Tag Archives: Reach

Thoughts On Dorian Gray

Posted on October 5, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Thoughts On Dorian Grayby Michael DoyleTextured as it is in prescienceAre those things outside of scienceAmong these is the legend of Dorian GrayOf which there is much yet to sayImages that stick through flesh like a knifeSliced cleanly through the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Artist, Bacchanalian, Bad Memories, Beauty, Call, Closed Doors, Clown, Commonsense, Crime, Deal, Death, Devil's Altar, Diabolical, Distract, Dorian Gray, Drink Up, Duty, Fair Trade, Flame, Flesh, Folly, Forever, Forgotten Scenes, Frolic, Games, Heart of Life, Hellfire Club, Human, Images, Introduce, Jest, Knife, Legend, Lesson, Life, London Town, Looks, Lost Moment, Memory, More, Nail, Open Door, Party, Philsopher, Pity, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Prescience, Pretense, Price, Reach, Say, Science, Seeker, Seen, Sermon, Shame, Sin, Sketches, Slice, Sould, Sympathy, Tea, Textured, Thoughts, Time, Truth, Vanity, Victorian Days, Ways of Darkness, Worse Dreams, Young | Leave a comment

Inconvenience Into Resemblance

Posted on October 3, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Inconvenience Into Resemblanceby Michael DoyleCasting aside the inconvenienceLooking instead for the resemblanceIs he your bother or a brother?What happened to loving one another?Red letter moments meant to teach usEach word said in try to reach usPassages that speak to heartachesMeant … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Believe, Belong, Bother, Brother, Done, Dwell, Embrace, Embraces, Encourage, Factual, Faith, Gentle Correction, God, God's Loving Arms, Goodness, Grace, Healing Hand, Healthy, Heartaches, His Love, Hurt, Importance, Incovenience, Jesus, Leaning In, Loving One Another, Me, Messy Spaces, Missing, Mistakes, Passages, Poetry and Poems, Potential, Purity, Pursuit, Reach, Red Letter, Reflection, Resemblance, Sacred, Seasons, Sick, Sobering, Speak, Spiritual Perfection, Stepping Into, Teach, Teaches, Thee, Toward, True, Wrong | Leave a comment

Pushed and Pulled

Posted on September 28, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Yesterday, September 27, 2021, was the last day of prescribed cardiac rehab. They tell me that I am doing excellently. The only admonishment given was that I should keep in mind not to work out as hard as my spirit … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Admonishment, Allow, Bluff, Brought, Cardiac Rehab, Caught, Change, Do Good, Enough Is Enough, Every Inch of Ground, Every Struggle, Excel, Excellence, Feel, Found, Grown, Habits of A Lifetime, Hard, Heed, Higher Ground, Hope, Less, Life, Little More, Live, Live Another Day, Living, Making of Life, Misunderstood, Moderately, More, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Pull, Push, Range, Reach, Road, Seek, Seldom, Shore, Shown, Spirit, Strain, Strive, Sufficiency, Taught, Teach, Time | Leave a comment

I Wanted To…

Posted on December 20, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

I Wanted To…by Michael DoyleI wanted to reach up to the heavensAnd pull down the stars down closeJust so they could shine on youI wanted to be the one who makes lifeSomething beautiful and magicalJust so that you would smileI … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All That You Are, Asleep, Be True, Beautiful, Believe, Brought, Burning, Close, Constant Wonder, Devotion, Each Night, Every Night, Every Other Man, Fire, Forever, Heart, Heart's Desire, Hearth, Heavens, Hold You Close, Know, Laugh, Laughter, Life, Light, Love, Love Me, Magical, Man, Mortal, My Dream, My Love, Poetry and Poems, Promise, Pull Down, Reach, Safe, See, Shine, Smile, Smiles, Someone To Believe In, Stars, Superman, There For You, To Be the One, To You, Treasure, Want, Wish, World, You, Your Eyes | Leave a comment

