Tag Archives: Afraid

Be Your Own Hero

Posted on September 2, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Be Your Own Heroby Michael DoyleIncurable as a dreaming heroStubborn as a seeming zeroWe play our parts in masqueradeEach day lived within its charadeHiding ourselves behind the music we playCaught up in front of screens all dayBecause we cannot be … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Able, Abuses, Afraid, Against, Aloone, Answering, Answers, Believe, Born, Breath, Calls, Cancer, Charade, Circumstance, Condone, Convince, Cupidity, Cure, Cuts, Dark, Death, Despite, Dingy, Dirty, Double Edged Sword, Drink, Duplicity, Even, Fabric of Society, Filed Away, Find, Finding Clues, Forgot, Front, Half A Shot, Hero, Heroism, Hidden, Hiding, Hope, Ignore, Incurable, Justification, Lessons, Life, Madness, Make It Right, Malignant, Mask, Masquerade, Music, Night, Others, Pardon, Pause, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Profuse, Pushing Through, Put Aside, Real, Recess, Screens, See, Self, Silence, Speak, Stand, Stronger, Stubborn, Swallowed Pride, Take the Hit, Tasks, Tattered, Think, Torn, True, Truth and Light, Unbreakable, Unspeakable, Vast, Villainy, Violence, Warning, Who We Want to Be, Why, Worse, Your Own | Leave a comment

A Good Feeling About…

Posted on August 22, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

A Good Feeling About…by Michael DoyleIt looks like we’re in for nasty weatherGod knows that you and I deserve betterPlotted courses are always subject to changeIt’s the simple way of life and nothing strangerSpin offs and rip offs serve to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Afraid, Art, Believe, Best Direction, Better, Bum Rush, Canvass, Compare, Compassion, Connection, Create, Deep, Deserve, Detection, Disjointed, Distract, Dreams, Fall, Fashion, Feel, Final Cut, Fix, Flaws, Flow, Forgot, God Knows, Good Feeling, Hard Work, Harsh, Heart, Hero, Hold Steady, Horse Before the Cart, Impossible, Inspiration, Let It Be, Life Lived, Lives, Lot, Luck, Melodramatically, Mine Fields, Mistaken, Motivation, Moving Forward, Muse, Nasty Weather, Observe, Part, Passion, Photograph, Plotted Courses, Poem, Poetry, Pointless, Probable, Ready, Rip Offs, Roll, Rolling Along, Same Direction, Scenes, Simple Way of Life, Slick Mix, Slight Adjustment, Spin Offs, Standard, Stay Within, Staying Stuck, Stranger, Studio, Stumble, Subject To Change, Too Much, Toward, Under Attack, Unfair, We, Wonder, World, You and I | Leave a comment

To My Not So Anonymous Enemy

Posted on August 11, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Don’t worry. I have a pretty good idea who you are. shrugs… Your game is all but washed out…Incidentally, if you think being an ocean apart somehow protects against slander and libel in an electronic communication, well, I guess I’m … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accusation, Afraid, Anonymous, Arguments, Blackmail, Blankly, Chorus, Couple of Times, Crumble, Doesn't Believe, Don't Cry To You, Electronic Communication, Enemy, False Relation, Falter, Fears, Fool's Game, Game Over, Gives You, Gossip, Honest Man, Hurt, Impersonation, Implied Demands, Innuendo, International Law, Karma, Learn, Libel, Lost, Loud Mouth, Made Up, Made Up Tears, Makes One Think, Mildly Waits, Mirror, Mocking, Mocking Jubilation, Photograph, Play, Played, Playing the Victim, Poem, Poetry, Proves Nothing, Shadow, Slander, Someone Who Cares, Speak, Stalking, Stares, Stares Back, Stinks, Stumble, Thankfully, Too Much Time On Your Hands, Wanting No Part, Warning, Weak, What You Say, Your Just Deserts, Your Own Voice | Leave a comment

Tavern Dice

Posted on July 18, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Much of life is lived as though on a roll of the dice. Game of chance and circumstance lived with our best intentions. Tavern Dice by Michael Doyle With a roll of dice A gamble is made For something nice … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Afraid, After, Best Intentions, Broken Melody, Circumstance, Crookedly Weighted, Dare, Deception, Dice, Die, Discard, Evil, Familiar, Fix, Gamble Made, Game of Chance, Laughter, Lies, Life, Lived, Minstel, Name of Heaven, Nice, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Ramble, Roll of the Dice, Same, Score, Seven, Snake Eyes, Tavern, This Game, You and Me | Leave a comment

