Tag Archives: Desperation

It’s In the Timing

Posted on August 17, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

It’s In the Timingby Michael DoyleLike the words of a good and holy song,The melody and the beat come on strong.The Kingdom of God is like a planted field,Filled with good seed for expected yield. The enemy is sneakier at … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Autumn, Bare, Bible, Care, Christianity, Day, Deciduous Trees, Desperation, Discern, Faith, Fleece, Fruit, God, God's Children, Good, Good Seed, Grow, Guard, Harvest, Hearts and Souls, Hold, Holy, Inspiration, Jesus, Keep, Kingdom of God, Learn, Lessons, Melody, Night, Planted Field, Poetry and Poems, Reason, Release, Roots, Season, Seasonal Flow, Seasons, Separation, Sheep, Should and Ought, Sing, Song, Spring, Strong, Stubborn, Stuggle, The Enemy, Thoughts, Time, Timing, True Wealth, Understood, Weeds, Weep, Winter, Wisdom, Words, Yield | Leave a comment

My Daily Bread

Posted on April 8, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

My Daily Breadby Michael DoyleI find my daily breadIn all His words saidThankful that he paid the costWithout which, I would be lostFrom my cup of coffeeTo all that’s given meI find myself thankfulFor a life that is so wonderfulIt’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Amazed, Aspiration, Blessings, Ceaseless Dedication, Cost, Cup of Coffee, Daily Bread, Desperation, Feel, Filled, Given, Given Freely, God, Grace, Healing, Higher, His Word, Holy Power, Hour, Inspiration, Jesus, Life, Life Unfolds, Lost, Mind, Moments, Name, Paid, Poetry and Poems, Side, Soar, Soul, Source, Spread, Thankful, Told, Wildfire, Wonderful | Leave a comment

Truth of Dust Roads Taken

Posted on January 27, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Truth of Dust Roads Takenby Michael DoyleSome of the deepest truths are told in fictionEspecially those of times of historical frictionPushed into competition over narrowed resourcesInherent conflicts rise as nature takes its coursesSome conflicts come with visible tags of shameWhere … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ages, Author, Back, Blame, Certainty, Competition, Conflict, Darkness, Dearth, Death, Deeper Thoughts, Deepest Truth, Depression, Deprive, Desperation, Disappear, Dust Bowl, Dust Road, Fiction, Forward, Hard Times, Harshness, Heavy Vintage, Historical Friction, Humanity, Ignorance and Greed, Lasting Impression, Learn, Nature, Pages, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Prophesy, Resources, Rot, Sin, Strength, Survive, Symbolized, Tags of Shame, Taint, Tears, Tenacity, Truth, Virtue, Wrath | Leave a comment

Ghost Story

Posted on January 5, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Ghost Storyby Michael DoyleRemember Remember meMy death Was cold miseryThere is no record At least officiallyBut my lynching Is part of historyI’m cold and alone Without a name on the stonePlease talk to me I need a sort of legacyI … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Built, Care, Cold and Alone, Connection, Death, Desperation, Division, End, Fate, Forget, Forgotten, Ghost Story, Glory, Heal, Hiding Place, History, Imaginary Friend, Laugh, Legacy, Longing, Lynching, Misery, Official, Pain, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Promise, Reach Out, Record, Regret, Remember, Right, Sacred, Sane, Scare, Sedate, Space, Spirituality, Survival, Talk | Leave a comment

Sharp Edges

Posted on December 28, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Sharp Edgesby Michael DoyleThe last eight years have been like a thrown gauntletBetween the sadness and anger, it’s been a punch in the gutThat serves best to divide this nation and world’s mindsIt is as if we’ve left our optimism … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alcohol, Alientation, America, Anger, Beehind, Depression, Despair, Desperation, Detail, Devotion, Divide, Dream, Drugs, Gauntlet, Hate, Hell, Impression, Mean, Mother's Child, Murder, Murder In Slow Motion, Nation, Optimism, Poetry and Poems, Publicized, Punch, Repair, Sadness, Sharp Edges, Suicide, Thread, Venom Trail, Wonder, World | Leave a comment

