Tag Archives: Bleed

Other Side of Hell

Posted on November 10, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Other Side of Hellby Michael DoyleThis isn’t meant to discourageBut sometimes, true courageIs found on the other side of HellWhen your eyes have seen enough to dispelAny notion that peace can be foundThrough the taking of lives in warAnd when … Continue reading →

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A Purity of Feeling

Posted on June 7, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

A Purity of Feelingby Michael DoyleSailing along the sea Guided by a northern lightBecomes a willing collaborationTo reach our destinationSomewhere between the purityAnd the places of sheer beautyIs the presence utterly revealingConcealed inside the naked feelingProfound as it is somewhat … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Absurd, Aestehtic Principle, Alleviation, Appeal, Beauty, Beguile, Bleed, Choice, Collaboration, Competition, Desire, Destination, Detritus, Disembodied Voices, Drift, Feeling, Halluncinate, Inebriation, Inspire, Interlinked, Link, Listen, Mass, Mass Communication, Miasma, Midnight, Mind, Nightcrawlers, Northern Light, Participate, Poetry and Poems, Purity, Read, Real, Repetition, Reveal, Risk, Sail, Sea, Shared, Shudder, Thought, Voice, Whisper, Writer | Leave a comment

Something Bleeding This Way Comes

Posted on May 31, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Something Bleeding This Way Comesby Michael DoyleWord slithered along the corporate groundWhere all is ancient, and nothing new is foundSecrets told through half-truths revealedRemind us all of the things better off concealedPregnant pauses signal latent twists in positioningAs corporate successions … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ancient, Birthright, Bleed, Children, Conceal, Corporate, Dinosaur, Endgame, Generation, Grave, Half-Truth, History, Inclination, Journey, Lament, Maturation, Motherhood, New, Pain and Misery, Pause, Poetry and Poems, Position, Recrimination, Reject, Save, Secrets, Something, Space-Age Messiah, Stoic, Sucession, Tragedy, Tranisition, Twist, Words, Wrench | Leave a comment

Leather Jacket Nerves

Posted on April 3, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Leather Jacket Nervesby Michael DoyleThere I was bleeding on the insideHidden behind the tall wallThat bears the scars of my prideA worn mask with a hidden callNot quite worn as a poker faceDrifting back in my perilous dazeWe would toughen … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Amaze, Bleed, Bloody Fingers, Brace, Brutal Sin, Chains, Childhood, Dying Inside, Dzae, Heroes, Iron Men, Leather Jacket, Mask, Nerves, Nerves of Steel, Painted Black, Play, Poetry and Poems, Poker Face, Pride, Scars, Six String, Solo, Unforgiving, Vain, Wall | Leave a comment

Shadowboxing

Posted on October 7, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Shadowboxingby Michael DoyleShadowboxing with my egoHiding from whispers of an echoWhen cleansing of sin is neededAnd common sense is not heededThere are dangers in complexityRaw feelings rough in their simplicityI just need to hold on to the sunriseVisions that bleed … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Beautiful Soul, Bleed, Cleansing of Sin, Common Sense, Complexity, Danger, Demons Dwell, Echo, Ego, Grow, Hid, Hurt, ID, Inferno, Innocence of Childhood, Jaded Past, Killing Me, Let Go, Living Hell, Lose Control, Love, Making, Mistakes, Must, Pain Inside, Past Trauma, Poetry and Poems, Pool of Blood, Raw Feelings, Shadow Boxing, Simplicity, Sunrise, Swept, Taking, Trust, Uncertainty, Whisper, World, Wound, Wounded Parts | Leave a comment

In the Process of Confession

Posted on May 29, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

In the Process of Confessionby Michael DoyleKeeping reality and the Bible in contextIs a paradigm that constantly correctsTo keep truest meaning in its placeThroughout our lives, it’s a truth to embraceGod answers prayers in His timeTo do otherwise would be … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Answers, Best, Bible, Bleed, Bottom, Broken Glass, Certain, Cipher, Confession, Context, Corrects, Damage Done, Darkness, Due, Embrace, Ending In Prayer, Experience, Failing, Faith, Father, Final Test, Foot of the Cross, Forgiven, Forgiveness, Friend, Full Circle, Germinates, God, God's Promises, Good Book, Grace, Help Others, Helping Hand, Hope, Hurt, Immediate, It Is What It Is, Jesus, Keeping the Promise, Lessons, Life Plays Out, Light, Live This, Lives, Loss, Messy Process, One Another, Paradigm, Pardon, Place, Pleasant Surprise, Poetry and Poems, Prayers, Press, Process, Read, Reality, Redemption, Remediate, Right, Rise Again, Seeds, Son, Sorely Needed, Thought and Felling, Time, Truest Meaning, Truly Need, Truth, Victory, We Confess, Wise Up | Leave a comment

Looking For Words

Posted on May 27, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Looking For Wordsby Michael DoyleI see you looking for wordsBut more than the wordsYou want to read the actionsThat bleed like a rose with satisfactionMaking a difference, plain to seeTo live, love, and dream is to beOne with this universal … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accommodate, Actions, Angels, Bleed, Charm, Clarity, Comfortable, Connect, Difference, Distances, Dream, Dreams, Feeling, Friendship, Infinite Role, Life, Live, Looking, Looking For Words, Love, Magic, More Than, Place, Plain To See, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Quiet Moments, Read, Rose, Satisfaction, Seams, Seeing, Shared Joy, Sincereity, Sinking, Souls, Spaces, Sparks, Tears, Thinking, Treasure, True Hearts, Truth of the Matter, Universal Soul, Years | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Vocations Which We Wanted To Pursue, But Didn’t, Bleed, Like Colors, On the Whole of Our Existence

Posted on May 20, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn’t, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.” -Honore de Balzac, novelist (20 May 1799-1850)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Bleed, Colors, Existence, Honore de Balzac, Pursue, Thought For the Day, Vocations, Want, Whole | Leave a comment

Under Lock and Key

Posted on January 4, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Under Lock and Keyby Michael DoyleUnder lock and keyIs where I keep meHidden away so no one can seeThere in arcs of memoryShadowboxing with myselfThrough all the volumes on the shelfThere really isn’t much mysteryWhen we’re talking self historyRecollections that … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Arcs, Biology, Bleed, Bring, Constant Feeling, Darkness, Dread, Family Tree, Fear, Half Wrong, Heart, Hidden Away, Imprint, Light, Lock and Key, Me, Memory, Moment, Mystery, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Recollection, Right, Self History, Sense, Shadowboxing, Shelf, Silent, Slowness, Swing, Tomorrow, Volumes, Wonder | Leave a comment

Reflections on Dorian Gray, Pt. IX: Released From This Evil

Posted on October 31, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Reflections on Dorian Gray, Pt IX: Released From this Evilby Michael DoyleA chain smoked cigar puffed on to make amendsBetween two estranged who had once been friendsTo be young again and to set sail into the dawnUntil one realizes it … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Amend, Attic, Bleed, Breath, Cage, Cardinal Sins, Cigar, Clutch, Crimson, Dawn, Days, Death, Devil, Devotion, Discipline, Dorian Gray, Emotions, Enslavement, Evill, Freedom, Friends, God, Gothic, Hellfire, His Evil, Oath, Old Friend, Poetry and Poems, Portrait, Practice, Preach, Rage, Reflections, Release, Released, Sloth, Tears, Toys, Tragic, Transform, Wishes | Leave a comment