Tag Archives: Fear

Thought For the Day: Everything You’ve Ever Wanted Is On the Other Side of Fear

Posted on November 9, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – George Addair — Throughout our lives, overcoming fear is essential meeting and achieving our goals. Fear of rejection and/or failure paralyzes us from taking the right actions needed … Continue reading →

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In the Shadows

Posted on October 31, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

In the Shadowsby Michael DoyleThe beginning was an image of allA modern miracle held in mystified aweUntil life’s illusion lost its intensityAnd the desire for death grew in complexityThe face of horror pulls at mankindAs though in this darkness we … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All, Angst, Audience, Awe, Beginning, Big Bang, Blood, Book of Satan, Charmingly Perverse, Children of the Night, Claw, Complexity, Creation and Destruction, Damnation, Darkness, Death, Desires, Diabolical Forces, Eternal Punishment, Face of Horror, Fear, Gasp, Good and Evil, Halloween, Image, Imagination, Immorality, Intensity, Joined, Leaves, Life's Illusion, Mankind, Mephisto, Metropolis, Mirrored Twin, Modern Miracle, Need, Night, Persevere, Plays For Laughs, Poetry and Poems, Power of Light, Protection, Proximity, Read, Rise, Rotting Glory, Salvation, Shadow, Shadows, Spirit of Darkness, Story, Substance, Talisman, Tears, The Crucifix, Together, Tread, Universe | Leave a comment

Divination

Posted on October 30, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Divinationby Michael DoyleIs it true that only foolsCast aside all the rules?And what kind of wreckDoes life become living by the deck?A spooky basement points the directionThat reveals the cloth of divinationHand painted arcana mixes with astrologyIt is needed to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Arcana, Astrology, Basement, Candle, Clarity, Coincidence, Combination, Crazy, Dark Art, Dark Design, Death and Darkness, Deception, Demonic Tale, Design, Desire, Direction, Divination, Drunken Children, Equal Weight, Evil, False Track, Fate, Fear, Fire, Fools, Forecast, Forsaken, Friends, Gasoline, Grow, Harshness, High Priestess, Impulse, Investigate, Lack of Control, Magician's Bag, Must, No Turning Back, Painted Glory, Path Undone, Pity, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Prevail, Priestess, Reading, Readings, Risk, Rules, Runaway Train, Sincerity, Spirituality, Story, Sympathy, Taken, Tarot, Tarot Deck, Tear, Traces, Tricks, True, Trust, Wait, Wreck, Wrong Light, Zodiac | Leave a comment

In the Solitude of Darkness

Posted on October 18, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

In the Solitude of Darknessby Michael DoyleTo the degree that I do not fearI am powerful enough to persevereI say this with a heavy-hearted sighAs my soul fixes its intellectual eyeThe love and rage that exists inside meHave become the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Beast, Beginning, Bitter Instinct, Change, Consolation, Creativity, Darkness, Depravity, Design, Destination, Divine, Dreams, Ending, Explore, Extinct, Fallen Angel, Fear, Harshness, Heart, Heart of Desire, Howl, Intellectual Eye, Knees, Level, Lie, Life, Love, Love and Rage, Malignant Devil, Misery, Outstretch, Persevere, Philosophy, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Sigh, Snarl, Solititude, Solitude, Soul, Understand, Wickedness, Wild Seas and Regions, Work, World's Secrets, Wounded Hand | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: I Am All In A Sea of Wonders. I Doubt. I Fear. I Think Strange Things, Which I Dare Not Confess To My Own Soul

Posted on October 18, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt. I fear. I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul.” – Bram Stoker, “Dracula”

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Bram Stoker, Confess, Dare, Doubt, Dracula, Fear, I, Sea of Wonders, Soul, Strange Things, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

The Memory Is Bittersweet

Posted on October 17, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

The Memory Is Bittersweetby Michael DoyleI wish I could erase the darkness I have feltThat somehow, some way, I could escape the hand dealtAll the good and the bad that makes us who we areLeaves me wishing forlorn on that … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Apparitions, Bittersweet, Breaks Your Heart, Darkness, Dealt, Defeat, Echoes, Erase, Family, Fear, Felt, Ghosts, Good and the Bad, Life, Living Dead, Love, Memories, Memory, Past, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Reality, Sanity, Tears You Apart | Leave a comment

A Catch of Breath

Posted on October 8, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

A Catch of Breathby Michael DoyleLet’s admit that we’re born dyingIt’s time to stop our cryingLet these words be quietly spokenIt’s okay to be a little brokenWe’re connected by more than our headsWe have more meaning than our words saidIt … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged A Catch of Breath, Admit, Beaten Down, Blues, Breath, Breathe With Me, Broken, Bullet In the Gun, Connection, Crying, Dearm, Death, Deceive, Deeper, Distance, Done, Dying, Embrace, Every God, Fade Away, Fear, Gentle Nod, Gentle Squeeze, Gone, Goodbye, Hear, heartbeat, Kept, Last Breath, Meaning, My Turn To Die, Nightmare, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Post Apocalytpic, Promises, Punish, Sad Eyes, Say Goodbye, Sing, Spoken, Stream, Struggle, Swear, Tears, Time, Today, Wept, Wish, Words, Words of Love, Years | Leave a comment

Nuclear Winter Hues

Posted on October 7, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

To those who guessed, this Halloween’s poetry theme for me is the monster that lays within far too much of humanity. Nuclear Winter Huesby Michael DoyleNuclear WinterBegins to splinterWith daylight undefinedTricks begin to play on the mindAnother day off the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Air, Another Day, Anyone, Bad, Beginning, Blast, Board, Bored, Creep, Daylight, Decay, Defend, End, Ending, Fast Forward, Fear, Found, Halloween Theme, Hallucination, Hear, Hole, Hope, Hues, Humanity, Live, Mind, Monster, Morning Light, Nation, Never Too Late, Night, Nuclear Winter, Particles, Past, Patch It Up, Perpetual Darkness, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Praying To God, Radiation, Rain, Sad, Seep, Self-Afflicted, Slip, Splinter, Survivors, Today, Transmit and Send, Tricks, Underground, Undone, Uneasy Game, Wait, Whisper | Leave a comment

From the Mountains of Madness

Posted on October 2, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

From the Mountains of Madnessby Michael DoyleIt’s difficult to say which came firstWas it feelings of fear or bloody thirst That moves souls beyond the edges of sadnessPilloried by the blinding drive of madnessThe dreams of men are older than … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abysmal Gods, Ancient One, Blind, Bloody Thirst, Borders, Breath, Cthulhu, Dance, Dark Age, Darkers, Darkness, Death, Difficult, Dreams, Eclipse, Edge, Eternity, Fear, First, Humanity, Insanity, Light, Lose Our Way, Lost, Madness, Minds, Moon, Mountains of Madness, Night, Poetry and Poems, Prevail, Primeval Fear, Reality, Resistance, Sadness, Safety, Sensible, Shadows, Sleep, Soul, Sphinx, Subjugating and Overwhelming, Terrifying Vistas, Unceasing Chaos, Unknown Heaven, Urgency, Walls of Slumber, World's Fall | Leave a comment

Speaking In Tongues

Posted on September 23, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Speaking In Tonguesby Michael DoyleI’ve been speaking in tonguesSeems like ever since I was youngSaying things that make you thinkStraight up to the edge of a blinkThinking those things we shouldn’t sayThat’s how I roll in my day-to-dayIf you can … Continue reading →

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