The Woke Wake Up

Posted on July 9, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

There are just ways to advocate against injustice. There are ways that make moving for justice anything but that. Now as these predators are being identified by their own online postings, they curl up into fetal position decrying how unfair … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Acquisitive, Act Just, Advocate, Afraid, All Life Is Sacred, Ambition, American Dream, Another, Arrogant, Avoid Seeing, Basic Right, Be Merciful, Beg Indulgence, Better Self, Better World, Black Hoodie, Broke, Bungle, Burn, Civil Rights, Contribution, Death Culture, Decry, Degreed, Discussion, Divestment, Eat Their Own, Evidence, Fetal, Fetal Position, Fight, Firebombs, Forbearance, Foresight, Fragility, Free Pass, Fruits of Labor, Ghosts, Godless, Ideal, Ignorance, Immortality, Injustice, Inquisitive, Jail, Just Revolution, Justice, Less, Life, Meaning, Media Jungle, Mirror, Morally Broken, Move Foward, No Man, Online, Online Posts, Our Times, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Poorly Educated, Predators, Prevail, Profanity, Protect, Quest, Radicals, Reason, Revolution, Riot, Rock, Rubbish, Ruin, Self Signified, Shock Troops, Society, Speak, Spray Paint, Stab, Stall, Streets, Strife, Think, Tick Tock, Trash Talkers, Truth, Undoing, Unfair, Unfairness, Wake Up, Weak, Woke, Worse Saint, Worthy Investment, Wrong | Leave a comment

Pandemic Confronted

Posted on March 15, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

On looking slightly back at a day of visitation with two princesses who mean all the world to me and reflection on the current events of our times. Pandemic Confronted by Michael Doyle What a day to roundly irrational In … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Afraid, Angel, Answer, Bad Joke, Better, Bravado, Bring, Brisk, Calm, Celebrate, Choke, Confess, Confront, Consequence, Covoid 19, Dad, Dancer, Day, Day's End, Deep, Depart, Devil, Diplomatic, Eldest, Embrace, End, Epidemic, Eye, Face, Father, Fear, Fear Monger, First, God, Goodbye, Heart, Hid, Hug, Imperfect, Irrational, Joke, Kill, Know, Last Day, Laugh, Loneliness, Looking Back, Love, Meal, Memory, Pandemic, Photograph, Pi, Poem, Poetry, Recompense, Reply, Revealing, Right, Risk, Round, Saint Patrick's Day, Sarcoidosis, See, Sent Off, Shower, Smile, Soul, Tear, Tell, Together, Trace, Visitation, Warm, Watch, Way, Wordplay | Leave a comment

Ruined Absolution

Posted on December 21, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

This poem was meant for December 19, 2019. This is, among other observances, National Emo Day.. So Happy that… In my own confessional, I am struggling a bit these last few days with my upcoming birthday, Christmas almost here and … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Absence, Absolution, Afraid, Angst, Bangs, Beautiful, Brithday, Burn, Care, Chemical Romance, Christmas, Compression, Confession, Confessional, Contemplate, Dark, December 19 2019, Die, Do It Or Die, Embrace, Emotional, Escape, Expression, Fall, Fraught, Glance, Hair, Happy, Hollywood, Human Being, Ink, Inspiration, Intropective, Jet Black, Life, Little Girls, Love, National Emo Day, Nothing, Pain, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pride, Question, Ruin, Savage, Sigh, Silence, Skinny Jeans, Sleeve, Smile, Something, Sonic Attack, Sorrow, Stride, Structure, Sunday, Taste, Tee Shirt, Tenderness, Thin, Think, Violence, Violin, Want, World, Yesterday | Leave a comment

Resurrection (The Monster’s Lament)

Posted on October 10, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Halloween Poem #10: Resurrection (The Monster’s Lament) by Michael Romani I cannot speak in denial Though my very soul is on trial Looking back on all of my days Sometimes unspeakable in my ways There are so many things I … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Afraid, Alone, Anew, Beauty, Believe, Bound, Broken, Cast, Conceive, Cost, Cruell, Darkness, Day, Deniall, Depllorable, Detail, Devil, Different, Done, Duty, Find, Forget, Frail, Harshness, Hell, Home, Honor, Human Being, Imperfect, Inside, Lament, Lost, Love, Man, Meaning, Monster, Never, Path, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Pride, Rage, Regret, Resurrection, Scar, Soul, Spoken, Time, Trial, Turn, Wak, Wander, Ways | Leave a comment

Pick Up Sticks

Posted on October 5, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Canines and mankind have a relationship that has recently been discovered to be much older than thought for most of my life. The estimate I heard today on an audiobook about animal behavior placed this friendship back over 100,000 years … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Afraid, Apache, Bag, Boy, Brave, Canine, Coyote, Creatures, Cry, Dark, Evil, Fear, Harshness, Hell, Howl, Illusion, Innocent, Light, Lucifer, Mankind, Night, Petroglyph, Photograph, Pick Up, Poem, Poetry, Satan, Shade, Sinner, Sky, Sticks, Sunlight, Tale, Trick, Wall, Winner, Wolf | Leave a comment

In Memory of 9/11

Posted on September 11, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

We must never forget what extremists brought on this day We must always linger on the troubles that come humanity’s way We must also never forget that we are all the children of God And that God would have us … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged 9/11, Ache, Acts, Afraid, America, Ashes, Beacon, Betteer, Blind, Brave, Brazen, Break, Breathe, Cherish, Children, City on the Hill, Come Together, Day, Dreams, Example, Extremists, Fight, Forget, Founders, Freedom, Future, God, God's Will, Hands, Heart, Help, Humanity, Kindness, Liberty, Love, Loving, Madmen, Memory, Nature, Need, New, New Life, Nurture, Patriot, Peace, Remember, Seek, Shine, Strifee, Thought For the Day, Tolerate, Trouble, Words | Leave a comment