Tag Archives: Drink

Knowing of the Why

Posted on October 15, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Knowing of the Whyby Michael DoyleI believe I know the whyOf why a weeping willow criesWhen there was no time for goodbyeAnd that’s the case for each of us who diesEven in the best case of stabilityThere lies the uncanny … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accept, Air, Ambiguity, Believe, Best, Best Case, Beverage, Case, Caught, Chill, Choice, Choose, Clue, Cold, Country, Cry, Death, Defusion, Dies, Drink, Ease, End, Flourish, Gather Around, Ghost, Ghost Stories, Give Time, Glory, Good, Goodbye, Hesitation, Hide, Home, Illuminate, Illusion, Imagination, Imperfection, Inner, Just Beyond the Bend, Knowing, Live, Love, Most, Mystery, Night, No Time, One, One More Story, People Die, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Probability, Question, Reach, Risk of Losing, Run On, Serves, Situation, Some, Spurt, Stability, Storied Voice, Superstition, Tales, Think, Tragic, Truth, Two, Uncanny, Warm the Heart, Weeping Willow, Why, Wonder, Worth While | Leave a comment

Be Your Own Hero

Posted on September 2, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Be Your Own Heroby Michael DoyleIncurable as a dreaming heroStubborn as a seeming zeroWe play our parts in masqueradeEach day lived within its charadeHiding ourselves behind the music we playCaught up in front of screens all dayBecause we cannot be … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Able, Abuses, Afraid, Against, Aloone, Answering, Answers, Believe, Born, Breath, Calls, Cancer, Charade, Circumstance, Condone, Convince, Cupidity, Cure, Cuts, Dark, Death, Despite, Dingy, Dirty, Double Edged Sword, Drink, Duplicity, Even, Fabric of Society, Filed Away, Find, Finding Clues, Forgot, Front, Half A Shot, Hero, Heroism, Hidden, Hiding, Hope, Ignore, Incurable, Justification, Lessons, Life, Madness, Make It Right, Malignant, Mask, Masquerade, Music, Night, Others, Pardon, Pause, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Profuse, Pushing Through, Put Aside, Real, Recess, Screens, See, Self, Silence, Speak, Stand, Stronger, Stubborn, Swallowed Pride, Take the Hit, Tasks, Tattered, Think, Torn, True, Truth and Light, Unbreakable, Unspeakable, Vast, Villainy, Violence, Warning, Who We Want to Be, Why, Worse, Your Own | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: In Truth It Is Life That Gives Unto Life – While You, Who Deem Yourself A Giver, Are But A Witness

Posted on August 18, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“You often say; I would give, but only to the deserving, The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture.Surely he who is worthy to receive his days and nights is worthy of all else … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged All Else, Days and Nights, Deserve, Deserves, Deserving, Drink, Fill Cup, Flocks, Give, Giver, Giving, Instrument, Khalil Bigran, Khalil Gibran, Life, Little Stream, Orchard, Pasture, Receive, The Prophet, Thought For the Day, Trees, Truth, Witness, Worthy | Leave a comment

Planted Seed of Fear

Posted on July 3, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Poem 4 in a series retelling a classic werewolf tale: Planted Seed of Fear by Michael Doyle Plant the seed The seed of fear As the blood moon rises Evil comes in its disguises The village wills to celebrate While … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Blood Moon, Celebrate, Dance, Disguise, Drink, Evil, Fear, Firelight, Fools, Guard, Hunter, Invigorate, Know, Lurk, Moonlit, Night, Pageantry, Photograph, Plant, Poem, Poetry, Rise, Second Sight, Seed, Seek, Shadow, Sleight of Hand, Stand, Tapestry, Things Seen, Trick, Trick of the Light, True, Village, Warrior | Leave a comment

Flaws of My Heart

Posted on July 1, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Sat in on an early morning sermon today. While listening in, this came to mind… Flaws of My Heart by Michael Doyle My flaws of the heart Directed by sin from the start My eyes closed to Godly fear I … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adam, Believe, Born Again, Call, Child, Choice, Cling, Days, Deep, Defense, Delusion, Desperate, Disappear, Doubt, Dream, Drink, Dying, Empty, Eyes Closed, Fall, Fated, Fear, Fidelity, Flaw, Forget, Fountain, Give, God, Hated, Heart, Illusion, Judgment, Know, Life, Live, Lord, Lot, Loved, Mercy, Mouth, Need, Needs, Now and Then, Part, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pretense, Prostrate, Recieve, Refuge, Self, Sermon, Shadow, Show, Sin, Sins, Start, Strife, Sustain, Time and Again, True, Truth, Verity, Victim, Wages of Sin, Weep, Wicked Ways | 1 Comment

Build Up, Don’t Tear Down

Posted on June 26, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Why is destruction and all that so popular as the way to express grievances that do need to be addressed? Build Up, Don’t Tear Down by Michael Doyle We should be building up All for a drink from the winner’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Address, Appropirately, Attempt, Believe, Build Up, Burn Down, Complexity, Construction, Destroy, Destruction, Drink, Economy, Elevate, Embark, End, Equal, Fallen Ground, Feelings, Found, Good Weather, Grievances, Hate, History, Issues, Living, Love, Misery, Mystery, Neighborhood, Path, Photograph, Plain, Poem, Poetry, Pure, Record, Rise, Rougher, Sing For Our Supper, Society, Solid Wall, Sound, Speak Truth, Stand, Statues, Storm, Suffer, Tear Down, Times, Together, Tough, Turn Down, Understood, Wait, Winner's Cup, Worse | Leave a comment

Checking My To-Dos

Posted on June 5, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

A little something that was kind of fun to come up with on my guitar: Checking My To-Dos by Michael Doyle Checking my to-dos Off of my list Brushing by your lips That needed kissed Baby, don’t you cry We’re … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Baby, Brush, Chase It Back, Checking, Confess, Cry, Cup, Dogs, Dress, Drink, Embrace, Eyes, Kiss, Lips, List, Mess, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pull, Shake, Shut, Sighs, Sometimes, Squeeze, Taste, To Do, We, Why, Witness | Leave a comment

Dragged Into the Streets

Posted on May 20, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Thinking a lot on education and civilization and why and how there seems to be quite a bit of confusion as to how each is allegedly to work out. Fairly serious stuff and yet how can a person not … Continue reading →