Tag Archives: Dread

Thoughts On Dorian Gray, Part II

Posted on October 11, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Thoughts On Dorian Gray, Part II, III and IVby Michael DoyleII.Conjuring tales and hallucinationServe up as the Devil’s illustrationIt’s a triumph of base deceitQuietly play on a foggy London streetToo many things are better left unsaidWhere this an extraordinary sense … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Age, Beautiful, Blame, Blood Stain, Conventions of Morality, Cross, Deceit, Devil, Dorian Gray, Dread, Fog, Hallucination, Hands, Illustrate, Life, London Street, Measure, Name, No Limits Known, Poetry and Poems, Price, Pride, Suicide, Tales, Tender Heart, Thoughts, Triump, Unsaid, Wonderful | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: As Knowledge Spreads, Wealth Spreads. To Diffuse Knowledge Is to Diffuse Wealth

Posted on October 4, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“General education is the best preventive of the evils now most dreaded. In the civilized countries of the world, the question is how to distribute most generally and equally the property of the world. As a rule where education is most general the distribution … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: Liberty Is Meaningless Where the Right To Utter One’s Thoughts and Opinions Has Ceased To Exist

Posted on March 19, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.” – Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)

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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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I’ll Always Take Your Call

Posted on October 28, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

I’ll Always Take Your Callby Michael DoyleRipped apart deep inside my DNAFinding the scary part is the last biteWhen suddenly, I run short of what to sayAnd my wildest dreams hold me through the nightSomewhere in the geometry of the … Continue reading →

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Halloween: Daughters of Salem

Posted on October 3, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Daughters of Salemby Michael DoyleIn the misted realm of nightmaresBeyond the screens of our daily careThe daughters of Salem tossIn their graveyards of the crooked crossHidden tears masked by blood stainsThat cannot wash away with the cold rainsIs the fear … Continue reading →

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Things Remembered

Posted on August 30, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Things Rememberedby Michael DoyleDespite the well of star-crossed tearsHaving had been ponded through the yearsOf one thing, I have certainly foundThat there are enough words to be chased aroundOne thing proven is the swollen sure chanceInvolved in each moment lived … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Afflict, Bad Memories, Bleak, Breakdown, Campfire, Chase Around, Circumstance, Confluence, Crackle, Disease, Drama, Dread, Experience, Extended Family, Found, Honesty, Hope, Incidences, Influence, Journey, Lamentations, Lord, Minds, Moment, Mortality, Negativity, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Ponded, Presence, PTSD, Questions, Racism, Rage, Reflections, Sentimentality, Star-Crossed, Suffer, Suffering, Sure Chance, Tears, Things Remembered, Transparent, Trauma, Triggered, Unspeakable, Walk, Well, Words, Wrap, Years | Leave a comment

Lessons of Sadie Hawkins

Posted on July 31, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Life in its myriad of dances has it’s meaning sometimes coming in multiples of delusion… Lessons of Sadie Hawkins by Michael Doyle Sock hop memories wake the school Where twists in plot are the rule All of life is filtered … Continue reading →

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Full Asking Price

Posted on July 3, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Poem 2 in a series retelling a classic werewolf tale: Full Asking Price by Michael Doyle I know so little of what to believe As I sit here and quietly grieve We talk of counted blessings But most of these … Continue reading →

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This Haunting Song

Posted on May 25, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Some say this time we live in is too familiar to the Spanish Influenza back in 1918. So far, the numbers don’t even remotely echo that horrific event. Still… This Haunting Song by Michael Doyle This epidemic is a … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 1918, Calm, Carry On, Congruity, Contagion, Cure, Days, Dread, Emergency, Endure, Epidemic, Escape, Gamble, Give, Goldmine, Gone, Half Forgotten, Haunting, Heartbreak, Home, Hum, Kiss, Life, Life Boats, Litter, Live, Lives, Misstep, Mistakes, Nod, Photographs, Poems, Poetry, Right, Scapegoats, Sinking Ship, Song, Spanish Influenza, Stakes, Stress, Timeless, Ugency, Uptight, Whiskey | Leave a comment