Tag Archives: Dark

Don’t Play With Fire In the Dark

Posted on March 22, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Don’t Play With Fire In the Darkby Michael Doyle The edge of the cliff beckons meWhispering my name dangerouslyIs it taunting the edgeOf a lonely soul on the ledge A reasoned soul knows its contextWhen all the dots fail to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bargain, Cards, Carve, Child, Cliff, Connect, Context, Damage Is Done, Dark, Day, Die, Don't Play With Fire, Dots, End, Feel, Fold, Gray, Hand, Journey, Ledge, Poetry and Poems, Real, Reason, Setting Sun, Sky, Taunt, Thought, Thunder and Lightning, Travel, Whisper, Wind | Leave a comment

First Principles: There Is Nothing Concealed That Will Not Be Disclosed, Or Hidden That Will Not Be Made Known

Posted on November 9, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known. What you have said in the dark will be heard in the daylight, and what you have whispered in the ear in the … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Dark, Daylight, Disclosed, First Principles, Hidden, Known, Luke 12:2-3 (NIV), Nothing Concealed, Proclaim, Whisper | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: The Intellect of Man Is Forced To Choose, Perfection of the Life, Or of the Work

Posted on June 13, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“The intellect of man is forced to choose / Perfection of the life, or of the work, / And if it take the second must refuse / A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.” -William Butler Yeats, writer, Nobel laureate … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Choose, Dark, Heavenly Mansion, Intellect, Life, Mankind, Perfection, Rage, Refuse, Thought For the Day, William Butler Yeats, Work | Leave a comment

Blown Smoke

Posted on April 14, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Blown Smokeby Michael DoyleBlown smoke seen through a windowThe feel of doubt, imprinted on her shadowThe detective watches the young widowLooking for clues, he might recognize and knowHe thinks back on days of reverieThat are no longer more than memoryShivering … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Arms, Blown Smoke, Borrow, Burn, Children, Clues, Contrite, Dark, Days, Detective, Empty, Feel of Doubt, Forgot, Keep Out, Know, Life, Love, Memory, Misery, Night, Not Divine, Numbers, Paganini, Poetry and Poems, Present, Recognize, Revenge, Reverie, Rocks, Rude, Run, Secret Moods, Shadow, Ship of Fools, Shiver, Sign, Silver Strings, Sorrow, Souls, Stargazer, System, Tomorrow, Troubles, Widow, Window, Wise, Yesterday | Leave a comment

The Harder They Fall

Posted on November 10, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

The Harder They Fallby Michael DoyleThe harder they fallEither side of the lawIt’s the repeat and callIn the nature of it allSins of the fathers growIn a deeper shade of shadowDarker than the blackest blackIt’s righteousness they lackTwo sides of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Black, Blunder, Coin, Dark, Fall, Function, Grow, Hard, Heal, Hope, Join, Law, Light, Lightening, Nature, Night, Poetry and Poems, Righteousness, Safe, Shadow, Side, Sins of the Father, Soul, Spell, Thunder, Truth, Two Sides, Uncouth, Whole, Wonder | Leave a comment

Halloween: Daughters of Salem

Posted on October 3, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Daughters of Salemby Michael DoyleIn the misted realm of nightmaresBeyond the screens of our daily careThe daughters of Salem tossIn their graveyards of the crooked crossHidden tears masked by blood stainsThat cannot wash away with the cold rainsIs the fear … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Again and Again, All, Angel, Autumn, Bittersweet, Blood Stains, Broken Wing, Cohort, Cold Rain, Corridor, Crooked, Cross, Crypt, Daily Care, Dark, Darkness, Daughters, Destiny, Don't Really Know, Doom, Dread, Fall, Fate, Fear, Final Choice, Find, Forms, God, Graveyards, Halloween, Heaven, Hellions, Heresy, Hounds of Hell, Leaves, Life, Light, Locked Room, Lucifer, Make, Mercy, Minds, Mortuary, Nightmare, Open, Past, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pours Out, Pray, Present, Rage, Realm, Rebellion, Resist, Rock-n-Roll, Sake, Salem, Sanctuary, Screen, Seal, Secrets, Seek, Sin, Skull, Tears, The Master's Call, Tug, Voice, Wages, Wait, War, Wash Away, Watch, Whisper | Leave a comment

