Tag Archives: Surprise

Counting the Days

Posted on September 25, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Counting the Daysby Michael DoyleI hear from some voices to accentuateThe closest approximation to the positive.Sometimes that’s hard with all the dysfunctionalityThat comes from being part of the human family.I have to remind myself that I am not falling,And these … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accentuate, Alright, Amusement, Approximation, Blame, Calling, Clock, Count, Days, Death, Dream, Dysfuntionality, Epidemic, Explore, Faded Questions, Falling, Future Shock, Hold On Tight, Human FAmily, Improvement, lLife, Love Another, Moon Up, Out of Control, Pandemic, Poetry and Poems, Positive, Remind, Rock, Roll, Shame, Soul, Sunrise, Surprise, Taste, Voice, Waste, Whie | Leave a comment

Happy Is Man’s Unknown Door

Posted on August 8, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Happy Is Man’s Unknown Doorby Michael DoyleI see it thereIn your eyes.How life has taught,Making you more wise.Much of life Comes to us by surprise.Happy are those Who live past probable demise.Happy is the man who lives,Rising up from life’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Arrival, Bruises and Thrashes, Charade, Crash, Demise, Discerned, Drfit, Eyes, Gates, Give, Happy, Humanity, Know, Learned, Life, Mn, Nebula, Poetry and Poems, Probity, Promises Made, Questions, Reply, See, Shown, Sleeve, Sobreity, Still Life, Surprise, Survival, Taught, Unknown Door, Use, Value, Voyage, Wise, Years | Leave a comment

The Thick of the Thin

Posted on March 5, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

The Thick of the Thinby Michael DoyleWhispered rumor has itThat we’re the thick of the thinIf you were in HellI’d come barreling inFounded on trust and loyaltyThis is what makes us a familyMy soul is resolved in this decisionYours is … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Barreling In, Breathe, Broken Places, Commitment, Cover You, Damage, Decision, Dying Breath, Eyes, Falling, Family, Fills, Founded, Give This To You, Hard Times, Hardships, Healing, Hearts, Hell, Holding of Hands, Honesty, Integrity, Keep Loving You, Know, Lasting Trace, Living Trust, Longest Day's Length, Loving Traces, Must, Never Betray, Never Surrender, No More To Say, Other Side of Death, Poetry and Poems, Resolve, Respectful Loyalty, Silence, Soul, Standing In Front, Stay To the End, Strength, Stronger, Struggles, Surprise, Tender, Thick of the Thin, True Friend, True Friends Do, Trust and Loyalty, Vision, Voice, Worst | Leave a comment

I Thought Myself An Eagle

Posted on January 30, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

I Thought Myself An Eagleby Michael DoyleI thought myself an eagleAnd built me a nest in solitudeAbove where I could watch beautyAnd very few might intrudeThe disappointments I’ve knownHave dried up my springs of hopeI retreat to that comfort shownAnd … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Absence of Love, Atone, Beauty, Broken, Comfort, Complement, Connection, Cope, Decision, Defect, Disappointments, Discovery, Eagle, Heart, Hope, Hypertensive World, Imagination, Inside Myself, Intrude, Jouney, Known, Leap of Faith, Life, Moments, Music, My Love, Nest, Notes, Own, Poetry and Poems, Precision, Private Sins, Pulled Apart, Refuge, Retreat, Revea;, Right Direction, Rote, Search, Secrets, Shattered, Shelter, Shown, Solitude, Soul, Spoken, Springs of Hope, Steady Eyes, Surprise, Survive, Talk, Thought, Times, Walk, Watch, Wordless Words, Would-Be Travelers | Leave a comment

Remembering Prince

Posted on November 19, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Remembering Princeby Michael DoyleI remember listening to a nightingale singSomewhere in Europe and just about springAnd thinking about things dismissed in hasteA lot of which was only my imagined wasteOne of these was Prince, dead at fifty-sevenDid find his way … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged America Singing, Argue, Blind, Dark Side, Decay, Deep Discography, Delay, Diminutive, Dirty-Minded Minstrel, Dismiss, Europe, Eyebrow, Eyes, Feedback, Fifty-Seven, Forgotten, Freedom, Funky Treasure, Grief, Harm, Haste, Heaven, Hum, Life, Loaded Dice, Lost Culture, Love, Measure, Melody, Memories, Memory, Minor Gods, Mourning Doves, Music, Musical Genres, Nightingale, Pain, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Price, Prince, Pulse, Purple Rain, Rain, Remember, Reverence, Reverie, Rock-n-Roll, Shape of One, Soft Voice, Somehow, Something From Nothing, Soul, Sound, Spring, Strong Spirit, Surprise, The Purple One, Time, Transcend, Trtuh, Waste, Wicked Charm, Wisdom, Writing | Leave a comment

