Tag Archives: Shadow

Thought For the Day: There Is Some Good In the World, and It’s Worth Fighting For

Posted on February 17, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Darkness and Danger, Fight, Good, Great Stories, Hold On, J.R.R.Tolkien, Pass, Samwise Gamgee, Shadow, The Two Towers, This World, Thought For the Day, Turning Back, Worth | Leave a comment

Shifting Through the Ashes

Posted on February 6, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Shifting Through the Ashesby Michael DoyleStanding here talking close togetherYou say it’s for worse or for betterShifting through the ashes of an argumentCan you tell me, baby, where the money’s spent?You laugh and concede it as a steady needWaiting for … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above the Skies, Alone, Angels of Fortune, Ashes, Ashes of An Argument, Beauty, Better, Bitterness, Child, Child of the sun, Collide, Conceal, Concede, Connect, Constellations, Danger, Doom, Drink, Echo, Emptiness, Eyes, Falling Stars, False Idol, Fascination, Fire's Glow, Follow, Games, God of Wishful Thinking, Gorgeous, Guess, Hand, Held, Her Man, Hide, Ignore, In the End, Inside, Joy For Life, Laugh, Lies, Likes To Look Good, Lips, Long, Love, Money, Need, Nexus, Pleasd, Poetry and Poems, Pretend, Pride, Ramble, Shadow, Shift, Stand, Star Maps, Stranger's Room, Talk, Together, Too Late, Trick, Truth, Two, Woman, Worse | Leave a comment

Virtual Love Song

Posted on January 18, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Virtual Love Songby Michael Doyle She peeked inside my windowTell me how was I to knowFrom outside my hdden shadowWas the heart that would rattle my soul Shaking me into a hope for tomorrowAnd make me forget my sorrowShe’s filling … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, Arm In Arm, Beautiful, Best Part, Control, Dreams, Enemy, Forget, Friend, Half-Way, Heart, Hidden, Hope, Know, Love, Magic, Nadia, New Day, Peek, Poetry and Poems, Positive, Rays, Run Away, Shadow, Sorrow, Soul, Start, Stay, Stroll, Sunshine, Tomorrow, Virtual Love Song, Window, World | Leave a comment

My Heart and Mind’s Connection

Posted on January 9, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

My Heart and Mind’s Connectionby Michael DoyleMy heart and mindHave left this world behindCrossing as I followJesus from out of the shadowsFinding my good causeAs I gently start to pauseKnowing I must change my waysFor all my coming daysStep-by-stepI turned … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ask, Behind, Blind, Change, Connection, Cross, Days, Deep, Faithfulness, Finish Line, Follow, Forgiven, Good Cause, Heart, Hungry, Jesus, Know, Lane, Left Behind, Life's Choice, Lord Jesus, Mind, Mine, Pause, Poetry and Poems, Press On, Right Direction, Run, Shadow, Sight, Start, Step-By-Step, Stride, Tremble and Shake, Turn, Voice, Ways, World | Leave a comment

In the Shadows

Posted on October 31, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

In the Shadowsby Michael DoyleThe beginning was an image of allA modern miracle held in mystified aweUntil life’s illusion lost its intensityAnd the desire for death grew in complexityThe face of horror pulls at mankindAs though in this darkness we … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All, Angst, Audience, Awe, Beginning, Big Bang, Blood, Book of Satan, Charmingly Perverse, Children of the Night, Claw, Complexity, Creation and Destruction, Damnation, Darkness, Death, Desires, Diabolical Forces, Eternal Punishment, Face of Horror, Fear, Gasp, Good and Evil, Halloween, Image, Imagination, Immorality, Intensity, Joined, Leaves, Life's Illusion, Mankind, Mephisto, Metropolis, Mirrored Twin, Modern Miracle, Need, Night, Persevere, Plays For Laughs, Poetry and Poems, Power of Light, Protection, Proximity, Read, Rise, Rotting Glory, Salvation, Shadow, Shadows, Spirit of Darkness, Story, Substance, Talisman, Tears, The Crucifix, Together, Tread, Universe | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: That Which We Call Substance and Reality Is Shadow and Illusion, and That Which We Call Shadow and Illusion Is Substance and Reality

