Tag Archives: Gold

First Steps Into the Shatter Zone

Posted on March 21, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

First Steps Into the Shatter Zoneby Michael DoyleSometimes, I allow myself an inward journeyAs I seek to know what the past means to meToday, nestled in my roadside booth I find myself eating tacos as I seek out the truthWhat … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Cortez, Destruction, First Steps, God, Gold, History, Inward Journey, Legacy, Mexico, Poetry and Poems, Roadside Booth, Shatter Zone, Spain, Tacos, The Past, Travel, Truth, Two Paths of Madness, Writing | Leave a comment

Life Under the Black Sail

Posted on June 12, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Life Under the Black Sailby Michael DoyleUnder the black sailIt’s hard to trustBut if you’re to surviveYou find you really mustIn this world There is always doubtBut it’s never acknowledgedOr often talked aboutThis is a placeWhere among the plans conceivedAnd … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Acknowledged, Another, Black Sail, Certainty, Conceived, Conspiracy, Dance, Doubt, Exciting, Find, Gold, Half-Believed, Hard, Inviting, Lifee, Must, One Chance In Three, Pirate, Place, Plans, Poetry and Poems, Pursuit, Survive, Tales, Talked About, Told, Trust, Truth, Urgency, World | Leave a comment

Cheap Candles Finding Gold

Posted on June 8, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Cheap Candles Finding Goldby Michael DoyleAsk any Rabbi, and you’re sure to findA story or two to give sight to the blindIt’s a whispered rumor illustrating the taleOf how those with pride are sure to fallEven cheap candles can illuminate … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Absence, Alone, Bad Mood, Blind, Cheap Candles, Creation, Dream, Eyes, Fact Pattern, Fall, Find, Find the Point, God, Gold, Hear, Hope, Humanity, Illuminate, Illustrate, Illustrating, Incomprehensible, Intrude, Lessons, Mind's Window, Moments, Mystery, Never Comprehending, Never Know, No Friend, Nothing, Orchestrate, Ordinary Stone, Path, Poetry and Poems, Presence, Present, Pride, Rabbi, Receive, Resent, Rumor, Sages, See, Sight, Solid Rock, Something, Stories, Tablets, Truths, Universe, Unnatural Fact, Vague Talk, Wind, Words | Leave a comment

The Secret Woes of Regret

Posted on May 17, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

The Secret Woes of Regretby Michael DoyleKept silence about better daysAre still remembered for the better waysWe once so happily lived inBefore the days of blood and drunken sinsWe clean the ship’s hull on the beachTo gain that extra knot … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Attention, Beach, Better Days, Better Way, Better Ways, Blind, Blood, Breach, Dead Men, Died, Dread, Dreams, Drunken Sins, Fair Weather, Faith, False Promises, Forget, Friends, Gamble, Gold, Happy, Honor, Integrity, Intention, Knot, Legendary, Lied, Life, Loss, Men, Misdeed, Mystic Power, November's Rain, Pain, Pirate, Pirates, Plunder, Poetry and Poems, Prevails, Ramble, Regret, Remember, Require, Secret, Ship's Hull, Silence, Strong Wind, Suffering, Tales, Tears, Truth, Woe, Yesterday | Leave a comment

The Blessing of the Monarch Butterfly Journey

Posted on February 24, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

The Blessing of the Monarch Butterfly Journeyby Michael DoyleLong may it be that we keep this blessed memoryof what it means to take a 3000 mile journeyFrom Canada to the Oyamel forests in the Mexican nationReminding us that borders are … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All Nations, Beauty, Birth, Blessing, Borders, Canada, Celebration, Celestial Cues, Creation, Cry, Cycle of Life, Domain, Explanation, Faith, Flight, Future, Generation, God's Confetti, Gold, Hint, Jouney, Light, Love, Man's Habitation, Memory, Messengers, Metamorphosis, Mexican Nation, Monarch Butterfly, Mountain Views, Mystery, Nation To Nation, Nature, Nature's Pages, Nurtures, Orientation, Overwintering, Oyamel Forests, Paths, Perception, Phases, Poetry and Poems, Polarized Light, Pollination, Sun's Compass, Tansformation, Winds | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Genius Is the Gold In the Mine, Talent Is the Miner Who Works and Brings It Out

