Tag Archives: Real

Bumping Up Against

Posted on March 29, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Bumping Up Againstby Michael DoyleBumping up against the edgesToes reaching out over the ledgesThe quest is given up for the idealAs we learn to settle for the realThe higher grounds are out of boundsAs we seek to find further soundsThat … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Belief, Better Off, Bleed, Boundaries, Bumping Up Against, Chaos and Contradiction, Choice, Clock, Dedication, Deeper Truths, Despite, Dreams, Edges, Expectation, False Starts, Fear, Find In Our Hearts, Further Sounds, Ghost, Guitars, Hear, Heartbreaks, Higher Grounds, Hours, Ideal, Idols, Ignorance, Incidental Heathens, Lack, Learn, Ledges, Love, Mistakes, New Paths, Note By Note, Out of Bounds, Pain Cuts, Play, Poetry and Poems, Pretense, Quest, Reading, Real, Rest, Sense, Settle, Someone Else, Test, Toes, Turn Back, Voice, Wilderness, Wish | Leave a comment

Signs of Peace In An Artificial World

Posted on February 28, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Signs of Peace In An Artificial Worldby Michael DoyleI grew up strong and being taught what it meansTo walk justly and forthright with other human beingsThis meant that one didn’t have to fight to be a manThrowing one’s weight around … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Agreed Pillars, Alone, American, Artificial World, Bluster, Brave Man, Change, Choice, Consequence, Dignity, Evidence, Fight, Freedom, Given DAy, Good Negotiator, Government, Honor and Glory, Human Rights, Independent State, Integrity, Issues, Just, Kept By Me For Mine, Leverage, Line, Living Art, Market, My Life' s Deal, National Self-Determination, Negotiation, Peace, Playing Field, Poetry and Poems, Politics, Real, Reason, Rule of Law, Russia, Same Principles, Signs of Peace, Strong, Taught, The Art of the Deal, The Other's Voice, Think Big, Today, Ukraine, Values, War, Writing, Yield | Leave a comment

Something Behind the Small Talk

Posted on February 12, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Something Behind the Small Talkby Michael DoyleThere is something raw behind the front linesThere, we hide behind the showoffs and mimesLost in the awkwardness that blocks our conversationsWe stand aloof, hiding our secret sense of fascinationWe wish we could shape … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Aawkwardness, Aloof, Balk, Body Language, Compulsion, Conversation, Darkness, Expert, Fascination, Feeling Dead, Feels, Fractured Hope, Front Lines, Gods and Iolds, Harshness, Lost, Poetry and Poems, Raw, Read, Real, Revulsion, Running In Place, Showoffs and Mimes, Silent Desperation, Small Talk, Something, Stream | Leave a comment

Heavenly Peace

Posted on December 23, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Heavenly Peaceby Michael DoyleThis night of abounding silenceCame to conquer this world’s violenceHeavenly peace brought to calm sleepWhen the Lord came to love and keepThe Lord opened the Word to our pageBringing hope and peace to our ageWalking with us … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Conquir, Crucified, Darkness, Destined, Faithfully, Fated, God's Sake, Heaerts, Heavenly Peace, His Glory, His Story, Holy Spirit, Hope, Left, Love and Keep, Love and SErvice, Night, Our Age, Page, Part, Poetry and Poems, Purity, Purpose, Real, Reconciled, Redeeming Love, Rejoice, Silece, Sleep, Souls Shake, Step, The Lord, the Word, Tremble, Truth, Voice, Wait, Walking, World's Violence | Leave a comment

A Tenderness of Hope

Posted on December 21, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

A Tenderness of Hopeby Michael DoyleWe live in a fast-paced society That is filled with such complexityThat it brings less than notorietyTo become overwhelmed by our anxietyStill, each of us chooses a mask to wearA smile of dignity as if … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anxiety, Ask, Care, Cheeks, Choose, Complexity, Contemplation, Contentment, Cop, Denial, Depend, Dignity, Dream, Earth, Eyes, Faith, Faithfulness, Falls Apart, Falsity, Filfillment, Forced Grin, Friend, Heaven Above, Hide, Hope, Interpretation, Lies, Life's Bargain, Love, Mask, Notoriety, Overwhelm, Plan, Poetry and Poems, Real, Relieve, Seem, Smile, Society, Steal, Tainted Mask, Tenderness, Time and Again, Torn and Bleeding Hearts, Truth, Wear | Leave a comment

First Principles: Peace Is the Real and Right Memorial For Those Who Have Died In War

Posted on December 17, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Peace is the real and right memorial for those who have died in war.” – Richard M. Nixon

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Death, First Principles, Memorial, Peace, Real, Richard M. Nixon, Right, War | Leave a comment

As Every Child Knows

Posted on December 6, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

As Every Child Knowsby Michael DoyleThere is a lot that isn’t knownAnd still yet, the legend has grownWas he real, or was he notOr maybe, as with many, much has been forgotSt. Nicholas of Myra is one of the fewSt. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Biship, Champion, Children, Christian, Every Child, Evil, Forgot, Gifts, Good, Humble Beginnings, Inspire, Known, Knows, Krampus, Legend, Myra, Nicholas, Not, Poetry and Poems, Poseidon, Real, Saint, Secret, St. Francis of Assisi, St. Nicholas of Myra, Tire, Truth | 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

Call Out To Love

Posted on September 26, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Call Out To Loveby Michael DoyleIn a life lived with sanctimonyI somehow came to my testimonyBased on faith and healingThat moved beyond mere feelingInto knowing the true dealOf finding belief and knowing it realI reached out as if shownTo the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All Things, Belief, Beyond, Call Out, Days, Done, Faith and Healing, Father, Feeling, Focus, God, God's Ways, Healing, Heaven Above, His Good, Home, Known, Life, Love, Miracle, Name, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Real, Sanctimony, Shame, Shown, Simple Man, Son, Soul-Revealing, Spirit, Testimony, True Deal, Understood, Worked, Worship | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Censorship Is the Tool of Those Who Have the Need To Hide Actualities From Themselves and From Others. Their Fear Is Only Their Inability To Face What Is Real

Posted on August 11, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can’t vent any anger against them. I only feel this … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Actualities, Anger, Censorship, Charles Bukowski, Existence, Face, Fear, Inability, Others, Real, Sadness, Shield, Themselves, Thought For the Day, Tool, Total Facts, Upbringing | Leave a comment