that deals with the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2020, Alone, Amaze, Appreciate, Band, Be You, Beautiful, Beauty, Best, Best Part, Birds, Books, Breeze, Brim, Care, Certainty, Child, Childhood, Classical Guitar, Cleanliness, Complexity, Confess, Conformity, Creation, Crime, Daughters, Decades, Dignity, Diligence, Discern, Dr. Seuss, Drift, Drum, Dust, Enormity, Excuse, Explore, Eyes, Faces, Fear, Fired, Fit In, Flexibility, Forgot, Future, Girls, Godliness, Grammar, Gratitude, Grow, Heart, Hearts, Hell, Ill, Imagination, Indulgence, Influence, Inspiration, Inspire, Joy, Keys, Large Town, Laugh, Learn, Lessons, Life, Little Bears, Loose, Lorax, Love, Lyrics, Man, Messed Up, Messy, Military Man, Moon, More We Know, Musical, Mystery, Na/GloPoWriMo, Neil Pert, Noose, Numb, Open, Pages, Perplexity, Photograph, Places, Poem, Poetry, Poets, Read, Reading, Rhymes, Right Attitude, Right Life, Right Size, Rules, School, Second Guess, Self Pity, Sell, Shakespeare, Shut, Small Town, Soul, Speak, Speck, Stand Out, Stumble, Teachers, Throw Out, Tired, Toys, Trees, True, Two, Two Angels, Ukulele, Vibration, View, William Blake, Wise, Wonderful, Woods, Word Play, Words, World, You | Leave a comment

Turbo Charged

Posted on April 9, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

American History continues through the Kennedy presidency. Turbo Charged by Michael Doyle Nixon versus Kennedy; election 1960 Workhorse versus glamor; it hits me That the sleek athleticism of the New Frontier Was as distinctive as this election year The torch … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 1960, Affirmation, All Men Are Created Equal, American, American History, Assassination, Athlete, Bigotry, Calculation, Camelot, Charge, Chin, Christian, Civil Rights, Creed, Criticism, Cuban Missile Crisis, Dead, Death, Discipline, Duty, Election, Era, Essence, Expert, Fight, Flair, Founding Principles, Full Stop, Generation, Glamor, Hard Peace, Human Rights, John F Kennedy, Keynesian, Lead, Lee Harvey Oswald, Liberty, Lunar Landing, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr, Mean, Mellon, Message, Midnight, Missiles, Nation, Negotiate, New Frontier, Noble, Nuclear, Optimism, Paradox, Participation, Past, Peaceful Resistance, Persistence, Phototgraph, Piety, Poem, Poetry, Policy, Posterity, Presidency, Pressure, Price, Prosperity, Richad M Nixon, Sad, Segregation, Sobering Effect, Social Change, Soviets, Taxaation, Thought, Torch, Trouble Spots, Turbo, Two Minutes, Unity, USSR, Veneration, Workhorse, World | Leave a comment

Our Finest Hour

Posted on April 7, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

At this stage of American history, we advanced onto the world stage having no real choice but to fight a war on multiple fronts in World War II and rather self consciously becoming a, if not the, world leader in … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 1930s, 1940, Accommodation, Admiral Nimitz, Admiral Yamamoto, Air Craft Carrier, All-American, Allied Commander, Allies, America, American History, American Pride, Appeasement, Atom Bomb, Back, Battle, Battle of Britain, Battle of Midway, Beast, Berlin, Blitzkrieg, Break, Brunt, Capacity, China, Christian Civilization, City, Conflagration, Consideration, Converge, Countries, D-Day, Dead, Death Camps, Decision, Decisive, Decisively, Defeaat, Demoralize, Destructive, Devour, Dictator, Die, Direction, Domination, Drums, Dwight Eisenhower, Dynamics, Emperor, Endure, Engage, Expansion, FDR, Finest, Finest Hour, Fire Side Chat, Fourth, Free World, Freedom, General MacArthur, Germany, Halt, Hard Fought, Harry S Truman, Heart, Hiroshima, History, Hitler, Horror, Hour, Impossible, Industrial Ability, Infamy, Institution, Internal, International, Internationalist, Isolationist, Italy, Japan, Japanese, Jewish, June, Knockout Blow, Know, Last, Lend Lease Act, Luftwaffe, Manhattan Project, Mantle of Leadership, Materials, Merge, Might, Nagasaki, Nation, Navy, Nazi, Neutrality, Non-Aggression Pact, Normandy, North Atlantic, Obligations, Occupy, Okinawa, Opinion Poll, Organic, Pacific, Pacific Fleet, Paris, Past, Pearl Harbor, Permanent Sense, Philippines, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Precedent, Predictability, Prinicples, Priority, Productivity, Reality, Revelation, Royal Air Force, Ruins, Russians, Secret, Secure, Self Conscious, Shadow, Shoulders, Shudder, Siege, Skies, Smoulder, Soviet Union, Stalin, Standing, Standing Army, Strategic, Stubborn, Supplies, Surrender, Sustain, Symbolic, Territorial Aggression, Thug, Treaty of Versailles, Turning Point, Two Prong, Typhoon of Steel, Unstoppable, Vain, VE Day, Victory, War, Will, Win, Winston Churchill, World, World Affairs, World Leader, World War II, Wrong | Leave a comment

