Tag Archives: Time

Left Behind

Posted on February 22, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Left Behindby Michael DoyleThere is a coziness to all our liesWhispers the darkness in this monster’s eyesThere is peace in settling the scoreVengeance knows the warmth of its pourLike a blended whiskey that burns down slowSo is our lack of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alienation, Angel, Anger, Awareness, Beginning, Blended Whiskey, Brimstone and Sulfur, Burn, Cause, Consciousness, Cozy, Creation, Cure, Darkness, Death, Descendants, Design, Desire, Dream, Dwell, Equal, Escape, Exist, Eyes, Fight, Fractional Lineage, Fumbles, Future, God's Favor, God's Will, Heaven's Door, Hell, Humanity, Hunger, Imagination, Isolation, Jesus, Know, Lack of Wisdom, Law, Left Behind, Lesser Beings, Lies, Linear Time, Little More, Living God, Lucifer, Misguided Past, Monster, Odds, Pain, Peace, Pentinents, Persist, Perverse, Poetry and Poems, Pour, Pride, Purgatory, Reincarnation, Requisite Saor, Rest, Satan, Score, Self-Created, Selfishness, Sin, Slow, Sorrow, Soul, Spiritual Synapses, Sublime, Subtle, Suffer, Test, Time, Universe, Vengeance, Warmth, Whisper, Win | Leave a comment

A Wood Dragon’s Cosmology

Posted on February 9, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

A Wood Dragon’s Cosmologyby Michael DoyleThe time spent quietly comes to its endIt’s been another year of pleasant enough livingHaving found my best habits and friendsAnd it has been another year of peacefully givingBut in truth it has been yet … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Balance, Bestiary, Center, Chinese Mythology, Confidence, Contain, Cosmology, Desire, Determination, Diffidence, Diplomacy, Divinity, Dreams, Elements, End, Eternity, Expansion, Eyes, Fifth Cardinal Direction, Flight, Friends, Future, Gentle Rain, Give, Green Dragon, Habits, Imagination, Infinite, Journey, Legacy, Mast, Mist, Nature Deity, Night, Pass, Peace, Perfect Harmony, Philosophy, Phoenix, Poetry and Poems, Power, Rebirth, Sail, Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, Self-Worth, Sky, Spring, Time, Tree, Truth, Weary World, Winds, Wood Dragon, Worry, Yang, Year, Year of the Wood Dragon, Yin | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: My Advice Is To Never Do Tomorrow What You can Do Today. Procrastination Is the Thief of Time

Posted on February 7, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.”- Charles Dickens

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Advice, Charles Dickens, Never, Procrastination, Thief, Thought For the Day, Time, Today, Tomorrow | Leave a comment

Time and Illusion

Posted on January 24, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Time and Illusionby Michael DoyleWalking through life’s many milesI count my wins by my smilesSome might think I’ve been abusedBut mostly, I stand amusedAll the countless false chargesDesigned by enemies to somehow enlargeThe bad things I’ve sometimes doneIn the end, … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abused, Amused, Annoys, Bad Things, Behind, Big, Clarity, Closed Minds, Compete, Confusion, Connections, Countless, Design, Details, Divding, Done, Door, End, Enemies, Enlarge, Evil, False Charges, Feathery Bed, Fighting the Clock, Friendship, Future Recollection, God, Good, Good Advice, Greater Evils, Guide, Head, Humorous Jokes, Ignorance, Illusion, Impurity, Irritation, Laugh, Lean In Hard, Lesser Evils, Life's Joys, Life's Many Miles, Listen, Locked Doors, Love, Need, Nostalgic, Open, Opportunities, Poetry and Poems, Points, Pour, Prisoners, Read, Seen, Small, Smiles Shared, Sorrow, Subtle, Time, Tomorrow, Walk, Whisper, Won | Leave a comment

