Tag Archives: Yesterday

Notes That Play

Posted on September 10, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Notes That Playby Michael DoyleThe notes that playRemind us of yesterdayIn happiness and sympathyWe feel this in the melodyThat plays forever in our mindsThe feelings we won’t leave behindEvery second, magic we reliveAll the notes that our hearts giveHeart stops … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Along the Way, Amazing, Busy Days, Carry Us, Dance, Each Day, Embrace, Everything, Feel, Feeling, Forever, Grace, Happiness, Hearts, Leave Behind, Length, Listen, Live, Love, Magic, Melody, Miles, Mind, Music, Notes, Okay, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Remind, Second, Sense, Smiles, Songs, Sympathy, Through, Tunes, Worse Day, Yesterday, You | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: A Man Should Never Be Ashamed To Own That He Has Been In the Wrong, Which Is But Saying, … That He Is Wiser Today Than Yesterday

Posted on August 12, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.” – Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Alexander Pope, In Other Words, In the Wrong, Man, Never Ashamed, Own, Say, Thought For the Day, Today, Wiser, Yesterday | Leave a comment

Engulfed In A Church of Transition

Posted on July 9, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Claude De Bussy’s music started a tonal revolution that brought with it an entirely different way of looking at music. It’s simply amazing in its tonal fluidity and how it transformed art music. Debussy’s Engulfed Cathedral: Engulfed In A … Continue reading →

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Waking Up Alone

Posted on June 21, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Didn’t Bowie set it out for us well? Time may and does change us. But, we cannot change time. Why do realize that when we are young. Then so many of us lose sight of this as we grow older … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alone, Apocalyptic, Approach, Aware, Bleed, Bowie, Capable, Change, Cross, Die, Dream, Drowned Out, Eventually, Fatalism, Fear, Feel, Feeling, Forward, Gone, Hands and Hearts, Hangs In the Air, Hard Rains, Hesitation, Highs, History, Hold On, Humor, Know, Listen, Live In the Past, Living, Lows, Mockery, Moving, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Point of No Return, Proud, Question, See, Slow Trains, Sneer, Stark, Still Here, Terror, The Rubicon, Things Don't Last, Time, Today, Tomorrow, Unafraid, Wake Up, Waking Up Alone, Warning, We're On Our Own, Wonder, World, Yesterday, Young Ladies, Youngsters | Leave a comment

To Yet Be Wiser Than Yesterday

Posted on June 16, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

I can only wish, right? We can only wish? Well.. maybe some wishes do come true? To Yet Be Wiser Than Yesterday by Michael Doyle A held tongue leaves time to think Observing those things to be observed These often … Continue reading →

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The Journey Back

Posted on June 2, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Things of memory have the worth of time revealed in the quiet moments of our hearts. The Journey Back by Michael Doyle Somewhere in a cup of coffee Is the reflection that is memory Somehow a photograph starts to show … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Back, Broken, Burdens, Childhood, Children, Coffee, Confusion, Cruel, Crush, Dance, Disappointments, Every Day, Fanciful Hopes, Fantastic Schemes, Find, Firm, Forgot, Given, Graveyard, Half Measure, Hearts, Hope, Humility, Idleness, Illusion, Journey, Kin Is Kin, Know, Left Behind, Lies, Little Things, Living Dreams, Love, Memory, Mind, Open, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Practical, Pretend, Prove, Quiet Moments, Reflection, Remind, Reveal, Show, Skin, Spoken, Strong, Times, Treasure, Trouble, True Love, Truer Words, Truth, Utility, Warm, Wishing It So, Words, Worth, Yesterday, Youth | Leave a comment

Crawled From the Crypt

Posted on March 16, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Does anyone remember a very old television show, Dark Shadows? When I was a kid, they tell me I would cut through the woods after school let out instead of taking the bus and run some 3.5 miles to catch … Continue reading →

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Finding Joy In the Tears

Posted on March 13, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on Ecclesiastes 3:4: Finding Joy In the Tears by Michael Doyle In looking back on my many years I am finding joy in the tears There in the sweet music for my ears Is the finding of … Continue reading →

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Leaving Yesterdays Behind

Posted on March 5, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

What matters profit if it has cost your soul? Leaving Yesterdays Behind by Michael Doyle What it is that seems fit Is often enough a matter Devoted entirely to profit All other arguments shatter The implication is clear That neither … Continue reading →

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My Thorny Crown

Posted on March 2, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

War never truly ends for some. My Thorny Crown by Michael Doyle It’s said and it’s true As a lesson learned by me and you That only the dead Know the end of war For the rest of us, it’s … Continue reading →

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