Triumphal Entry (Palm Sunday 2020)

Posted on April 5, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Na/GloPoWriMo 2020, Day 5 is Palm Sunday! Challenging, really challenging prompt today. 20 separate components: “Our (optional) prompt for today is one that we have used in past years, but which I love to come back to, because it so … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Absurdity, Age, Beach, Beautiful, Beginning, Belief, Bittersweet, Blind, Brutality, Cannibalism, Challenge, Communion, Conform, Cries, Cry, Dealt, Death, Deceiver, Defeat, Degrees of Separation, Die, Donkey, End, Entry, Find, Flight, God, Grace, Hole, Hosana, Hoshiya Na, Human Form, Humanity, Jerusalem, Jesus, Jim Simmerman, King of the Jews, Laugh, Live, Lord, Lost, Me, Metaphor, Na/GloPoWriMo 2020, Narrow, Overwhelmning, Palm Sunday, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pouring Out, Provide, Redeem, Religious People, Return, Ripped Flesh, Sacral, Sake, Salvation, Save, Seek, Senses, Shudder, Side, Sinner, Smell, Spiritual, Symbolism, Tarzan, Taste, Tears, The Gate, Three Day, Together, Torture, Touch, Triumph, Truth, Twenty Little Poetry Projects, Urbanism, Victory, Wait, World, Wounded | 2 Comments

In A Still Sleeping Place Inside My Head

Posted on April 4, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

The for the fourth day of NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo 2020 is: “…to write a poem based on an image from a dream”. … and so I did…. In A Still Sleeping Place Inside My Head by Michael Doyle The feeling comes … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2020, Above, Again, Angels, Another, Beauty, Become, Begun, Below, Beyond, Black, Bold, Bring, Center Point, Chance, Chorus, Circumstance, Connect, Count, Cover, Dance, Dancing, Dark, Deep, Dissonant, Dominion, Dread, Dream, Dreamers, Drift, Drop, Energy, Evil, Experience, Fear, Feeling, Flow, Foe, Friend, God, Happen, Happiness, Hard, Head, Hope, Hunt, Image, Integration, Intimacy, Jacked, Join, Lame, Learn, Level, Life, Light, Live, Marry, Mask, Merge, Mermaid, Mind, NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo, Numb, One, Photograph, Place, Poem, Poetry, Purpose, Reach Out, Real, Red, Reel, Relevancy, Revealing, Rip, Run, Sadness, Seal, Sing, Sleep, Slumber, Someday, Soul, Still, Supreme, Swirl, Syncrhonization, Tear, Thought, Times, Twilight, Undone, Unreal, Urgency, Vivid, Walk, Waltz, Want, Wax, White, Wild Card, World, Wormhole | 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

I of the Camera

Posted on April 1, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

It’s the first official day of NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo 2020! So what’s the prompt, right? “… a self-portrait poem in which you make a specific action a metaphor for your life – one that typically isn’t done all that often, or only … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2020, Amazing, Awesome, Beautiful, Blur, Break of Day, Camera, Close Up, Color, Composition, Conscious, Dance, Decision, Distance, Dreams, Emphasis, Extraordinary, Eye, Flow, Focal, God, Green, Heart, Human Being, I, Inner, Interesting, Keep, Learn, Lense, Lesson, Life, Light of Moon, Marvel, Moment, NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo, Normal, Ordinary, Perspective, Photograph, Pleasure, Poem, Poetry, Praise, Premises, Prime, Reflexive, Seeing, Self Portrait, Show, Soft, Softness, Soul, Stir, Stream, Telephoto, Thin, Time, Trick, Trip, Tune, View, Visual Poetry, Wide, Witness, Wonderful, World | Leave a comment

Right Standing

Posted on March 26, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on 1 Peter 12: Right Standing by Michael Doyle Father, God in Jesus’ name I have been made without blame Though your crucifixion Rising above my afflictions Thanks to your grace I am held in your loving … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Affliction, Angel, Blame, Bolder, Bone, Broken, Cross, Crucifixion, Cure, Days, Demand, Direction, Discern, Earn, Embrace, Example, Faith, Father, Fix, Follow, Foward, God, Good, Grace, Heaven, His, Holy, Holy Spirit, Home, Jesus, Keep, Learn, Live, Lord, Loving, Name, Onward, Peter, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pure, Restore, Right, Righteousness, Rise, Seek, Shadow, Shame, Sin, Smolder, Speak, Standing, Strong, Talk, Trace, Walk, Watch, Weeks, Weep, World, Wrong, Yoke | Leave a comment