Tag Archives: Charm

A Father’s Love

Posted on February 19, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

A Father’s Loveby Michael DoyleA young girl hurtsWith the soul of a womanWhy doesn’t anyone understandA father listens, alert -Doing the best that he canSilently, he offers his handShe dries her eyesWhile he simply listensTo the questions on her mindHe … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged A Father's Love, Beauty, Best, Bond, Challenges, Charm, Coming Up, Cruel, Curled, Deep, Defend, Explain, Eyes, Faithfulness, Folly, Forever, Fussed, Hard, Harm, Heart, His Hand, His Stories, Hold, Know, Laughing Eyes, Lies, Listen, Listening, Love, Mind, Must, Necessary, Once, Once His Little Girl, One Voice, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Promise, Protect, Questions, Said, Sanctuary, Say, Sever, She, Silent, Simple, Soul, Survive, Swerved, Sworn Duty, Teach, Trust, Understand, Undeserved, Withstand, Woman, World, Young Girl | Leave a comment

Artful In Implication

Posted on January 28, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Artful In Implicationby Michael DoyleAll art is broad in its implicationBut tell me please the explanationAs today’s surrealism perks making us illWhile twisting everyday into a monstrous chillUnsettling images of disquieting sensoryExperiences abound here at the end of historyBeyond the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Artful, Borders, Challenge, Charm, Comission, Complexity, Distortion, Distraction, Explanation, External, Fantasies, Feeding Frenzy, Freedom, History, Humor, Hypnotism, Imagination, Implication, Integrity, Legacy, Mercy, Needed Voices, Poetry and Poems, Portion, Pressure, Private Horrors, Process, Psychic Aumoatism, Radically Concomformist, Regimes, Represemtation, Repressive, Role, Serve, Slice, Surrealism, Thirst For Power, Truth, Violence Into Violation, Visual | Leave a comment

Learning To Not Be Anxious

Posted on January 23, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Learning To Not Be Anxiousby Michael DoyleTossing and turning without sleepFilled with thoughts that won’t keepThis world is filled with complexityEnough to fill our hearts with anxietyThe restlessness of what we must endureFor all these trepidations there is a cureThere … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anxiety, Anxious, Appreciation, Belief, Blessed Days, Blessings, Bringer of Comfort, Chaos, Charm, Comfort, Complexity, Confidence, Contend, Cope, Counting, Cure, Daily Prayer, Despair, Door, Duplicity, Endure, Eyes, Failure, Faith, Fear, Focus, Free, Galilee, God, Good, Grateful, Harm, Hearts, Hope, King of Kings, Learn, Lord, Magnified, Master of All Things, Meditate, Mercy, Minds, Ministry, Our Times, Overcome, Overcoming, Paper, Peter, Poetry and Poems, Practical Passages, Praise, Prevail, Prism, Prison, Radio, Real, Reason, Rejoice, Restlessness, Ruminate, Safe, Sedate, Sleep, Soul, Storm, Supplication, Thankful, Thoughts, Tossing and Turning, Trepidations, Troubles, Truth, Understood, Valley of the Shadow of Death, Voices, Worrying, Year After Year | Leave a comment

Self Awareness Penned In Resurrection

Posted on December 23, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Self Awareness Penned In Resurrectionby Michael DoyleA dull cubicle’s existence jabsLeaving the feel of bruising hopelessnessPondering the future’s uncertaintyLife’s lemons squeezed with a twist of darknessIt’s an endlessly looped sense of stuckTrapped inside a mental simulationWith crushing inertia’s dominant luckSetting … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adoration, Backward, Bliss, Charm, Chemistry, Clickbait, Corporate World, Creativitiy, Cubicle, Cynicism, Darnkness, Disarm, Distraction, Emotional Hooks, Exhaustion, Existence, Foundation, Free Agency, Hoplessness, Inertia, Intense, Introspection, Legacy, Looped, Lore, Mental Simulation, Millennials, Pen, Philosophy, Poetry and Poems, Pretenses, Provocative, Reboot Culture, Resurrection, Savagery, Self Awareness, Sentimental, Slate, Stain, Stake, Torment, Treadmill, True Affection, Uncertainty, Unending Din | Leave a comment

Birds Aren’t Real

Posted on December 11, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Birds Aren’t Realby Michael DoyleSpoken with a sense of zealIs the thought, “Birds Aren’t Real”Youth joins together to upendA disturbing sort of the worse trendIn an age of misinformationGen Z links arms across the nationEngaged in a case of absurdismWith … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Absurdism, Admit, America, Banality, Birds, Birds Aren't Real, Charm, Collaboration, Conspiracy Theory, Construct, Cosplay, Diet, Drone, Engage, Enthusiasm, Fabricate, Falsity, Fiction, Friction, Frustration, Gateway, Gen Z, Good For the Soul, Growing Up, History, Improvement, Internet Age, Irreverence, Laugh, Line, Lunacy, Mad, Madness, McIndoe, Misniformation, Nation, Opportunity, Parody, Poetry and Poems, Pretend, Process, Rabbit Holes, Rage, Real, Reddit, Remote Control, Sadness, Social Media, Social Mirror, Social Movement, Soul, Talk, Theory, Trend, Upend, Viewpoint, Walk, World, Youth, Zeal | Leave a comment