Attached In Meaning

Posted on December 4, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Attached In Meaningby Michael DoyleWords are mainly symbolsSomething that vaguely resemblesAn agreement between we human beingsAs to what it is that we are meaningWe need a little less of the dictionaryAs we each act out our own PictionaryOf all that … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Actions, Actions Speak Louder, Actual, Agreement, Allow, Arguments, Attached, Blur the Lines, Burst Out, Co-Construction, Come and Go, Communicate, Communicated, Communication, Complicated, Conflict, Contemplation, Contrary, Conventionality, Deceived, Deception, Defy, Destruction, Development, Dictionary, Encoded, Factors, Factual, Foolish, Forged, Hit That Restart, Human Beings, Intended, Intent, Intentionality, Interpretation, Late, Learn, Life, Look On Your Face, Meaning, Message, Nonverbally, Optimism, Perception, Pessimism, Photograph, Pictionary, Poem, Poetry, Prouder, Reach, Reassurance, Received, Relation, Resembles, Rut, Satisfying, Say, Says It all, Simple, Sink, Splash, Still, Symbols, Tender, Think, Truth Perceived, Unnecessary, Vague, Wall, Weight, Words, Words of Trust, Wounded Hearts | 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

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

To Feel Again

Posted on September 19, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

To Feel Againby Michael DoyleI admire people who are unafraid to feelWho know the danger and yet keep it realIt is scary to feel that compulsive somethingBut it beats the feeling of nothingAs life hands us our challenging handA fate … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged A Million Miles, Admire, Again, Alive, Beats, Begin, Better, Beyond the Point, Caring, Challenging Hand, Danger, Day, Destiny, Each Day, Envelope, Familiar Ghost, Fate, Feel, Feelings, Forget, Honest, Just Who You Are, Keep It Real, Know, Little Prayer, Look Up, Love, Loving, Loving Me, Mean the Most, Met, Moments, Morning, Nothing, People, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reach, Regret, Risk, Smiles, Soul, Soul Baring, Star, Survive, There, To Feel, Together, Touch, Unable To Command, Unafraid, Wake, Wanting Me, Wish, You, You Being Brave | Leave a comment

Red Hot Queen

Posted on September 4, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Red Hot Queenby Michael DoyleShe would tell her kingOf her fanciful desire to ruleWhile she’d laughingly singAbout beaches and poolsAnd he would look in her eyesAnd without semblance of doubtHe would smile and realizeThat they might work it outSo long … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Beaches, Beguile, Crown, Desire, Doubt, Eyes, Flower, Frown, Happiness, He, Her Kiss, His Side, King, Laugh, Life, Long Live the Queen, Look, Movie Scene, Need, Photograph, Played Out, Poem, Poetry, Pools, Pride, Queen, Reach, Realize, Red Hot, Rule, Semblence, She, Sing, Smile, Title, Vital, Work It Out | Leave a comment

Lessons of Sadie Hawkins

Posted on July 31, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Life in its myriad of dances has it’s meaning sometimes coming in multiples of delusion… Lessons of Sadie Hawkins by Michael Doyle Sock hop memories wake the school Where twists in plot are the rule All of life is filtered … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, All of Life, Astray, Attraction, Awake, Bread, Changing Seasons, Common Man, Connection, Costs, Dances, Days, Daze, Derision, Desperation, Directions, Distraction, Dread, Dream, Ease, Effort, Empty Rage, Eyes, Fadeaway, Feel, Filter, Growth, Ideas, Implausible, Impossible, Last, Laughter, Lessons, Life, Life Lived, Life Unfolds, Long Division, Lost Love, Memories, Morbid, Myriad, One By One, Pain, Pass Out, Passing Through, Persevere, Photograph, Phrase, Poem, Poetry, Reach, Reason, Roman Circuses, Rule, Sadie Hawkins, Sarcastic, School, Screens, Shake, Sides, Sock Hop, Song Titles, Spent, Spin, Split, Stuff Away, Subject, Symptom, Television, Themes, Time, To Live By, Try, Turn of Page, Turns, Twists In Plot, Wonder | Leave a comment