Tag Archives: Darkness

Building Up One Another

Posted on October 24, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Building Up One Anotherby Michael DoyleWe must always build up one anotherRecalling that each is either sister or brotherThose things we don’t understand comes down to fearBut holding each other up is to persevere Our own fears and doubts held … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abrasive, Brother, Build, Darkness, Doubts, Each Other Up, Embrace, Fear, Fears, Gentle, God, Grace, Harshness, Holding, Humble, Humility, Light, Limits, Love, Mistake, One Another, Our, Persevere, Poetry and Poems, Recall, Saved, Say, Sister, Truth, Understand, We, Wrap, Wrong | Leave a comment

Reflections on Dorian Gray V: Immortality Revealed

Posted on October 21, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Reflections on Dorian Gray V: Immortality Revealedby Michael DoyleArt imitates life as life imitates artMasquerading in the wantonness of the heartIt’s a fearful discovery of the monster withinThat while we don’t understand, causes us to sinActing in the the brazen … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, Addiction, Art, Artist, Beautiful, Best Promises, Blame, Dance, Dare, Darkness, Depravity, Die, Discovery, Dorian Gray, Doubt, Dream, Duality, Enthralled, Evil, Eye, Eyes, Fatal, Fell, Gift, God, Heart, Hope, Idols, Ignore, Imagine, Immortality, Impulse, Impurity, Intended, Lechery, Life, Lost, Masquerade, Medication, Monster, Monsters, More, Naked, Painting, Poetry and Poems, Premeditation, Reflections, Repulse, Sacrifice, Scars, Scream, Sin, Slippery Slope, Stars, Tell Tale Signs, Temptation, The World, Transform, Treachery, Ugliness, Understand, Wantonness, Whim, Wickedness, Wonderful | Leave a comment

Way Maker

Posted on October 18, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Way Makerby Michael DoyleDiscouraged as we sometimes areWe continue to follow the North StarKnowing the battle belongs to God’s victoryAs we look back on the mountains of historyWe have nothing really to fearWe have seen this, year after yearThe righteous … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Battle, Darkness, Discouraged, Fear, God, God's Laws, Guard, Heartbreakers, History, Holy, Knees, Maker, North Star, Peace Maker, Pledge, Poetry and Poems, Promises Kept, Righteous Battles, Sacred Cause, Soul Shaker, Souls, The Lord, Victory, Way, Ways, Year After Year | Leave a comment

Until Humanity is Gone

Posted on October 4, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Until Humanity Is Goneby Michael DoyleThese parasites came to bring decayDestroying the vestiges of yesterdayThey prey on the last of our humanityKilling in waves depleting our societyMaking it impossible to be withstoodSetting fire to our planet and its woodsRats, insects … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adapt or Die, Anger, Apocalyptic, Appetite, Arrival, Bluff, Children, Confusion, Cost, Crush, Darkness, Dead, Decay, Desire, Destruction, Enemy, Exist, Fight, Fire, Flame, Forward, Gone, Hope, Humanity, Illusion, Impossible, Jester, Kill, Line, Night, Onward, Pain, Parasite, Path, Pestilence, Planet, Poetry and Poem, Possible, Prey, Reprive, Resilience, Right, Salvation, Scavage, Sear, Siege, Sight, Sky, Society, Sorrow, Soul, Struggle, Survival, Survive, Thread, Tide, Tomorrow, Vestiges, Yesterday | Leave a comment

On the Futility of Revenge

Posted on October 1, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

On the Futility of Revengeby Michael DoyleLife it seemsBeyond its dreamsIs a transitory questionBest approached with hesitationCareful of curtains hungEqually as so with songs unsungAbout the wrongs we wish to avengeFor such things bring their own revengeOften these cut both … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Avenge, Backs, Curtains, Danger, Darkness, Days, Dreams, Duel, Friends, Futility, Gone, Good Intent, Hesitation, Honor, Life, Light, Lost, Move On, Petty Acts, Poetry and Poems, Points Scored, Poison, Restore, Revenge, Songs, Stranger, Transitory Question, Wall, Wrong, Wrongs | Leave a comment

