Tag Archives: Fears

Thought For the Day: Too Many of Us Are Not Living Our Dreams Because We Are Living Our Fears

Posted on November 13, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” — Les Brown

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In the End (We Die Alone)

Posted on July 1, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

In the End (We Die Alone)by Michael DoyleHarsh words are toldSometimes quietly, sometimes boldThere are a million ways to live your yearsBut it’s best when you free your fearsAnte up to stay in the gameWhatever happened or who is to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above Ground, Ante Up, Balk, Best Ability, Best Card, Better, Beyond Our Capability, Blame, Bluff, Bold, Breath, Chin Held High, Chin Up, Desolate Mile, End, Face, Fake, Fears, Forgiving, Found, Friend, Getting Yourself Together, Grace, Hard, Harsh Words, Head Above Water, Hurt, Impartiality, In the End, Joker's Bluff, Keep On Living, Life, Life Is Life, Live, Live Your Years, Living, Loneliness, Loud, Pass, Poetry and Poems, Proud, Push Comes To Shove, Quite Enough, Rusted Glass, Smile, Stability, Surprise, Talk Your Walk, Thanks, Told, Troubles, We Die Alone | Leave a comment

A New Horizon

Posted on February 8, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

A New Horizonby Michael DoyleOpen up your eyes and seeLook into the new horizonThe morning light brings possibilityShining on without corruptionThe purity of this new dayLies in your hands to be madeThe rain may fall along the wayBut don’t hide … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Afraid, Arc, Begin Again, Believe, Bound, Childhood, Compassion, Corruption, Darkness, Ears, Eyes, Fears, Forget, Future, Hand In Hand, Hands, Hate, Hide Away, Hoome, Keep, Known, Late, Leave, Light, Look, Love, Made, Morning Light, New Day, New Horizon, Northern, Ourselves, Past, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Purity, Rain, Run, See, Shadow, Shine, Stars, Today, Truth, Understand, Understood, Way, Whisper, Win, Woods | Leave a comment

Searching For Truth (On A Yellow Brick Road)

Posted on December 9, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Searching For Truth (On A Yellow Brick Road)by Michael DoyleSearchers after truth seek hidden meaningsOn whatever road traveled as human beingsThoughts and actions shape the emotionsStuffed within a wicker basket of devotionWhen looked at properly and with interpretationThere is so … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Concerns, Develop, Emotions, Encounter, Fears, Hidden Meanings, Interpretation, Lessons, Mood, Mystery, Poetry and Poems, Search, Self-Affliction, Self-Discovery, Soul, Thoughts and Actions, Truth, Wicker Basket, Yellow Brick Road | Leave a comment

Step Inside A Haunted Mansion

Posted on October 7, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Step Inside A Haunted Mansionby Michael DoyleWhat if death was not the endingBut instead, just a new beginning?What if the paranormal was realAnd not just something that we feel?Skepticism has its own kind of turningIn all walks of life, we … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged After Midnight, Answers, Bad Luck, Bad News, Beginning, Beyond, Blind, Conceal, Crystal Ball, Dark Spirits, Dead, Death, Devil, Discern, Disquieted Spirits, Ending, Fear, Fears, Feel, Fight, Final Play, Follow, Ghastly Sight, Ghosts, God, Good Intent, Grandeur, Grasp, Gravee, Haunted Mansion, Haunting, Hear, Hell Bent, Hollow, Inside, Lead, Learn, Life, Medium, Message, Mirror, Mortal Beings, Move On, Mysterious Ways, New, New Orleans, No Hope, Numbered Days, Our Ghosts, Paranormal, Personal Fiight, Pessimism, Play, Poetry and Poems, Point, Pray, Real, Return, Reveal, Save, Scare, Seance, Skepticism, Spiritualism, Step, Substantial, Succumb, Trap, Truth of Life, Turn, Voice, Walks, Wanting, Watched Steps, Whisper | Leave a comment

First Principles: As Parents, We Can Have No Joy, Knowing That This Government Is…Running the Next Generation Into Debt

Posted on August 26, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity: And by a plain method of argument, as we are running the next generation into … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Argument, Children, Common Sense (1776), Debt, Duty, Fears, First Principles, Government, Hand, Mean, Next Generation, Parents, Posterity, Prejudice, Running, Sights, Station, Thomas Paine, Work | Leave a comment

Dark Matters

Posted on September 5, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Dark Mattersby Michael DoyleYou were my bright tomorrowNow all I have is my sorrowAnd I’ve only myself to blamePlease don’t look at me in my shameFeelings bubbled up in troubleI opened my mouth, now its doubleI can barely see through … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anxiety and Doubt, Blame, Boxed Up, Brave Face, Bubbled, Collections, Confess, Creep, Dark Matters, Deep, Double, Dramatic, Fears, Feelings, Fight My Way, Fix, Heart, Imperfections, Lost, Mess, Mouth, My Friend, Myself, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Post-Traumatic, Pushed You Away, Quiet, See, Shame, Sorrow, Sorry, Spilled Out, Stay, Surface, Tears, Tidal Wave, Tomorrw, Trouble, Yesterday | Leave a comment

A Brodsky View of the Pandemic

Posted on January 16, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

A Brodsky View of the Pandemicby Michael DoyleShow trial advances without stayCharges pressed without any delayThe time arrives to dispense all playIn a fluke filled with fearsCame the nice as if to cheersThat would repeat themselves through yearsQuickly then comes … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Affect, Battlefields, Beliefs, Bliss, Brodsky, Broken Out, Cast, Charges, Cheers, Citizens, Clue, Conscience, Consequences, Crisis, Crowned Head, Crush, Curtains, Delay, Duty, Errors, Experts, Eyes, Fact, Fears, Flail, Flu, Fluke, Freedom, Freedom and Liberty, Full Sail, Happiness, History, Horizon, Ignorance, Inner Cells, Judgment, Known, Labs, Last Act, Liberty, Looking Back, Marble, Masst, Mean, My Life, Not Forget, Pandemic, Paradise, Past, Play, Poet, Poetry and Poems, Politician, Prescience, Present, Prevail, Pride, Pseudo-Science, Repeat, Revealed, Sad, Sails, Shots, Show Trial, State of Freedom, Step On, Tarnish, Time, Truth, Wishes, Years | Leave a comment

Building Up One Another

Posted on October 24, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Building Up One Anotherby Michael DoyleWe must always build up one anotherRecalling that each is either sister or brotherThose things we don’t understand comes down to fearBut holding each other up is to persevere Our own fears and doubts held … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abrasive, Brother, Build, Darkness, Doubts, Each Other Up, Embrace, Fear, Fears, Gentle, God, Grace, Harshness, Holding, Humble, Humility, Light, Limits, Love, Mistake, One Another, Our, Persevere, Poetry and Poems, Recall, Saved, Say, Sister, Truth, Understand, We, Wrap, Wrong | Leave a comment

First Principles: Men, To Act With Vigor and Effect, Must Have Time To Mature Measures…As To the Best Method of Applying Them

Posted on August 28, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“Men, to act with vigor and effect, must have time to mature measures, and judgment and experience, as to the best method of applying them. They must not be hurried on to their conclusions by the passions, or the fears … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Apply, Best Method, Conclusions, Deliberate, Effect, Experience, Fears, First Principles, Joseph Story, Judgment, Mankind, Mature Measures, Multitude, Passions, Resolve, Time, Vigor | Leave a comment