Tag Archives: Regret

Thought For the Day: When One Door Closes Another Door Opens

Posted on March 5, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.” -Alexander Graham Bell, inventor (3 Mar 1847-1922)

Imaginary Friend

Posted on October 30, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Imaginary Friendby Michael DoyleIn the eternal sense of voiceThat I believed was a choiceA deviance disguised as free willIs but an illusion and was never realI made up my imaginary friendThat one on whom I could dependTelling myself faith was … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Believe, Blurred Lines, Choice, Clever, Conspire, Depend, Desire, Distinction, Duality, Endeavor, Eternal, Extinction, Faith, Fighting Chance, Free Will, Happen, Illusion, Imaginary Friend, Keep, Passage, Place, Poetry and Poems, Regret, Second Glance, Shore, Sleep, Soul, Voice, Waves | Leave a comment

Pretender or Contender

Posted on October 18, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Pretender or Contenderby Michael DoyleDrawing on song lyrics in my dayMakes life special in its own wayThe singer is my daughter, and she’s on fireAs legends are made to grow and conspireA life led in three-part inspirationWe all know the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Appetites, Baptism, Best, Bread, Breakthrough, Capable, Connection, Conspire, Contemplation, Contender, Continuity, Daughter, End, Fire, Friend, Hunger, Immersion, Jesus, Legends, Perspiration, Poetry and Poems, Pretender, Raised Awareness, Regret, Resistance, Satan, Singer, Song Lyrics, Special, Spirit, Stone, Striking Foot, Strong Feeling, Susceptible, Temper, Temptation, Tempter, Test, Three Part Inspiration, Tired, Ultimate Truth | Leave a comment

On Behalf of the Uyghurs

Posted on July 16, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

On Behalf of the Uyghursby Michael DoyleGive me the whole of your sentence And I will still my will and serveGive me the entirety of your pretenseTell me what it is that I deserveAnd I will still write my poetryNever … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Banner, Behalf, Blossom, Bosom, Committing Verses, Conscience, Courage, Cried, Culture, Defend, Deserve, Encoourage, Endless Grief, Everything, Fade Away, Familiar Voice, Family, Fire n Throat, Flowers, Freedoms, Genocide, Gulnisa Imin, Hope, Human Contact, Integrity, Joined In Voice, Language, Live Dead, Live Freely, Living Legacy, Make Us Friends, Manner, Memory, Moonless Nights, Patriotism, People's Rights, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Pretense, Reeducation, Regret, Said, Sentence, Separatism, Serve, Shared Thoughts, Sharing Freedom's Plea, Sing Freely, Stars, Strength, Strokes of Penmanship, Stubborn Pride, Supress, Tenderness, Thoughts, Thousand Nights, Tribe of Poets, Truth of Peace, Uyghurs, Vital, WeChat Snippets, Wilderness, Yearn | Leave a comment

First Principles: Wondrously Strange Then and Much To Be Regretted…Were We To Neglect the Means and To Depart From the Road Which Providence Has Pointed Us To So Plainly

Posted on June 23, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“No country upon earth ever had it more in its power to attain these blessings than United America. Wondrously strange, then, and much to be regretted indeed would it be, were we to neglect the means and to depart from … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Blessings, Earth, First Principles, George Washington, Means, Neglect, No Country, Pointed, Power, Providence, Regret, Road, Strange, United America | Leave a comment

For Sierra At Age Thirteen

Posted on May 26, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

For Sierra At Age Thirteenby Michael DoyleIt seems only yesterdayThat you were a tweenAnd now my youngest princessIs aged perfectly to thirteenThere’s not a single dayThat I will ever forgetThe moments that have passedNor will I ever in any way … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Afternoon's Nap, Amazing Young Lady, Been, Birth, Birthday Song, Blessing, Blink, Candles, Card, Climbed Up, Darling Baby, Daughter, Days, Depart, Drink, Express, Far Away, Feel, Forget, God Knows, Grown Up, Guess, Happen, Hope, Laugh, Life, Lifetime, Live To Watch, Moments, My Heart, Never Stray, Now and Then, Only A Single Doubt, Part By Part, Passed, Perfectly, Poetry and Poems, Quickly, Regret, Sameness of Us, Sierra, Simple Words, Single Day, Smile, Softly, Tell Me Please, Thirteen, Tween, Victory Cup, Voice, Watching, Whisper, Woke Up, Yesterday, You'll Go Really Far, Youngest Princess | Leave a comment

