Tag Archives: Pain

Orphan Bachelors

Posted on September 29, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Orphan Bachelorsby Michael DoyleSelf-expression has become democratizedIn an era where everyone is traumatizedThe Asian experience is best understoodBy taking in the feelings, both bad and goodHowever minor these seem in their unfoldingThere’s nothing said that requires scoldingIt needs a historical … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adversity, Alienation, America, American Family, Analyzation, Arguments and Resentments, Asian Experience, Ask, Assimilation, Balanced Devotion, Bloodless Crime, Burden, Chinese Families, Complete, Conflicting American Ideals, Confusion, Conversation, Dedication, Democratized, Dreams, Era, Exclusion, Eyes, Fabric, Feelings, Formation, Four Generations, Fraught, Generation, Generations, Hard Facts, Historical Legacy, Identity, Immigrant's Song, Impossible Task, In Depth Truth, Inheritance, Inspiriation, Language, Lasting Sorrow, Limits of Inclusion, Loneliness, Lore, Marginalization, Minor, Nation, Old Sojourners, Orphan Bachelors, Pain, Paper Sons, Passed-Through Experience, Poetry and Poems, Policy, Promise, Purpose, Quality, Question, Scold, Self Expression, Story, Storyteller's Delusion, STuck, Tension, Tomorrow, Tragedy, Transparent, Trauma, Truth, Truth-Telling, Unborn, Understood, Unfolding | Leave a comment

The Black Book Blues

Posted on September 27, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

The Black Book Bluesby Michael DoyleA father’s handClutches his son’s bloodMired in the sandClotting in the mudCorruption is as corruption doesSome things never changeIt’s as bad as it ever wasSome things simply rearrangeAn honest man can’t always be niceNot when … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bad As It Ever Was, Battles, Black Book, Blues, Broken, Brutal, Burn, Change, Clot, Clown, Corruption, Cost, Danger, Evil, Father's Hand, Good, Grief, Heart, Heartbreak, Hide, Honest Man, Incendiary, Integrity, Lesson, Light, Look, Memories, Mercies, Mercy, Mistake, Mud, None, Nowhere, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Price, Relief, Right, Run, Sand, Shown, Sight, Snare, Son's Blood, Spare, Stranger, Token, Tossed, Truth, Understood, Wink and Nudge, Youth | Leave a comment

The Freedom Agenda

Posted on September 16, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

The Freedom Agendaby Michael DoyleI read the headlines to my great consternationThat Newsome and others would change our constitutionThe thoughts of over my dead body come to mindIt’s time we leave such foolish thoughts behindIt’s not enough to simply win … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Able, America, American, American Way, Approach, Articulation, Ashes, Attack, Back, Biden, Bidenomics, Big Business, Big Government, Blanket, Blind Man, Borders, Broken, Burn, Change, Cherish, Children, Christians, Cities, Compassion, Consequence, Conservative, Consternation, Constitution, Course, Course Correction, Crisis, Crying Point, Decide, Desire, Detection, Determination, Dignity, Disaster, Down, Education, Election Day, Elections, Elite, Enemies, Energy, Evidence, Faithful, Fight, First Principles, Foolish Thoughts Behind, Forget It, Founding, Freeborn Nation, Freedom, Freedoms, Fruitful, God's Timing, Good, Grounded, Haters of America, Headlines, Heritage, Hope, Ideals, Ideas and Ideals, Indoctrination, Inspection, Inspired, Integrity, Key, Knifepoint, Legacy, Let It, Liberal Policies, Liberty, Locked Arms, Manmade, Masses, Mind, Motion, Nation, Newsome, Nonexistent, Our Freedoms, Outspoken, Over My Dead Body, Pain, Path, Path Ahead, Perish, Poetry and Poems, Point, Policy, Pollices, Prices, Prosperity, Push Back, Questions, Rational Explanation, Real, Rebound, Republican, Right, Right Direction, Saddled, Self-Anoint, Set of Ideals, Shame, Spurious Election Prcoedures, Strength, Strong, Students, The Bible, The Freedom Agenda, The People, Thoughts, Truth, Tyranny, Unvarished Truth, Victory, Virtue, Vision, Way of Life, Weaken, Win, Words, Wrong | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: You Think Your Pains and Heartbreaks Are Unprecedented In the History of the World, But Then You Read

Posted on August 2, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged All the People, Books, Connect, Heartbreak, History, James Baldwin, Pain, Read, Taught, Think, Thought For the Day, Torment, Unprecedented, World | Leave a comment

