Tag Archives: Real

Waking From Lies

Posted on January 11, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Waking From Liesby Michael DoyleThe life before usSeen as if waking from liesMaybe it never wasWe awake with opened eyesDanger stands on either sideWhile we choose our confessionWe can fake that it stops at wounded prideOr press forward despite our … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Books, Cast Off, Children, Choose, Confession, Content, Danger, Disappear, Either Side, End of the Story, Every Day, Every Heart, Feel, Feeling Alive, Forget, Hope, Human Beings, Hurt, Kiss, Learn, Lies, Life Before Us, Never Was, Opened Eyes, Poetry and Poems, Predilection, Press Forward, Pretend, Quest, Questioning, Real, Real Meaning, Reverie, Seek Happiness, Seeking Glory, Sermons, Shadows, Sorrow, Stay Near, Tears, Tomorrow, Travel, Vast Distances, Wake, Waking From Lies, Walk, Wounded Pride | Leave a comment

Birds Aren’t Real

Posted on December 11, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Birds Aren’t Realby Michael DoyleSpoken with a sense of zealIs the thought, “Birds Aren’t Real”Youth joins together to upendA disturbing sort of the worse trendIn an age of misinformationGen Z links arms across the nationEngaged in a case of absurdismWith … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Absurdism, Admit, America, Banality, Birds, Birds Aren't Real, Charm, Collaboration, Conspiracy Theory, Construct, Cosplay, Diet, Drone, Engage, Enthusiasm, Fabricate, Falsity, Fiction, Friction, Frustration, Gateway, Gen Z, Good For the Soul, Growing Up, History, Improvement, Internet Age, Irreverence, Laugh, Line, Lunacy, Mad, Madness, McIndoe, Misniformation, Nation, Opportunity, Parody, Poetry and Poems, Pretend, Process, Rabbit Holes, Rage, Real, Reddit, Remote Control, Sadness, Social Media, Social Mirror, Social Movement, Soul, Talk, Theory, Trend, Upend, Viewpoint, Walk, World, Youth, Zeal | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: The Real Index of Civilization Is When People Are Kinder Than They Need To be

Posted on December 8, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be.”-Louis de Bernieres, novelist (b. 8 Dec 1954)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Civilization, Index, Kinder, Louis de Bernieres, Need, People, Real, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

This Thanksgiving 2021

Posted on November 25, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

This Thanksgiving 2021by Michael DoyleLate last night I was thinking on..The furthest star’s even furthest moonUntil I was dreaming of a once uponFairytale feeling that was needed soonFor two years, the world has sufferedThrough the scourge of viral pestilenceWith reasons … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2021, Acknowledge, All of God's Children, Bass Rings, Blessed Dignity, Bounty, Buffer, Cantaloupe, Challenge, Complicity, Consistent, Content, Daugthers, Direction, Divine, Divine Purpose, Dream, Encourage, Example, Fairytale, Faith and Trust, Feeling, Felicity, Fight, Freedom, Giving Thanks, God's Good Will, Grace, Gratitude, Harmony, Heart, Holy Tradition, Hug, Iconic, Joy, Keeping True, Kiss, Last Night, Liberty, Lost, Love, Macy's Day Thanksgiving Day Parade, Mercy, Moon, Morning, Nation, Parade, Peace, Persistence, Pestilence, Platitude, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Priceless, Prosperity, Providence, Quiche, Real, Reasons, Recognize, Sacred, Science, Scourge, Security, Set Apart, Source, Star, Strength, Suffer, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Day, Think, Tradition, Tranquil, Traps, Trust, Two Years, Unity, Verse, Viral, Vouchsafe, World, Worse, Zealous | Leave a comment

The Clock Keeps Ticking

Posted on November 23, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

The Clock Keeps Tickingby Michael DoyleFrom that pristine sense of momentWhen we come out of the wombThe clock starts tickingWith all its joy and tormentWe become the life in the roomMaking things happen through our kickingIt is in building the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All Your Love, Along, Along the Way, Best Moment, Build, Celebration, Chased Around, Clock, Done, Dreamers, Dreams, Emotion, Example, Falling Down, Feel, Found, Full, Getting Back Up, Glass, Grateful, Ground, Here's To You, Honesty, Integrity, Intimacy, Joy, Jubilation, Kick, Knees, Known, Landing, Last Moment, Lead, Life, Love of Life, Loved the Most, Make Things Better, Matter of Choice, Moment, Moments, Mouth, Nothing, Number, Place, Play, Poetry and Poems, Prayed, Questions, Real, Relevancy, Room, Say, Scrap, Search, Smile, Something, Stormy Weather, Tale, Tears, Tick, Toast, Torment, Voice, Way, Womb | Leave a comment

