Tag Archives: Tears

Fires Framing Truth

Posted on January 10, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Fires Framing Truthby Michael DoyleHow can you serve the peopleWhen you’re feeding them lies?How can you mislead a motherAnd look her straight in the eyes?You think a dismissive smileIs all you need to wearAs you issue your political denialDon’t you … Continue reading →

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About A Death

Posted on January 8, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

About A Deathby Michael DoyleToday, I watched a show about deathI have to admit, it took away my breathAs I try to write this bit of poetryIt’s weird to think how much it’s hitting meIt’s hard to write with tears … Continue reading →

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A Jingle Bell Sort of Love

Posted on December 10, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

A Jingle Bell Sort of Loveby Michael DoyleThe city lights shine so brightBringing a little Christmas to my nightThere’s joy in how the sleigh bells ringAnd I love the happy way the children singStill, life happens as it doesThere’s no … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alone, Blessed, Bright, Care, Carrying On, Children, Chords, Christmas, Christmas S;pirit, Christmas Tree, City Lights, Close, Does, Factually, Fall In Love, Family, Feel, Feeling Blue, Game, Gathered, Gone, Hand of God, Hanging On, Happiness, Happy Ending, Impossible Deadlines, Jangle, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bells, Joy, Kept, Life, Living, Love, Magic, Moving On, Music, Night, Poetry and Poems, Promises Made, Right Side, Rumor, Same, Sing, Sleigh Bells, Smile, Snowy Air, Tears, Time, True, Wept, Winning, Wish | Leave a comment

To Stay Alive In All Seasons

Posted on December 7, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

To Stay Alive In All Seasonsby Michael DoyleWe give up our courageTrying hard to discourageOurselves or any othersAmong those we call our brothersBut not a single John Wayne aspirationWould save Pearl Harbor or our nationThe men present mostly fought to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged A Thousand Images, All Seasons, Aspiration, Attack, Belly Crawling, Bitter Memories, Boys, Brave Men, Breath, Brothers, Burn, Competing Reasons, Courage, Courage and the Dead, Cry, Dark Stain, December 7th, Dire, Discourage, Earn, Expected, Fire, Fought, Ghosts, Great War, Heart, Hide, History, Infamy, Insane, John Wayne, Learn, Lessons, Make It Home Tonight, Memorial, Men, Modern-Day Cowboys, Nation, No Glory, Ourselves, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Real War, Reality, Remain, Return, Sadness, Scars, Seasons, Situation, Sleeping Giant Awoken, Smoke, Spoken, Start, Stay Alive, Story, Stumble, Survive, Survivors, Talk, Tears, The USS Arizona, Tragic Day, Turn Out Right, Unsuspected, Walk, World | Leave a comment

This Time of Year

Posted on December 2, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

This Time of the Yearby Michael DoyleThere it is, that slow mist in my eyesIt’s not so hard to see and recognizePlease don’t mistake these tearsIt’s just this time of the yearIt’s a slow roll of processional daysAs we live … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, Appreciation, Authority, Behelhem, Bustling Season, Celebration, Christ, Connection, Cope, Cross-Walk, Difficulty, Double-Talk, Eternity, Eyes, Faight, Forget, Gifts, God, Hold Hands, Love, Loving Hope, Majesty, Mistake, Perfection, Poetry and Poems, Processional Days, Purity, Reason, Recognize, Renew, Rest, Salvation, See, Serenity, Sin, Slow Mist, Snow, Song, Star, Tapestry, Tears, Time of Year, Unhurried Holidays, Weight of Sin, Wise Men, Wonder | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Count Your Age By Friends, Not Years. Count Your Life By Smiles, Not Tears

Posted on December 2, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.” – John Lennon

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Age, Count, Friends, John Lennon, Life, Smiles, Tears, Thought For the Day, Years | Leave a comment

If Space and Time…

Posted on November 24, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

If Space and Time…by Michael DoyleIt’s only been a matter of a few passing yearsI’m alone on your birthday except for my tearsTalking to God again, I stare off into the nightYours was the sisterly love that was my guiding … Continue reading →

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Wondering About My Errors

Posted on November 7, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Wondering About My Errorsby Michael DoyleI have been looking in the mirrorRevisiting all my errorsI have been thinking about the pastAll the beliefs that didn’t lastThe Devil visits my mindShowing ruins that I left behindBurning bridges to yesterdayIt seems so … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Babylon, Belief, Belligerent Youth, Burning Bridges, Castaway, Devil, Different Light, Done, Dreaming, Drift Away, Emotional Targets, Error, Errors, Fortune, Frontiers, Identity, LandMines, Living Life, Long Way, Lost Child, Love, Me, Memory, Mirror, Moments, Music, No Man's Land, Ocean Away, Past, Poems, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Punchline, Ramble On, Ruins, Sheltering Sky, Sleep, Species, Tears, Truth, Weep, Why, Wonder, Writing, Yesterday | Leave a comment

In the Shadows

Posted on October 31, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

In the Shadowsby Michael DoyleThe beginning was an image of allA modern miracle held in mystified aweUntil life’s illusion lost its intensityAnd the desire for death grew in complexityThe face of horror pulls at mankindAs though in this darkness we … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All, Angst, Audience, Awe, Beginning, Big Bang, Blood, Book of Satan, Charmingly Perverse, Children of the Night, Claw, Complexity, Creation and Destruction, Damnation, Darkness, Death, Desires, Diabolical Forces, Eternal Punishment, Face of Horror, Fear, Gasp, Good and Evil, Halloween, Image, Imagination, Immorality, Intensity, Joined, Leaves, Life's Illusion, Mankind, Mephisto, Metropolis, Mirrored Twin, Modern Miracle, Need, Night, Persevere, Plays For Laughs, Poetry and Poems, Power of Light, Protection, Proximity, Read, Rise, Rotting Glory, Salvation, Shadow, Shadows, Spirit of Darkness, Story, Substance, Talisman, Tears, The Crucifix, Together, Tread, Universe | Leave a comment

A Catch of Breath

Posted on October 8, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

A Catch of Breathby Michael DoyleLet’s admit that we’re born dyingIt’s time to stop our cryingLet these words be quietly spokenIt’s okay to be a little brokenWe’re connected by more than our headsWe have more meaning than our words saidIt … Continue reading →

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