Tag Archives: Complexity

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

Elephants Mourn Their Dead (Happy the Elephant)

Posted on September 10, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Elephants Mourn Their Dead (Happy the Elephant)by Michael DoyleNo freedom, no libertyNo right to fundamental dignityHappy the Elephant pays the costAnd the decision it seems is lostThere will be no sanctuaryPersonhood has been denied capacityRegardless of intelligence, elephants are thingsSubstantially … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged "X", Ability, Aesthetic, Arbritary, Autonomy, Beauty, Capacity, Chattel, Complexity, Cost, Dead, Decision, Dissent, Dominant Tusked, Elephants, Empathy, Factors, Family, Forehead, Freedom, Full Recognition, Fundamental Dignity, Given Hand, Happy the Elephant, Human Beings, Humanity, Intelligence, Language, Legal Reasoning, Liberty, Love, Majestic Giants, Memory, Mirrors, Mourn, Nonverbal, Personhood, Picky Eaters, Poetry and Poems, Points of Similarity, Present, Recognize, Refinement, Rejected, Sanctuary, Science, Self, Sentient Beings, Solitary Confinement, Talking, Things, Things Unsaid, Understand, Unfeeling, Walking, Words, World, Zoo Enclosures | Leave a comment

Weren’t Those the Teenaged Years?

Posted on June 2, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Weren’t Those the Teenaged Years?by Michael DoyleThe teenaged yearsOf Saturday night solitudeWas a parade of smiles and tearsAnd many dramasWaiting to intrudeInto the happiness that cameAnd that provided the frameIn moments of ShakespeareThat kept us awakeMaking us braver than our … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Along the Way, Awake, Bless, Bolder, Brave, Broken Hearts, Choosing, Complexity, Confide, Contemplative, Dramas, Each Step, Edge, Edit, False Starts, Fear, Fight, Frame, Garden Variety, Good, Happiness, Hesitations, Hide, Human Beings, Inquisitive, Intrude, Issues, Losing, Million Ways, Moments, Negatives, Older, Passing By, Poetry and Poems, Positive, Questions, Saturday Night, Secrets, Seen, Shakespeare, Sigh, Smiles and Tears, Solittude, Souls, Take, Tears, Teenaged Years, Thinking, Thought, Tissues, Unseen, Walks, Wars of Love, Wobble, World, Younger Days | Leave a comment

On Mother’s Day 2022

Posted on May 8, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

On Mother’s Day 2022by Michael DoyleWe’re here in celebration of no otherThan the holy names of our mothersAt this time of blessed worshipWe raise up this sacred relationshipLet’s bring it in intimate conversationShared love in its happy intimationGiven the power … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anxiety, Blessed Worship, Celebration, Children, Complexity, Contentment, Delay, Full Attention, God, Grace, Gratification, Happy Intimation, Hesitate, Holy Names, Imperfect, Instruction, Intimate Conversation, Learned, Love, Mother's Day 2022, Mothers, No Control, Parenting, Persist, Poetry and Poems, Power, Praise, Present, Raise, Resentment, Right Intention, Sacred Relationship, Season, Serving As Example, Shared Love, Simplicity, Stay, Sunrise, Surprises, Theology, Uncertainty, Urgency | Leave a comment

The Importance of the Word

Posted on April 30, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

The Importance of the Wordby Michael DoyleIn this roll of yearsSoftly past the flowing tearsI think on words soughtTo connect the dot-to-dotThe words in mindI seek and sometimes findThat words are cultureAnd culture is the we nurtureSlipped into this elasticityIs … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Beginning, Being, Bond, Breath, Community, Complexity, Connect, Cousin, Crumble, Culture, Death, Define, Display, Dot-To-Dot, Elasticity, Find, Float Over, Flowing Tears, God, Grumble, Importance, Knowledge, Me, Meaning, Mumble, Nurture, Occurred, Odd, Past, Played, Poetry and Poems, Politely, Ponds, Quest, Refine, Roll of Years, Seal, Seek, Sense, Sleep, Slip, Sought, Sudden, Symbol, Table, the Word, Theories, Think, Thirst, Thought, Words, Words In Mind | Leave a comment

