Tag Archives: Stars

Dropping the Label

Posted on June 12, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Dropping the Labelby Michael DoyleIn every moment, any given momentCan become the truth of a holy momentGod is with us wherever we areWhether in a building or under starsLife may not be fair, but God is faithfulBringing to our lives … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abraham, Admission, Birthright, Blessings, Broken Road, Building, Caterpillar, Circles, Concession, Condition, Contention, Courage, Crises, Daybreak, Destination, Devotion, Discipline, Dropping the Label, Embrace, Eyes, Ezekiel, Face, Faith, Faithful, Family, Fights, Flow, Forget, Forgot, Forward, Fulfilled, Generations, Glory, God, God's Good Plan, Good Book, Grace, Great Nation, Heartbreaks, Hearts, Holy Perfection, Honest Story, Intention, Knights, Life, Listening, Loved and Forgiven, Metamorphosis, Metaphysical, Moment, Nothing, Paths, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Possible, Prayer, Premises, Prevail, Primary, Process, Profit, Promises, Prophecies, Purposes, Real Selves, Realize, Repentance, Revealed, Running, Situation, Solitude, Something, Spiritual, Stars, Stillness, Storm, Strife, Stubbornness, Superstar, Surrender, Truth, Twin Conceptions, Undertow, Wings, Wonderful, Wrestle | 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

To See the World Again

Posted on February 3, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

To See the World Againby Michael DoyleTo see the world through new eyesIt might help me to again realizeThe splendors too often taken for grantedBy those of us whose views are slantedLights like stars seem to aboundAs life loses its … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Again, Beauty, Believe, Child, City, Clearly, Coin, Control, Courage, Darkness, Dearly, Dreams, Eyes, Fairy Tale, Fallen Time, Faltered Question, Fantasy, Fear, Forget, Found, Friend, Ground, Harshness, Heart, Hesitation, Hold Your Hand, Lights, Lost Rhyme, Luster, Lyrical, Magical, Moonlight, Mystery, New Eyes, New Possibility, Once Upon, Pity, Playing Favorites, Poetry and Poems, Promises, Realize, Remembered Eyes, Rippled Pond, Search, See, Skeleton Hands, Soul, Splendor, Stardust, Staring Off, Stars, Strangeness, Taken For Granted, Talk, Touching the Good, Tragic, Tranquility, Understood, Views, Walk, Wishing Well, Wonders, World | Leave a comment

The Sting of A Yellow Jacket

Posted on January 27, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

The Sting of A Yellow Jacketby Michael DoyleNaughty narrative braids togetherA story of coming of age but betterTwo tracks made into one storyNeither of them qualifying for gloryHigh school drama can be brutalityEven without its incessant fatalityAs childhood comes to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anarchy, Anxieties, Apart, Barbarity, Brewing, Brutality, Campfire, Childhood, Cling, Coming of Age, Complexity, Dreams, Embers, Emotional Undoing, Ends, Fatality, Fingers, Friend, Gore, Growing Pains, Hierarchy, High School Drama, Hormones, Iconic, Indolence, Instability, Intentions, Ironic, Lethal Stew, Lingers, Losing Touch, Narrative, Naughty, Negotiation, Poetry and Poems, Process, Qualify, Question, Remembers, Scars, Simplicity, Smothered, Stars, Sting, Swore, Threads, Toxicity, Transforms, True, Two Tracks, Woods, Yellow Jacket | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: For My Part I Know Nothing With Any Certainty, But the Sight of the Stars Makes Me Dream

Posted on December 22, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.” – Vincent Van Gogh

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Certainty, Dreams, Know, My Part, Nothing, Sight, Stars, Thought For the Day, Vincent van Gogh | Leave a comment

She Says…

Posted on December 1, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

She Says…by Michael DoyleAll the ugly truthsThat have tried to push her backHave tripped her up, since her youthUntil grace gave her all she might lackThoughts of how abundance increasesGave her the hope to move on pastIn her story filled … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abudance, Admit, Back, Bad Choices, Brave, Broken Pieces, Claim, Confusion, Control, Faith, Glory, God, Gold, Good Man, Grace, Heart, Hell, Her Love, Honest Soul, Hope, Illusion, Life, Lights Up, Love, Need, Pain, Past, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Push, Rain, Sad, Scar, She Says, Shine, Smile, Sometimes, Soul, Stars, Still Small Voice, Story, Tale, Tears, Tell, Trick, Tripped, Trust, Ugly Truths, Unafraid, Victory, Voices, Walked, Youth | Leave a comment

