Tag Archives: Emotion

Exiting To A New Beginning

Posted on December 31, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Exiting To A New Beginningby Michael DoyleThe alpha and the omegaThe beginning and the endLife’s alpha and its omegaLaid bare at the year’s beginning and endGod breathes our lives into motionWhatever the season’s emotionsWe aim to begin and finish strongAs … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2024, Aim, Anchored, Biblical, Blind, Breathe, Church, Community, Complaints, Courage, Desire, Emotion, Empty, Exit, Faith, Family, Glasses, Habakkuk, Half Full, Happy, Heal, Hesitation, Motion, New Beginning, One, Poetry and Poems, Political, Presses On, Principles, Question, Relatinship, Right, Right Choice, Sacred Family, Season, Sight, Spiritual Blindness, Story, Strong, Struggle, The Alpha and the Omega, Voice, Walk, Worship, Wounds of Division, Year | Leave a comment

Half Remembered Lines

Posted on November 7, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

As If the Last Timeby Michael DoyleMy heart keeps being hauntedBy these half-remembered linesThe ones that are never wantedLike a kiss given as if the last timeHere’s looking at you, kidShe half smiles, keeping it hidThat heartbreak is only an … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anticipation, Argue, Beautiful, Believe, Cafe Americain, Change, Chaos, Choice, Complicate, Cost, Deceive, Doubt, Drink, Emotion, Half Rememberd, Half Smile, Haunt, Heart, Heartbreak, Inner Voices, Journey, Kiss, Last Time, Lines, Look, Lost, Luck, Overthink, Poetry and Poems, Trail, Vacation, Want, World, Wounded Lives, Yesterday | Leave a comment

First Principles: Let Us Resolve To Be Masters, Not the Victims, of Our History, Controlling Our Own Destiny Without Giving Way To Blind Suspicions and Emotions

Posted on August 9, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.” – John F. Kennedy

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Control, Destiny, Emotion, First Principles, Giving Way, History Books, John F. Kennedy, Master, Resolve, Suspicion, Victims | Leave a comment

Forbidden Colors

Posted on April 8, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Forbidden Colorsby Michael DoyleIn the forbidden colors of the sheltering skySome composers aren’t discussed until they dieRyūichi Sakamoto opened the door to an energy flowThat began with Debussy and would ebb and flowOf the Yellow Magic Orchestra in all of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Articulation, Butterfly Kiss, Composer, Debussy, Delicate and Pensive, Ebb and Flow, Elixir, Emotion, Energy Flow, Film Score, Forbidden Colors, Hip-Hop, Immortality, Influence, Layers, Linger, Mangle, More, Poetry and Poems, Quiet, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Sheltering Sky, Startle, Techno, Tnagle, War, Water's Edge, Worldbeat, Yellow Magic Orchestra | Leave a comment

A Ghost Ship Seen

Posted on January 7, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

A Ghost Ship Seenby Michael DoyleIThe mind can be deeper than an oceanWhen it comes to being lost inside emotionIn these fears of being left behindSome place deep within a wounded mindMorphic in its senseless sensationsWhere security clings for its … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Emotion, Fire, Ghost Ship, Mind, Ocean, Poetry and Poems, Sound Argument, Wounded Mind | Leave a comment

Let the Party Begin

Posted on November 5, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Let the Party Beginby Michael DoyleDon’t let your emotionsCloud your best judgmentKeeping faith in your devotionDespite the world’s begrudgementFailures never help one’s attitudeStill it’s best to keep in gratitudeFor all the good that has come beforeBrings a feeling we cannot … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Attitude, Begin, Begrudge, Brook, Confuse, Crown, Days, Drink Up, Emotion, Emotions, Eyes, Failures, Frown, Good, Gratitude, Human Condition, Ignore, Judgment, Laughter, Look, Nice, Now, Party, Poetry and Poem, Pool, Price, Princess, Round and Round, Smile, Sorrow, Start, Substance, Surprise, Then, Tomorrow, Touch, Unleashed, Upside Down, Wall of Pride, Ways, Win | Leave a comment

Currents of the Riptide

Posted on October 31, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Currents of the Riptideby Michael DoyleOn the tip of the continent’s ledgeI stand and touch the water’s edgeIn the memory of those who came beforeAnd will never surf any moreThe rides that they once soughtAll of the battles that they … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adrenaline, Battles, Child, Confident, Content, Continent, Currency, Currents, Emotion, Face of Waves, Feet, Fought, Ledge, Legacy, Memories, Memory, Neptune, Ocean, Poetry and Poems, Powers, Reveries, Rides, Riptide, Sorrow, Sought, Surf, Tame, Tomorrow, Water's Edge, Wild | Leave a comment

New Possibility

Posted on July 20, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

New Possibilityby Michael DoyleA new life learnedIn the lessons discernedTaking on all the new daysAs we learn to walk in new waysOur hearts filled with desireour minds set ablaze with firePutting our hopes in a basketInstead of simply lying in … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abundance, Basket, Casket, Connect, Dare, Dedication, Delight, Desire, Destiny, Devotion, Direction, Discern, Dreams, Emotion, Fire, God, Honor, Journey, Learn, New Days, New Possibility, New Ways, Poetry and Poems, Second Sight, See, Seems, Strange | Leave a comment

Layers of Emotion

Posted on February 6, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Layers of Emotionby Michael DoyleOur hearts hold feelings deeper than oceansIt’s up to us to manage our own emotionsThe heart of the matter is that hearts matterYet, we must do this or our lives might shatterFeelings are so very hard … Continue reading →

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Forgiveness Is…

Posted on November 26, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Forgiveness Is…by Michael DoyleForgiveness is…Giving up on the thoughtOf some mythical better pastForgiveness is…Where reduction of negativity is soughtBecoming free from the pain that shouldn’t lastForgiveness is…Giving up on all the rageFor a return to a more moral communityForgiveness is…The … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Becoming Free, Better Past, Capacity, Ego, Emotion, Finding Peace, Forgiveness, Free, Healing, Heart, Injury, Last, Let Go, Long Run, Moral Community, Moving Past, Myth, Need, Needed, Negativity, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Rage, Reduction, Return, Reveal, Rise Above, Soul, The Light, Thought, To Find, To Live, To Love, Turning of the Page, Wrongs Done | Leave a comment