Layers of Emotion

Posted on February 6, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Layers of Emotionby Michael DoyleOur hearts hold feelings deeper than oceansIt’s up to us to manage our own emotionsThe heart of the matter is that hearts matterYet, we must do this or our lives might shatterFeelings are so very hard … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abuse, Acceptance, Action, Admonition, Articulation, Aspire, Collective Scars, Complexity, Compulsive, Deceive, Decide, Desire, Devil, Discipline, Division, Drama, Dysfunction, Emotion, Emotional Atrophy, Emotions, Essence, Exaggeration, Explain, Express, Expression, Falsity, Feeling, Foothold, Gentle, God, Harmony, Healthy, Heart of the Matter, Hid, Humble, Impessive, Insensitivity, Inside, Inspiration, Invitation, Jesus, Know, Layer, Life's Test, Loaded Statements, Love, Manage, Motion, Ocean, Old Selves, Pain, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Problematic, Rebuke, Receive, Remedy, Representation, Repress, Sensuality, Shatter, Spiritual, Strife, Thirst, Truth, Unity, View, Walking In God's Ways, Youth | 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

The Sting of A Yellow Jacket

Posted on January 27, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

The Sting of A Yellow Jacketby Michael DoyleNaughty narrative braids togetherA story of coming of age but betterTwo tracks made into one storyNeither of them qualifying for gloryHigh school drama can be brutalityEven without its incessant fatalityAs childhood comes to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anarchy, Anxieties, Apart, Barbarity, Brewing, Brutality, Campfire, Childhood, Cling, Coming of Age, Complexity, Dreams, Embers, Emotional Undoing, Ends, Fatality, Fingers, Friend, Gore, Growing Pains, Hierarchy, High School Drama, Hormones, Iconic, Indolence, Instability, Intentions, Ironic, Lethal Stew, Lingers, Losing Touch, Narrative, Naughty, Negotiation, Poetry and Poems, Process, Qualify, Question, Remembers, Scars, Simplicity, Smothered, Stars, Sting, Swore, Threads, Toxicity, Transforms, True, Two Tracks, Woods, Yellow Jacket | 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

Kaleidoscope

Posted on August 15, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Kaleidoscopeby Michael DoyleIndia offers her vast diversitySimply put, a wealth of complexityFilled with peace within her kaleidoscopeAs harmonious coexistence offers hopeSlumdog lords are opulent in a historyOf a people struggling with povertyPluralistic in a free market democracyAs a metaphor lived … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Age, Alignment, Aryan, Attachment, Belief, Bonfires, Brother, Built, Celebration, Charity, Choose, Colors, Complexity, Conduct, Creation, Cycle, Dance, Deep, Democracy, Devotion, Diversity, Emotion, Equal Weight, Festival, Fires, Forest, Free Market, Gaya, Give Peace A Chance, Greater, Grief, Harmony, Hate, Heart, Heritage, History, Holi, Holy, Hope, Impurity, India, Inspires, Kaleidoscope, Langauge, Learning, Lords, Love, Love of Mankind, Mankind, Metaphor, Multiethnicity, Nation, Neglect, Never Reaching End, Noble Truth, Peace, People, Picked Clean, Poerty, Poetry and Poems, Powder, Reborn, Reciprocity, Recognition, Reject, Release, Renew, Respect, Right Knowledge, Shiva, Siddartha, Sight, Silence, Sister, Slumdog, Soul, Sparks, Spiritual Integrity, Strong, Surrender, The World, Tolerance, Towers, Tradition, True Friend, Turning, Understanding, Vast, Wealth, Wish, Youth | Leave a comment