Tag Archives: Sign

Like the Sunrise

Posted on December 2, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Like the Sunriseby Michael DoyleIt is beautiful when you findThat the one who is on your mindHas been waiting for you.Maybe it’s a sign that it’s true.That love is like the sunrise,As it’s captured in your eyes,Like a message coming … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Amazing God, Beautiful, Destiny, Find, Honest, Love, Man, Meant To Be, Message, Mind, Plain, Plan, Poetry and Poems, Prayers, Sign, Star-Crossed Lovers, Steps, Streed, Sunrise, True, Understand, Wait, Woman | Leave a comment

New Orleans Home Rules

Posted on October 27, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

New Orleans Home Rulesby Michael Doyle”Whites Only”, read the ugliest sign.It was as if, by some sort of designThe conspiracists were inclined to provoke,The arrogant mulatto who so often spoke.Little did they know the shadow empireIn which the Devil befriends … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged "Whites Only", Alderman, Confidece, Desing, Devil, Fantasy, Home Rules, Horror, Mulatto, New Orleans, Poetry and Poems, Provoke, Shadow Emire, Sign, Vampire, vampires | Leave a comment

Beyond the Sea

Posted on June 19, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Beyond the Seaby Michael DoyleThere are spaces under the painted skyThat are beautiful enough to make me sigh.Stretching beyond the edges of the seaIs a world of water in its own beauty.Rivers, lakes, wetlands, and streamsAre all filled with a … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Beauty, Better Days, Beyond, Coast, Corn Belt, Dark, Dreams, Edges, Energy, Gloom, Heart, Hidden Life, Indiana State Line, Injury, Kayak, Lake Michigan, Lakes, Painted Sky, Poetry and Poems, Rain, Rivers, Sea, Seagulls, Sign, Soul, Space, Stark, Streams, Sun, The Great Lakes, Water, Wetlands | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Silence Is Not Always A Sign of Wisdom, But Babbling Is Ever A Mark of Folly

Posted on August 29, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly.” – Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck, poet, dramatist, and Nobel laureate (29 Aug 1862-1949)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Always, Babbling, Folly, Mark, Maurice Maeterlinck, Sign, Silence, Thought For the Day, Wisdom | Leave a comment

Dig Our Way Out

Posted on June 28, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Dig Our Way Outby Michael DoyleThere is no treaty we can signThat can reach for and defineThe reasons why I made a ghost of youThere is no explanation for what I doI hide my shame deep in the shadowsKeeping to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Blank Pages, Cage, Deep, Define, Difference, Dig, End, Explanation, Friend, Ghost, Hard, Itch, Matter, Memories, No Honor, Original Sin, Places, Poetry and Poems, Price, Rage, Reach For, Reasons, Right, Shadow, Shame, Sign, Skin, Snake, Still Voice, Talk, Treaty, Truth, Verbal Punches, Way Out, Whisper | Leave a comment

In A Million Days

Posted on May 24, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

In A Million Daysby Michael DoyleI find myself drowning in the ocean of youIn all of the good things I’ve learned to be trueThere, deep within your beautiful, dreamy eyesIs my future that I’ve come to recognizeIt’s said that looks … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged A Single Look, Beach, Beautiful, Begin, Best Happiness, Beyond the Feel, Blind, Breath, Bright, Carry, Champagne, Connection, Cupid's Arrow, Deepest Choice, Dreaming, Drown, Every Kiss, Every Moment, Everyday, Eyes, Fantastic, First Sight, Forever, Full Moon Walked, Future, Good Things, Handwritten Love Note, Heart's Kiss, Hearts, Holding You Tight, I Love You, Inside, Laughter, Learned, Looks, Love Is True, Loving Traces, Magical, Matter, Million Days, Million Special Ways, Ocean, Poetry and Poems, Promises, Reach, Recognize, Right, Romantical, Rose Petals, Rreal, Shatter, Shine, Sign, Spak, Start, Surreal, Touch Me, True, Voice, Wonder, You, Your Love | Leave a comment

Messages Needed

Posted on April 20, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Messages Neededby Michael DoyleThere is something unsaid gone unheededIn all the messages truly neededMessages to and from so many strangersWho are embroiled in all their angerWhat happened to peace, love, and understandingI know I’m no longer hip, and not to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anger, Around, Beauty, Brokenness, Center Stage, Cross My Heart, Dead, Demanding, Disilluion, Duty, Embroil, Feet, Fight, Fire, Flat, Getting Better, Give It, Ground, Heed, Hip, In This Together, Inspired, Light, Live It, Living In the Past, Load, Looking Around, Lost Generation, Love, Love and Peace, Messages Needed, Mirror, New Humanity, Page, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Quest, Rage, Say Nothing, Secret Alphabet, Seldom Heard, Shaman, Shuffling Heels, Sign, Speak, Strangers, Summer of Love, Talk, Tongue, Truly Give, Truly Live, Unconscioiusness, Understanding, Unsaid, Vanity, Veneration, Work, World of the Ugly | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Remember, Compassion Is Not A Sign of Weakness

Posted on August 21, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“If someone behaves negatively towards you, it helps to remember that he or she is a human being like you and to distinguish between an action and the person who does it. If counter measures are needed to prevent someone … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Act, Action, Agitated Mind, Anger, Brain, Calm, Compassion, Counter Measures, Dalai Lama, Distinguish, Function, Harm, Human Being, Negative, Not, Person, Prevent, Remember, Sign, Someone, Thought For the Day, Weakness | Leave a comment

Trees Are Overrated

Posted on July 25, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Trees Are Overrated by Michael DoyleSpeaking of paradigms outdatedIt turns out trees are overratedThis thought comes I am knee-deepIn a prairie’s secrets to keepIn the verdant landscape, songbirds singProviding a soundtrack to the blessed thingsDancing blue granma and sand dropseedTrace … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Aboreal, Decline, Forest Floor, Grass People, Homo Sapiens, Knee-Deep, Outdated, Overrated, Paradigms, Poetry and Poems, Prairie, Prairie Dogs, Preserve, Protection, Savanna, Secret, Shoots, Sign, Soil, Songbirds, Soundtrack, Steeple, Toil, Trees, Tug-of-War, Tyranny, Velds | Leave a comment

Blown Smoke

Posted on April 14, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Blown Smokeby Michael DoyleBlown smoke seen through a windowThe feel of doubt, imprinted on her shadowThe detective watches the young widowLooking for clues, he might recognize and knowHe thinks back on days of reverieThat are no longer more than memoryShivering … Continue reading →

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