Tag Archives: Should

Ever True

Posted on March 14, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Ever Trueby Michael DoyleChasing the stars to see where they leadDreaming the dreams needed to take seedAnd grow into what it’s meant to meanThe moves to be made are yet to be seenWith a turn of the page come the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Chasing the Stars, Chilled, Close, Connection, Contemplation, Days, Direction, Dream, Embrace, Ever True, Feeling, Forever, Harbor, Home, Keep Love Alive, Knowing Heart, Lead, Life's Temptations, Love, Made, Mean, Moves, Old School, Passions, Play, Poetry and Poems, Rules, Safe, Seed, Seen, Should, Soul-Felt, Spak, Spend, Survive, Trace, Turn of the Page, Understood, Vibes, Wait | Leave a comment

In A World of Thoughts and Other Misgivings

Posted on March 1, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

In A World of Thoughts and Other Misgivingsby Michael DoyleIn a world of thoughts and other misgivingsThere is a lot of hurt in need of forgivingNot just for you or for me, but all it seemsThere are just too many … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accept Less, Act, Artistic, Barbarians, Beholder, Bitter End, Burn, Camera, Certain End, Challenges, Complacency, Conundrum, Could, Deceiving, Decency, Declining Humanity, Disbelieving, Disruption, Do Less, Dreams, Empathy, Evidence, Eyes, Fear, Flame, Forgiving, Fragmented, Good, Harsh, Humanity, Hurt, Indifferent People, Logical, Majorrity, Matter, Media, Mind, Misgivings, Moth, Name, Narrative of Equilibrium, Necessity, Needed Solution, Normality, Poetry and Poems, Presupposed, Quietly, Recognition, Resolution, Scolder, Seems, Sense of Morality, Shadow, Should, Speak Up, Strengthen, Swan-Geese, Swept, Thoughts, True Friend, Verge, Void, World, Wrong | Leave a comment

I’ll Meet You There

Posted on February 15, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

I’ll Meet You Thereby Michael DoyleSomewhere in hereIn the deep felt insideThere is cold fearThat has nowhere to hidePushed past mountains and woodsThe darkness comes as it shouldFighting against this is no goodThis is the truth that’s understoodWounded hearts always … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Acknowledging Your Lies, Ancient Road, Ancient Wisdom, Anguish, Beg, Believed, Blackest Black, Bury, Coins, Cold Fear, Cold Wind, Darkness, Dead, Dececember, Die, Embrace, Error, Eyes, Face, Fat, Fight, Forever, Forget, Ghosts of Fear, Good, Goodbye, Goodness, Harshness, Hate, Heads, Heartbreaks, Heaven, Here, Hide, Hope, I'll Meet You There, Inside, Journey, Last Breath, Life Depends, Light, Live, Long, Lost, Love, Meet You There, Misconception, Moments of Life, Mountains and Woods, Mysteeries, Near, Never Coming Back, Night, Nowhere, Passage, Poetry and Poems, Promise, Remember, River Styx, Run Deep, Should, Silent, Sins, Snow, Somewhere, Soul, Soul Searching, Truth, Understood, Wait, Win, Wish, Word, Wounded Heart, Year's End | Leave a comment

Life As We Wear It

Posted on December 11, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Life As We Wear Itby Michael DoyleIt is one thing to feign ignoranceAnd another to protest our innocenceThis is especially true when it can be shownThat the facts in dispute are easily knownIf we’d only question what it is that … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Act, Answer, Can Do, Fundamental, Ignorance, Innocence, Jigsaw, Known, Life, Need, Poetry and Poems, Powers In Check, Question, Recognized Authority, Should, Should Do, Sky, Sufficient, True, Understood, Wear | Leave a comment

Witches Brew

Posted on October 27, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Witches Brewby Michael DoyleIn the shroud of fog, we find the doorAnd knock on it, hoping yet to exploreHidden secrets are lost behind smoky eyesBut it’s the kind of secret that is hard to disguiseWhat sort of secrets would it … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Advice, Advocation, Best, Better Good, Bright, Chase, Command, Courage, Darkness, Debate, Demands, Different Eyes, Discern, Disguise, Door, Eager, Elude, Encourage, Essence, Evidence, Experience, Experts, Explore, Fell, Fog, Follow, Forge Ahead, Forgive, Friend to Man, Good, Greatness, Hard Times, Heart, Heartbreaks, Hesitate, Hidden Secrets, Horrid Outcomes, Hostility, Humble, Ignorance, Inquiring Minds, Know, Lean, Lesser Minds, Light, Lived, Loving One Another, Mind, Minds, Misunderstood, Mystery, New Day, Open, Orthodoxy, Past Mistakes, Poetry and Poems, Pretense, Price, Providence, Recluse, Refuse, Search, Secret, Share, Sharpen, Shine, Should, Shroud, Smoky Eyes, Sought, True Humanity, True Leaders, Unafraid, Understand, Vanity, Witches Brew, Would | Leave a comment

