Tag Archives: Illusion

Na/GloPoWriMo #11: Letters From Father To Daughter

Posted on April 11, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Na/GloPoWriMo #11: Letters From Father To Daughterby Michael DoyleDearest Daughter,I didn’t know I would be a fatherWhen I took the chances that I didAnd I’ve always tried to keep it hidI see your eyes of confusionBetween truth and illusionAnd, yes, … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All of the Stories, Always Near, Called, Chances, Chemical Exposure, Composure, Confusion, Covid Shot, Dad, Daddy, Dare Show, Daughter, Do, Every Day, Every Way, Eyes, Family, Father, Feel Less, Fooling, Hardly Wait, Hero, Hid, Hold Your Hand, I Love You, I've Heard of You, Illusion, Immunity, In My Heart, Lay Awake, Less To Fear, Less to Revere, Letters, Listen, Love, Make Me Laugh, May Not Say, Na/GloPoWriMo, Need to Know, Not Easily Forgot, Not Hid, Not There, One Day, Out of Control, Pardon, Play Guitar, Poetry and Poems, Proud, Proud of all, Say It, Scared Me, Sorry, Star, Stay Alive, Survive, The Best of You, Times, Times Like These, To Be Your Father, Truth, Understand, Until Then, Want Your World, Wipe OUt, You, You Are My Hero, You Touch My Soul, Youngest Daughter, Your Daughter, Zero | Leave a comment

Na/GloPoWriMo Day 1: Distorted Images

Posted on April 2, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Na/GloPoWriMo* Day 1: Distorted Imagesby Michael DoyleI’ve learned in lifeTo keep each distortionThat brings me strifeIn their due proportionSeeing as clear as possibleDoing what I can to be capableTo do away with what’s improbableAnd live my best life as inescapableLooking … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All Things Shall Pass, Always Are, Best Life, Blue, Capable, Certain, Deceived, Dim, Distorted, Distorted Image, Due Proportion, Glass, Illusion, Improbable, Learn, Living Life, Mirror, My Best, Na/GloPoWriMo, Poetry and Poems, Possible, Recall, Rise or Fall, Seeing Clear, Shade, Since Youth, Sky, Stare, Stars, Strife, Sun, Test, Truth, View | Leave a comment

Knowing of the Why

Posted on October 15, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Knowing of the Whyby Michael DoyleI believe I know the whyOf why a weeping willow criesWhen there was no time for goodbyeAnd that’s the case for each of us who diesEven in the best case of stabilityThere lies the uncanny … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accept, Air, Ambiguity, Believe, Best, Best Case, Beverage, Case, Caught, Chill, Choice, Choose, Clue, Cold, Country, Cry, Death, Defusion, Dies, Drink, Ease, End, Flourish, Gather Around, Ghost, Ghost Stories, Give Time, Glory, Good, Goodbye, Hesitation, Hide, Home, Illuminate, Illusion, Imagination, Imperfection, Inner, Just Beyond the Bend, Knowing, Live, Love, Most, Mystery, Night, No Time, One, One More Story, People Die, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Probability, Question, Reach, Risk of Losing, Run On, Serves, Situation, Some, Spurt, Stability, Storied Voice, Superstition, Tales, Think, Tragic, Truth, Two, Uncanny, Warm the Heart, Weeping Willow, Why, Wonder, Worth While | Leave a comment

Winchester I. The Arrival

Posted on July 31, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

There is a famous house in California built the widow of the same Winchester who invented the famous rifle of the same name. Winchester I. The Arrival by Michael Doyle The bell tolls in the dark of night While the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Always, Arrival, Awakes, Bell, Blood, Blow, Build, California, Cause, Chaos, Cheer, Confusion, Control, Creak and Groan, Cycles, Dark of Night, Death, Desperation, Doctor, Doubt, Drapes, Drip, Endless, Endless Rooms, Escape, Expansion, Falls Into Place, Fear, Fire, Fools, Gloom, Grief, Haunted, Hope, Horror, House, Hundred Rooms, Husband, Illusion, Journey, Last Breath, Life, Man, Mansion, Medium, Mind, Mirror, Mother, Move Past, Nearer, Need, Pain, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pointless, Reaches Out, Recall, Reclusive, Regain, Relief, Repeating, Respect, Reveal, Rifle, Rules, Self-Inflicted, Shadow, Son, Soul, Spiritualist, Stagger, Stairs, Suffer, Survey, Take Back Control, Tempest, Time, Tire, Tolls, Too Great A Price, Wall, Whisper, Widow, Winchester, Wind, Window, Wish, Wounded Heart | Leave a comment

