Tag Archives: Dream

Speck of Dust

Posted on April 6, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Speck of Dustby Michael DoyleThis speck of dust on which we restIs the speck of dust that is our testUnwritten laws frame our mindsAnd what is left when we no longer findThat the laws written serve us wellAnd that we … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alive, Beauty, Bound, Century, Come Apart, Create, Dare To Love, Dream, Eon, Find, Flawlessly Broken, Fragile, Hand In Hand, Hope, Know, Learn, Live, Mind, More, Never Die, Our Lives, Pain, Pain and Misery, Poetry and Poems, Rest, Serve Us Well, Simply Survive, Speck of Dust, Star, Tale, Test, Tragedy, Truth, Unwritten Laws, Words Spoken | Leave a comment

There Is A Dream

Posted on March 9, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

There Is A Dreamby Michael DoyleThere is a dreamInside our reflectionA silent sort of screamThat escapes the world’s detectionA world that no one else can seeIn an answer in search of questionsThat we won’t ask in possibilityA mirrored echo of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Answer, Believer, Better, Build, Choice, Defiance, Destination, Detection, Dignify, Dream, Echo, Escape, Form, Found, Ground, Grow, Hearts, Hesitation, Investigation, Keep, Minds, Mirror, Mysteries, Open, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Power, Question, Reach Beyond, Reality, Reflection, Render, Revealed, Roads, Scream, See, Selves, Silent, Singular, Splendor, Tether, Tomorrow, Trap, Travel, Truth, Unaware, Unravel, Voice, Wishes, World | Leave a comment

Beneficial Benediction

Posted on February 11, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Beneficial Benedictionby Michael DoyleIt should really come as no surpriseThat when all anyone ever tells is liesTo tell the truth is a revolutionBut it’s beneficial in our evolutionDon’t fear the monsters in your headMake them afraid of you insteadLike figments … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Afraid, Begun, Benediction, Beneficial, Break, Chains, Comfort, Dream, Evolution, Fear, Figments, Fool's Gold, Future, Glistens, Head, Hold Us Back, Journey, Lies, Listens, Machination, Mast, Monsters, Past, Poetry and Poems, Reason, Regain, Revolution, Rocks, Sail, Shadows, Ship, Sleep, Speaking Truth, Surprise, Tortured Imagination, Truth, Victory, Wall, Won | Leave a comment

The Paths Ahead

Posted on January 22, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

The Paths Aheadby Pure Love and Michael Romani So many roads yet to be takenSo many choices yet to be givenThe path stretches out beforeWith life yet for us to explore There is a magic in the moreWhen we open … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ahead, Believe, Bliss, Choices, Days, Door, Dream, Explore, Fear, Future, Given, Happiness, Holding On, Hope, Imagination, Life, Live, Love and Care, Magic, Melody, Moments, Open, Paths, Peace, Play, Poetry and Poems, Reality, Roads, See, Share, Smiles, Songs, Stream, Stretch, Sun, Taken, Ways | Leave a comment

Dedicated To A Half Remembered Lorax, Part III

Posted on January 8, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Dedicated To A Half Remembered Lorax, Part IIIby Michael DoyleThere’s one word left to sayOne hope left yet to prayThere’s no need to second guessIt all comes down to unlessUnless we have faith of a mustard seedUnless we listen to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Chance, Change, Correction, Course, Dedicate, Direction, Discern, Dream, Esteem, Faith, From, Great Things, Harmony, Hearts, Heed, Hope, Learn, Lesson, Listen, Lorax, Magnificience, Model, Mustard Seed, Naysayer, Need, Play, Plentitude, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Remember, Say, Second Guess, Significance, Simple Dream, Small, Smallish Things, True, Truly Seem, Unless, Warning | Leave a comment