Light And Darkness

Posted on August 28, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Light and Darknessby Michael DoyleI approach my inner self with intimationLooking for deeper thoughts of originationSo much of who I am comes from ancestral careThen living life as bold as I might dareWheels spin inside on subjects of light and … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accept, Ancestral Care, Approach, Beauty, Best, Boundless Feelings, Dare, Deeper Thoughts, Express, Eyes, Failure, Imagination, Impractical Hopes, Indulging, Inner Self, Intimation, Lashing Out, Light and Darkness, Light and Sight, Living Inside, Living Life, Mastery, Origination, Pen to Paper, Perfection, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Right, Self-Examined, Stretch, Struggle, Subject, Success, Surprise, Thoughts, Truth, Vitality, Wheels, World's Harshness | Leave a comment

Your Mother’s Love Is Lying

Posted on July 29, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Your Mother’s Love Is Lyingby Michael DoyleThere is so much assumed as basic factAnd from these, we choose how to reactAccuracy is important from our conceptionYou’d be surprised at the level of deceptionAs with these things lending toward ready detectionThere … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Absent, Accuracy, Accurate, Adage, Advice, AI, Algorithms, Alpha, Anxiety, Art, Assume, Avoid, Bad Decision, Basic Fact, Best Bet, Best Guess, Call, Clue, Coin-Flip Level, Company, Complicity, Conception, Correction, Coyote AI, Deception, Democratize, Detail, Detecting Lies, Detection, Detraction, Device, Dig In, Dog-Eat-Dog World, Dog-ness, Duplication, Essential, Exposure, Eyes, Facts, False Positives, Family, Flag Forward, Future Inquiry, God, Guit, Important, Imprecision, Indication, Injury, Insight, Insult, Intent, Know, Language Clues, Leakage, Life, Love, Lying, mental-health, Mistaken, Mistakes, Momma, Mother's Love, Outweigh, Pay Our Dues, Poetry and Poems, Polygraph, Poster Children, Privacy, Pseudo-Replication, Pychology, React, Real, Recall, Result, Sad and Crying, Script, Signal, Social Interaction, Steady Gaze, Surprise, Theories, True, Truism, Truth, Use, Wrong | Leave a comment

In the End (We Die Alone)

Posted on July 1, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

In the End (We Die Alone)by Michael DoyleHarsh words are toldSometimes quietly, sometimes boldThere are a million ways to live your yearsBut it’s best when you free your fearsAnte up to stay in the gameWhatever happened or who is to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above Ground, Ante Up, Balk, Best Ability, Best Card, Better, Beyond Our Capability, Blame, Bluff, Bold, Breath, Chin Held High, Chin Up, Desolate Mile, End, Face, Fake, Fears, Forgiving, Found, Friend, Getting Yourself Together, Grace, Hard, Harsh Words, Head Above Water, Hurt, Impartiality, In the End, Joker's Bluff, Keep On Living, Life, Life Is Life, Live, Live Your Years, Living, Loneliness, Loud, Pass, Poetry and Poems, Proud, Push Comes To Shove, Quite Enough, Rusted Glass, Smile, Stability, Surprise, Talk Your Walk, Thanks, Told, Troubles, We Die Alone | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Agape’s Object Is Always the Concrete Individual, Not Some Abstraction Called Humanity

Posted on January 21, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Agape’s object is always the concrete individual, not some abstraction called humanity. Love of humanity does not surprise you with inconvenient demands. You never find humanity on your doorstep, stinking and begging.” – Peter Kreeft, ‘Love’, in ‘Fundamentals of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Abrstraction, Agape, Beg, Concrete Individual, Doorstep, Fundamentals of Faith: Essays In Christian Apologetics (1988), Humanity, Inconvenient Demands, Love, Love of Humanity, Object, PeterKreeft, Stink, Surprise, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

Friends of Mine Like Poetry

Posted on January 12, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Friends of Mine Like Poetryby Michael DoyleFriends of mine like a little poetryMixed in with their misguided militancy,There is something to the spin reelingWho needs the facts when there are feelingsIt’s a little less about working things outAnd more about … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Atrocities, Check the Facts, Christian Arabs, Death, Death Tolls, Drinking, Facts, Feelings, Foreign Public, Friends of Mine, HastagLines, Human Shields, Islamists, Known, Militant Actions, Misguided Militancy, Multiple Layers, Muslim Acts, No Tomorrow, Palestine, Palestinian Deaths, Poetry and Poems, Shown, Sober Thinking, Sorrow, Spew, Spin, Spoon-Fed, Suffering, Surprise, Trauma, Untrue Truths, Watercooler Topic, Working Things Out | Leave a comment