Discernment Revisited

Posted on November 21, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Discernment Revisitedby Michael DoyleI guess that’s the dealLetting Jesus take the wheelLike the wisdom of Solomon’s sealIt is what keeps it realGoing deep into the ScriptureWe find the things of GodSurrendering in devotion to ScriptureWe recommit to the ways of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Better Decisions, Buoyancy, Deep, Demanding, Destination, Devastation, Deviation, Devotion, Dimension, Discernment, Distracted, Do the Math, Drive, Dwell, Elimination, Eyes Set, Footing, God Is In Control, Grace, Grow Strong, Impediment, Inclination, Insecurity, Jesus, Know, Living, Lose, Loss, Maturity, Meander, Mindful, Narrow Path, Overestimation, Path, Personal Inadequcy, Played, Poetry and Poems, Prayed, Pressures of Life, Pushing Through, Put Aside, Real, Recommit, Reconsideration, Refuse, Revisited, Rhyme, Right Sentiment, Satan, Scripture, Serve, Significance, Slip, Solomon's Seal, Soul, Stay, Stay On the Path, Strive, Surrender, The Deal, Things of God, Thoughts, Time To Time, Tool, Tragic, Tricks, Truth, Understanding, Undiminished, Ways of God, Wheel, Wisdom, Words, Wrong Emphasis | Leave a comment

Reflections On Dorian Gray, Pt VIII: Reality’s Seams

Posted on October 29, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Reflections On Dorian Gray, Pt VIII: Reality’s Seamsby Michael DoyleThere on that snow fallen black of nightIn an alley filled with guilt’s blightDorian fears the tell of tongue wagged taleThat pursues him to the gates of HellThere are dreadful things … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alley, Ancient Danger, Attic Door, Begin Again, Begun, Black of Night, Blight, Burning Fire, Chain, Change, Closeness, Confession, Conspire, Corruption, Creep, Daughter, Dead Rat, Death, Deceptive, Decrepit, Delusion, Demand, Desire, Done, Dorian Gray, Dreadful Things, Dream, Edge of Death, End, Evil, Father, Final Breath, Final Price, Final Say, Fire, Forlorn, Gates of Hell, Ghastly, Hope, Innocence, Innocent Man, Intoxication, Intrusion, Kiss Away Moment, Locked Away, London, Mortal Sin, Only Friend, Paid, Penny, Poetry and Poems, Priest, Purity, Putrify, Real, Reality's Seams, Reflections, Secret Key, See, Sin, Snow, Strange, Stranger, Subway, Tarnished History, Tongue Wag, Train, Traps, Truth, Tunnel, Wake, Whisper, Wind | Leave a comment

Dangers Lurk In the Seams

Posted on October 16, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Dangers Lurk In the Seamsby Michael DoyleIn the hidden crevices of your dreamsThere are dangers lurking in the seamsThree, four, better lock up that doorThe boogie man is coming back for moreFive, six, he has a bag of tricksWhere evil … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bag of Tricks, Balinese Dream, Belong, Blood, Body, Careful, Confusion, Crazy, Creep, Crucifix, Cut, Danger, Dead, Door, Dreams, Dreams Skills, Edge, Evil, Falling, Fate, Fear, Feel, Five, Four, Freddy Kruger, Hallucination, Head, Hidden Crevices, Innocent Hand, Kicks, Late, Ledge, Light, Lurk, Meet, Mud, Night, Nightmare, Noise, Poetry and Poems, Razor Sharp, Real, Run Away, Satan, Shadow, Shriek, Six, Suburban Street, Terror, The Boogie Man, Three, True, Wake Up, Whisper | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: The Real Rulers In Washington Are Invisible and Exercise Power From Behind the Scenes

Posted on September 1, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“The real rulers in Washington are invisible and exercise power from behind the scenes.” – Justice Felix Frankfurter (1882-1965)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Behind, Exercise, Invisible, Justice Felix Frankfurter, Power, Real, Rulers, Scenes, Thought For the Day, Washington | Leave a comment

If I Have More to Live

Posted on August 24, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

If I Have More to Liveby Michael Doyle If I have more to liveI would live it with youIf I have more love to giveMy love, I would love you If I get to live any moreI want to live … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All of the years, Any More, Being, Day, Day Complete, Days, Dream, Friends, Half Smile, Hidden Tears, I Would Love You, Learning, Life, Live It With You, Living, Lovers, Might, Miss, More, More Love To Give, More To Live, My Arms, My Love, Never End, One More Kiss, Poetry and Poems, Real, See, See me, Seem, Share, Thank you, You, Your Smile, Your Ways | Leave a comment