Tag Archives: Audience

Quiver

Posted on March 2, 2026 by alohapromisesforever

Quiverby Michael DoyleI reach for words from a quiver of choices,Drowning in a wave of three kinds of voices.This, then, is what makes up the poet’s armoryAnd the choices made make for dissonance or harmony.I find myself talking to me … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Armory, Attempt, Audience, Bout, Busy, Capable, Choiices, Creativity, Defiance, Dissonance, Drama, Fake, Harmony, Ingenuity, Inner Path, Life, Love, Neglect, Noble, Notable, Poet, Poetry and Poems, Quiver, Rafael, Respect, Rummage, Sonnet, Star-Crossed Lovers, T.S. Elliot, Talk, The Brownings, Truth, Verse, Voices, Waltz, Whisper, Word, Words, Writing | Leave a comment

Intricate In Arrangement

Posted on August 30, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Intricate In Arrangementby Michael DoyleLoss of integral resplendenceBrothers of spiritual disciplineOff balance in our alchemyIt’s easy to get lost in the harmony.These are touches to the soulPlayed out in our rock ‘ n ‘ roll,It’s the music that moves the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Aisle, Alchemy, Audience, Brothers, Crucified, Dance, Deified, Estrangement, Feet, Harmony, Hdart, Horn Section, Loss, Lost, Mistake, Music, Off Balance, Part, Perfection, Poetry and Poems, Providence, Rehearsal, Resplendence, Reverence, Rites of Survival, Rock'n'Roll, Soul, Spiritual Discipline, Street, Touches | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Drama Is Life With the Dull Bits Left Out. There Is No Terror In the Bang, Only In the Anticipation of It

Posted on August 13, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Drama is life with the dull bits left out. There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. I believe in putting the horror in the minds of the audience, and not necessarily on the screen. … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Anticipation, Audience, Bang, Drama, Dull Bits, Endurance, Film, Horror, Length, Life, Mind, Screen, Terror, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

The Shaman’s Missing Chord

Posted on May 20, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

The Shaman’s Missing Chordby Michael DoyleThe struggle for life’s force,The mystery in seeking its source,Blazed as Morrison’s eyes glow.On what side would we learn to know.It’s easier to scare an audience,Portraying the figure of scorn and diffidence.Twirling into a dance … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ascent, Audience, Blaze, Boots, Born, Breaking Waves, Celebration, Character, Colonnade, Describe, Diffidence, Distance, Endless Passages, Energy, Eyes, Half-Alert, Hurt, Imagery, Jim Morrison, Know, Life's Force, Lizard King, Miss, Missing Chord, Muddy Canals, Mystery, Pattern, Poet and Madman, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Puzzle, Quest, Scare, Scorn, Secret Graves, Sentiment, Shaman, Sing, Source, Stars, Struggle, Surrealistic Images, Sword, The Doors, Treasures, Twirl, Unresolved, Vision, Writing | Leave a comment

In the Shadows

Posted on October 31, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

In the Shadowsby Michael DoyleThe beginning was an image of allA modern miracle held in mystified aweUntil life’s illusion lost its intensityAnd the desire for death grew in complexityThe face of horror pulls at mankindAs though in this darkness we … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All, Angst, Audience, Awe, Beginning, Big Bang, Blood, Book of Satan, Charmingly Perverse, Children of the Night, Claw, Complexity, Creation and Destruction, Damnation, Darkness, Death, Desires, Diabolical Forces, Eternal Punishment, Face of Horror, Fear, Gasp, Good and Evil, Halloween, Image, Imagination, Immorality, Intensity, Joined, Leaves, Life's Illusion, Mankind, Mephisto, Metropolis, Mirrored Twin, Modern Miracle, Need, Night, Persevere, Plays For Laughs, Poetry and Poems, Power of Light, Protection, Proximity, Read, Rise, Rotting Glory, Salvation, Shadow, Shadows, Spirit of Darkness, Story, Substance, Talisman, Tears, The Crucifix, Together, Tread, Universe | Leave a comment