Na/GloPoWriMo #15: Played Cards

Posted on April 16, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Na/GloPoWriMo #15: Played Cardsby Michael DoyleMaybe it seems insistentTo be so persistentIn finding time an illusionWhile we all seek our absolutionOur veins beg for transfusionCued as it were by life’s confusionDespite being a fancy dancerAnd at moments, a romancerWe all … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Absolution, Agonized, Alarm, All of My Life, All That Is Left, Alone, Astride, Bring Any Good, Cancer, Cards, Charm, Chase Dreams, Cheap, Clearly, Confusion, Consigned, Cued, Days, Dime, Dirty Faces, Disarm, Easy, Endure, Fancy Dancer, Farms, Fate, Feeling, Find the Savior Last, Follow the Sun, Found the Cure, Future's Past, Grime, Hearts and Minds, Here We Are, Hold Tight, Illusion, In Our Heads, Inner Treason, Insistent, Its Confusion, Long Forgotten, Loved Or Love, Matter, Merciful, Moments, Mothers, Na/GloPoWriMo, Necromancer, Never Knowing, New, One More Time, Payphones, Persistent, Played Cards, Poetry and Poems, Proven Up, Quaint, Quietly, Reason, Remembered Sorrow, Rhyme, Rise Again, Romancer, Short, Silence, Sing, Somehow more, Something to Live For, Sound Out, Speak To Our Dead, Staring, Studied, Succumb, Talk, Them, Thoughts, Time, Tombstones, Tomorrow, Transfusion, Unpunished Crime, Utter, Veins, Verbal, We Might Find, What Have I done, What Would We Give, Wishes, Wishing, Worst Illusion, Yearly | Leave a comment

Slips of the Tongue

Posted on August 20, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Slips of the Tongueby Michael DoyleSlips of the feeble tongueCome more often when no longer youngThings ill thought should often not be saidBut instead kept inside one’s headOur lives are played out like a movieSometimes hellbent though that doesn’t move … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Acknowledge, Actual, Another, Awkward, Bad Decisions, Best, Better, Better Way, Charm, Clarity, Cling, Conspire, Copping Out, Dancing, Day To Day, Dealt, Derision, Desire, Dig Out of the Dirt, Doing Best, Embrace, End, Face to Face, Fade In, Fed, Feeble, Feel, Felt, Foot, Fragility, Freely, Front, Fully, Half, Hands, Harm, Head, Hearts, Hold Out, Hope, Hurts, Ill Thought, Intended, Kept Inside, Know, Less, Life, Lives, Living It Up, Make Believe, Masquerade, Means, Measured, Mouse, Move Me, Movie, Next Day, Often, Opening Scene, Other, Our Own Devices, Out of Control, Party, Photograph, Place, Played Out, Poem, Poetry, Premature, Realization, Roles, Roll Through, Said, Seek, Self, Slips, Sorrow, Start, Times, Tongue, Trap, Truths, Unintended, Universe, Wicked, Wrap, Young | Leave a comment

Sounds For Troubled Times

Posted on May 20, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

One thing I’ve had some time to do lately is to explore what tuneage tends to lift my spirits in these sunken times. Sounds For Troubled Times by Michael Doyle Susceptible to a classic boogie fever As though there be … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 250th Birthday, Anything, Aspiration, Beethoven, Bent Pitches, Black Jazz, Blue, Boogie Fever, Brilliance, Call, Catharsis, Celebrate, Charm, Classic, Composition, Cool, Dance, Dark, Deaf Man, Define, Dim, Divide, Ear, Energy, Everything, Forget, Gershwin, Get Up, Greater Than, Hang In There, Happiness, Harmony, Heart Strings, Hearts, Hope, Humor, Imposition, Improvisation, Inspiration, Instrumental, Interlude, Joy, Kick, Lever, Loss, Love, Masterpiece, Missed, Mood, Moonbeam, Morals, Music, Musical, Need, Pandemic, Parts, Persevere, Photograph, Place, Playlist, Pocket, Poem, Poetry, Resilience, Rhapsody, Romance, Sign, Songs, Sonic, Soul, Sounds, Spirit, Star, Stick, Sweep, Teach, Tone, Troubled Times, Tunes, Universe, Verse, Voice, Wall, Way, We, Where, Who, Whole, Write | Leave a comment

A Pale Death

Posted on October 17, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Halloween Poem #17: A Pale Death by Michael Romani The end of days descends Like a fog from hell that ascends On us all a thick as it can be As we dance away our sanity Lilith asks for one … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Bittersweet, Breath, Charm, Comfort, Core, Death, Death's Door, Demon, Die, Dignity, Embrace, End of Days, Evil, Fatal, Flee, Fog, Foul, Glow, Grace, Guide, Halloween, Haunt, Heart, Hell, Kiss, Knees, Lilith, Linger, Lord's Prayer, Lost, Man, Memory, Moment, Monster, Mortality, Pale, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Sanity, Stab, Star, Trap, Wild, Wish | Leave a comment

Further Reaches

Posted on August 17, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

There’s magic in the stardust that goes beyond the physical world we live in. This is a bit half inspired by a tale of two worlds and of course blended with thoughts about my recent past… Further Reaches by Michael … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Beach, Blend, Bright, Chain, Charm, Cheek, Chorus, Conscience, Desire, Distance, Dream, Dreams, Enchant, Far, Feeling, Felt, Field, Fingertips, Fire, Good, Harm, Hesitation, Human, Intention, Kiss, Light Years, Lips, Love, Mean, Melt, Moment, Night, Passion, Philosophy, Photograph, Pity, Planet, Poem, Poetry, Ponder, Pursuit, Push, Put Up, Question, Reach, Science, Shore, Silent, Snowdrop, Stardust, Stars, Swirl, Time, Time Waster, True, Twinkle, Woke, Wonder, World, Yield | Leave a comment