The Original Wild Child

Posted on January 20, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

The Original Wild Childby Michael DoyleOver pizza. we swung from vine to vineThese laughing daughters making the timeTo watch a remake of Tarzan this Saturday nightEach smile a moonbeam of their father’s delightWe talk as we watch Africa’s original feral … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Act, Africa, Argumentation, Behind, Best, Brave, Burroughs, Change, Cheer, Circle, Complicated, Contemplation, Contemptuous, Creativity, Details, Director, Drama, Endless, Expression, Father's Deligh, Father's Delight, Fear, Feral Child, Fierce, Filed, Friendless, Glory, Guard, Heard, Lack of Dignity, Laughing Daughters, Leave, Liberty, Memories, Moonbeam, Nickname, No Matter How Right, Notes, Original, Peace of Mind, Pizza, Poetry and Poems, Reasoning, Regard, Remake, Rules of Civilization, Saturday Night, Slight, Smile, Society, Society's Lions, Story, Tale, Tarzan, The Wild, Thought, Time, Vine To Vine, Waste, Well, Wild Child, Youngest | Leave a comment

The Sabotage of Daily Life

Posted on January 18, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

The Sabotage of Daily Lifeby Michael DoyleIn the masquerades we playLost in ourselves, day after dayThe connecting dots bring our lossesRide the back of our carried crossesAll the unforeseen circumstancesThat come from life’s dancesAs we seek our first and second … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Beauty, Champagne, Change, Choose, Connecting Dots, Cross, Daily Life, Dance, Day-After-Day, Decay, Delay, Devotion, Emotion, Entirety of Life, Expressions, Gone, Hands, Impressions, Lose, Losses, Lost In Ourselves, Masquerades, Move On, Open Minds, Pay Our Dues, People, Play, Poetry and Poems, Reprise, Sabotage, Stepped-Up Games, Surprises, Survivable, Time, Time AfterTime, Unforeseen Circumstances, Win Or Lose | Leave a comment

A Graduated Conflict of Morality

Posted on January 13, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

A Graduated Conflict of Moralityby Michael DoyleThe late 1960s were a time of generational conflictWith more moral questions than principles to inflictRestrictions on all the choices between the rightAnd wrong of what was needed to get through the nightTo some, … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Age, Blown Smoke, Choice, Clean Cut, Cling, Conflict, Daylight, Echoes, Experience, Fading Sight, Forgot, Generational Conflict, Graduate, Hues, Late 1960s, Life, Lost Passages, Measure, Merit, Moral Questions, Morality, Motivation, Neon Signs, Night, Pleasure, Pockets of Poetry, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Pointed Vieews, Principles, Question, Quirky, quotes, Restrictions, Revealing, Right, Search, Smile, Souls, Sounds of Silence, Spirituality, Stay the Same, Stuck In A Rut, Stupid, Time, Vision, Waves of Feeling, Wrong | Leave a comment

Time Is A One Way Glass

Posted on January 4, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Time Is A One Way Glassby Michael DoyleSometimes time is a one way glassLooking in to take that passIt might be that you’re better than meI guess we’ll just have to wait and seeBut ain’t it sad to feel this … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bad, Better, Better Times, Devil Woman, Glass, Inaccuracy, Necromancy, One Way, Pass, Play, Poetry and Poems, Remember, Sad, See, Time, Truth, Wait, Where | Leave a comment

One By One

Posted on January 3, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

One By Oneby Michael DoyleWe work the problemsOne by oneOne at a timeThat’s how it’s doneWe face the worldOne step at a timeRemaining undefeatedWe struggle for primeThe point of no returnComes fast as we learnThere’s no turning backFrom the life … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All We Got, Blood, Done, Down and Dirty, Earn, Face, Fast, Fight, Forgot, Give, Good, Hard, Hit, Hurt, Laugh, Learn, Life, Mud, Never Mind, No Turning Back, One By One, Poetry and Poems, Point of No Return, Prime, Problem, Right, Roll, Step, Struggle, Swing, Time, Undefeated, Understood, Win Or Lose, Work, World | Leave a comment

Complexity-Simplified

Posted on December 29, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Complexity Simplifiedby Michael DoyleOf all the things I have in life reservedThe right to peacefulness is deservedI have no need for people who like to cause stressAnd this is something I will readily address2024 will be a year of peace … Continue reading →

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