Turning the Tables

Posted on July 31, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Turning the Tablesby Michael DoyleCome on now; be on the levelThe details between God and the DevilAdd up to a fuzzy sort of mathWhere we humans stumble on the pathSometimes the thoughts spin our headsAnd we sink into slouch, pretending … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Deceitifulness, Details, Devil, Doze, Foot, Fuzzy, God, Human, Level, Math, Pain, Path, Poetry and Poems, Pride, Self-Chosen, Slouch, Stumble, Table, Thoughts, Toes, Turn | Leave a comment

Lamentations Through the Tears

Posted on July 30, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Lamentations Through the Yearsby Michael DoyleBefore my eyes and with my own earsI’ve witnessed miracles in my yearsYet, there have still been times of painWhich have brought lessons, not in vainHard times hit, and they hit hardWith darkness compelling like … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Cares, Communication, Dependent, Ears, Eyes, Faith, Frustration, God, Hard Times, Heartbreak to Hope, Lamentations, Lessons, Limitation, Miracles, New, Old Testament, Pain, Plain View, Poetry and Poems, Prayers, Psalmist, Relationship, Sovereignty, Submit, Tears, Theology, Vain, Wild Card, Years | Leave a comment

His Cure

Posted on July 18, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

His Cureby Michael DoyleJehovah by nameHe takes our blamePurified in praiseBringing light to our daysHis is the peaceThat wins from sin, our releaseGiving us our freedomIn the name of His KingdomHe who has set the starsAllowing us healing from our … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Action Verbs, Blame, Broken, Correction, Cure, Days, Empty Words, Fear, Freedom, Gardens, God, Graves, Heal, His Cure, His Path, Humanity, Jehovah, Kingdom, Light, Love, Mourning, Name, Only Way, Pain, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Pure, Release, Ressurection, Scar, Sin, Spoken, Stars, Steady and Sure | Leave a comment

Love Lives On

Posted on July 11, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Love Lives Onby Michael DoyleDriving around the middle of the nationTrying to stimulate my daughters’ imaginationsAnd love for seeing the beauty of this nationLike their grandmother would have; if the situationHad somehow allowed this to followIf she had thrived; but … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Allow, Anniversary, Artist Eyes, Beauty of this Nation, Blossom, Bolder Dreams, Breath, Compromise, Daughters, Day, Death, Difference, Dreamer, Dreamt, Driving, Excited Eyes, Explore, Falling Tears, Fire, Follow, Food, Garden of Dreams, Grandmother, Happiness, Happy, Her, Home, Imagination, Inside of Me, Journey, Last Breaths, Lists, Lives On, Love, Love Lives On, Meant, Meet, Memories, Met, Middle of the Nation, Miss, More, Movies, Music, My Daughters, My Mom, Open, Pain, Paint, Places, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Rains, Regret, Remorse, Retrace the Steps, Reveal, Sad, See, Shadow, Situation, Sleep, Smile, Something More, Soul, Still, Stimulate, Surprise, Tears, Thrive, Tired, Traces, Two Hearts, Want, Watch, West Virginia, Whisper, Wish, World, Years Ago, Young Boy | Leave a comment

A Smile of Death

Posted on July 8, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

A Smile of Deathby Michael DoyleThe morning comes with a “how have you been”That comes a bit too brightly in world gone dimA smile unwelcomed can being its sense of dreadWith the ominous thought that we’ll all soon be deadThe … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anxiety, Breath, Control, Creativity, Creep, Dead, Death, Delusion, Depravity, Dim, Dread, Dreary, Morning, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Post-Traumatic, Real, Scream, Smile, Soul Weary, Tired, Uncertain, Zen | Leave a comment

Wholly Holistic

Posted on April 16, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Wholly Holisticby Michael DoyleLifting up the name of Jesus aboveLiving as we do, all His ways of loveIt’s apparent that we are blessedLiving as we do among the very bestFound in the notes and narrative of songAre the words that … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anticipation, Appreciation, Arena, Aspects, Belong, Best, Blame, Blessed, Broken, Celebrated, Challenge, Commandments, Compete, Concepts, Core Elements, Done, Faith, Father, Finish, Foolishness, Found, Glory, God's Holy Power, Grace, Grow, Hear, Heaven Knows, Hesitation, His Story, Holistic, Hour, Insight, Inspiration, Integrity, Jesus, Justified, Life Grows, Lifting Up, Light, Matters, Maturity, Meaningful, Measure, Opened Eyes, Opportunity, Overrated, Pain, Past, Poetry and Poems, Portrait, Pray, Pressence, Questions, Recognize, Resolution, Sermon, Shame, Shatters, Sin, Son, Song, Spirit, Stages, Storms, Through, Transformation, Treasure, Truth, Truth Needed, Understood, Vain, Ways of Love, Whole, Winning, Wisdom, Word Life, Written Pages | Leave a comment