Always Time For A Story

Posted on December 9, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Always Time For A Storyby Michael DoyleQuietly sitting on the pewThere in one sense, familyWearing our brother’s coatAnd in this, draped in povertyKeeping warm on Christmas nightAll for the sake of spirits brightKept a flicker in swaddling clothesAs only as … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Child, Child's Heart, Christmas Day, Christmas Night, Coat, Comfort, Compare, Distances, Doll, Dream, Dull Surprise, Empathy, Excite, Eyes, Family, Glory, Gold, Heart, Hole, Home, Hurt, Joyful, Kings, Know, Lonely Heart, Love, Love's Story, Loving Heart, Miss, Paupers, Pew, Place, Poetry and Poems, Poverty, Saddened Eyes, Second Hand Embarrassment, Secret, Seem, Sentiment, Shadow, Share, Sit, Soul, Spirits Bright, Story, Surprise, Swaddling Clothes, Sympathy, Time, Too Young, Unafraid, Voice, Warm, Window, Wishes | Leave a comment

This Thanksgiving 2021

Posted on November 25, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

This Thanksgiving 2021by Michael DoyleLate last night I was thinking on..The furthest star’s even furthest moonUntil I was dreaming of a once uponFairytale feeling that was needed soonFor two years, the world has sufferedThrough the scourge of viral pestilenceWith reasons … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2021, Acknowledge, All of God's Children, Bass Rings, Blessed Dignity, Bounty, Buffer, Cantaloupe, Challenge, Complicity, Consistent, Content, Daugthers, Direction, Divine, Divine Purpose, Dream, Encourage, Example, Fairytale, Faith and Trust, Feeling, Felicity, Fight, Freedom, Giving Thanks, God's Good Will, Grace, Gratitude, Harmony, Heart, Holy Tradition, Hug, Iconic, Joy, Keeping True, Kiss, Last Night, Liberty, Lost, Love, Macy's Day Thanksgiving Day Parade, Mercy, Moon, Morning, Nation, Parade, Peace, Persistence, Pestilence, Platitude, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Priceless, Prosperity, Providence, Quiche, Real, Reasons, Recognize, Sacred, Science, Scourge, Security, Set Apart, Source, Star, Strength, Suffer, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Day, Think, Tradition, Tranquil, Traps, Trust, Two Years, Unity, Verse, Viral, Vouchsafe, World, Worse, Zealous | 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 V: Immortality Revealed

Posted on October 21, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Reflections on Dorian Gray V: Immortality Revealedby Michael DoyleArt imitates life as life imitates artMasquerading in the wantonness of the heartIt’s a fearful discovery of the monster withinThat while we don’t understand, causes us to sinActing in the the brazen … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, Addiction, Art, Artist, Beautiful, Best Promises, Blame, Dance, Dare, Darkness, Depravity, Die, Discovery, Dorian Gray, Doubt, Dream, Duality, Enthralled, Evil, Eye, Eyes, Fatal, Fell, Gift, God, Heart, Hope, Idols, Ignore, Imagine, Immortality, Impulse, Impurity, Intended, Lechery, Life, Lost, Masquerade, Medication, Monster, Monsters, More, Naked, Painting, Poetry and Poems, Premeditation, Reflections, Repulse, Sacrifice, Scars, Scream, Sin, Slippery Slope, Stars, Tell Tale Signs, Temptation, The World, Transform, Treachery, Ugliness, Understand, Wantonness, Whim, Wickedness, Wonderful | Leave a comment

Come To the End

Posted on September 29, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Come To the Endby Michael DoyleYou want me to take you seriouslyAs you glare at me furiouslyWith your arms around the guyI caught you with before my replyYou flame me by way of “fuck you” balloonAs I advert my eyes … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Arms, Balloon, Best, Cards, Caught Up, Come To An End, Comedy, Dream, End, Evidence, Fable, Fantasy, Feigned Hurt, Flame, Focus, Furious, Glare, Guy, Heart, Heights, Holding On, Hurt, James Dean, Legendary, Lesson Learned, Majesty, Mean, Mediocrity, Might-Have-Beens, Mind, Poetry and Poems, Relevance, Relevancy, Remember, Reply, Serious, Table, Tragedy, True Friends, True Words, Truth, Verbally Punch, Whens | Leave a comment