Among the First Casualties

Posted on May 14, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Among the First Casualtiesby Michael DoyleAmong the first casualties of warIs the promise that love will live onAnd if something goes wrong, lovers will love moreThe white heat of passion burns until it’s goneA touch, a line, a singular traceA … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Among, Borne, Broken Hearts, Burn, Comfort, Embrace, Fallen, Fear, First Casualties, Forget, Heart, Hide, Hope, Left Behind, Line, Linger, Lingering Memory, Live On, Love, Lovers, Mind, Mustache, Okay, Paassion, Poetry and Poems, Pretend, Promise, Reflections, Regret, Scars, Stars, Touch, Trace, Void, War, White Heat, Wish, Wounded Heart, Wrong | Leave a comment

We’ll Burn Our Memory

Posted on February 23, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

We’ll Burn Our Memoryby Michael DoyleThere is nothing more humanThen knowing that you are brokenAs time slips by as it canAnd words meander or are unspokenTime is fleeting and not to squanderLet me entreat you to spend yours wellThere are … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Armor, Ashes, Battle, Better Senses, Broken, Burn, Carry, Choices, Cracks, Dance, Defeat, Difference, Eyes, Fast, Fire, Fleeting, Forget, Hope, Human, Inner Essence, Inner Light, Inner Voice, Know, Life, Limits, Love, Memory, Nothing, One Last Time, Past, Paths, Poetry and Poems, Promise, Regret, Right, Shine, Skies, Spell, Squander, Streets, Time Slips By, Tomorrow, Unexplored, Unspoken, Victory, Wish, Won, Words Meander | Leave a comment

Back In ’81

Posted on February 2, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Back In ’81by Michael DoyleDo you rememberBack in ’81It had all been doneLighting our bootsWith low grade gasolineTo ignite the sparkAnd let it burnThe show is the showWith jagged rhythmsAnd the leads that flowWe didn’t knowDidn’t knowGot to let it … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 1981, Attack, Back, Band, Believe, Boots, Bottle, Burn, Crashing Down, Defiled, Deserting, Different Man, Discard, Done, Full Throttle, Gasoline, Good Time, Hurting, Jagged Rhythms, Jester's Crown, Jet Black, Know, Lack, Leads, Let It Roll, Light, Living Dead, Marshall Stack, My Own Truth, Note, One More, Plan, Playing For Keeps, Poetry and Poems, Punching It Hard, Regret, Remember, Said, Show, Slow, Solid Wall of Sound, Soul, Spark, Strong, Tempo, The Strip, Thunderclap, Trust, Wrong, Youth Gone Wild | Leave a comment

To Lean Out of Wandering

Posted on January 2, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

To Lean Out of Wanderingby Michael DoyleLiving out the days of my back fortyKnowing that the end may come shortlyLike Moses, I lift my hands in prayerLiving a moment of taking proper careHaving learned to number my precious daysI long … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Affirmation, Back Forty, Bases, Celebration, Confirmation, Days, Decisions, East, Embrace, Failsures, Focus, Forgiven, Future, Ghosts, God's Ways, Gone, Grain, Hands, Haste, Hourglass, Important Battles, Joy, Juggle, Lean, Live, Living Our Prayer, Manage, Moment, Moments, Moses, Need, New Morning, Nowhere, Number, Nurture, Pains, Past, Paths, Play, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Procrastination, Proper Care, Questions, Reason, Regret, Reset, Rhymes, Season, Seed, Self-Defeating, Shortly, Sins, Sow, Stock, Test, The End, Thief of Time, Time, Today, Traces, Wandering, Waste, West, Wheel, Wisdom | Leave a comment