Tag Archives: Strange

New Possibility

Posted on July 20, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

New Possibilityby Michael DoyleA new life learnedIn the lessons discernedTaking on all the new daysAs we learn to walk in new waysOur hearts filled with desireour minds set ablaze with firePutting our hopes in a basketInstead of simply lying in … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abundance, Basket, Casket, Connect, Dare, Dedication, Delight, Desire, Destiny, Devotion, Direction, Discern, Dreams, Emotion, Fire, God, Honor, Journey, Learn, New Days, New Possibility, New Ways, Poetry and Poems, Second Sight, See, Seems, Strange | 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

First Principles: How Strangely Will the Tools of A Tyrant Pervert the Plain Meaning of Words

Posted on March 4, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!” — Samuel Adams, 1776

Posted in First Principles | Tagged First Principles, Plain Meaning, Samuel Adams, Strange, Tools, Tyrant, Will, Words | Leave a comment

Into Something More

Posted on February 17, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Into Something Moreby Michael DoyleStrive and fight for a better lifeFinding believed in utopia was naughtBut disappointment with hints of strifeIdeals purchased with bloodied tears soughtOnly to find these too lacking in the endAnd while life goes on, we cannot … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Affliction, Ancient, Beauty, Better Life, Cancer, Change, Comic Opera, Connection, Correction, Darkness, Disappointment, Dripping Poison, End, Faith, Flittering By, Follies, Foreign Shore, Full Circle, Gain, Grasp, Happiness, Hear, Humor, Hypocrisy, Ideals, Jaded, Judgment, Lack, Life Goes On, Light, Lives, Mercy, Mirror, Passing By, Penitent, Plead, Poetry and Poems, Poor, Prayers, Prevail, Purity of Reason, Pursuits, Repent, Right, Season, Society, Something More, Sought, Storied Legacy, Strange, Strife, Suffering, Tale, Trend, True, Trust, Utopia, Views, Voices, Yesterday | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: I Have Learnt Silence From the Talkative, Toleration From the Intolerant, and Kindness From the Unkind; Yet Strange, I Am Ungrateful To These Teachers

Posted on November 26, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.” -Kahlil Gibran, poet, and artist (1883-1931)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Intolerant, Khalil Gibran, Kindness, Learn, Silence, Strange, Talkative, Teachers, Thought For the Day, Toleration, Ungrateful, Unkind | Leave a comment

Reflections On Dorian Gray, Pt VIII: Reality’s Seams

Posted on October 29, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Reflections On Dorian Gray, Pt VIII: Reality’s Seamsby Michael DoyleThere on that snow fallen black of nightIn an alley filled with guilt’s blightDorian fears the tell of tongue wagged taleThat pursues him to the gates of HellThere are dreadful things … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alley, Ancient Danger, Attic Door, Begin Again, Begun, Black of Night, Blight, Burning Fire, Chain, Change, Closeness, Confession, Conspire, Corruption, Creep, Daughter, Dead Rat, Death, Deceptive, Decrepit, Delusion, Demand, Desire, Done, Dorian Gray, Dreadful Things, Dream, Edge of Death, End, Evil, Father, Final Breath, Final Price, Final Say, Fire, Forlorn, Gates of Hell, Ghastly, Hope, Innocence, Innocent Man, Intoxication, Intrusion, Kiss Away Moment, Locked Away, London, Mortal Sin, Only Friend, Paid, Penny, Poetry and Poems, Priest, Purity, Putrify, Real, Reality's Seams, Reflections, Secret Key, See, Sin, Snow, Strange, Stranger, Subway, Tarnished History, Tongue Wag, Train, Traps, Truth, Tunnel, Wake, Whisper, Wind | Leave a comment

Sharing God’s Love

Posted on October 11, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Sharing God’s Loveby Michael DoyleStrange…at this time in historyThat two thirds of children live in povertyThis is something we can changeIf only our priorities, we would rearrangeEach step that we might takeCan be the difference that we makeThis is the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Beast, Belief, Children, Concede, Destroy, Difference, Do, Fake, Fear, Feed, Forward, Given, God's Love, History, Hunger, Least, Make, Me and You, One Thing, Poetry and Poems, Poverty, Priority, Rearrange, Shake, Share, Sharing God's Love, Shine, Simple Truth, Sorrow, Step, Step Forward, Strange, Take, Tomorrow, Walk | Leave a comment

