Tag Archives: Identity

The Rise of Cthulhu’s Kingdom

Posted on October 3, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

The Rise of Cthulhu’s Kingdomby Michael DoyleI.The world around us is in crisis.Yet it is just as it finds us. Those we call friends try to advise usAbout all the badness they think we need because..Things couldn’t be bad enoughAs … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged After Afction, Aloe, Aucton, Badness, Crisis, Cthulhu, Emergecy, Faith, Friends, Home, Horror, Identity, Kingdom, lovecraft, Poetry and Poems, Priority, Rise, Surviivor, World | Leave a comment

What Comes Next?

Posted on June 19, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

What Comes Next?by Michael DoyleDay after day, dot after dotOne way or another, it connectsTaking chances and casting lotsAs we wonder about what comes next.The mullahs act with intimidation,But they aren’t the heart of the nation.And we must never forget … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Aspiration, Belief, Blood Price, Chance, Change, Clarion, Conention, Connect, Contrartian, Culture, Day, Death, Discconnection, Dot, Farsi, Final Hour, God's Mercy, Grief, Heart, Hope, Human Rights, Identity, Intervention, Intimidation, Iran, Iranian People, Khamenei, Lot, Martyrdom, Mullah, Nation, Nations, Next, Opposition, Poetry and Poem, Repression, Repressive Regime, Rubaiyat, Slogans, Society, Staying Power, Tabrizi, Tehran, Trust, Truth | Leave a comment

In Full Identity

Posted on June 12, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

In Full Identityby Michael DoyleSee your pathAnd stay your course.Let’s do the math,And you’ll find the resource.Let no one get between happinessOr caring for your own needs.These images bring life’s bliss.It allows your soul to be freed.It’s a part of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bliss, Care, Choice, Course, Fate, Full, Happiness, Identity, Image, Integrity, Math, Need, Path, Poetry and Poems, Process, Progress, Self, Shadow, Soul, Steps, Talk, True, Uncomplicated, Who, World | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: From the Equality of Rights Springs Identity of Our Highest Interests; You Cannot Subvert Your Neighbor’s Rights Without Striking A Dangerous Blow At Your Own

Posted on March 8, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor’s rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.” – Carl Schurz

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Carl Schurz, Dangerous Blow, Equality of Rights, Highest Interests, Identity, Neighbor's Rights, Subvert, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

Sufficiency

Posted on January 5, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Sufficiencyby Michael DoyleGod’s grace is filled with sufficiencyIt eases us from lives of deficiencyWe walk this world, but not aloneStep by step, we come to atoneWithin God’s sacred familyWe learn God’s word is not a homilyBut a walk we live … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anchor, Atone, Believer, Bible, Blind, Book of Romans, Centrality, Christ, Christianity, Community, Courageous Question, Deficiency, Faith, Follow, God, God's Grace, Good News, Homily, Humility, Identity, Jesus, Life Claiming, Paul, Poetry and Poems, Purpose, Right, Sacred Family, Servant, Sight, Sinner, Sufficiency, Walk, Wrong Road | Leave a comment

Wondering About My Errors

Posted on November 7, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Wondering About My Errorsby Michael DoyleI have been looking in the mirrorRevisiting all my errorsI have been thinking about the pastAll the beliefs that didn’t lastThe Devil visits my mindShowing ruins that I left behindBurning bridges to yesterdayIt seems so … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Babylon, Belief, Belligerent Youth, Burning Bridges, Castaway, Devil, Different Light, Done, Dreaming, Drift Away, Emotional Targets, Error, Errors, Fortune, Frontiers, Identity, LandMines, Living Life, Long Way, Lost Child, Love, Me, Memory, Mirror, Moments, Music, No Man's Land, Ocean Away, Past, Poems, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Punchline, Ramble On, Ruins, Sheltering Sky, Sleep, Species, Tears, Truth, Weep, Why, Wonder, Writing, Yesterday | Leave a comment

Cats, Dogs, and Pizza

Posted on September 14, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Cats, Dogs, and Pizzaby Michael DoyleThere’s a storm brewing between right and wrongAnd where it is that we are best and truly belongMoreso, we struggle to know ourselves in identityAnd what furry and non-furry friends to keep as our familyPeople … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alley Rats, Angels, Animals, Beauty, Belong, Better, Better People, Blind Man, Care, Cat, Cats, Celebration, Change, Compassion, Dare, Deserve, Dogs, Familial Relationship, Family, Fellow Animals, Furry Friends, Gentleman, God, Grateful and Loyal, Greedy, Happy, Headfirst, Heaven Above, Human, Identity, Inferior Creatures, Kitten, Leash, Linger, Live Up To, Lonelines, Love, Loved, Masterpiece, Me and You, Meander, Nappy, Needy, Obligation, Observation, Offer, Other, Outward Sense, Pastiche, Pets, Petting, Pizza, Poetry and Poems, Pretense, Question, Reeling, Rhyme, Right and Wrong, Sense of Space, Simplest Moments, Sleepy, Slice, Standards, Storm, Tense, Thought and Feeling, Time, Twain, Unconditional Love, Undying Affection, Unrestrained, Watch, Weather, Whatever, Whole of Nature, Words, Worship | Leave a comment

Against All Hope

Posted on February 23, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Against All Hopeby Michael DoyleAll alone, by myselfI searched on the shelfFor the words to knowJust how I might growTo start over in this testTo come through with the restIn a crash of my identityI lived my life renewing sincerityThere … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Against, Alone, Attention, Burn, Come Through, Conspire, Corrupt, Crash, Crowd, Fake, Fire, Fools, Grow, Hope, Humanity, Humility, Identity, Know, Lie, Look Down, Lost, Madness, Mean, Meek, Mercy, Outcasts, Poetry and Poems, Pretension, Search, Self, Shelf, Sincerity, Test, Truth, Unaware, Vanity, Weakest Length, Weakness, Words | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: This Is the Secret of Life: the Self Lives Only By Dying, Finds Its Identity (and Its Happiness) Only By Self-Forgetfulness, Self-Giving, Self-Sacrifice, and Agape Love

Posted on January 7, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love.” – Peter Kreeft

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Agape Love, Dying, Find, Happiness, Identity, Live, Peter Kreeft, Secret of Life, Self-Forgetfulness, Self-Giving, Self-Sacrifice, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

Searching For Signals

Posted on October 14, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Searching For Signalsby Michael DoyleTrying to save our soulsIn the messes we makeSpinning out of controlThough all of our mistakesPressing out from the undergroundTo be just who it is that we areA part of all that we have foundIn the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Better Living, Blind, Bluff, Caught, Chemicals, Circle, Class, Clever Thought, Dadaism, Despair, Destination, Devil, Dialog, Enough, Far, Feeling, Fog, Found, Hint, History, Identity, Life, Lyrical, Make, Meaning, Mess, Mind, Mistake, Mystery, Observation, Obsolescence, Optimism, Out of Control, Painting, Path, Poetry and Poems, Position, Possibility, Preconception, Reality, Saint, Save, Search, Self-Deception, Signals, Souls, Underground | Leave a comment