Tag Archives: Dream

Enough Pain To Go Around

Posted on November 1, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Enough Pain To Go Aroundby Michael DoyleIf there’s one thingThat I’ve foundIt’s there’s enough painTo go aroundPages of sorrowTears of rageHolding on for tomorrowOn this world’s stageIt’s the state of artOf my darkened heartCalling out across the multiverseI’ve engineered it … Continue reading →

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In Healing Hymn

Posted on October 23, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

In Healing Hymnby Michael DoyleTo be human is to fantasizeMore than can be seen with naked eyesWorried about what ghouls might beAfter death’s last-breath tragedyWe keep our eyes on what is nextAnd all the riddles that do connectCaught in our … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Arrogance, Bittersweet, Blasphemy, Breath, Burn, Bury, Climb, Conceal, Courage, Cure, Death, Desceration, Die, Dream, Endure, Fadeaway, Faithlessness, Fantasize, Flowers, Fluidity, Ghouls, God, Grave, Grow, Heal, Health and Sickness, Heart, Heartbreak, Heaven's Gate, Hesitation, Human, Hymn, Know, Lives, Lullaby, Measure, Memories, Mortal Love, Mountain, Mourn, Mystic, Naked Eyes, Offense, Pockets of Desolation, Poetry and Poems, Pursue, Question, Remembered, Resurrection, Riddles, Sacred Reason, Save, Sin, Sorrow, Sympathy, Timid Souls, Tomorrow, Tragedy, Treasure, Yesterday | Leave a comment

Remembering When Kindness Was In Fashion

Posted on October 5, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Remembering When Kindness Was in Fashionby Michael DoyleWe live in a time of self-limited imaginationWhere people cannot dream of outside creationBut mysteriously believe in writing only experienceSuch as found in personal and depraved dalliancesRather than dreaming of the bigger conceptionsToo … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Afraid, America, Appalling, Attacks, Authoritarianism, Awe, Believe, Bewilder, Bigger Conception, Bold, Brink, Bulldoze, Change, Closing Down, Coarseeness, Compassion, Confide, Connections, Counter-Atacks, Creation, Culture, Dalliance, Debate, Decline, Discerning, Dream, Edge, End, Exceptional, Experience, Fashion, Forget, Freely Told, Friend, History, Hold Back, Identity, Imagination, Individual Strands, Kindness, Learning, Liberate, Literature, Live, Love, Moral Courage, One-Sided, Orthodoxy, Peace, Peculiar Sense, Personal, Plurality, Poetry and Poems, Point, Pride, Progress, Refine, Regress, Remember, Responses, Self-Limited, Shadows, Shock, Society, Stories, Strife, Strong, Think, Time, Too Far, Tribes of America, Truth, Unity | Leave a comment

Love Is the Christian Test

Posted on September 10, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Romans 13:8 Love Is the Christian Testby Michael Doyle In every moment lived there is powerTo become transformed in the hourOf God’s greatness that we liveIn all the blessings that He gives Letting no debt remain outstandingThis way of love … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ample, Blessings, Christian, Debt, Determination, Dream, Elimination, Esteem, Example, God, Heaven, Hour, Law, Life, Love, Moment, Needs, Neighbor, Outstanding, Poetry and Poems, Power, Self, Standard, Test, Testimony | Leave a comment

A Child Never Walks Alone

Posted on August 25, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

A Child Never Walks Aloneby Michael DoyleOur sins will seek us outPutting holes in hearts to fill with doubtsIf evil wasn’t real, there’d be no need for GodThat’s a paradox that burns us, however oddThere in the ashes of a … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ashes, Blasphemy, Child, Christ's Child, Cry, Curses, Desires, Doubt, Dream, Evil, Fire, God, Hearts, Heaven, Holes, Hunger, Living Nightmare, Lust, Need, Odd, Paradox, Poetry and Poems, Prayers, Present, Real, Remnants, Seek, Shadows, Sins, Stake, Under, Walks Alone, World | Leave a comment

Passing the Ball

Posted on August 18, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Passing the Ballby Michael DoylePassing the ball down the courtMake the basket or adjustThere is only win or not win on that courtMaking it like Muhammed Ali or bustThere are the top-of-the-line schemersTrue shooters and relaying daydreamersLike filthy McNastys claiming … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adjust, Aerial, Aspiration, B-Ball, Ball, Basket, Best Shot, Bust, Charm, Court, Dare, Daydreamers, Dream, Effort, Fame, Five-Alarm, Float, Game, Goal, GPA, Inspiration, Muhammed Ali, NBA, Not Win, Only Game, Pass, Poetry and Poems, Pulchritudinous, Schemers, Steps, True Shooters, Win, Winning | Leave a comment

To Yet Believe

Posted on August 12, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

To Yet Believeby Michael DoyleConfused by shadowsWe wonder at what we knowTo the heavens and to belowWe feint at what we might knowPerhaps spoken dreamsAre our best questsThe impossible, so it seemsGives us our best testsTo fight to right the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Believe, Belong, Below, Brave Hearts, Call, Confuse, Courage, Destiny, Down-At-Heart, Dream, Dreamer, Earnest Hearts, End, Feint, Fight, Final Home, Give, Glory, Greatest Gift, Heart, Heaven, Heavens, Home, Impossible, Knight, Know, Lerry, Passing Years, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Quest, Recall, Reval, Right, Seem, Shadow, Start, Story, Tear, Test, Try, Weary, Wonder, Wrongs | 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

Growing Up In the Tropics

Posted on June 4, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Growing Up in the Tropicsby Michael DoyleAcross the tropics, in early morning,We awaken sleepless, feeling the sunShining like a dreamBe it Cuba, Hawaii, or the PhilippinesThe breeze blows by coollyTurning the wind vanes slowly Dragonflies and butterflies floatOn mica wings … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All, Answer, Awake, Breeze, Butterflies, Children, Colored Skies, Cuba, Dragon Flies, Dream, Drowsy, Early Morning, Fields, Float, Glaze, Growing Up, Happiness Enough, Hawaii, Hit the Beach, Instinct, Island Time, Mica Wings, Names, New Day, Nourishment, Peaceful Bliss, Pineapple, Poetry and Poems, Rain, Reeds, Rice Paddies, Ride, See, Sleepless, Sleepy Day, Slow, Slow Heat, Sugar Cane, Summer All Year Long, Sun, Sunshine, The Philippines, Tropical Fish, Tropics, Waves, Wind Vanes, Yawn | Leave a comment

Mickey Said To Minnie

Posted on May 14, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Mickey Said To MinnieBy Michael Doyle When the world fades right out of viewIt’s the fate of how it is that I met you.It wasn’t like I was wishing on a starBut there it is, and there you are The … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Blend, Choice, Digital Light, Dream, Eyes, Fate, Fitting Right, Gentle Hello, It Is, Jump, Kill, Laugh, Low, Met, Mickey, Midial, Minnie, Miss Minnie, Moment, Night, Poetry and Poems, Recognize, Rhythm, Said, Seems, Shadows, Show, Silver Screen, Simple Hello, Smile, Something Good, Something Sacred, Spark, Star, Tell, Thunder, Time and Space, Touch of Grace, View, Voice, Wish, Wonder, Words, Work, World, You Are | Leave a comment