Tag Archives: Fly

The Footprints In My Soul

Posted on December 26, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

The Footprints In My Soulby Michael DoyleLove is not a monologue,Talking to myself gets me nowhere.Let’s get on with the dialogue,Moving beyond where I simply persevere.Under my empire of ashesLives a garden from my heart.Despite the doom of thrashes,This is … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Beginning, Betrayal, Beyond, Dialogue, Dream, Empire of Ashes, Empty Burn, End, Endless Torment, Fly, Footprints, Friend, Garden, Give and Take, Gone, Grave, Heart, Long-Distance Runaround, Love, Many Voices, Memory, Monolgue, Nowhere, Perfect Moment, Poetry and Poems, Rubicon, Snow, Solitary, Soul, Talking To Myself, Wings, Winter | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: The Bad News Is Time Flies. The Good News Is You’re the Pilot.

Posted on June 5, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” —Michael Altshuler

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Outbursts of Truth

Posted on September 7, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Outbursts of Truthby Michael DoyleAll my repeated outbursts of truthHave gotten me in trouble since my youthFor you see, truth can destroy the worldsEven the worlds ruled by fallen godsWho each have sought, by meteors hurled, To increase their own … Continue reading →

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Love Is Never So Blind

Posted on July 24, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Love Is Never So Blindby Michael DoyleA good conversation Might lead to devastationIf you don’t play it rightYou can lose love in one nightBoy, what are you trying to proveBy making every wrong moveIt’s not like you don’t knowWhat comes … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All Away, Art, Best Play, Books, Candid Expression, Charm, Conversation, Crossed, Devastation, Fatal Line, Flow, Fly, Flying Too Close, Follow, Godsend, Good Days, Good Impression, Harm, Hurts the Most, Ignore, Know, Little Conversation, Little Drinking, Lived, Lose Love, Love, Might Have Been, Million Ways, Never So Blind, One Night, Play It Right, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Pride, Prove, Shine, Sun, Thinking, Thrown, Undone, Unkind, Waxen Wings, Writing, Wrong Move | Leave a comment

In Pursuit of Great Expectations

Posted on May 9, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

In Pursuit of Great Expectationsby Michael DoyleI love the way you love meThe way that it makes me feelIt helps me find the abilityTo make it through and keep things realShining like a beacon of lightIt’s you that gets me … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ability, Bare, Beacon, Best, Devotion, Done, Dreams, Emotions, End, Explain, Feel, Fell Apart, Fly, Flying, Forever, Great Expectations, Head, Heartbroken, Hearts, Keep, Key, Landimines, Lost, Love, Love You, Meaning, Memories, Miracle, My Friend, My Love, Night, Paper Cuts, Poem, Poet, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Promises, Pursuit, Real, Recall, Share, Somehow, Someone, Soul, Stop, Struggle, Tears, The one, Too Close To the Sun, Truth, Undoing, Unsaid, Vain, Weep, Why, Wings, Words, Writing | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: The Higher We Soar the Smaller We Appear To Those Who Cannot Fly

Posted on October 15, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.” – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, philosopher (15 Oct 1844-1900)

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What Used To Be

Posted on September 21, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

What Used To Beby Michael DoyleI remember when I showed my daughterWhat it was that used to once beShared like a loving fatherIn the twenty-second centuryWe dominated with technologyForgetting the natural carrying capacityAnd reframed the world in uglinessTo which her … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 22nd Century, Before, Best, Blaze of Glory, Candid Answers, Carrying Capacity, Certaianty, Children, Cling, Daughter, Deja Vu, Deominate, Die, Do, Dues, Ecology, Ending, Evidence, Father, Fight, Fix, Fly, Forget, Generation, Grasp, Heaven, Human Race, Ingenuity, Legacy, Life, Living Witness, Mission, Overome, Paradox, Plan B, Poetry and Poems, Poor, Pray, Pretend, Prospect, Reframe, Remember, Restore, Stories, Symptoms, Technology, Toxicity, Twenty-Second Century, Ugligness, Urgency, Version, Victory, What Used To BE, Wicked Pace, Win, Wings, World, Write | Leave a comment

A Sunrise Journey

Posted on June 24, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

A Sunrise Journeyby Michael DoyleClouds hang high in the morning skyAs if painted for the poet’s eyeThere’s a journey undertaken by the heartWhere the holiest of holy finds its startLike a seagull traveling light on its journeyA soul travels reaching … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged A Few More Smiles, Accept, Clouds, Constant Flow, Destiny, Dreams, Farther, Faster, Fly, Forgiven, Greater, Heart, Holiest of Holy, How High, Journey, Learn to See, Limits, Morning Sky, Painted, Poet's Eye, Poetry and Poems, Seagull, Soar, Spread Your Wings, Sunrise, Taken Wings, Travel, Try, Why Can't I?, Worry | Leave a comment

Wonderous Sea’s Night Dive

Posted on May 8, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Wonderous Sea’s Night Diveby Michael DoyleAt the end of the day comes the night diveTo find that at the bottom, it’s the tinyThat somehow manages to keep us all aliveThe millions of phytoplankton are lights, however tinyEvery other breath that … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alive, Basket Stars, Bends, Bottom, Breath, Carbon Dioxide, Chance Encounter, Chancy Balance, Colors, Comb Jellies, Constellations, Darkness, Decompress, Delicate, Depths, Down Side Up, Embrace, Enigmatic, Fly, Gift of Life, Health, Impression, Inner Space, Law, Ledge, Lessons, Millions of Species, Moon, Moonlight, Nature's Balance, Night, Night Dive, Ocean's Edge, Ocean's Floor, Oxygen, Phytoplankton, Poetry and Poems, Recall, Reefs, Sea Shore, Sea Turtles, Shine, Teach, Tiny, Tug-A-War, Vibrant, Zooplankton | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Butterflies Are Like Women – We May Look Pretty and Delicate, But, Baby, We Can Fly Through A Hurricane

Posted on January 2, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Butterflies are like women — we may look pretty and delicate, but baby, we can fly through a hurricane.” – Betty White May she rest in peace.

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