Tag Archives: Fire

Jeering At the Past

Posted on September 20, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Jeering At the Pastby Michael DoyleToo often, society burns with fireForgetting virtue for forms of desireProgression is found in cinders burningAll of the lessons, we keep relearningBrigands scoff at things of the pastLaughing at those things that didn’t lastAnd believing … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Acts of Cruelty, Answer, Attitude, Believe, Brigands, Brings, Brutality, Burning, Burns, Cancer, Cinders, Common Mistakes, Confuse, Consume, Desire, Discarded Hopes, Dreams, Fire, Flesh, Foot, Forget, Guess, Heart, Intensity, Inventory, Jeer, Last, Laugh, Lessons, Love, Measure, Mettle, Mistakes, Out of Control, Passion, Past, Pedal, Piasnissimo, Poetry and Poems, Presnt, Progression, Regrets, Relearning, Scary Thing, Sensitivity, Society, Soul, Strenght, Subterfuge, Superiority, Time, Virtue, Wonder, World, Youth | Leave a comment

A Child Never Walks Alone

Posted on August 25, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

A Child Never Walks Aloneby Michael DoyleOur sins will seek us outPutting holes in hearts to fill with doubtsIf evil wasn’t real, there’d be no need for GodThat’s a paradox that burns us, however oddThere in the ashes of a … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ashes, Blasphemy, Child, Christ's Child, Cry, Curses, Desires, Doubt, Dream, Evil, Fire, God, Hearts, Heaven, Holes, Hunger, Living Nightmare, Lust, Need, Odd, Paradox, Poetry and Poems, Prayers, Present, Real, Remnants, Seek, Shadows, Sins, Stake, Under, Walks Alone, World | Leave a comment

Love Lives On

Posted on July 11, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Love Lives Onby Michael DoyleDriving around the middle of the nationTrying to stimulate my daughters’ imaginationsAnd love for seeing the beauty of this nationLike their grandmother would have; if the situationHad somehow allowed this to followIf she had thrived; but … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Allow, Anniversary, Artist Eyes, Beauty of this Nation, Blossom, Bolder Dreams, Breath, Compromise, Daughters, Day, Death, Difference, Dreamer, Dreamt, Driving, Excited Eyes, Explore, Falling Tears, Fire, Follow, Food, Garden of Dreams, Grandmother, Happiness, Happy, Her, Home, Imagination, Inside of Me, Journey, Last Breaths, Lists, Lives On, Love, Love Lives On, Meant, Meet, Memories, Met, Middle of the Nation, Miss, More, Movies, Music, My Daughters, My Mom, Open, Pain, Paint, Places, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Rains, Regret, Remorse, Retrace the Steps, Reveal, Sad, See, Shadow, Situation, Sleep, Smile, Something More, Soul, Still, Stimulate, Surprise, Tears, Thrive, Tired, Traces, Two Hearts, Want, Watch, West Virginia, Whisper, Wish, World, Years Ago, Young Boy | Leave a comment

Beyond the Thunder Dome

Posted on May 25, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Beyond the Thunder Domeby Michael DoyleIt took a day to really sink inTo catch my peace and reach ZenA private dancer left the buildingTo rest in Heaven, if God be willingRock-n-roll has lost its acid queenThe hips that hollered a … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Acid Queen, All Night Long, Beyond, Building, Churning Waters, Day, Dust of History, Ear, Empress, Eternity, Excellence, Fire, Folktale, Giving, God Be Willing, Gone, Heaven, Her Call, High Voltage, Hips, Holler, Human Being, Human Expression, Iconic Star, Legacy, Lessons, Lived Long, Living, Love, Melodic Growl, Memories, Mountains High, Musical Treasure, Mystery, Mystique, No Victim, Note, Our Age, Peace, Personfiy, Poetry and Poems, Private Dancer, Pure Energy, Relevance, Rivers Deep, Rock-n-Roll, Scale, Silent Sigh, Sink In, Siren, Songs, Soul Survivor, Southern Kitchen, Speak Her Name, Stages, Strong, Tenderness, Thunder Dome, Tire, Too Soon, Tune, Vinyl, Will To Live, Woman Done Wrong, Zen | Leave a comment

First Principles: An Unarmed Man May Be Attacked With Greater Confidence Than An Armed Man

Posted on April 18, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Arbitary, Armed Person, Attacked, Better for Assailants, Burns, Carrying of Arms, Cesare Beccaria, Code, Crimes, Destruction, Disarm, Encourage, Fire, First Principles, Greater Confidence, Homocides, Idea of Utility, Inconvenience, Innocent Persons, Personal Liberty, Prevent, Real Advantage, Remedy For Evil, Sacred Laws of Humanity, Sacrifice, Thomas Jefferson, Unarmed Person, Vxations, Water Drowns, Worse For the Assaulted | Leave a comment

Seeing Light

Posted on March 20, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Seeing Lightby Michael DoyleLiving life, I learned to swimSeeing light through the dimTrying to learn the rules, then break themI couldn’t be someone else and fake themInto the battlefield of loveI breathe into the heavens aboveWalking barefoot through the fireHolding … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Barefoot, Battlefield, Break, Breathe, Desire, Dim, Drop, Endless Mile, Fast, Fire, Heavens, Light, Living Life, Loneliness, Love, Poetry and Poems, Rules, See, Stop, Swim, Trial, Walking Alone | Leave a comment

Muddle Through Hymn

Posted on January 23, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Muddle Through Hymnby Michael DoyleWe need Jesus, here and nowAs it is, as we muddle throughThe world might treat us foulWe’ll get through it me and youAllowing Christ to the magnifiedWe live our lives sanctifiedIn our hearts, lives our battle … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alar of Our Lives, Battle Cry, Digniy, Faith, Fire, Hym, Inspire, Jesus, Magnify, Muddle Through, Poetry and Poems, Sanctify, The World | 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

Jack Frost (On the Window Pane)

Posted on December 9, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Jack Frost (On the Window Pane)by Michael DoyleAnnually, we celebrate Groundhog’s DayHoping for winter’s passing and spring on the wayEvery year the reclusive groundhog and his shadowComes out to reveal which way it’s bound to goWith chestnuts roasting on that … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Between the Clouds, Blinding Blue, Calling Card, Cold, Conspire, Delight, Fire, Glow, Groundhog's Day, Hearts, Hide and Seek, Icy Traces, Jack Frost, Kittens, Linger, Memory, Mittens, Peeks, Poetry and Poems, Reveal, Revelry, Shadow, Shut Eye, Smiles, Smiles and Laugher, Snow, Snowman, Spring, Sun, Tales, Told, Warmth, Wave, Winter, Wistful Sigh, Woodland Creatures | Leave a comment

Kalavale

Posted on December 3, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Kalavaleby Michael Doyle In a Finnish woodWhere life is understoodTo be a magical thingThere were songs to singAnd laughter filled the airThe night washed away careAs we looked on the beautyThere amidst the trees A different music filled the airWith … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Arttist, Beat, Beauty, Care, Celebration, Colors, Dance, Dreams, Fascination, Finland, Finnish, Finnish Folk Art, Fire, Inspire, Kalavale, Laughter, Magical, Mead, Music, Night, Paint, Poetry and Poems, Pop, Romance, Satisfied, Sigh, Smoke, Songs, Stem van Helsinki, Strangers, Trance, Trees, Understood, Why, Wood | Leave a comment