Tag Archives: Dreams

Room Read

Posted on June 1, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Room Readby Michael DoyleIt’s hard to make a room readEspecially when I’m the hero no one needsBut there’s something to be saidFor all the nonsense that we’re fedNobody is that special anymoreI wonder if we ever were even beforeNo one … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Before, Better, Checkpoints, Connection, Dreams, Garbage, Gravity, Hero, Legendary, Levity, Mddle, Need, Nonsense, Ordinary, Plans, Poetry and Poems, Read, Reflection, Room, Said, Serious, Special, Together, Universe, Wrecked | Leave a comment

A Cry for Uvalde

Posted on May 28, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

A Cry for Uvaldeby Michael DoyleSomewhere beyond a world of feelingIs the way of knowing healingThese are the times for being an exampleThe differences made will be ampleFighting not with fists but with prayerPeeling back the onion of life, layer … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Actions, Alone, Ample, Beautiful Souls, Behind, Belief, Best Fights, Blame, Bullied, Burnt to the Ground, Candlelight, Community, Cornerstone, Cruelly Dealt, Cry, Cuentas, Dead, Differences Made, Dificil, Disease, Dreams, Every Day, Every Single Day, Example, Faces, Faith, Families, Fault Is His, Favorite Songs, Feeling, Felt, Fight the Good Fight, Fighting, Grief, Gut Wrenching Torments, Hand of Lucifer, Healing, Humbled Cry, Hundreds, It Didn't Have To Be His Choice, Knees, Know, La Muerte de Los Ninos, Layer, Lifted A Hand, Lifting Our Voices, Lives, Loss, Love, Loved Ones, Matters, Memories, Mi Apoyo, Momento, Moments, Morning, Mourning, Nation, Night, Not With Fists, Noticia, Onion of Life, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Prayers, Question Why, Rebuild, Sabes, Safe, Salvador Ramos, School, Sense, Shakes and Shatters, Shamed, Silently Erected, Sin, So Be It, So It Will Be Done, Sorrow, Survive, Survivor's Guilt, Tears, Thursday, Times, Torture, Traces, Tragedy, Transcend, Trust Falling, Twenty-One Crosses, Used Their Voice, Uvalde, Vigils, Viviendo, Walk, Warnings, Wicked Ways, Wounds, Years | Leave a comment

Looking For Words

Posted on May 27, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Looking For Wordsby Michael DoyleI see you looking for wordsBut more than the wordsYou want to read the actionsThat bleed like a rose with satisfactionMaking a difference, plain to seeTo live, love, and dream is to beOne with this universal … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accommodate, Actions, Angels, Bleed, Charm, Clarity, Comfortable, Connect, Difference, Distances, Dream, Dreams, Feeling, Friendship, Infinite Role, Life, Live, Looking, Looking For Words, Love, Magic, More Than, Place, Plain To See, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Quiet Moments, Read, Rose, Satisfaction, Seams, Seeing, Shared Joy, Sincereity, Sinking, Souls, Spaces, Sparks, Tears, Thinking, Treasure, True Hearts, Truth of the Matter, Universal Soul, Years | Leave a comment

New Paths Shown

Posted on April 18, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

New Paths Shownby Michael DoyleWorking hard for changes that we needThe kernels of thought plant the seedArtificial interface brings us to zeroEngineers solving for real play the heroesBe it carbon free concrete or green steelThe same names bring a renewed … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Answers, Artificial Interface, Better Place, Better Tomorrows, Bravely Go, Carbon Free, Changes, Changes Needed, Concrete, Concrete Sturdy, Dreams, Economies of Scale, Engineers, Green Steel, Grow, Heroes, Human Race, Humanity's New Tale, Kernels of Thought, Know, Known, Laboratory, Learn, Mapping Out, Need, Needs, New Paths, Only Real Way, Poetry and Poems, Population, Rely, Renewed Feel, Seed, Shown, Solve, Some Regret, Steel Beams, Streets, Turn This Around, Understood, Workable, Working Hard, Yesterdays, Yet, Zero | Leave a comment

While They Break Our Hearts

Posted on April 8, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

While They Break Our Heartsby Michael DoyleLife is full of imprecisionsToo many mistakesAnd too many bad decisionsRomances gone wrongNever knowing where one belongsJust another round of heartbreak songsStaying up late to catch a breakSome things can’t be fakeWhile they break … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Another Kiss, Bad Decisions, Belong, Best Swing, Break Our Hearts, Burn, Burn Slow, California Sands, Catch A Break, Certain, Dance, Dream, Dreams, Every Night, Eyes Sparkle, Fake, False Start, Find Ourselves, Fire Pit Embers, Forgot, Full Moon Fever, Gone Wrong, Guitar, Hands, Heartbreak Songs, Holding You Tight, Huntington Beach Girl, Imprecisions, Keep You, Know, Life, Lose Ourselves, Love At First Sight, Magic, Miss, Mistakes, Never Let You Go, Night, Pardon, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Pretty Ballerina, Rarely Right, Romances, Sands, Senorita, Sight, Slipped Through Our Hands, Slow, Staying Up Late, Sure As We Are, Sure Chance, Times, True, Walk, Watch | Leave a comment