Reflections on Dorian Gray V: Immortality Revealed

Posted on October 21, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Reflections on Dorian Gray V: Immortality Revealedby Michael DoyleArt imitates life as life imitates artMasquerading in the wantonness of the heartIt’s a fearful discovery of the monster withinThat while we don’t understand, causes us to sinActing in the the brazen … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, Addiction, Art, Artist, Beautiful, Best Promises, Blame, Dance, Dare, Darkness, Depravity, Die, Discovery, Dorian Gray, Doubt, Dream, Duality, Enthralled, Evil, Eye, Eyes, Fatal, Fell, Gift, God, Heart, Hope, Idols, Ignore, Imagine, Immortality, Impulse, Impurity, Intended, Lechery, Life, Lost, Masquerade, Medication, Monster, Monsters, More, Naked, Painting, Poetry and Poems, Premeditation, Reflections, Repulse, Sacrifice, Scars, Scream, Sin, Slippery Slope, Stars, Tell Tale Signs, Temptation, The World, Transform, Treachery, Ugliness, Understand, Wantonness, Whim, Wickedness, Wonderful | Leave a comment

Do Not Be Troubled

Posted on September 5, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Do Not Be Troubledby Michael DoyleDo not be troubled by the struggleOr the times we falter and we bungleDifficulties have come and they will goSuch is the path of life’s ebb and floUnsettled fates make for troubled heartsThe sense of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Arrive, Bungle, Calmness, Come, Coming Toll, Cosmic Language, Deep, Departs, Difficulties, Discouragement, Don't Get Lost, Ease, Ebb and Flo, Encouragement, Fail, Faithfulness, Fall, False Prophecy, Falter, Heavens, Hours, Illustration, Life's Frustrations, Life's Storms, Live Through, Nation, Poetry and Poems, Political Leaders, Recall, Reckon Hard, Revelation, Second Coming, Seeming Norm, Sense of Courage, Signs of Glory, Stars, Struggle, Survives, Times, Times Like These, Troubled, Troubled Century, Troubled Hearts, Unsettled Fates | Leave a comment

Ode To A Low Key God of Mischief

Posted on July 4, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Ode To A Low Key God of Mischiefby Michael DoyleSinister plans thicken the plotAllusions to brutality are too often soughtThere in the hinterland outside of timeIn a spit shot that feels less than sublimeAbsorbing the heart of stars outshinedInto the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Arrogance, Autocracy, Bombs, Brutality, Drop, Dystopian Dreams, Fever Pitch, Fractured Branches, God, Heartbreaks, Infinity, Less Than Sublime, Mischief, Mistakes, Monochrome, Nightmares, Ode, Outside of Time, Pain, Playing Field, Plot, Poetry and Poems, Purgatory, Reality, Shade of Mediocrity, Shadows, Sinister Plans, Spit Shot, Stars, Umber, View, Yield | Leave a comment

A Visit To An Exotic Feline Rescue

Posted on June 5, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

A Visit To An Exotic Feline Rescueby Michael DoyleI visited a feline rescueWith my daughters to take a viewThoughts given to the depravedAnd the gracious souls who’ve savedThese big cats, who were once littleDrawn towards the drama’s middleOf how humans … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, Abused, Big Cats, Brutes, Clever, Daughters, Did Not Know, Drama, Drawn, Egotists, Engulfed, Exotic Feline Rescue, Fault, Fill With Tears, Gives Me Hope, Gracious Souls, Grow, Habit, Humans, Kittens, Lovingly Care for Them, Madness, My Eyes, Nothing Else, Poetry and Poems, Reasonability, Revolt, Sadness, Saved, Sense of Love, Stars, Sweet and Cute, Thought Very Little, Tragic, Vanity, View, Visit, Wantonly Defiled, Wish | Leave a comment