Tag Archives: Devastation

Ed Gein’s Mind

Posted on October 11, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Ed Gein’s Mindby Michael DoyleThis time of year, with all of its chillsHas taught us, along with all the thrillsThat the worst monster is the human one.Among the animals, we are who kill for fun.Post-World War II saw a rising … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Aggression, American Murderland, American Society, Answer, Bloodstream, Brokenness, Catastrophe, Chill, Common Thread, Confluence, Conspiracy, Crazy Wall, Devastation, Deviance, Ed Gein, Eden, Evaluation, Fetus, Fun, Greed, Haste, Hate, Horror, Human, Impulse, Indifference, Industrial Waste, Lead, Lunacy, Meta-Analysis, Mnd, Myster, Nerrative, Patterns, Pins, Poetry and Poems, Poison, Serial Killing, Smelter Smoke, Taught, Thrill, Trtuh, Violence, Worst Monster | Leave a comment

Damaged Memories of An Indiana Tornado

Posted on April 2, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Damaged Memories of An Indiana Tornadoby Michael DoyleOminous clouds are captured in a photographThat suggests thunderclaps as the Devil’s laughAs lightning strikes down on a Hoosier cornfieldForked-tongued, it speaks of devastation revealedCracked wood is tossed across the creek’s bendAs a … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Clouds, Cracked Wood, Damaging Winds, Debris, Devastation, Devil's Laugh, Fallen Trees, Flooded Road, Forked-Tongued, Fragments of lives, Hoosier Cornfield, Human Voice, Indiana, Lightning, Long Growl of Wind, Memories, Photograph, Poetry and Poems, Symphony of Survival, Thunder claps, Trapped, Wind | Leave a comment

That I Might Be of Service

Posted on February 18, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

That I Might Be of Serviceby Michael DoyleJesus is the holy and sacred nameOf the one who took away my shamePowerful enough to break every chainRefreshing my life like the pouring rainEvery day begins on my kneesTalking to God who … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Believing and Loving, Belong, Break Every Chain, Breath, Brings, Conversation, Devastation, Died To Save Sinners, Each New Day, Every Day, Eyes, Forgive, His Purpose, Holy, Jesus, Knees, Living Possibility, Mistakes, My Life, My Savior, Name, Open, Pleas, Poetry and Poems, Pouring Rain, Refresh, Sacred, Service, Shame, Sing, Skies, Song, Talking To God, Trust, Wonder, Worthy | Leave a comment

Shalom Charis

Posted on January 12, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Shalom Charisby Michael DoyleJarred by the fires that burnBroken hearted as we learnThe sorrow of this seasonWe extend our love beyond reasonCalled to be holy through graceWe keep our eyes on God’s faceA spiritual gift is shown with careGod’s love … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abounding, Abundant, Bible, Broken Hearted, Burn, Called, Care, Christianity, Community, Completeness, Darkest Hour, Devastation, Done, Embrace, Faith, Fires, Fix, Forgiven, God, God's Face, God's Family, God's Ways, Good News, Grace, Hang Tough, Head, Heart, His Will, Holy, Holy Conversation, Jarred, Jesus, Learn, Love, Marked By God, Overlfowing, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Power, Priority, Reveal, Serenity, Shalom Charis, Shape, Share, Sorrow, Spiritual Gift, Talk, Unashamed, Unmerited Favor, Walk, World's Strife | Leave a comment

If Space and Time…

Posted on November 24, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

If Space and Time…by Michael DoyleIt’s only been a matter of a few passing yearsI’m alone on your birthday except for my tearsTalking to God again, I stare off into the nightYours was the sisterly love that was my guiding … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alone, Clever, Cling, Clue, Communicate, Consciousness, Constant, Cosmic Instant, Cosmic Pasture, Death, Devastation, Every Passing Breath, Existence, Existential Dread, Feel, Flaws In Knowledge, Flooding Grief, Fragmented Conversation, God, Guiding Light, Heart To Stone, Hero, Hope, If, Immortality, Kid Brother, Laughed, Left Behind, Life, Light Particles, Live Forever, Living, Lone Cowgirl, Lost, Love and Belief, Mind, Multiverse, Night, Observation, Outside of Time, Paid the Costs, Pain, Passing Years, Philosophy, Poetry and Poem, Praying, Reality, Risks, Role, Rough Day, Sight, Signal, Sisterly Love, Sorrow, Space, Space and Time, Spaceless World, Spirituality, Story, Talking To God, Tears, Tomorrow, Tools, Universe, Wafture, Your Birthday | Leave a comment

Love Is Never So Blind

Posted on July 24, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Love Is Never So Blindby Michael DoyleA good conversation Might lead to devastationIf you don’t play it rightYou can lose love in one nightBoy, what are you trying to proveBy making every wrong moveIt’s not like you don’t knowWhat comes … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All Away, Art, Best Play, Books, Candid Expression, Charm, Conversation, Crossed, Devastation, Fatal Line, Flow, Fly, Flying Too Close, Follow, Godsend, Good Days, Good Impression, Harm, Hurts the Most, Ignore, Know, Little Conversation, Little Drinking, Lived, Lose Love, Love, Might Have Been, Million Ways, Never So Blind, One Night, Play It Right, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Pride, Prove, Shine, Sun, Thinking, Thrown, Undone, Unkind, Waxen Wings, Writing, Wrong Move | Leave a comment