In A Declaration of War

Posted on July 28, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

In A Declaration of Warby Michael DoyleTitans are unleashed in a visionDreamed without the requisite precisionTo dare to say what it really meansThis then is the way of such types of dreamsKing Hyperion seeks to rule over mankindBut as with … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Aim, Angels, Benevolence, Blind, Chaos, Conquest, Contend, Cost, Dare, Declaration of War, Degrees of Violence, Demands, Depth, Desperation, Dream, Dreams, End, Eons, Eyes, Fatality, Folly, Hades, Heaven, Heed, Holy Flame, Immortality, Kind, King Hyperion, Lost, Madness, Mankind, Means, Mercy, Name, Need, Oracle, Poetry and Poems, Precision, Priest, Reign of Gods, Sadness, Salvation, Separation, Sibylline Monastery, Strength, Test, Time, Titans, Tread, Tyrant, Virgin Oracle, Vision, War | Leave a comment

X Marks the Spot

Posted on July 26, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

X Marks the Spotby Michael DoyleSo now, here it is, and seemsThat in a community of dreamsX has come to mark the spotWhere the globe connects the dotsOf conversations that we fieldWhere no one really yieldsBut mingles outbursts of conversationThat … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ability, Ambiguity, Artificial Wall, Authority, Boundary-Crushing, Bridge, Certain Cool, Churn, Clashing Views, Cognitive Dissonance, Commodity, Community, Compel, Connection, Conversations, Corporate Decisions, Creativity, Credibility, Curious, Cycle of Life and Death, Dare, Decision, Defy, Depedent, Derision, Desperation, Detail, Dreams, Dues, Economy, Elon, Extremes, Fascination, Find, Flair, Giddiness, Global Town Square, Globe, Grin, Happneing, Inspiration, Lash, Learn, Ledge, Legendary, Let Go, Memories, Mind, Opportunistic, Opportunity, Original Sin, Outbursts, Paypal, Perpetuity, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Point of Success, Rebranding, Rejuvenation, Resistance, Seams, Smallest Detail, Spot, Stomach Acid, Symbol, Symbology, Thrive, Understanding, Unfinished Business, Universal Imagination, Unlimited Interactivity, Vaporware, WeChat, X, Yield | Leave a comment

On the Wrong Side of the Tracks

Posted on May 22, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

On the Wrong Side of the Tracksby Michael DoyleJust south Of Desolation BoulevardOn the wrong side Of those rusted tracksIs a place we knowWhere the kids all goAnd the traffic’s slowWhere hearts beat forever Than the speed of lightOn the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Barrios, Believe, Bleed Out, Cherish, Cling, Desolation Boulevard, Desperation, Dreaming, Dreams, Facts, Feeling, Flow, Hard and Fast, Hearts Beat, Hold Onto, Important, Kids, Kiss, Know, Life, Love, Madrid, Mistakes, Moment, Never Let Go, Night, Poetry and Poems, Rust, Scream, South, Speed of Light, Tears, Tracks, Traffic, Truth, Wrong Side | Leave a comment

A Cosmogony of Fear

Posted on April 20, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

A Cosmogony of Fearby Michael DoyleIn a wide sweep of the Temple ApolloIs the beginning of what the Oracle knowsThe things of myth, from the the beginning growAs the memories of three sisters glowsImagined become the stories that resonateGlobal fears … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems, Uncategorized | Tagged Counterbalance, Cultural Dreams, Death Rattle, Define, Deplorable, Desperation, Destiny, Dread, Dream, Embryo, End, Explorable, Fate, Fear, Fears Grow, Feed On Us, Global Fears, Grow, H.P. Lovecraft, Hide, Humanity, Icons, Images, Imagination, Imagine, Imbalances, Inner Cosmogony, Inner Horrors, Inside, Kiss, Look, Lurid, Memories, Mess, Mountains of Madness, Myth, Offense, Oracle, Palin View, Parasitic Wasps, Poetry and Poems, Pretense, Purpose, Questions, Refine, Replacement Theology, Resonate, Sands, Scratch, Scream, Screen, Seeds of Jupiter, Shown, Silent and Dead, Space, Stories, Temple Apollo, Three Sisters, Tower of Bable, Unknown, Vanity, Wide Sweep | Leave a comment

The Death Head of Night

Posted on November 3, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

The Death Head of Nightby Michael DoyleThere in the darkest of the 20th CenturyWere pages to learn from in our historySuch evil as was darker than the nightWhere our traditions still bring us lightNo matter what the king tells usTruth … Continue reading →

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