Tag Archives: Hope

Beauty’s Brutality

Posted on December 8, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Beauty’s Brutalityby Michael DoyleIn the deeps of Finland’s heartThe land lies in its darknessBathed in the Northern LightFrom where whispers of hope startAgainst the chilling harshnessBelow winter’s frosted nightSummer has been quick and fleetingTo thrive here takes endurance and courageWorn … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alive, Ancient, Aurora Borealis, Beauty, Bleak Midwnter, Borne, Breeze, Brutality, Change, Chill, Comfort, Constant, Courage, Darkness, Deeps, Discourage, Down Under, Dreams, Endurance, Fatal, Finland, Fleeting, Fools, Forest, Free, Frost, Frozen In Time, Frozen Mouth, Gifts, Golden Eagle, Greeting, Grit, Harshness, Hope, Impatience, Infinity, Jeweled Crown, Land, Lapland, Legends, Life, Magical, Mesmerized, Midnight Sun, Moment To Spare, Myth, Myth of Fire Foxes, Never Know, Northern Light, Owl, Photograph, Pleasure, Poem, Poetry, Reindeer, Rule, Santa, Serenity, Shine, Stand To Know, Star-Filled Sky, Stillness, Struggle, Summer, Sunrise, Surprise, Survive, The Sun, Thrive, Tough Lessons, Trees, Warmth, Weeks On End, Weight In Gold, Whisper, Winter, Winter Snow, Wisdom | Leave a comment

NaNoWriMo Thoughts

Posted on November 14, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

NaNoWriMo Thoughtsby Michael DoyleSince the first cave paintingStories have been written and toldHere now in all of our waitingIs yet another story to be written and soldIt’s a path of thinking and imaginationIn a what if world of machinationAn another … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accountabiltiy, Acts, Apply, Arrive, Benefit, Best Choices, Best Friends, Brutality, Cave Painting, Conjugate, Connection, Courageously, Direction, Disappear, Distinction, Doom Scrolling, Dystopia, End, Explanation, Extinction, Fact, Fascination, Fear, Forage, Full, Future, Glory, Happiness, Heads, Hope, Illustration, Imagination, Indiscriminate, Inner Editors, Inner Peace, Let It Show, Life Moves On, Love, Machination, Meander, NaNoWriMo, Optimism, Path, Patterns, Pen, Pep, Photograph, Pieces of Shred, Plot Runs Thick, Poem, Poetry, Problematic, Push Ahead, Rage, Reach, Release, Respectability, Rolling, Sacred Flow, Sadness, Serenity, Set Out, Sold, Stop the Need, Stories, Story, Stroke, Taking the Time, Thinking, Thoughts, Time Confetti, Told, Trust, Turn of Page, Utopia, Voices, Wait, What If, Wonderful, World, Worry, Written | Leave a comment

Two of A Pair

Posted on November 8, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Two of A Pairby Michael DoyleThat life would change and I’d be blessedWas something, I’d never have guessedUntil that day you looked my lonely wayLeaving me breathless and hoping to sayThat there might come some magical dayWhen I knew that … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged A Pair, All Seasons, Beautiful Reasons, Beauty, Before the Fire, Blessed, Breathless, Caught Up, Change, Dare Say, Desire, Dismiss, Fall, God, Gratitude, Guess, Heart, Here To Stay, Hold You, Hope, Joy Fill, Keep Us, Knew, Leaves Fall, Life, Lonely Way, Long, Look, Love, Love Brings, Magical Day, Next Day, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Quietly Pray, Say, Sings, Song, Spring, Summer, Sweet Kiss, That Day, Thoughts of You, Truth, Two, Two of A Pair, When We're Apart, Winter, Wish, Words, You and Me | Leave a comment