Lost Plot

Posted on August 6, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Lost Plotby Michael DoyleEverywhere I look, it seems forgotIs it just me, or have we lost the plotI feel it in the murderous laughterThe distant thunder is lost but chases afterSociety’s fracturing psyche is in traumaAs wordlessly we watch all … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alive, Architecture, Around, Atonal, Audience, Bursting Seams, Children, Cohesive Whole, Consideration, Cry, Debussy, Declarative, Drama, Dreams, Dreamscape Logic, Embrace, Ethereal, Everywhere, Fail, Fantasy, Forgot, Found, Freud, Future, Hallucination, Harmony, Hold Onto, Hope, Horror, Humanity, Impression, Laughter, Look, Look Around, Lost, Melody, Murderous, Narrative, Neglect, Nose Dive, Passing Days, Play, Plot, Poetry and Poems, Psyche, Quietly Spoken, Retrospect, Rhapsody, Share, Society, Soul, Structure, Summation, Surface, Surrealism, Swim, The Present, Thunder, Trauma, True, Vision, Watch, Weird, Wordless | Leave a comment

Forbidden Fruit

Posted on August 24, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Forbidden Fruitby Michael DoyleLove of witchcraft presents the evidenceThat the ability to influence is no coincidenceAs they open up evil, door by doorAnd find a craven audience wanting moreThe portal to desires some wish to exploreOpen up to all, beginning … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Amuse, Audience, Beginning, Blame, Charade, Charm, Child's Play, Children, Coincidence, Contract, Craven, Danger, Delicious, Desire, Device, Door, Door By Door, End of Days, Engage, Enslave, Evidence, Evil, Explore, Forbidden Fruit, Freedom, Fright, Game, Grandmaster, Ground Floor, Hidden, Holy Advice, Ignore, Influence, Innocence, Intuit, Knock, Lie, Light, Lost, Masses, Messengers, Multiple Ways, Night, Perceive, Pleasurable, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Portal, Question, Run, Scatter, Secret, Shadow, Sudden, Task, Taste, Treasure, Witchcraft, Wonder | Leave a comment

What About Joseph?

Posted on December 21, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

What About Joseph?by Michael DoyleFollowing the Lord God means obedienceBut when push comes to shove, she grew in diligenceWhile Joseph played out his part unsungHolding his head upright and not hungTrusting in God even when it was hardWilling to keep … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Angel, Audience, Empathy, Faith, Follow, Glory, Holy, Joseph, Journey, Light, Lord God, Love, Mary, Mother of God, Night, Obedience, Old Testament Law, Poetry and Poems, Question, Righteous, Son, Stoned To Death, Test, Trust, Truth, Unsung, Upright | Leave a comment

In the Tragedy of Wisdom

Posted on December 3, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

In the Tragedy of Wisdomby Michael DoyleAs we sit writing for an audienceAimed as it is to somehow pleaseThe words of Shakespeare and SophoclesShine in all of their brillianceOne wrote for the strong, just kingThe other in the promise of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Action, Aim, Annals, Aristotle, Athenian, Audience, Brilliance, Capacity, Cathartic, Central Issue, Citizenry, Confide, Consequence, Decision, Dedication, Democracy, Depths of Sorrow, Disposition, Educate, Education, Every Century, Fallen, Fear, Good, History, Human Pride, Humanity, Initiation, King, Madness, Mistake, Morality, Night, Nobility, Persuasion, Philosophy, Pity, Playwright, Please, Poetry and Poems, Pure, Recompense, Sadness, Shakespeare, Sophocles, Sovereignity, Tragedy, Truth, Unafraid, Wisdom, Works, Write | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: You Have To Hold Your Audience In Writing To the Very End – Much More Than In Talking, When People Have to Be Polite and Listen To You

Posted on October 24, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“You have to hold your audience in writing to the very end — much more than in talking, when people have to be polite and listen to you.” – Brenda Ueland, writer (24 Oct 1891-1985)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Audience, Brenda Ueland, Hold, Listen, Polite, Talking, Thought For the Day, Very End, Writing | Leave a comment