Tag Archives: Darkness

Better Than Okay

Posted on December 11, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Better Than Okayby Michael DoyleWhy don’t you come inside?There’s nothing we need to hideBesides, it’s cold outsideAnd I have something to confideThere’s something that feels rightIn my darkness, you might be the lightThere’s something about the wayYou make me feel … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Better Than Okay, Cold Outside, Confide, Darkness, Feels Right, Forget, Hide, Inside, Light, Love, Met, Moment, Poetry and Poems, Regret, Understand | Leave a comment

As I Speak This

Posted on December 3, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

As I Speak Thisby Michael DoyleA lighthouse guides my wayIn the darkness, I will prayA thousand generations find victoryIn the Lamb’s sweet majestyThe most excellent name on highIs written across a wounded skyCrying holy across all creationIt gives the strength … Continue reading →

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To Preserve His Will

Posted on November 26, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

To Preserve His Willby Michael DoyleMy king is wonderfulAs merciful as He is powerfulI join the chorus to singHymns to the glory of my kingIn His glorious kingdomHe brings us liberty and freedomAs He shepherds our pathTo put the darkness … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Authority, Chorus, Courage, Darkness, Freedom, Glory, His Will, King, Kingdom, Merciful, Past, Path, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Preserve, Shepherd, Wonderful | Leave a comment

Overcoming the Adversary

Posted on November 13, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Overcoming the Adversaryby Michael DoyleI’m glad to say that I believeIn God’s promise, not a devil who deceivesLife’s storms come, but I have strengthEnough to last the day’s lengthWith the Bible as my swordI rest on the strength of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adversary, Belief, Believe, Believer, Belssing, Bible, Christ's Blood, Circumstances, Confidence, Contrary, Darkness, Day, Deceive, Devil, Doubt, Fear, Glad, God of Second Chances, God's Promise, Going, Grow, Guess, Harshness, His Light, History, Holy Spirit, Joy, King, Legacy, Life, Lord, Name, Overcome, Overflow, Poetry and Poems, Show, Storm, Strength, Sword | Leave a comment

In the Shadows

Posted on October 31, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

In the Shadowsby Michael DoyleThe beginning was an image of allA modern miracle held in mystified aweUntil life’s illusion lost its intensityAnd the desire for death grew in complexityThe face of horror pulls at mankindAs though in this darkness we … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All, Angst, Audience, Awe, Beginning, Big Bang, Blood, Book of Satan, Charmingly Perverse, Children of the Night, Claw, Complexity, Creation and Destruction, Damnation, Darkness, Death, Desires, Diabolical Forces, Eternal Punishment, Face of Horror, Fear, Gasp, Good and Evil, Halloween, Image, Imagination, Immorality, Intensity, Joined, Leaves, Life's Illusion, Mankind, Mephisto, Metropolis, Mirrored Twin, Modern Miracle, Need, Night, Persevere, Plays For Laughs, Poetry and Poems, Power of Light, Protection, Proximity, Read, Rise, Rotting Glory, Salvation, Shadow, Shadows, Spirit of Darkness, Story, Substance, Talisman, Tears, The Crucifix, Together, Tread, Universe | Leave a comment

Whatever the Day’s Length

Posted on October 22, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Whatever the Day’s Lengthby Michael DoyleWhatever the day’s lengthMy joy in the Lord gives me strengthI say this in all that I speakFrom the ocean shore to the mountain’s peakGod is present in my every dayHe is here as I … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, All, Blessed, Calvary, Console, Darkness, Day's Length, Every Day, Forgiveness, Fullness of God, God, Grace, Grave, Harshness, His Love, Holy Name, Joy, Life, Light, Love, Mountain's Peak, Near, Nothing, Ocean Shore, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Reigning Down, Same, Say, Soul, Speak, Strength, The Lord, Whatever | Leave a comment

Science Fiction and Frankenstein’s Creature

Posted on October 21, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Science Fiction and Frankenstein’s Creatureby Michael DoyleThough literary snobs can find it less than delectableScience Fiction has grown up as quiet respectableSnobbery has ever been fashionable even at HalloweenStill science fiction’s limitations certainly don’t meanThat there is nothing really scary … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Arrogance, Books, Children of Frankenstein, Cliche, Conscience, Creature, Cross-Current, Darkness, Distortion, Electrical Reanimaion, Electricity, Forget, Frankenstein, Future Society, Galvani, Ghost Story, Giordano Bruno, Gothic Horroe, Halloween, Headspace, Horror, Humanity's Hubris, Imagination, Irrational, John Milton, Late, Law of Unintended Consequence, Lesson, Literary Feature, Literary Snobs, Literature, Magnetism, Mankind, Mary Shelley, Mean, Mistake, Mistakes, Monster, Morality, Mount Tambora, Movie, Natural Philosophy, Nemesis, Nightmare, Nuclear War, Outcast, Overcome, Paradise Lost, Plausibility, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Rational Fate, Rationalism, Recompense, Rejected, Resemblance, Right and Privilege, Robots, Scary Stories, Science, Science Fiction, Seeds We Sow, Special Effects, Speculation, Spree, Summer, Supernatural, Technology, True Science, Unhallowed Ground, Universe, Victor Frankenstein | Leave a comment

In the Solitude of Darkness

Posted on October 18, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

In the Solitude of Darknessby Michael DoyleTo the degree that I do not fearI am powerful enough to persevereI say this with a heavy-hearted sighAs my soul fixes its intellectual eyeThe love and rage that exists inside meHave become the … Continue reading →

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The Memory Is Bittersweet

Posted on October 17, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

The Memory Is Bittersweetby Michael DoyleI wish I could erase the darkness I have feltThat somehow, some way, I could escape the hand dealtAll the good and the bad that makes us who we areLeaves me wishing forlorn on that … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Apparitions, Bittersweet, Breaks Your Heart, Darkness, Dealt, Defeat, Echoes, Erase, Family, Fear, Felt, Ghosts, Good and the Bad, Life, Living Dead, Love, Memories, Memory, Past, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Reality, Sanity, Tears You Apart | Leave a comment

From the Mountains of Madness

Posted on October 2, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

From the Mountains of Madnessby Michael DoyleIt’s difficult to say which came firstWas it feelings of fear or bloody thirst That moves souls beyond the edges of sadnessPilloried by the blinding drive of madnessThe dreams of men are older than … Continue reading →

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