Between the Uncomfortable Truths

Posted on July 29, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Between the Uncomfortable Truthsby Michael DoyleIn the uncomfortable truths there were connectionsNothing compared to her open, honest reflectionsOn those things often very difficult to sayShe never paid much mind to bringing controversy to the dayPerhaps it is that she truly … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ahead of Her Time, Another Day, Approximation, Artistry, Attempt, Bardo, Bardo of Experienced True Reality, Between, Between Death and Rebirth, Bi-Polar Disorder, Bled, Bound, Brought Down Slow, Caged, Candle, Child, Circumspection, Clear Light, Come, Compassion and Wisdom, Concealed, Connection, Controversy, Conversations, Corridor, Cosmic Liberation, Cross, Culpable, Death, Death Closes In, Defiled, Deities, Devastation, Different Orders, Difficult To Say, Dimensions, Drawn Back, Duality, Earth, Edges, Entirely Undone, Express, Extinction of Illussion, Fateful Day, Fearlessness, Fine Romance, Fleeting Mometns, Forgot, God's Kingdom, Guide, Honest, Honesty, Increments, Karmic Hazard, Last Breath, Liberation, Life, Lived Undead, Lose, Losses, Love Transcended, Maya's Veils, Morality, Multiple Forms, Mystical Union, Nothing Compared, One's Breath, Open, Paid, Parent, Peace, Peaceful, Place of Healing, Poetry and Poems, Post-Conventional, Prior, Properly Alive, Properly Dead, Realities, Reality, Reflections, Regained, Regret, Rememberings, Remorse, Restratined, Said It Best, Sinead O'Connor, Slide, Sorrow, Soul Revealing, Soulmate, Spiritual Borders, Spiritually Capable, Starry Firmament, Stone, Success, Surprising, Suspended, Tomorrow, Truly Hearing, Truths, Tweet, Twilight Language, Uncertain Circumstance, Uncomfortable, Understanding, Unholy Feeling, Up-Ended, Voice, Walk, Walk the Line, Wisdom, Words, Words of Love, World's Loss, World's Soul, Wrathful, Yab-Yum | Leave a comment

The Search of Civilization

Posted on May 10, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

The Search of Civilizationby Michael DoyleEarth’s civilizationsReach into spaceIn the search For new life That we can embraceUntil with devastationAnd with wasteWe have, as we will,As we have always findAs we have always foundAnother peaceful civilizationToWearDown…Into tatters and discardIn the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Always Found, Civilization, Destiny, Devastation, Discard, Earth, Embrace, Find, Manifeststed, New Life, Peaceful Civilization, Poetry and Poems, Search, Space, Tatters, Waste, Wear Down, Will | Leave a comment

Thoughts On Palm Sunday 2023

Posted on April 2, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Thoughts On Palm Sunday 2023by Michael DoyleEvery man’s life is a conversationIt’s in the soul, not the presentationPalm Sunday is it’s own celebrationThat turned from hosanna to devastationOr so perception blinded, yet it gave goodOne day at a time, as … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All In Good Time, Bad Over the Good, Belong, Below, Benefit, Body of Christ, Celebration, Changes, Close, Composure, Cpnversation, Cross, Crowd, Debt, Devastation, Die, Difference, Dignity, Doubt, Each Moment, End, Eternity, Experience, Exposure, Fate, Gates of Hell, Given, Goal, God's Love, God's Plan, Grace, History, Holy Connection, Homily, Hosanna, Jesus Above, Judas, Last Supper, Life, Loss, Mystery, Open Handed, Paid In Full, Palm Sunday 2023, Path, Perception, Pesssures, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Praying For Judas, Preach, Present, Presentation, Revealed, Right, Roll, Rule, Salvation, School, See, Service, Shape, Shifting Tides, Silence of God, Sin, Soul, Tame, The Body, Time, Understood, Veneration, Victory, Wait, Washed Feet, World, Wrong, You and Me | Leave a comment

Dedicated To A Half Remembered Lorax, Part II

Posted on January 6, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Dedicated To A Half Remembered Lorax, Part IIIby Michael DoyleHowever much some point out their clarityA dreamer remains undeterred by realityEven when it seems everyone is living culpableIt never stops quixotic dreams of the impossibleFloating as it is into the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bottom-Line, Clarity, Culpable, Days, Death, Dedicate, Devastation, Devine, Dreamer, Dreams, Essence, Falls, Fire, Force Multiplier, Future Shock, Greed, Impossible, Last Breath, Last Hope, Lean, Lessons, Lorax, Mean, Mustard Seed, Nature and Trees, Need, Page, Perfect, Plays, Plead, Poetry and Poems, Pride, Rainbow, Reality, Shot, Sorrow, Soul, Stage, Success, Tomorrow, Truth, Vibes, Win, World, Worthy Thought, Zen | Leave a comment