The Death Head of Night

Posted on November 3, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

The Death Head of Nightby Michael DoyleThere in the darkest of the 20th CenturyWere pages to learn from in our historySuch evil as was darker than the nightWhere our traditions still bring us lightNo matter what the king tells usTruth … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 20th Century, Ability, Accident, Accusation, Adolph, All But Lost, All Peoples, Americans, Ancient Peoples, Apart, April Tenth, Arrive, Atmosphere, Atrocity, Auschwitz, Babies, Barren Fields, Believe, Betray, Bluffing, Buchenwald, Burn, Caged Ghetto, Captivity, Cattle Cars, Cleft, Communication, Cost, Crushed, Cry, Cup, Darkest, Daughters, Death Became the Mercy, Death Head, Deeds, Dehumanized, Demonized, Deportation, Desperation, Destination, Determination, Devil's Symphony, Doubt, Dread, Dying, Elders, Eternal, Eternity, Evil, Extermination, Face, Faith, Father, Fear, Few, Flames, Flick, Forced March, Forgotten, Germany, Ghost Train, God, God Be Willing, Going On, Goodness, Grapple, Graves, Grief, Grim Determination, Guide For the Perplexed, Hand, Happenstance, Haste, Hatred, History, Hitler, Hold On Tight, Hope, Huddle, Hunger, Incessant, Infernal, Jewish History, Kabbalah, King, Know, Learn, Left, Let This Be A Lesson, Light, Line, Literature, Live or Die, Living Skeletons, Loved, Madmen, Marginalized, Mengele, Mercilessly, Miracle, Mirror, Misery, Monsters, Mystic Union, Names, Necessary Lie, Night, No Coming Back, No End, Nothing, Optimism, Pages, Peace Alone, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Practice, Pray, Prophets, Prove Forgiving, Provident, Purpose, Question, Rage, Recall, Receptivity, Robbery, Rogues, Rule of Law, S;piritual, Sacred Ritual, Sake, Scarlet, Seek, Shame, Shed, Shrieking, Sighing, Slight, Slip, Snow, Sons, Soul, Spark, Suffering, Suffocating, Sunken Eyes, Survival, Survived, Surviving, Targets, Taste, Terror, Test, The End, The Jewish, The Jewish People, Track, Tradition, Transition, Transmission, Treasures, Truth, Ugliness, Unity, Water, Weisel, West, Whenever, Wherever, Wine, Wisdom, World, Worse, Worship, Yiddish | Leave a comment

I’ll Always Take Your Call

Posted on October 28, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

I’ll Always Take Your Callby Michael DoyleRipped apart deep inside my DNAFinding the scary part is the last biteWhen suddenly, I run short of what to sayAnd my wildest dreams hold me through the nightSomewhere in the geometry of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abstract, Always, Apprehensive, Beeline, Behind, Bitter Respite, Boundaries, Breath In, Breath Out, Bridge, Catch Your Fall, Chase, Condescension, Conviction, Dark Tendency, Despair, Desperate, Different Tempos, Direction, DNA, Do It AGain, Dread, Edges, Elasticity, Facts, Feeling, Finish Stong, Geomtry, Hands In Mine, Heat of It, Holding On, Hollow Comfort, Hope, Implore, Infinite, Jester, Jump, King, Less Than Clever, Letting Go, Live and Learn, Lives Lessons, Melts Away, Moments, My Love Runs Deep, Never Leave You, Nighttime, Offer, Photograph, Place, Plasticity, Poem, Poetry, Prevail, Rare, Refuse To Drown, Remember, Return, Ripped Apart, Run Short, Say, Scary Part, See Beyond, Shadows Creep In, Shriek, Silent, Silver Lining, Society, Song, Spin, Superficiality, Take Your Call, Terror, Through the Night, Unruly Mind, Waiting Out, Wildest Dreams, Worse, Wrap, Zig Zag | Leave a comment

First Principles: However Weak Our Country May Be, I Hope We Shall Never Sacrifice Our Liberties

Posted on October 9, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“However weak our country may be, I hope we shall never sacrifice our liberties.” -Alexander Hamilton (1790)