Sandhill Cranes Revisited

Posted on June 2, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Sandhill Cranes Revisitedby Michael DoyleEvery year Sometimes twice a yearWe would make our pilgrimage Off to Jasper PulaskiTens of thousands of cranes Filled the airZoning in on their nesting groundsZig-zag patterns as grouping Crossed by grouping Into what looks like … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Air, Better, Blessed, Bobbing and Weaving, Canada, Children, Cornfields, Could, Courtships, Cranes Mate Forever, Cycles, Dance, Danced, Dies, Different, Disregard, Drive, Every Moment, Every Year, Fail, Familial Groups, Feathered Paratroopers, Fledglings, Fleeting, Flight, Florida, Forget, Grouping, Guess, Happiness, Hardship, Harvested, Hearts, History, Hope, Humans, Ingrained, Inspired, Its Way, Jasper Pulaski, Keep, Landing, Last, Learn, Learning, Life, Loved, Marsh, Mate, Midwestern Flyway, Migrations, Migratory Routes, Minds, Momma and Poppa, Motion, Natural Wisdom, Nature, Nesting Grounds, Newly Planted, Next Generation, Nourishment, Observation Platform, Pilgrimage, Poetry and Poems, Point, Possible, Promises, Puzzle, Really So, Recognize, Remember, Rest, Revisited, Rituals of Dance, Romance, Romantic Couples, Sandhill Cranes, Scrabbles of Food, Should, Snow and Rain, Sorrow, Sounding Off, Spring, Survival, Taught, Think, Thousands, Times, Too Often, Trace, Tradition, Vain, Watch and Learn, Watching, Weariness, Wish, Wonder, Young, Zig-Zag Patterns | Leave a comment

Strike the Match

Posted on May 4, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Strike the Matchby Michael DoyleLife broke our heartsAnd filled it with sorrowLife killed our hopeBy filling us with promised tomorrowsThere inside our broken smilesAre the tatters, we won’t leave behindEven for a sacred shot at sanityThat is, after all, naught … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alexandria, Bad, Broken Smiles, Care, Children, Choose, Core, Darkness, Eyes, Fair, Flames, Good, Hard Price, Harshness, Heart, Hope, Immortality, Learn, Life, Live For Love, Match, New World, Nice to Win, Old World, Open, Poetry and Poems, Promise, Sanity, Secret Pain, Shame, Should, Sigh, Sleep, Sorrow, Stay Alive, Strike, Sunrise, Survive, Tatters, Vanity, Win | Leave a comment

The Stolen Presence of Both Past and Present

Posted on April 13, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

The thirteenth day of NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo 2020 has the prompt objective of writing a non-apology for things stolen. This is a close as I have for the concept. It’s akin, I believe to something said that I read once but have … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2020, Add-Ons, All, Approach, Aristotle, Brilliance, Claiim, Dance, Eloquently, Ethics, Explore, Full Throttle, History, Humble, Issac Newton, Lame, Learn, Light, Move, Mystery, NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo, Non-Apology, Notions, Observations, Ought, Page, Past, Photograph, Plain, Poem, Poetry, Presence, Present, Recall, Shimmer, Should, Shoulders of Giants, Speak, Splash, Steal, Stolen, Take, Thoughts, Times, Truth, Words, Youth | Leave a comment

Motives Met

Posted on November 27, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on 1 Cor 4:5: Motives Met by Michael Romani Things of darkness brought to light Keeping praise to make this right We are stewards entrusted to care Keeping our charges from Satan’s snare When we stand before … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 1 Cor 4:5, Abundance, Action, Blessing, Care, Connection, Darkness, Desire, Fire, Glory, God, Good, Grace, Heart, Humanity, Intention, Judged, Light, Lord, Measure, Met, Motive, Motives, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Praise, Pure, Resplendence, Right, Sacrifice, Satan, Should, Snare, Steward, Story, Suffice, Throne, Treasure, Truth, Wellbeing, World | Leave a comment

If We Would Wish To Heal

Posted on April 7, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Playing a bit of catch up from yesterday in that my life changed dramatically and not for the better, I am combining the sixth day of Na/GloPoWriMo’s goal of a poem about if and the woulds, coulds, and shoulds of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accumulation, Awareness, Belief, Best of Me, Biology, Brav e, Capability, Colludes, Concsciousness, Could, Deception, Deep, Dis-Ease, Disease, Drama, Embrace, Emotion, Environment, Fear, Genetic, Good, Grief, Grow, Harm, Heal, If, Ignorance, Impair, Increase, Inside, Interact, Intrepet, Manifest, Miracle, Na/GloPoWriMo, Negative, Overcome, Peace, Perception, Permission, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Portal, Power of Belief, React, Reaction, Rest and Repair, Self Image, Shadow, Should, Soul, Spirituality, Subconscious, Trauma, True, Walking Wounded, We, Will, World, Would | Leave a comment