Tag Archives: Blade

Surrendered To the Knife

Posted on February 21, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Surrendered To the Knifeby Michael DoyleOnce you’ve surrendered to the knifeYour silent pleas won’t save your lifeThis, then, is the solemn price paidFor the best-laid plans never madeThis is what it is to be done with mankindTo take the bitter … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Afraid, All, Approved, Best Laid Plans, Bitter, Blade, Blind, Books, Brave, Choice, Cold, Dairies, Dead, Destiny, Devil, Done, Faithful, False Courage, Faustian Bargain, Fear, Friend, Grace, Hand, Hate, Heaven, Hell, Judgment, Justice, Knife, Letter, Life, Love, Loved Ones, Made, Mankind, Mercy, Miracles, Moment, Mutiny, Neck, Nowhere, Page One, Played, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Prayer, Pretend, Protect, Read, Recall, Red Pills, Rising Sun, Sake of Love, Save, Savior, Silent Pleas, Solemn Price, Surrender, Twist, Wait, Whimpering, Will, Won, Words | Leave a comment

To Be A Warrior

Posted on August 2, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

To Be A Warriorby Michael DoyleTo be a warriorThat is to say, a good warriorRequires more than the draw your bladeAnd being assured your prowess is displayedNo, it requires a reasonA reason that is good to find that seasonWhen the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Battle, Blade, Cause, Cherish, Days, Display, Due, Fights, Fine Steel, Fought, Good, Good Warrior, Greatest Kings, Heaven Above, Just, Know, Knowledge, Led, Love, Men, Poetry and Poems, Prowess, Reason, Repeat, Require, Said, Seaason, Sought, Soul, Strength, Thousand Lights, Time, True Warrior, Truth, Understood, Victory, Warrior, Win, Written, Youth | Leave a comment

In Dream’s Shadow

Posted on July 19, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Sort of a word play on a Celtic adventure of romance, magic and dreams. In Dream’s Shadow by Michael Doyle Drowning in your spell My secrets to reveal Fallen to blade you wield I suddenly find, I yield To sleep … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adventure, Blade, Bring, Celtic, Day Breaks, Dream, Dream's Shadow, Dreams, Drown, Ebbs, Everything, Fail, Fair, Fallen, Find, Flows, Follow, Go, Hair, Heart, Hips, Inside, Know, Lips, Magic, My secrets, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reveal, Romance, Scarlet, Search, Seen, Shadow, Sleep, Snare, Spell, Two Hands, What Was Once Not, Wield, Word Play, Words, Yield, Your Love | Leave a comment

The Healing Acceptance of Self

Posted on November 12, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

A poem of humility and gratitude # 12: The Healing Acceptance of Self by Michael Romani With gratitude, I accept myself No longer looking for answers from a shelf But, seeking instead to find peace from within Behind that wall … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Absolution, Accept, Alone, Answers, Awake, Blade, Burn, Child, Christ, Cobblestone, Comfort, Compulsion, Confusion, Constant, Cut, Discovery, Divine, Drama, Drown, Dysfunction, Eternity, Fade, Family, God, Grace, Gratitude, Healing, Heart, History, Humanity, Humility, Illusion, Love, Magic, Memory, Moment, Night, Pain, Pass, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Pride, Question, Rain, Reality, Recovery, Sand, Scheme, Self, Self Affliction, Serenity, Shadow, Silence, Sin, Soul, Steps, Tears, Time, Trap, Trauma, Unfinished Business, Victim, Wall, Warm, Within | Leave a comment

Tears In Misted Eyes

Posted on October 21, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Halloween Poem #21: Tears In Misted Eyes by Michael Romani Tears in his misted eyes A monster cries as his child dies While the mother prays her lullaby It’s all the watcher can do to sigh Life like a twisted … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anguish, Blade, Blind, Breath, Broken Heart, Child, Choice, Confusion, Cross, Crucifix, Cruel, Cry, Deep, Dies, Down, Dying, Echo, Enfold, Eyes, Family, Father, Fear, Feel, Halloween, Hand, Hard, Heaven, Hesitate, Illusion, Keep, Kill, Lies, Life, Lord, Loss, Lullaby, Misstep, Mist, Moment, Monster, Monstrosity, Mother, Night, Perservere, Pestilence, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Poverty, Pray, Question, Reel, Revere, Sacred, Shown, Sigh, Silence, Sleep, Souls, Suffer, Tear, Temper, Troubled Soul, True, Voice, Weep, World, Wounded Heart | Leave a comment