Posted on October 3, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“That which we call substance and reality is shadow and illusion, and that which we call shadow and illusion is substance and reality.” – H.P. Lovecraft

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Call, H.P. Lovecraft, Illusion, Reality, Shadow, Substance, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

Hymn of the Taken Heart

Posted on September 15, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Hymn of the Taken Heartby Michael DoyleThere’s a lot to be doneI do it through the SonHailing Jesus as the kingI lift my voice and singBending like a tree in a hurricaneHoping for blessed salvation that cameTo teach me the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, Beautiful Truth, Bend, Blessed, Blessed Salvation, Brightness, Done, Forever True, Forgiven, Given, Hail, Happen, His Call, Hope, Hurricane, Hymn, Jesus, King, Know, Led, Light, Listen, Lot, Love, Mercy, New, Path, Poetry and Poems, Redemption, Repentance, Right, Shadow, Sing, Taken Heart, Teach, The Son, Tree, True, Turn, Us All, Voice | Leave a comment

The Gift of Darkness

Posted on September 5, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

The Gift of Darknessby Michael DoyleLifeGave me the gift of darknessStrifeIn a world filled with harshnessIt was a gift Though it took years to understandThoughts shiftAs you travel the years and the landDarkness Is as important as lightIt takes harshnessTo … Continue reading →

Posted in Photographs & Memories | Tagged Anger, Burn, Candle, Compromise, Define, Defy, Doubt, Experience, Gift of Darkness, Harshness, Hate, Hide, Ignorance, Inside, Justify, Know, Land, Learn, Lesson, Life, Light, Madness, Need, No Place, Poetry and Poems, Promise, Refine, Right, See, Shadow, Share, Shift, Stare, Starkness, Stranger, Strife, Teach, Time, Too Late, Travel, True Sight, Understand, World, Wrong, Years | Leave a comment

Age of Anxiety

Posted on August 27, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Age of Anxietyby Michael DoyleLooking out for my daughters with empathyAs this modern age drips with anxietyThere are so many issues and concerns seenIt quickly overwhelms any human beingIt has become an epidemic across this nationWhere morbid complexity gives way … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, Age of Anxiety, Alienation, Angst, Anxiety, Community, Competence, Confidence, Connect, Corrected, Courses, Crisis and Challenge, Darkness and Blight, Daughters, Depression, Depth, Detection, Development, Earn, Empathy, Encouragement, Epidemic, Failure, Family, Fatherly Delight, Fear, Find Your Way, Focus, Friends, Growing, Heaven, High School, Human Being, Human Beings, Increasingly, Issues and Concerns, Knowing, Learn, Life, Life's Issues, Life's Lessons, Light, Listen, Love, Loving Family, Matters, Meaning, Middle School, Modern Age, Morbid Complexity, Nation, Overwhelm, Pandemic, Parent, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Right, Scared and Embarassed, Scatter, Screens, Scroll, Seen, Shadow, Sight, Smooth Roll, Social Media, Stranger's Love, Systematic, Therapy and Medication, Toll, Truly Know, Whisper, Wise | Leave a comment

In A Pirate’s Night

Posted on August 14, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

In A Pirate’s Nightby Michael DoyleBehind walls, guns, and menWe knew our protectionAs a conspiracy of pirates knows sinIn a violent world lived with instigationGood souls should not live on this beachUnder these kinds of circumstancesImperiled as Bermuda falls to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Beach, Bermuda, Blind Eye, Breach, Chance, Circumstance, Conspiracy, Danger, Dice, Fire, Good Soul, Guns, Hesitation, Instigation, Kill, Men, Night, Pirate, Poetry and Poems, Protection, Question, Right, Rumor, Shadow, Sin, Strangers, Violent World, Walls, Wrongs | Leave a comment