Tag Archives: The Past

Probability and History

Posted on September 13, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Probability and Historyby Michael DoyleThe past indicates the probability,And the rest, as they say, is history.We learn these things with humility.The passing days become our legacy.The mercantile types take life without any need.The wise take this into account and pay … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Blad Luck, Crumble, Facade, Greed, History, Humility, Legacy, Mercantile Types, Need, Neon Signs, Passing Days, Pay Heed, Poetry and Poems, Probability, Read, Stumble, Subway Walls, The Past, The Wise, Warning, Words | Leave a comment

Each Day Is A Gift

Posted on May 16, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Each Day Is A Giftby Michael DoyleEach day, it seems, is a gift receivedFrom God above, or so it is believedBut there is no real proof to be givenSo, a little doubt might yet be forgiven.Prayer doesn’t change God, just … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alone, Answers, Beliefs, Believed, Bible, Change God, Christianity, Confidence, Day, Deep, Doubt, Faith, Fall Apart, Forgiven, Fruit of the Spirit, Gift, God, Good fight, Jesus, Man, Maybe, No, Our Father, Passing Shadow, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Prayers, Proof, Received, Savor, Shallow, Slay Me, Stumbling, Supplication, The Past, Three Flavors, Twice Removed, Value, Yes, Yesterday | Leave a comment

First Steps Into the Shatter Zone

Posted on March 21, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

First Steps Into the Shatter Zoneby Michael DoyleSometimes, I allow myself an inward journeyAs I seek to know what the past means to meToday, nestled in my roadside booth I find myself eating tacos as I seek out the truthWhat … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Cortez, Destruction, First Steps, God, Gold, History, Inward Journey, Legacy, Mexico, Poetry and Poems, Roadside Booth, Shatter Zone, Spain, Tacos, The Past, Travel, Truth, Two Paths of Madness, Writing | Leave a comment

She Learns To Survive

Posted on February 19, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

She Learns To Surviveby Michael DoyleTo her, I’m her fatherAs I watch my daughterWalking alone in the nightShe’s always been my lightBut it wasn’t always this wayShe’s haunted by the dayThese moments hidden insideBehind her fragile prideHe took her innocenceI’ve … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abandoned, Afraid, Agnoize, Agonizes, Almost Took Her Life, Alone, Beautiful, Beside, Blossom, Bold, Brave, Child of the Light, Confide, Creid, Darkest Depth, Daughter, Day, Dread, Eyes, Father, Feeling, Fight, Fragile Pride, Fright, Grow, Hand, Haunted, He, Head, Heat, Her, Hidden Inside, Hold, In the End, Innocence, Intended Offense, Intense, Know, Learn, Life, Light, Love, Meaning, New Meaning, Night, Poetry and Poems, Power, Remembers, Sad Eyes, Scared, She, Smile, Step Forward, Step-By-Step, Strength, Survive, Talk, Tears, The Past, This Way, Ties, Times, Told, Torment, Understood, Unfolds, Walk, Walking Alone, Worthy, Years | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Railing Against the Past Will Not Heal Us. All We Can Do Is To Change Its Course By Encouraging What We Love Instead of Destroying What We Don’t

Posted on November 24, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Railing against the past will not heal us. All we can do is to change its course by encouraging what we love instead of destroying what we don’t.” – Arundhati Roy

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Arundhati Roy, Change, Course, Destroy, Encourage, Heal, Love, Railing, The Past, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: We Have To Do With the Past Only As We Can Make It Useful To the Present and the Future

Posted on November 22, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.” – Frederick Douglass, in The Meaning of the Fourth of July For the Negro

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Frederick Douglass, The Future, The Meaning of the Fourth of July For the Negro, The Past, The Present, Thought For the Day, To Do, Useful, We | Leave a comment

Upending the Trump Cards

Posted on November 1, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Upending the Trump Cardsby Michael DoyleBefore my almost disbelieving eyesThe stuff of comics is seen as I realizeThat theoretical physics is being soldAnd the multiverse is the story being toldPage one and above the paper’s foldThe blockbuster is showing up … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Action, Beat, Block Buster, Bold, Choice, Comics, Cosmology, Cosmos, Disbelieving, Discomfort, Dissatisfaction, Explanation, Eyes, Fold, Frame, Human Minds, Illustrate, Incomplete, Memory, Mingle, Multiverse, Obsolete, Page One, Paint, Parllel, Philosophy, Poetry and Poems, Print, Religion, Scenery, Spidey Senses, Story, Technology, The Past, Theoretical Physics, Tingle, Told, Trump Cards, Truth, Upend | Leave a comment

A Dance of Fate

Posted on March 16, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

A Dance of Fateby Michael DoyleLife is more than merely fateIt is never really too lateTo realize that we have choicesLifted up in our true voicesIf only we might chooseNo longer allowing life to abuseExamining what we might refuseAnd refusing … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abuse, Blame, Blindness, Chance, Choices, Choose, Choosing, Churn, Circumstance, Collide, Confuse, Dance, Decisions, Depth, Destinies, Discern, Examine, Fate, Fault, Frame, Glance, Happenstance, Hard To Realize, Late, Life, Make, Mere, Ocean, Paths, Poetry and Poems, Possible, Refuse, Ride, Rush, Shoulder, Subtle, Take, The Past, Troubled, True Voices | Leave a comment

Ohio River Driven

Posted on July 11, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Poem based on Part I of a scenic drive taken along the Indiana towns along the Ohio River. Part II will be today, probably. 🙂 Ohio River Driven by Michael Doyle Two hour drive to catch a bit of history … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Aurora, Beecher Church, Blast, Call Out, Care, Catch, Cemetery, Chasing Circles, Children's Children, Core, Details, Distillery, Drive, Each Age, Feel, Feeling, Fool, Found, Gamble, Give Thanks, Greek Revival, Guide Book, History, Iconoclast, Indiana, Integrity, Leave, Legacy, Legendary, Lessons Learned, Liberty, Life, Live, Live Ours, Lost, Manage To Survive, Memorial, Misery, Model-T, Moments Taken, Not Fake It, Ohio River, Out of Order, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Possibility, Prayer, Present, Prosperity, Rising Sun, River Towns, Scenery, Seagram and Sons, Shaken, Small Town, Some Day, Some Gave All, Street, Take A Drive, The Past, Times, Unique, War Dead, What We Make It, Whiskey, Wonder | Leave a comment