Trusting In His Resilience

Posted on September 26, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Trusting In His Resilienceby Michael DoyleSo many things constantly changeAs we live our lives rearrangeBut some things stay the sameThat’s how it’s lighted with God’s flameGod loves us with urgent insistencyStated with a solid state of consistencyBut he does want … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Christ, Conform, Consistency, Constant Change, Darkness, Flame, God, Grow, His, Holy Nation, Light, Love, Poetry and Poems, Rearrange, Reiliance, Same, Set Apart, Trust | Leave a comment

Trusting God’s Plan

Posted on September 14, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Trusting God’s Planby Michael DoyleLiving Life in my recoveryEach day becomes a new discoveryPrivileged to take another breathI choose life over living deathI’ve had my share of heartachesMore than enough of the heartbreaksI’ve been let down by my mistakesAnd now … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, Breath, Cardboard, Chained, Darkness, Desire, Each Day, Finding Faith, Forgiven, Freeway, Get It Right, God's Rainbow, God's Plan, Grace, Hell's Fire, Into, Knowing, Let Down, Light, Living Death, Living Life, My Mistakes, New Discovery, One and All, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Privileged, Promises Made, Ready To Do, Recall, Recovery, Rise, Running, Save, Saved, Shadow, Share of Heartaches, Should Have Done, Takes, Trust, Won, Written | Leave a comment

In the Church of the Open Field

Posted on August 30, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

In the Church of the Open Fieldby Michael DoyleIn the church of the open fieldThe glory of truth is revealedIn fellowship of God’s good companyIn the exclusive claims of divinityDarkness hates the shine of lightPreferring as it does, the things … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Blinding Fear, Brave, Children, Chruch, Comforts, Company, Contribution, Crime, Darkness, Divinity, Exclusive Claims, Fellowship, Gather, Gather Now, Glory, God, Hate, Lifetime, Light, Living Dead, Living Love, Night, Offer Up Love, Open Field, Persecution, Persevere, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Putting Away, Revealed, Shine, Shun, Soul, Steadfast, The World, Truth, Weigh | Leave a comment

Struck On A Bridge To Nowhere

Posted on August 22, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Struck On A Bridge To Nowhereby Michael DoyleI’m struck on a bridge to nowhereLooking for a bit of faithfulnessI’m stranded in an unfaithful worldChasing around the circles and nobody caresSuddenly seeing with sight for awarenessFeeling so completely fetaled and curledI’ve … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alone, Awareness, Become, Bridge, Care, Care To See, Chasing, Circles, Cold, Curl, Darkness, Denial, Faithfulness, Fate, Feeling, Fetal, Grace, Hate, Heart, Home, Integrity, Live, Love, Meaning, No Longer, Nowhere, Offer, Pity, Poetry and Poems, Seal, See, Sight, Smile, Stranded, Struck, Talk, This Morning, Told, Truth, Two Eyes, Unfaithful World, Walking Wounded, Woke, World | Leave a comment

Wonder Expressed Within Five Words

Posted on July 5, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Wonder Expressed Within Five Wordsby Michael DoyleIts in the habits of faith we liveTaking each day catching what it givesOn seeing Christ we believeDoubting as we do as we self-deceiveFeelings revealed in wounds feltThere in the good reasons dealtDenying as … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Believe, Believed, Best, Christ, Darkness, Deny, Determined In Purpose, Doubt, Each Day, Eternal Life, Expedience, Express, Faithful Obedience, God, God's Authority, Good Reasons, Habits of Faith, Knowing, Love, Modeled, Newness, One, Paiin, Poetry and Poems, Realized, Received, Recognized, Reliability, Resurrection, Self-Deceive, Sinful Condition, Submit, Triune Box, Trust, Truths, Twice Over, Undone, Unlocks, Walking, Wonder, Wounds | Leave a comment