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Alexander Hamilton, Country, First Principles, Hope, Liberties, Never, Our, Sacrifice, Weak | Leave a comment

Climbing the Relationship Ladder

Posted on October 2, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Climbing the Relationship Ladderby Michael DoyleWe say hello to initiateHoping that we might appreciateEnough at this first impressionThat it might lead to accessionPressing on simply to exploreCrossing that boundary to something moreWe work at reducing the uncertaintyThough certainly there is … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accession, Amplify, Appreciate, Be Undone, Becoming One, Bend, Benefits, Bond, Book, Boundary, Certainly, Climbing, Coin, Common Goals, Concession, Correspondence, Cost, Cross, Cut Past, Dare, Each Other, Enough, Explore, Final, Find, First Impression, Grow, Hearts, Hope, In Common, Initiate, Integrate, Intensify, Into, Ladder, Lead, Leniency, Locks, Magic, Maturation, No Urgency, Our Love, Pages, Partnership, Photographs, Poem, Poetry, Poll, Pressing On, Relationship, Reliability, Respond, Say Hello, Something More, Stability, Stages, Subtle Move, Sucession, Survey, Together, Tossed, Treat, Turn, Uncertainty Events, Unmet Expectation, We, Wonder, Work | Leave a comment

Together We Will Stand

Posted on September 29, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Together We Will Standby Michael DoyleThere is now in this time of historyA grain going against the orthodoxyThat states that the power rests in populismDespite the modern move against nationalismToday, a certain set wishes our knees to bowAs if to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Best Days, Biblical, Bow, Bows, Broken Dreams, Business of Our Nation, Capacity, Carry On, Champion, City on the Hill, Conservative Court, Constitution, Country, Course, Courts, Critical, Crucial, Cut, Darkness, Deep State, Deluge, Democracy, Determine, Devotion, Display, Disservice, Each Day, Elit, Empowerment, Encroachment, Fail, Family Tree, Fight For, Force, Founders, Founding Principle, God and Family, God's Wisdom, Good, Government, Guiding Light, Harshness, Hesitation, History, Honor, Hope, Keep Freedom, Kept Liberty, Knees, Land of the Brave and Free, Legacy, Liberty, Limbs, Lost, Midstream, Mobocracy, Modern, Nationalism, Need, Offer, Orthodoxy, Our Land, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Populism, Power, Pray, Pretend, Principle, Question, Reason, Regulation, Republic, Rule of Law, Safe, Sense, Sheet-Anchor, Shines, Shoulder to Shoulder, Stand, Stand Strong, Stand Together, Stay, Staying Strong, Struggle, Symbol, The People, This Fight, Throngs, Together, Treasured Country, Turning Point, Understand, Unique, Values, Victory, Wonder Aloud, World | Leave a comment

First Principles: I Hope That We Shall Crush In Its Birth the Aristocracy of Our Monied Corporations Which Dare Already To Challenge Our Government To A Trial of Strength and Bid Defiance To the Laws of Our Country

Posted on September 17, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country.” – Thomas Jefferson

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Aristocracy, Bid Defiance, Birth, Challenge, Country, Crush, Dre, First Principles, Government, Hope, Laws, Monied Corporations, Thomas Jefferson, Trial of Strength | Leave a comment

Ghosts of A Daddy’s Duty

Posted on September 15, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Ghosts of A Daddy’s Dutyby Michael DoyleSpent the weekendHoping for the GodsendThat of finding a ghostOr, at least making the mostOf finding a haunted houseQuiet like a church mouseCreeping around a shadow’s homeWondering if we are aloneWe didn’t find any … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alone, Around, Believe, Church Mouse, Creeping, Dad, Daddy, Daddy Duty, Driving, Duty, Fear, Find, Fun, Gain, Ghost, Ghosts, Godsend, Haunted House, Home, Hope, Less, Making the Most, Miles, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Saw, Shadow, Smiles, Spirits, Weekend, Wonder, Young | Leave a comment