Tag Archives: Death

A Tale of Two Kings

Posted on December 5, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

A Tale of Two Kingsby Michael DoyleWatching as our days unfoldInto the stories yet untoldLife is a gift for us to liveIn taking less than we have to giveLet’s not let the Grinch steal ChristmasNo snarling sneer will stop this … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anger, Baby, Best, Cheer, Christmas, Christmas Story, Confess, Death, Deception, Egypt, Evil, Fail, Fate, Fear, Forfeit, Gift, Gift of Gab, Give, Glory, God, Gold, Grinch, Hatred, Herod the Great, History, Impression, Insecurity, Joy, King of the Jews, Kingdom, Kings, Life, Live, Mary, Mass, Mirage, Myrrh, narcissistic, Nothing, Obsession, Poetry and Poems, Posession, Power, Preoccupation, Prestige, Prevail, Pride, Riches, Rule, Salvation, Savior, Separation, Serve, Sigh, Sin, Sneer, Soul, Strife, Surrender, Taking Less, Tale, Test, The Magi, Two, Tyranny, Unfold, Untold, Violence, Watch, Ways | Leave a comment

Reflections on Dorian Gray, Pt. IX: Released From This Evil

Posted on October 31, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Reflections on Dorian Gray, Pt IX: Released From this Evilby Michael DoyleA chain smoked cigar puffed on to make amendsBetween two estranged who had once been friendsTo be young again and to set sail into the dawnUntil one realizes it … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Amend, Attic, Bleed, Breath, Cage, Cardinal Sins, Cigar, Clutch, Crimson, Dawn, Days, Death, Devil, Devotion, Discipline, Dorian Gray, Emotions, Enslavement, Evill, Freedom, Friends, God, Gothic, Hellfire, His Evil, Oath, Old Friend, Poetry and Poems, Portrait, Practice, Preach, Rage, Reflections, Release, Released, Sloth, Tears, Toys, Tragic, Transform, Wishes | Leave a comment

Reflections On Dorian Gray, Pt VIII: Reality’s Seams

Posted on October 29, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Reflections On Dorian Gray, Pt VIII: Reality’s Seamsby Michael DoyleThere on that snow fallen black of nightIn an alley filled with guilt’s blightDorian fears the tell of tongue wagged taleThat pursues him to the gates of HellThere are dreadful things … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alley, Ancient Danger, Attic Door, Begin Again, Begun, Black of Night, Blight, Burning Fire, Chain, Change, Closeness, Confession, Conspire, Corruption, Creep, Daughter, Dead Rat, Death, Deceptive, Decrepit, Delusion, Demand, Desire, Done, Dorian Gray, Dreadful Things, Dream, Edge of Death, End, Evil, Father, Final Breath, Final Price, Final Say, Fire, Forlorn, Gates of Hell, Ghastly, Hope, Innocence, Innocent Man, Intoxication, Intrusion, Kiss Away Moment, Locked Away, London, Mortal Sin, Only Friend, Paid, Penny, Poetry and Poems, Priest, Purity, Putrify, Real, Reality's Seams, Reflections, Secret Key, See, Sin, Snow, Strange, Stranger, Subway, Tarnished History, Tongue Wag, Train, Traps, Truth, Tunnel, Wake, Whisper, Wind | Leave a comment

Reflections On Dorian Gray VI: Tethered Leashes

Posted on October 25, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Reflections On Dorian Gray VI: Tethered Leashesby Michael DoyleA slit-throat bloodied scarf knows its sacrilegeAs Dorian’s portrait holds his stains like privilegeHiding what’s done in the waters by the river bankIt offers little good to say about position and rankUntil … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Burn, Cerberus, Darkness, Death, Dorian Gray, Eternity, Existence, Grave, Illumination, Lost Children, Poetry and Poems, Portrait, Prayers, Rank, Reflections, Revelry, River, Scarf, Scarilege, Soul, Tale, Tethered Leashes, Warn | Leave a comment

Thoughts On Dorian Gray

Posted on October 5, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Thoughts On Dorian Grayby Michael DoyleTextured as it is in prescienceAre those things outside of scienceAmong these is the legend of Dorian GrayOf which there is much yet to sayImages that stick through flesh like a knifeSliced cleanly through the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Artist, Bacchanalian, Bad Memories, Beauty, Call, Closed Doors, Clown, Commonsense, Crime, Deal, Death, Devil's Altar, Diabolical, Distract, Dorian Gray, Drink Up, Duty, Fair Trade, Flame, Flesh, Folly, Forever, Forgotten Scenes, Frolic, Games, Heart of Life, Hellfire Club, Human, Images, Introduce, Jest, Knife, Legend, Lesson, Life, London Town, Looks, Lost Moment, Memory, More, Nail, Open Door, Party, Philsopher, Pity, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Prescience, Pretense, Price, Reach, Say, Science, Seeker, Seen, Sermon, Shame, Sin, Sketches, Slice, Sould, Sympathy, Tea, Textured, Thoughts, Time, Truth, Vanity, Victorian Days, Ways of Darkness, Worse Dreams, Young | Leave a comment