In Our Persistence

Posted on July 20, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

A fascinating presentation on cognition and how we’re all allegedly living in some sort of a shared hallucination that we call reality, led to this… In Our Persistence by Michael Doyle As I sit there listening My neurons sparkling and … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Absent, Actual, Agreed On, Apart, Best Estimation, Best Guess, Body, Brink, Certain, Cognition, Comes Down, Consequence, Controlled, Deception, Deep Immersion, Delusion, Different Version, Doubt, End Comes, Existence, Expectation, Experience, Fade, Fear, Feely, Filter, Fire, Followed Through, Fragile Construction, Fully Alive, Generation, Glisten, Guesstimation, Heart, Hurt, Illusion, In and Out, Information, Inside, Inspiration, Interoception, Interpretation, Joy, Less, Listen, Mental, Mind, Mutual Destruction, Neurons, Nothing, Nothing More, Nuts and Bolts, Oneness, Outside, Path, Perception, Persistence, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Predict, Real, Reality, Reception, Regulation, Reined, Sensory Impulse, Sequence, Shared Hallucination, Signal, Signals, Sparkle, Staying Alive, Subject, Survive, Synapses, Think, Touchy, Transformation, True Life, Two Way Flow, Uncontrolled, Unified, Variables, Virtual Reality, Who Am I | Leave a comment

Flaws of My Heart

Posted on July 1, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Sat in on an early morning sermon today. While listening in, this came to mind… Flaws of My Heart by Michael Doyle My flaws of the heart Directed by sin from the start My eyes closed to Godly fear I … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adam, Believe, Born Again, Call, Child, Choice, Cling, Days, Deep, Defense, Delusion, Desperate, Disappear, Doubt, Dream, Drink, Dying, Empty, Eyes Closed, Fall, Fated, Fear, Fidelity, Flaw, Forget, Fountain, Give, God, Hated, Heart, Illusion, Judgment, Know, Life, Live, Lord, Lot, Loved, Mercy, Mouth, Need, Needs, Now and Then, Part, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pretense, Prostrate, Recieve, Refuge, Self, Sermon, Shadow, Show, Sin, Sins, Start, Strife, Sustain, Time and Again, True, Truth, Verity, Victim, Wages of Sin, Weep, Wicked Ways | 1 Comment

Hearing That Still Small Voice

Posted on June 22, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on 2 Samuel 7:18-19: Hearing That Still Small Voice by Michael Doyle First and foremost in questions of worship Is the supreme importance of your relationship To God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit It … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2 Samuel, All, Allow, Broken, Call, Careless, Circumstance, Clean Heart, Complexity, Contrive, Course, Daily Time, David, Day and Time, Decision, Determine, Devotion, Distinguish, Easy, Eternal Peace, Excuse, Fear It, Forgiven, God, God and Man, God's Word, He, Hear, Holy Communion, Holy Spirit, Illusion, Intentional, Listen, Lord, Love Unconditionally, Make Space, Meditate, Moving Beyond, Mutual, Neglect, Obey, Photograph, Pleasing, Poem, Poetry, Priority, Quiet Time, Quietude, Relationship, Respect, Scripture, Seclusion, Set, Set Aside, Simple, Solace, Son, Source, Speak to Heart, Spend Time, Spoken, Start, Still Small Voice, Strive, Supplication, Talk, The Father, True, Truly Living, Union, Value, We, Willingness, Worship | Leave a comment