Remember To Forget

Posted on July 6, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Remember To Forgetby Michael DoyleAs long as there is lifeThere is, at least, some hopeRegardless of our strifeThis helps us to quietly copeThose things that bring us to edgeWe need to forgive as our sinThat which as brought us to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Begin Again, Brashness, Break, Caught On Fire, Circle, Comedy, Common Man, Contradiction, Cope, Dante, Dawn, Deranged, Doing Good, Doing Unto Others, Dramas, Edge, Eternity, Fake, Forget, Forgive, Found, Ghosts, Goethe, Golden Rule, Good, Grow, Hope, Human Operation, In the Flesh, Infinity, Informal Philosophy, Inspire, Jealousy, Know, Lack, Learn, Ledge, Lessons, Life, Long, Mist, Motifs, Nations, No Getting Past, No Live and Let Live, Our Condition, Payback, Poetry and Poems, Precious Time, Puzzled Complexities, Remember, Revenge, Secret Alphabet, Secret Seeds, Shakespeare, Sin, Sincere, Souls, Spoken About, Stories, Strange, Strife, Sublime, Vengeage, Vexatious World, Words of Wisdom, World, Worthy To Hear | Leave a comment

Na/GloPoWriMo #4: Closed For Renovation

Posted on April 4, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Closed For Renovationby Michael DoyleWith a startled turnLife became the strangeWith a subtle twist of fateSuddenly, plans became small changeLearning how to simply liveOur best moments in isolationAll across our land we wished to giveAs if it was all closed … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Across Our Land, American Lands, American Nation, Ask, Behind Closed Door, Belief, Best Moments, Better World, Children, Closed, Closed for Renovation, Corona, Count, Courage, Dedicatino, Dreaming, Each New Day, Easter Day, Experience, Fate, Find A Way Through, Gifted, Given Up, God's Love, Grief, Grip, Isolation, Kept In the Distance, Left Alive, Lessons Learned, Life, Lifted, Lived Safest, Lives, Living Without Masks, Lost Its Footing, Loved Friends, Meaning, Minimal Resistance, More, Na/GloPoWriMo, Never See This Again, Nightmares, No Longer Closed, One Another, Our Freedoms, Packing Up, Photograph, Plans, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Recall, Renovation, Road Trip, Safer, Semi-Legendary Plans, Simply Live, Six Foot, Small Change, Spring, Sprung, Startled Turn, Strange, Subtle Twist, Surreal, Tossed Aside, Turned Inward, Turning Toward, Un-Rung, Viral Horror, Write About | Leave a comment

Hymn To the 2020 Christmas Star

Posted on December 24, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Hymn To the 2020 Christmas Starby Michael Doyle 2020 has been a year soul revealingCovid and larceny were ever stealingAny hope for semblance of hopefulnessDenying any hint of serenity and bliss We cried and wondered out of hopeTrying our best … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2020, Abide, Above Us, Advent, Angels, Baby Child, Bad Day, Beacon, Bliss, Blossom, Bow, Bright, Broken Hearts, Burn, Cherish, Christmas Day, Christmas Star, Comfort, Cope, Covid, Cry, Darkness, Deny, Embrace, Faces, Faith, Fallen, Far, Form, Found, Function, Giving Love, Glory to God, Good Will, Grace of God, Great Conjunction, Heavens, Herald, Hint, Hints, Holy Light, Hope, Hopefulness, Hymn, Joy, Jupiter, Larceny, Lean, Loom, Manger, Memories, Moments In Time, Morning, Most of Us, Near, Never Second Best, News, Night, Our Test, Peace On Earth, Perish, Poetry and Poems, Prevail, Rearrange, Revealing, Right, Saturn, Semblance, Serenity, Shadows, Share, Shine, Sing, Skies, Sky, Soul, Spiral, Spirits, Star, Stealing, Strange, Subside, Sweet Sorrow, The Christmas Star, The Lord, Think, Tonight, Truth, Try Our Best, Virgin Birth, Whisper, Wish It Away, Wishing, Women and Men, Wonder, Wondrous, Year | Leave a comment