Tag Archives: Lie

The Jester and the Reaper

Posted on April 1, 2026 by alohapromisesforever

The Jester and the Reaperby Michael DoyleIt is near impossibleTo look at the world capableOf not knowing great sorrow,And worried about tomorrow.I’ve seen love lostAt its tremendous cost.I watch children losing hope,As if at the end of life’s rope.I sit … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bible, Children, Cry, Faith, God, Grief, Hope, Impossible, Jesus, Know, Lie, Look, Love Lost, Poetry and Poems, Sigh, Sorrow, Tears, The Jester, The Reaper, Tomorrow, Truth, Wondering Why, World, Worry | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Movement Never Lies. It Is A Barometer Telling the State of the Soul’s Weather To All Who Can Read It

Posted on April 1, 2026 by alohapromisesforever

“Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul’s weather to all who can read it.” – Martha Graham

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Barometer, Lie, Martha Graham, Movement, Read, Soul, State, Thought For the Day, Weather | Leave a comment

Darkness Fallen

Posted on January 16, 2026 by alohapromisesforever

Darkness Fallenby Michael DoyleStretching my day past midnight,I’m grasping toward the morning light.There’s just one more thing to do,Planting dreams to know what can be true.Living my freedom in the moment’s truth,I think back on the days of my youth.Outside … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Again, Ancient Wisdom, Angels, Awake, Brings, Broken Souls, Clock, Comfort, Darkness, Day, Dream, Fall, Fallen, Freedom, God's Love, Grasp, Heaven Above, Ivory Towers, Know, Lie, Love, Melody, Midnight, Moon, Morning, Morning Light, Muse, Poetry and Poems, Pretend, Recall, Rock, Sky, Sorrow, Stars, Stretch, Stride, Strings, Taken In, Tick, Tomorrow, True, Universe, Wall, Whisper, Window, Youth | Leave a comment

Does It Make You Cry?

Posted on October 16, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Does It Make You Cry?by Michael DoyleWhen you’re tired of laughing,Does it make you cry?This life you’ve been living, It turned out to be a lie.When you’ve given all you can,And your best isn’t good enough,Sometimes it’s hard to be … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Absurdity, All You Can, Animal, Best, Bloodlust, Bluff, Broken Trust, Cause, Certain, Certainty, Coattials, Criminal, Cry, Good Enough, Hard, Heart, Ice, In Place, Insurgency, Justice, Larceny, Laughing, Lie, Life, Live, Man, March, Own Man, Pause, Poetry and Poems, The World, Tired, Urgency | Leave a comment

Saying Nothing In Times of Troubles

Posted on November 21, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Saying Nothing In Times of Troublesby Michael DoyleThe only certainty is it doublesTo be silent in times of troublesAt least, Irish history revealsHow false belief in God stealsThe soul of a broken nationThat is riveting in its salvationThat never quite … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anxiety, Atrocity, Blind World, Blood, Broken Nation, Certainty, Chance, Circumstance, Collective Ideoloy, Complexity, Confession, Confident, Conflict, Confusion, Culture's Obsession, Curse, Discern, Disillusion, Divided Nation, Doubles, End, Eye For Eye, Feeling, Fight, Friends, God, Healing, Heroes, History, Holy Ghost, Individual Responsibility, Irish History, Lack of Forgiveness, Lean, Lessons, Lie, Living Novel, Mankind, Misdeed, Moral Conflict, Mud, Mystery, Numb, Passion, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Procession, Pure Drama, Salvation, Say Nothing, Scenes, Silent, Simplicity, Soul, Times of Troubles, Transcend, Trauma, Travesty, Truth, Villains, Why, Wrong, Wrong Convictions | Leave a comment

In the Solitude of Darkness

Posted on October 18, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

In the Solitude of Darknessby Michael DoyleTo the degree that I do not fearI am powerful enough to persevereI say this with a heavy-hearted sighAs my soul fixes its intellectual eyeThe love and rage that exists inside meHave become the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Beast, Beginning, Bitter Instinct, Change, Consolation, Creativity, Darkness, Depravity, Design, Destination, Divine, Dreams, Ending, Explore, Extinct, Fallen Angel, Fear, Harshness, Heart, Heart of Desire, Howl, Intellectual Eye, Knees, Level, Lie, Life, Love, Love and Rage, Malignant Devil, Misery, Outstretch, Persevere, Philosophy, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Sigh, Snarl, Solititude, Solitude, Soul, Understand, Wickedness, Wild Seas and Regions, Work, World's Secrets, Wounded Hand | Leave a comment

Reality Vs. Constructs

Posted on October 4, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Reality Vs. Constructsby Michael DoyleAn understanding states and instructsThat the “real world” consists of constructsWe all oblige each other to reach an understandingBut to apply this loosely rather than too demandingThis is to say we lie so often to our … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Apply, Breed, Constructs, Danger, Fantasies, Free, Ghosts, Imagination, Inter-Crossing Boundaries, Intrude, Lie, Loose, Normalacy, Oblige, Past, Poetry and Poems, Real, Real World, Reality, Shackles, Shadows, Stranger, Struggle, Tradition, Understanding, Unreal Things | Leave a comment

Written In Blood and Sin

Posted on July 12, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Written In Blood and Sinby Michael DoyleIn the ship’s dark hull are whispered liesAs slaves and pirates stumble on alibisBroken before the mast and the evil of eyesThe tales told don’t matter in a sea of liesThese are believed in … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alibis, Back Street, Blood and Sin, Danger, Dark Hull, Dark Side, Decision, Desire, Destruction, Disputation, Door, Emerge, Evil of Eyes, Fall, Good, Good Book's Instruction, Instruction, Lie, Loyalty, Mayhem, Mischief, Misdeeds, Nassau Town, No Mercy, Oath, Other Side, Path to Destruction, Pirate's Neck, Poetry and Poems, Price, Pride, Quench, Repentence, Reputation, Satan, Sea of Lies, Ship, Slaves and Pirates, Sliver of Hope, Snap, Story End, Strangers, Swallow, Tales Told, The Mast, Trust, Understood, Whispered Lies, Wild Fire, Written | Leave a comment

Owed To America 2024

Posted on July 4, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Owed To America 2024by Michael DoyleMy daughters ask me why is it you cryI think back on history and will not lieToo many brave souls have fought and diedFor us not to have mourned and criedThere was a time when … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ages, America, American Nation, Battle, Belief, Believe, Bend Their Knees, Bleed, Blue, Brave, Brave Souls, Cause, Ceaseless, Color, Courage, Cried, Cry, Danger, Daughters, Dedication, Defeat, Despotic Crown, Died, Fear, Fight, Fire, Fought, Freedom, Good, History, Hope, Ill, Imagination, Inspiration, Inspire, Internal Eney, Judgment Day, Justice, Kind, Land, Liberty, Lie, Love, Measure, More, Mourn, Nation, Owed To America 2024, Passing Years, People, Photography, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Red, Rights, Road, Save, Spark, Stand, Stand Tall, Street, Strength, Sweet Land, This Land, Time, Travel, Unbeatable, Values, White | Leave a comment

Growing Vulnerability

Posted on April 5, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Growing Vulnerabilityby Michael DoyleSome fools say that men don’t cryBut let me tell you, that’s just a lieIt’s so hard to express inner truthAnd it’s played that way since youthWe need to get the curtains down and outMoving hard beyond … Continue reading →

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