Posted on September 1, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and brings it out.” -Marguerite Gardiner, writer (1 Sep 1789-1849)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Brings It Out, Genius, Gold, Marguerite Gardiner, Miine, Miner, Talent, Thought For the Day, Work | Leave a comment

Always Time For A Story

Posted on December 9, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Always Time For A Storyby Michael DoyleQuietly sitting on the pewThere in one sense, familyWearing our brother’s coatAnd in this, draped in povertyKeeping warm on Christmas nightAll for the sake of spirits brightKept a flicker in swaddling clothesAs only as … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Child, Child's Heart, Christmas Day, Christmas Night, Coat, Comfort, Compare, Distances, Doll, Dream, Dull Surprise, Empathy, Excite, Eyes, Family, Glory, Gold, Heart, Hole, Home, Hurt, Joyful, Kings, Know, Lonely Heart, Love, Love's Story, Loving Heart, Miss, Paupers, Pew, Place, Poetry and Poems, Poverty, Saddened Eyes, Second Hand Embarrassment, Secret, Seem, Sentiment, Shadow, Share, Sit, Soul, Spirits Bright, Story, Surprise, Swaddling Clothes, Sympathy, Time, Too Young, Unafraid, Voice, Warm, Window, Wishes | Leave a comment

A Tale of Two Kings

Posted on December 5, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

A Tale of Two Kingsby Michael DoyleWatching as our days unfoldInto the stories yet untoldLife is a gift for us to liveIn taking less than we have to giveLet’s not let the Grinch steal ChristmasNo snarling sneer will stop this … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anger, Baby, Best, Cheer, Christmas, Christmas Story, Confess, Death, Deception, Egypt, Evil, Fail, Fate, Fear, Forfeit, Gift, Gift of Gab, Give, Glory, God, Gold, Grinch, Hatred, Herod the Great, History, Impression, Insecurity, Joy, King of the Jews, Kingdom, Kings, Life, Live, Mary, Mass, Mirage, Myrrh, narcissistic, Nothing, Obsession, Poetry and Poems, Posession, Power, Preoccupation, Prestige, Prevail, Pride, Riches, Rule, Salvation, Savior, Separation, Serve, Sigh, Sin, Sneer, Soul, Strife, Surrender, Taking Less, Tale, Test, The Magi, Two, Tyranny, Unfold, Untold, Violence, Watch, Ways | Leave a comment

She Says…

Posted on December 1, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

She Says…by Michael DoyleAll the ugly truthsThat have tried to push her backHave tripped her up, since her youthUntil grace gave her all she might lackThoughts of how abundance increasesGave her the hope to move on pastIn her story filled … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abudance, Admit, Back, Bad Choices, Brave, Broken Pieces, Claim, Confusion, Control, Faith, Glory, God, Gold, Good Man, Grace, Heart, Hell, Her Love, Honest Soul, Hope, Illusion, Life, Lights Up, Love, Need, Pain, Past, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Push, Rain, Sad, Scar, She Says, Shine, Smile, Sometimes, Soul, Stars, Still Small Voice, Story, Tale, Tears, Tell, Trick, Tripped, Trust, Ugly Truths, Unafraid, Victory, Voices, Walked, Youth | Leave a comment

To Find A Friend

Posted on July 28, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

The world is a sometimes scary place, particularly when it comes to the heart, isn’t it? To Find A Friend by Michael Doyle To find a friend In this friendless world Toward this end I lay fetal and curled Is … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alone, Another, Back Against the Wall, Bath, Beat, Being Alone, Curl, Darkness, Depend, Dream, Each Other, Fetal, Find, Fist, Friend, Friendless, Gold, Guide, Harshness, Heart, Home, I, Light, Magic of Trust, Must, Myself, Never Again, Night, One Heart, One Soul, One Thing, Other, Our, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Precious, Purity, Scary Place, Share, Stay Alive, Survive, Together, Too Much, Toward This End, Truest End, Uncurled, Willing, World, Worth | Leave a comment