Tag Archives: Toll

Gary Thain, Part II

Posted on November 7, 2026 by alohapromisesforever

Gary Thain, Part IIby Michael DoylePainfully thin on Heep’s stoic stage,Gary Thain’s bass set the tone of the page.There in rock’s mighty kingdom,Came the mystic whisper of Sweet Freedom.This kind of lifestyle takes its toll.That’s just the price of rock-n-roll.Caught … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Addiction, Appetite, Bass, Cautionary Tale, Chater Member, Choices, Club 27, Consumption, Depth of Pain, Disease, Fact, Fair, Gary Thain, Genuis, Heaven, Hell, Lifestyle, Pain, Path of Destruction, Pathos, Poetry and Poems, Price, Quiet Man, Rock, Self-Loathing, Sensitivity, Shock, Short Life, Stage, Sweet Freedom, Talent, Toll, Tone, Touring, Undoing, Uriah Heep, Wonderworld, Wrong or Right | Leave a comment

Age of Anxiety

Posted on August 27, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Age of Anxietyby Michael DoyleLooking out for my daughters with empathyAs this modern age drips with anxietyThere are so many issues and concerns seenIt quickly overwhelms any human beingIt has become an epidemic across this nationWhere morbid complexity gives way … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, Age of Anxiety, Alienation, Angst, Anxiety, Community, Competence, Confidence, Connect, Corrected, Courses, Crisis and Challenge, Darkness and Blight, Daughters, Depression, Depth, Detection, Development, Earn, Empathy, Encouragement, Epidemic, Failure, Family, Fatherly Delight, Fear, Find Your Way, Focus, Friends, Growing, Heaven, High School, Human Being, Human Beings, Increasingly, Issues and Concerns, Knowing, Learn, Life, Life's Issues, Life's Lessons, Light, Listen, Love, Loving Family, Matters, Meaning, Middle School, Modern Age, Morbid Complexity, Nation, Overwhelm, Pandemic, Parent, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Right, Scared and Embarassed, Scatter, Screens, Scroll, Seen, Shadow, Sight, Smooth Roll, Social Media, Stranger's Love, Systematic, Therapy and Medication, Toll, Truly Know, Whisper, Wise | Leave a comment

Returned To the Sea

Posted on August 15, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Returned To the Seaby Michael DoyleAt the ends of bargains madeStormy seas leave reason to be afraidWondering where it is that one standsAnd if a day is as profitable as it demandsProfits are calculated as life’s rewardAs a new bay … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Afraid, Bargain, Bitterness, Care, Dead, Death, Demands, Ends of Bargains, Fake, False Moves, Given, Great Truths, Happiness, Honest Man, Hope, Legacies, Manufactured, Mermaids, Monuments, Pirate, Pirate's Life, Poetry and Poems, Profitable, Razor's Edge, Regret, Return, Sea, Sorrow, Step, Stormy Seas, Swallo, Tales, Taste, Tenderness, The Ocean, The Sea, Toll, Tomorrow, Treasure, Wonder | Leave a comment

For Fear That We Will Fall

Posted on September 25, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

For Fear That We Will Fallby Michael DoyleListen to the world as you doBut in the end to yourself be trueNeither a borrower or lender beBecause debt destroys harmonyWords of wisdom to follow farAs true as truth is the northern … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Action, Afraid To Fly, Before, Borrower, Careful, Churn, Consummation, Contemplation, Dare, Death, Debt, Deception, Die, Double, End, Fall, Fear, Freedom, Harmony, Heartache, Insolence, Last Breath, Lender, Listen, Madness, Northern Star, Path, Perception, Plot, Poetry and Poems, Role, Satisfaction, Scorn, Sleep, Stop, Time, Toll, Trouble, True, Truth, Uneasy Rhyme, Words of Wisdom, World, Wrongs of Life, Yourself | Leave a comment

Na/GloPoWriMo Day 2: Scattered From A Hillside

Posted on April 2, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Na/GloPoWriMo Day 2: Scattered From A Hillsideby Michael DoyleTwo papers and a PowerPoint in a dayMakes me wonder about coming unraveledAs I go back to college again to find my wayPerhaps this can serve as my road less travelledA friend … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Aching Mind, Aspirational, Brorrow, Busy Day, College, Comes Out To Play, Day, Details Resolve, Empty Screen, Even the Wisest, Find My Way, Friend, Friendly Advice, Gavel, Hillside, Inspirational, Judge, Let the Words Roll, Looking, Mental Hillside, Na/GloPoWriMo, Not Sweat the Details, Playing On Roads, Poetry and Poems, PowerPoint, Reveal, Road Less Travelled, Rough Business, Scattered, Serve, Some Kind of Poem, Something, Steep, Strikes, Suffice, Toll, Tossing Itself Carelessly, Two Papers, Unseen Details, Valley Below, Weary Eyes, What These Mean, Wonder, Woods, Word Play, Words, Woulds and Shoulds, Wounded Deep, Yet Another Poem A Day | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: There Is No Frigate Like A Book To Take Us Lands Away, Nor Any Coursers Like Page of Prancing Poetry

Posted on December 10, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“There is no frigate like a book / To take us lands away, / Nor any coursers like a page / Of prancing poetry.” -Emily Dickinson, poet (10 Dec 1830-1886

