Tag Archives: Candle

Thought For the Day: Absence Diminishes Small Loves and Increases Great Ones, As the Wind Blows Out the Candle and Fans the Bonfire

Posted on September 15, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.”– Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Absence, Bonfire, Candle, Diminish, Fans, Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Increase, Maxims, Small Loves, Thought For the Day, Wind | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Just As One Candle Lights Another and Can Light Thousands of Other Candles, So One Heart Illuminates Another Heart and Can Illuminate Thousands of Other Hearts

Posted on May 15, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

” Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts.” – Leo Tolstoy

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Candle, Heart, Illuminate, Leo Tolstoy, Light, Thought For the Day, Thousands | Leave a comment

Divination

Posted on October 30, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Divinationby Michael DoyleIs it true that only foolsCast aside all the rules?And what kind of wreckDoes life become living by the deck?A spooky basement points the directionThat reveals the cloth of divinationHand painted arcana mixes with astrologyIt is needed to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Arcana, Astrology, Basement, Candle, Clarity, Coincidence, Combination, Crazy, Dark Art, Dark Design, Death and Darkness, Deception, Demonic Tale, Design, Desire, Direction, Divination, Drunken Children, Equal Weight, Evil, False Track, Fate, Fear, Fire, Fools, Forecast, Forsaken, Friends, Gasoline, Grow, Harshness, High Priestess, Impulse, Investigate, Lack of Control, Magician's Bag, Must, No Turning Back, Painted Glory, Path Undone, Pity, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Prevail, Priestess, Reading, Readings, Risk, Rules, Runaway Train, Sincerity, Spirituality, Story, Sympathy, Taken, Tarot, Tarot Deck, Tear, Traces, Tricks, True, Trust, Wait, Wreck, Wrong Light, Zodiac | Leave a comment

Just One More Psychotic Break

Posted on October 12, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Just One More Psychotic Breakby Michael DoyleCosmic horror played the killing schoolThat taught the writer of chilling ghoulsThis was the bogeyman’s secret in his tombThat rose up from the barren gothic wombThis was where a dark demon became a faceless … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abbey, Beast, Black Magic, Bogeyman, Brain, Candle, Chilling Ghouls, Cosmic Horror, Creation, Dark, Dark Demon, Dark Fantasy, Details, Devil's Staircase, Die, Duality, Faceless God, Film, Gothic Womb, Haunter, Heels, Hell-Bound Train, Horror, Jack the Ripper, Keeper, Killing School, Macabre, Mild, Movies, Murderous Day, Mythos, News, One More, Ordinary, Pass, Personal Hells, Poetry and Poems, Psycho, Psychotic Break, Psychotic Murderer, Robert Bloch, Secret Opener, Sinister, Sitution, Soul, Time, Tomb, Unholy, Werewolf's Bark, Wound, Writer | Leave a comment

The Gift of Darkness

Posted on September 5, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

The Gift of Darknessby Michael DoyleLifeGave me the gift of darknessStrifeIn a world filled with harshnessIt was a gift Though it took years to understandThoughts shiftAs you travel the years and the landDarkness Is as important as lightIt takes harshnessTo … Continue reading →

Posted in Photographs & Memories | Tagged Anger, Burn, Candle, Compromise, Define, Defy, Doubt, Experience, Gift of Darkness, Harshness, Hate, Hide, Ignorance, Inside, Justify, Know, Land, Learn, Lesson, Life, Light, Madness, Need, No Place, Poetry and Poems, Promise, Refine, Right, See, Shadow, Share, Shift, Stare, Starkness, Stranger, Strife, Teach, Time, Too Late, Travel, True Sight, Understand, World, Wrong, Years | Leave a comment

Unburdened (A Quest For Inner Peace)

Posted on September 3, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Unburdened (A Quest For Inner Peace)by Michael DoyleUnburdened by what is in the pastSo many things that couldn’t lastThe way of life is to carry onBeyond what we survive and is goneIn all the parts that are rearrangedNot everything in … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Arrival, Back, Bits of Good, Brutal, Candle, Chances, Changed, Circumstances, Compromise, Connection, Cool Breeze, Deepest Level, Dream, Embraced, Faced, Fascination, Forward, Goal, Gone, Imagination, Inner Peace, Inner Smile, Inward, Last, Life, Light, Matter, Message, Mirror, Outward, Overwhelm, Parts, Past, Path, Peace, Peak, Peering Eyes, Pleases, Poetry and Poems, Quest, Realize, Rearanged, Reflection, Release, Seek, Slow, Storm, Strife, Survival, Survive, Thousand Words, Unburdened, Understood, Valley, Way of Life, World, You and I | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: I Have But One Candle of Life To Burn, and I Would Rather Burn It Out In A Land Filled With Darkness Than In A Land Flooded With Light