Betrayed With A Kiss

Posted on October 6, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Halloween Poem #6 – Once you’re under evil’s dominion, it doesn’t matter how you got there. Does it? Betrayed With A Kiss by Michael Romani With a kiss, we turned the key Sinking deep into your debauchery It’s certain I … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anger, Attitude, Betray, Bite, Blade, Bllind, Broken, Company, Content, Controll, Cure, Debauchery, Debt, Defiance, Demon, Disdain, Distraction, Dominion, Door, Ease, Enchant, Escape, Essence, Evil, Firelight, Gratitude, Halloween, Hate, Howl, Key, Kind, Kiss, Know, Letha, Lost, Madness, Mistress, Night, Owe, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pretend, Reliance, Return, Righteous, Sad, Satisfaction, Science, Secret, Servant, Slave, Slice, Soul, Spare, Spirit, Table, Throat, Unholy | Leave a comment

Rose’s Thorn

Posted on October 3, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Halloween Poem #3 Rose’s Thorn by Michael Romani The rose’s thorn bled it’s blood Chosen to drag my soul through the mud Clever thought I in the transparency Lost in its morbid transcendency Condemned to the darkened dust Struggling in … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Beauty, Blade, Blame, Blood, Blush, Clever, Condemn, Cost, Cruel, Danger, Defile, Drool, Dust, Eyes, Halloween, Lost, Lush, Morbid, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Promise, Rose, Shatter, Soul, Still, Stranger, Strong, Struggle, Thorn, Transparent, Tuth, Twist, Unkempt, Vicious, Wheel, World, Wrong | Leave a comment

Beauty In A Blade of Grass

Posted on June 20, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

It isn’t so long ago that mental illness was seen as the Devil’s work. I was watching a show tonight and it reminded me of this. Beauty In A Blade of Grass by Michael Romani Scratching at the walls Of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anger, Asylum, Beauty, Blade, Claw, Closure, Compromise, Devil, Fear, Grass, Madness, Memory, Mental Illness, Obscene, Outlaw, Pain, Pass, Perception, Photograph, Pinky Swear, Poem, Poetry, Sadness, Sanity, Satan, Shade, Shame, Soul, Walls, Wicked, Wrath | Leave a comment

Inward Crash

Posted on June 10, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

The injuries from the military that are visible only scratch the surface of the totality. Inward Crash by Michael Romani There’s a loneliness in his memory Sitting and looking out to the sea Images explode, implode and won’t go away … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abyss, Blade, Blame, Bullet, Choice, Chopper, Claim, Close, Conflict, Crash, Cry, Dark, Decision, Disturb, Duty, Explode, Fear, Finger Point, Friend, Good Solcier, Hades, Hard Decisions, Hell, Images, Implode, Inflict, Injury, Linger, Lonely, Lost, Lucid, Memory, Military, Overwhelm, Pain, Phantoms, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reflection, Resent, Sigh, Sniper, Soul, Strong, Tagged, Thunder, Tool, Under, Voice, War, Withdraw | Leave a comment

Price of Pride

Posted on January 15, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Love of power breed ambition and that’s really not what we need in leaders. What we need is those who have vision and come to serve the people. Yet, that’s rarely the way of those interested in politics is it? … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ambition, Blade, Bring, Claim, Dark, Dark Secret, Death, Deception, Defile, Denial, Desert, Dust, End, Evil, False, Fatal, Feel, Fend, Fustration, Glory, Greet, Hell, Immortality, Key, King, Knowledge, Left, Madness, Mortal, Mortality, Mystery, Mystic, Nowhere, Oracle, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Price, Pride, Reaper, Sanskrit, Secret, Serve, Smile, Soul, Spell, Sun, Think, Trouble | Leave a comment