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Bears, Book, Chariot, Coursers, Emily Dickinson, Frigate, Frugal, Human Soul, Lands, Oppress, Page, Poetry, Poor, Prancing, Thought For the Day, Toll, Traverse | Leave a comment

In the Providence of Seneca

Posted on August 24, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

In the Providence of Senecaby Michael DoyleIn the age of ancient tyrannyWhen Rome had lost its libertyEven a good man might compromiseFor the partial good seen in his eyesThough at times, it took its tollTo hide his better angels in … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Absolute, Age, All That Happens, Ancient, Beg For Mercy, Belong, Better Angels, Bind, Blessing, Breath of Life, Code, Complexity, Compromise, Confronted, Correspondence, Creation, Cringe, Death, Destroy, Deviation, Divinity, Done, E, Epistles, Every, Evil, Evil For Evil, Eyes, Face to Face, Facing Adversity, Fast, Felt, Fiddle, Final Analysis, For Good, Full, Garment, God, God Works, Good, Good Man, Good Person, Greater, Grow, Hide, His Creation, Hold True, Just, Kill, Knowing, Liberty, Life, Lost, Mankind, Moral Relativists, Mortal, Name of God, Nation, Natural Law, Nero, No Choice, Nobility, Order, Partial Good, Path, Perfection, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Providence, Regardless, Return, Right and Wrong, Right Way, Righteousness, Role, Rom, Rule, Satisfaction, Seam, Self, Seneca, Sense, Setting Sun, Shade, Shadows, Showing, Situational Ethics, Slavery, Socrates, Sonorous, Soul, Strains, Subjugation, Test of Evil, Testimony, Thoughts, Time, Times, Toll, Traces, Tyranny, Understood, Universe | Leave a comment

Sure Hand of the Devil Dealt

Posted on June 23, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

The surest hand the Devil’s ever dealt is the deceit blotted out into the dark of night… Sure Hand of the Devil Dealt by Michael Doyle The bell tolls out into the black of night So little is seen in … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ancestors, Awaken, Bad Dreams, Bell, Bell Tower, Black of Night, Bought, Candle, Cast, Child, Conceal, Cost, Crucifix, Danger, Darker Things, Deal, Dealt, Destiny, Devil, Diabolical, Dice, Door, Embrace, Face, Feeling, Felt, Flicker, Footsteps, Generation, Hand, History, Howl, Hurt, Inspection, Know, Less, Light, Locked, Locked Door, Lost, Lurk, Masque, Mind, Night, Nightmares, Old Village, Past, Persistence, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Present, Prison, Protection, Real, Reason, Reget, Reward, Saint, Search, Seen, Shadow, Shatter, Sins, Sky, Slam, Stab, Startle, Submerge, Sure, Surest Hand, Toll, Truth, Urge, Veneration, Vision, Wall, Ward, Whisper, Winds | Leave a comment

The Dark Days of Great War

Posted on April 4, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

American History marches on into World War I. The Dark Days of Great War by Michael Doyle Like a thunderstorm in the darkest night The Great War descended in Europe’s sight Suddenly, it seemed that August night All of its … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Action, Aerial Bombing, Alliance, American, American History, Animus, Annihilation, August, Blight, Bolsheviks, Bugle, Capable, Casualities, Civil Liberty, Civilization, Community, Competition, Comprehend, Confrontation, Consent, Conservation, Consolidation, Coordination, Danger, Dark, Day, Death Toll, Destruction, Disloyal, Dissent, Effort, Enmity, Entanglement, Europe, Faculities, Freedom of the Seas, Gas, Germany, Great Power, Great War, Humanity, Ideals, Imperial, Incromprehensible, Instability, John Adams, Land, Liberty Bonds, Lives, Lose, Loss, Lusitania, Machine Guns, Maim, Mankind, Mass Destruction, Nerve Agents, Neutrality, Night, Opposition, Peace, Photograph, Planned, Poem, Poetry, Prevail, Production, Progressive, Propaganda, Russia, Sail, School Master, Score, Security, Shattered Lives, Shipping, Sides, Sink, Submarine, Tanks, Thanks, Thought, Thunderstorm, Toll, Top Down, Trade, Trench, Triple Alliance, Triple Entente, Verdun, War, War To End All Wars, Warfare, Wars Industry Board, Wind, Woodrow Wilson, World Security, World War I, Wound | Leave a comment

Blood On Our Hands

Posted on October 2, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Halloween poem #2 – mankind has the worse monsters and is seldom as kind as we might be if only we could. Blood On Our Hands by Michael Romani Our brutalities serve to shape us Though we wish to deny … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abyss, Asylum, Atrocity, Belief, Better, Blood, Brother, Brutality, Certain, Creature of the Night, Cure, Dawn, Deny, Dignity, Doctor, Fail, Fatal, Forget, Forgivver, God, Halloween, Hands, Heavy, Heoes, Humane, Humanity, Killers, Laugh, Live, Memory, Monster, Night, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Push, Remake, Right, River, Seen, Shadow, Shape, Sister, Sleep, Stir, Toll, Unafraid, Vanity, Watch | Leave a comment