Posted on April 28, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“I have but one candle of life to burn, and I would rather burn it out in a land filled with darkness than in a land flooded with light.” – John Keith Falconer

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Aaron Copland, Alight, Burn, Candle, Darkness, Faith-Filled, Flooded, John Keith Falconer, Life, One, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

Between the Uncomfortable Truths

Posted on July 29, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Between the Uncomfortable Truthsby Michael DoyleIn the uncomfortable truths there were connectionsNothing compared to her open, honest reflectionsOn those things often very difficult to sayShe never paid much mind to bringing controversy to the dayPerhaps it is that she truly … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ahead of Her Time, Another Day, Approximation, Artistry, Attempt, Bardo, Bardo of Experienced True Reality, Between, Between Death and Rebirth, Bi-Polar Disorder, Bled, Bound, Brought Down Slow, Caged, Candle, Child, Circumspection, Clear Light, Come, Compassion and Wisdom, Concealed, Connection, Controversy, Conversations, Corridor, Cosmic Liberation, Cross, Culpable, Death, Death Closes In, Defiled, Deities, Devastation, Different Orders, Difficult To Say, Dimensions, Drawn Back, Duality, Earth, Edges, Entirely Undone, Express, Extinction of Illussion, Fateful Day, Fearlessness, Fine Romance, Fleeting Mometns, Forgot, God's Kingdom, Guide, Honest, Honesty, Increments, Karmic Hazard, Last Breath, Liberation, Life, Lived Undead, Lose, Losses, Love Transcended, Maya's Veils, Morality, Multiple Forms, Mystical Union, Nothing Compared, One's Breath, Open, Paid, Parent, Peace, Peaceful, Place of Healing, Poetry and Poems, Post-Conventional, Prior, Properly Alive, Properly Dead, Realities, Reality, Reflections, Regained, Regret, Rememberings, Remorse, Restratined, Said It Best, Sinead O'Connor, Slide, Sorrow, Soul Revealing, Soulmate, Spiritual Borders, Spiritually Capable, Starry Firmament, Stone, Success, Surprising, Suspended, Tomorrow, Truly Hearing, Truths, Tweet, Twilight Language, Uncertain Circumstance, Uncomfortable, Understanding, Unholy Feeling, Up-Ended, Voice, Walk, Walk the Line, Wisdom, Words, Words of Love, World's Loss, World's Soul, Wrathful, Yab-Yum | Leave a comment

Until My Eyes Close

Posted on February 25, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Until My Eyes Closeby Michael DoyleThe other day, I was so tiredIt seemed my life was a tearAnd though the coffee kept me firedMy heart felt troubled and insincereLike I wished that I could find an exitFrom this highway, I … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Barely Surviving, Burn, Candle, Close, Clouds, Coffee, Crumbles, Death, Driving, Enshrouds, Exit, Eyes, Fire, Fired, Fix It, Head, Heart, Heaviness, Higher, Highway, Hope, Insincere, Keep, Life, Melt Down, Memories, Miracle, Music, My Bones, My Life, Numbing, Other Day, Poetry and Poems, Promises, Pushing Back, Pushing On, Sleep, Tear, Tired, Tiredness, Troubled, Trying So Hard, Wish | Leave a comment

Sure Hand of the Devil Dealt

Posted on June 23, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

The surest hand the Devil’s ever dealt is the deceit blotted out into the dark of night… Sure Hand of the Devil Dealt by Michael Doyle The bell tolls out into the black of night So little is seen in … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ancestors, Awaken, Bad Dreams, Bell, Bell Tower, Black of Night, Bought, Candle, Cast, Child, Conceal, Cost, Crucifix, Danger, Darker Things, Deal, Dealt, Destiny, Devil, Diabolical, Dice, Door, Embrace, Face, Feeling, Felt, Flicker, Footsteps, Generation, Hand, History, Howl, Hurt, Inspection, Know, Less, Light, Locked, Locked Door, Lost, Lurk, Masque, Mind, Night, Nightmares, Old Village, Past, Persistence, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Present, Prison, Protection, Real, Reason, Reget, Reward, Saint, Search, Seen, Shadow, Shatter, Sins, Sky, Slam, Stab, Startle, Submerge, Sure, Surest Hand, Toll, Truth, Urge, Veneration, Vision, Wall, Ward, Whisper, Winds | Leave a comment