Be Your Own Hero

Posted on September 2, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Be Your Own Heroby Michael DoyleIncurable as a dreaming heroStubborn as a seeming zeroWe play our parts in masqueradeEach day lived within its charadeHiding ourselves behind the music we playCaught up in front of screens all dayBecause we cannot be … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Able, Abuses, Afraid, Against, Aloone, Answering, Answers, Believe, Born, Breath, Calls, Cancer, Charade, Circumstance, Condone, Convince, Cupidity, Cure, Cuts, Dark, Death, Despite, Dingy, Dirty, Double Edged Sword, Drink, Duplicity, Even, Fabric of Society, Filed Away, Find, Finding Clues, Forgot, Front, Half A Shot, Hero, Heroism, Hidden, Hiding, Hope, Ignore, Incurable, Justification, Lessons, Life, Madness, Make It Right, Malignant, Mask, Masquerade, Music, Night, Others, Pardon, Pause, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Profuse, Pushing Through, Put Aside, Real, Recess, Screens, See, Self, Silence, Speak, Stand, Stronger, Stubborn, Swallowed Pride, Take the Hit, Tasks, Tattered, Think, Torn, True, Truth and Light, Unbreakable, Unspeakable, Vast, Villainy, Violence, Warning, Who We Want to Be, Why, Worse, Your Own | Leave a comment

Arcade Mania

Posted on August 26, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Arcade Maniaby Michael DoyleRemembering back to the 80s whenI couldn’t wait to put another quarter inA video star in the dark arcadeWas a revolution ready madeMy spaces were invaded rows at a timeWhen I wasn’t watching ectoplasmic slimeAtari-ized as we … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 1980s, Again and Again, Ages, Appeal, Arcade, Atari, Bangles, Boom, Bounce, Bundle, Bust, Concept, Continuoous, Crown, Cuteness, Dark, Depths, Design, Doubt, Electronic, Etoplasmic, Evolution, Flow, Forgot, Game, Glitz, Glow, Gone, Good Times, HIgh Scores, Hungry, Ignore, Impossible, Invade, Kings, Leverage, Magic, Mania, Moved On, Neglect, New Tricks, PacMan, Patterns, People, Photograph, Pizza, Play, Poem, Poetry, Quarter, Ready Made, Recall, Refine, Relic, Remember, Revelation, Revere, Reverse Engineering, Revolution, Rows, Saucy, Shot, Sketch, Slice, Slime, Society, Space, Speculate, Starcade, Strategy, Technology, Theories, Tilt, Trust, Urge, Video Star, Visualize, Wait, Walls, Women, World Changing | Leave a comment

The Tales Told

Posted on August 25, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

The Tales Toldby Michael DoyleThe seventh son of the seventh sonKnows he has no choice but to be the oneWho in accord with ancient prophecyMust rise above to embrace his legacyThe tales told are things quite legendaryPressing him to greatness … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ancient, Beauty, Believer, Blood Moon, Call, Castle, Certainty, City, Confide, Courageous, Dangerous, Dark, Darkness, Dazed, Deep Inside, Destiny, Duty, Evil, Extraordinary, Eyes, Fortune, Fully Phase, Ghost, Good, Greatness, Heart, Holy, Journey, Knight, Learn, Legacy, Legendary, Lessons, Light, Met, Mistaken, Needs, No Choice, Offshore, Photograph, Phrases, Poem, Poetry, Press, Prophecy, Put, Return, Rise Above, Road, Safety, Seventh Son, Shadows, Summoner, Tales, Tales Told, The one, Told, Unleashed, Vanquish, Wall, Warmth of Love, Whisper, Wickedness, Wise, World, Wretched | Leave a comment

Bloated Ramble

Posted on August 18, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Another sort of look at how monsters are just good challenged and not evil… 😉 Bloated Rambleby Michael DoyleHumans fear the hours of the nightAll the darkness and absence of lightAnd all of the sounds that bring human frightSimply because … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Absence, Among Us, Bloat, Bogeyman, Bright, Challenged, Crackle, Creatures, Dark, Darkness, Devil, Difference, Door, Explore, Fear, Fright, Frighten, Fungus, Hide, Horror Show, Human, Humans, Incivility, Joys, Light, Lights, Me and You, Monsters, Monstrosity, Mutual, Night, Not Evil, Overstatement, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Rainbow, Ramble, Rattle, Rubbing, Shake, Simple, Sound, Sounds, Spell, Squeak, Stone, Superstitious, Talk, Town, True, Truth, Well, Wish, Women, World, Wrong | Leave a comment