The Journey Back

Posted on June 2, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Things of memory have the worth of time revealed in the quiet moments of our hearts. The Journey Back by Michael Doyle Somewhere in a cup of coffee Is the reflection that is memory Somehow a photograph starts to show … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Back, Broken, Burdens, Childhood, Children, Coffee, Confusion, Cruel, Crush, Dance, Disappointments, Every Day, Fanciful Hopes, Fantastic Schemes, Find, Firm, Forgot, Given, Graveyard, Half Measure, Hearts, Hope, Humility, Idleness, Illusion, Journey, Kin Is Kin, Know, Left Behind, Lies, Little Things, Living Dreams, Love, Memory, Mind, Open, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Practical, Pretend, Prove, Quiet Moments, Reflection, Remind, Reveal, Show, Skin, Spoken, Strong, Times, Treasure, Trouble, True Love, Truer Words, Truth, Utility, Warm, Wishing It So, Words, Worth, Yesterday, Youth | Leave a comment

In A Place of Longing

Posted on May 21, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on Augustine’s Enchiridion: In A Place of Longing by Michael Doyle I suppose there’s no sense in prolonging Stating that the gist of life is belonging The rumor has it that its in what we love And … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, Abudance, Ad Men, Attitude, Awe, Bad, Battle, Belong, Bible, Bittersweet, Blind, Bonfire, Breath, Christ, Cliimb, Confusion, Connection, Crave, Dangle, Daughter, Days, Death, Dedication, Deep, Deeper Relationship, Derision, Desire, Determine, Distraction, Divinity, Do, Do Right, Double Vision, Dust, Earth, Echo, Enchiridion, Entangle, Eyes, False, Father, Feel, Fight, Fire, Forgive, Fulfillment, Fumbles, Generosity, Gift, Gist, God, God's Word, Good, Grain of Salt, Gratitude, Heart, Heaven, Heavy, His Will, Hope, Illusion, Immediacy, Integrity, Intervention, Intrude, Joy, Know, Laugh, Learn, Lesser Things, Life, Light, Listen, Live, Lives, Longing, Lose Our Way, Love, Madison, Meaning, Meant, Mere Christianity, Mindful, Mood, Parents, Permanent Vacation, Photograph, Place, Pleasure, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Precious, Prolong, Promise, Promises, Reflection, Rest, Rumor, Rut, Satisfaction, Self, Self Focus, Selfish, Sense, Shape, Shelf, Sight, Slight, Son, Soul, Spark, St Augustine, Storm Chase, Stumble, Subconcious, Suffer, Surround, Taste, Teach, Test, Tools, Transfix, Treasure, Truth, Understood, Vanity, Verbosity, Ways, Weary, Yoke, You | Leave a comment

Finding the Good

Posted on May 5, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

I had a discussion with someone many years ago about why I wanted two princesses to be familiar with the literary classics from which there were derived the 5′ Shelf of Books aka Harvard Classics. After all, the contention was, … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Able, Applcable, Artistically, Assertation, Being, Best, Book, Can, Capable, Certainty, Choice, Choose, Churchill, Commotion, Confusion, Consistentcy, Contention, Creation, Culture, Daily Smoke, Depiction, Discern, Discussion, Do, Education Draw, Emotion, Experience, Exposure, Extent, Fiction, Find, Five Foot Shelf of Books, Forgot, Friction, Future, Glory, Good, Harvard Classics, Heard, Hesitation, Historicity, Human Beings, Human Soul, Humans, Illusion, Imagination, Imminent, Implicit, Investigation, Learn, Lfie, Literary, Literary Classics, Man, Meaning, Much, Mystery, Need, Neglect, Nuance, Obscure, Observation, Out, Perception, Photograph, Plays, Poem, Poetry, Pretenses, Principles, Question, Reading, Reason, Remember, Resolution, Right and Wrong, Rise, Role, School, Secure, Seen, Senses, Shakespeare, Sincere, Songs, Sonnet, Story Teller, Taint, Teach, The Tempest, Truth, Understood, Veil, Verbal, Visible, Ways, Wisdom, Words | Leave a comment