A Little Time To Kill

Posted on April 7, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

A Little Time To Killby Michael DoyleShe had a little time to killAmong other thingsHe had a need for a big game thrillAnd to find out what tomorrow bringsWith a single shot, she found whatShe was looking for and it … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Big Game, Black, Bought, Confess, Dreams, Fateful, Few, Found, Friend, Guilty, Head, Heart, Hunt, Led, Lies, Listen, Mess, Poetry and Poems, Protagonist, Pull of A Trigger, Screen, Single Shot, Slipping Away, Strike, Three Sheets To the Wind, Thrill, Time to Kill, Tomorrow, Trace of Blood, Truth, View To the Kill, War | Leave a comment

Sins of My Father Remembered

Posted on February 18, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Sins of My Father Rememberedby Michael DoyleShadowed in doubtTrapped within rootsOn a planet ringed by orbitalsSeeking, search for any way outLooking for any solution that contributesToward escaping the controlsIn the Hotel NevermoreIs a bottle of tearsFor all the lost waysWatch … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ambitions, Atone, Bad, Binary Code, Bottle, Carry, Cashed In, Clickbait, Confide, Core, Days, Debts, Doubt, Dreams, Drop, Emptiness, Empty Years, Escape, Father, Feet, Fit, Good, Gorgonized, Ground, Honor, Horror, Hotel, Hours, Hypnotized, Knowledge, Living, Lost Ways, Moments, My Father's Shoes, Nevermore, Night, Nightmares, Planet, Poetry and Poems, Pours, Promises Made, Purest Love, Remember, Roots, Sarcasm, Screams, Search, Seldom Shared, Shadow, Shot Glass, Sins, Sins of My Father, Snares, Society, Solution, Soul, Stone, Suppressed, Tears, Thoughts, Trapped, Views, Whiskey, Wit | Leave a comment

To See the World Again

Posted on February 3, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

To See the World Againby Michael DoyleTo see the world through new eyesIt might help me to again realizeThe splendors too often taken for grantedBy those of us whose views are slantedLights like stars seem to aboundAs life loses its … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Again, Beauty, Believe, Child, City, Clearly, Coin, Control, Courage, Darkness, Dearly, Dreams, Eyes, Fairy Tale, Fallen Time, Faltered Question, Fantasy, Fear, Forget, Found, Friend, Ground, Harshness, Heart, Hesitation, Hold Your Hand, Lights, Lost Rhyme, Luster, Lyrical, Magical, Moonlight, Mystery, New Eyes, New Possibility, Once Upon, Pity, Playing Favorites, Poetry and Poems, Promises, Realize, Remembered Eyes, Rippled Pond, Search, See, Skeleton Hands, Soul, Splendor, Stardust, Staring Off, Stars, Strangeness, Taken For Granted, Talk, Touching the Good, Tragic, Tranquility, Understood, Views, Walk, Wishing Well, Wonders, World | Leave a comment

The Sting of A Yellow Jacket

Posted on January 27, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

The Sting of A Yellow Jacketby Michael DoyleNaughty narrative braids togetherA story of coming of age but betterTwo tracks made into one storyNeither of them qualifying for gloryHigh school drama can be brutalityEven without its incessant fatalityAs childhood comes to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anarchy, Anxieties, Apart, Barbarity, Brewing, Brutality, Campfire, Childhood, Cling, Coming of Age, Complexity, Dreams, Embers, Emotional Undoing, Ends, Fatality, Fingers, Friend, Gore, Growing Pains, Hierarchy, High School Drama, Hormones, Iconic, Indolence, Instability, Intentions, Ironic, Lethal Stew, Lingers, Losing Touch, Narrative, Naughty, Negotiation, Poetry and Poems, Process, Qualify, Question, Remembers, Scars, Simplicity, Smothered, Stars, Sting, Swore, Threads, Toxicity, Transforms, True, Two Tracks, Woods, Yellow Jacket | Leave a comment

Well-Tempered Clavier Played In Discord

Posted on January 13, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Well-Tempered Clavier Played In Discordby Michael DoyleThe disappointmentWas of an inevitabilityAfter all, to err is humanity’s Greatest capabilityVery few are hard wiredInto our grand designWe don’t stand a prayerIn the face of the divineEven the hand of the creatorIs open … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Awake, Best, Brace, Capability, Clavier, Disappointment, Discord, Divine, Dreams, Err, Fade, Fate, Fear, Filter, Final, Grand Design, Guns, Half-Forgotten, Hand of the Creator, Hard Wired, Heads, Humanity, Inevitability, Intend, Intricate, Last Note, Late, Late Night Shows, Master of Puppets, Memorize, Metaphorical, Mind, Odds, Parts, Passion, Perceptions, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Pull the Trigger, Pulled Strings, Realize, Recall, Release, Rote, Shadow, Shotgun Wedding, Silent Screams, Snow, Taught, Tragic Flaw, True, Well-Tempered, Well-Tempered Clavier, Wishing Wishes | Leave a comment