For Fear That We Will Fall

Posted on September 25, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

For Fear That We Will Fallby Michael DoyleListen to the world as you doBut in the end to yourself be trueNeither a borrower or lender beBecause debt destroys harmonyWords of wisdom to follow farAs true as truth is the northern … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Action, Afraid To Fly, Before, Borrower, Careful, Churn, Consummation, Contemplation, Dare, Death, Debt, Deception, Die, Double, End, Fall, Fear, Freedom, Harmony, Heartache, Insolence, Last Breath, Lender, Listen, Madness, Northern Star, Path, Perception, Plot, Poetry and Poems, Role, Satisfaction, Scorn, Sleep, Stop, Time, Toll, Trouble, True, Truth, Uneasy Rhyme, Words of Wisdom, World, Wrongs of Life, Yourself | Leave a comment

Off Ramp

Posted on September 18, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Off Rampby Michael DoyleFrom dodge ball to full gloryWe live the Christmas storyBridged by that crossOn which God took our lossUnknown is the time and seasonBut what is known is the reasonThat healing of eternal riftIf only we will receive … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, Accept, Bridged, Chains, Chosen, Christmas Story, Cross, Dead, Death, Elected, Enjoy, Eternal Rift, Freeway, Fruit, Full Glory, Gift, God, Good Book, Hallelujah, Healing, Holy Priests, Known, Last, Last Breath, Left, Life, Live, Loss, Love, Off Ramp, Past, Poetry and Poems, Raised, Real Death, Reason, Receive, Relieve, Righteous Nation, Said, Salvation, Savior, Selected, Time and Season, Unknown, Walks | Leave a comment

Firefighter 54 (In Memoriam for the Death of My Sister)

Posted on August 5, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

For those who remember Michele, I offer in her memory on this anniversary of her death: Firefighter 54 by Michael Doyle ..Firefighter 54, firefighter 54 This is Ashland Fire Department Firefighter 54, Firefighter 54 This is Ashland Fire … Continue reading →

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Prevail or Perish, America

Posted on July 31, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Prevail or Perish, Americaby Michael DoyleWe won’t keep domestic terrorism bluntedBy keeping the American mind stuntedDespite the folly of the Biden AdministrationSilencing conservative thought does not help the nationThis unprecedented statist interventionDefies reason and every rational conventionThe Left’s turning one … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abominable Desire, Alinsky, Almighty State, America, American Citizens, American History, American Mind, American People, Antifa, Asserting Power, Backs, Bended Knee, Biden, Biden Administration, Blank Check, BLM, Breech, Cacophony, Cancel, Cast Aside, Causes, Clear To See, Conservatism, Crisis, Death, Destroying Property, Destruction, Digital Technology, Dishonesty, Dissent, Doesn't Inspire, Domestic Terrorism, Domestic Threat, Egging On, Electric Eye, Enlisted, Every American Creed, Facts Fail, False Journalists, Families, Fascism, Fascists, Federal Government, Federal Police, Flair, Folly, Fought Against, Free Thought, Freely Thought and Spoken, Friction, Full Force, Fullest Extent, Germane, Grievous Wrong, Guerilla Campaign, Hatred and Bigotry, Hearts, Hell, Help, History, History's Page, Hound and Indoctrinate, Ideals of Freedom, Ignore, Inaccurately Blame, Indifference, Individuals, ISIS, Kamala Harris, Last Breath, Law Abiding, Lies Not Truth, Minds, Mono-Party, Mouthed Words, Naked Aggression, Nation, Natural Causes, Nonexistent Threats, Oblique Preference, Ocasio-Cortez, Officer Sicknick, Officers, One Event, Opportunity, Orwellian, Our Country, Overreaction, Overrun, Padded Account, Paid Liars, Painted, Patriot Act, Perish, Perish from, Poetry and Poems, Point of Reference, Pointed Fingers, Political Fictions, Political Warfare, Prevail, Print, Promotion, Pull Down Statues, Pundits, Push Forward, Racial Hierarchy, Racist Anti-Racism, Rational Convention, Ravaging, Reason, Regardless of Truth, Reichstag Fire, Relent, Rewrite History, Seeks To Be All, Shift, Silencing Conservative Thought, Single Principle, Solemn Screed, Souls, Speech, State, Statist Intervention, Steriods, Strategic Story, Stunted, Swipe, Terrorism, Testimony, The Left, The People, Thoughts and Words, Tool, Trojan Horse, Truth, Twisted Game, Tyrannical Overreach, Tyranny, Video History, Weaponized, Well Documented Facts, Will | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Death Changes Us, the Living. In the Presence of Death, We Become More Aware of Life

Posted on June 9, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“Death changes us, the living. In the presence of death, we become more aware of life…. It can inspire us to decide what really matters in life–and then to seek it.” – Candy Lightner

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Become More, Candy Lightner, Changes, Death, Decide, Inspire, Presence of Death, The Living, Thought For the Day, Us, What Really Matters In Life | Leave a comment