Tag Archives: Undone

Gifts On this Morn

Posted on December 17, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Gifts On This Mornby Michael DoyleIt’s just how it is since we were bornWe await the superficial gifts of this mornExcited eyes search around the Christmas treeWondering what presents are for you and meThen when all the gifts have been … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Born, Carolers, Change, Cheer, Christmas Tree, Chrstmas, Digital, Excited Eyes, Family, Family Table, Find, Found, Fun, Garland, Gifts, Go Outside and Play, Hide, Innocence, Memory, Moonlight, Morn, Mourning Yesterday, Our Children, Outside, Parents, Poetry and Poems, Screens, Sun, Supper, Tinsel, Toys, Undone, Wonder | Leave a comment

What’s the Horror?

Posted on December 4, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

What’s the Horror?by Michael DoyleWhat’s the horror, you might ask.It seems my life is an endless taskIt seems what I take off the listIt only points to things that I’ve missedIn this rush toward year’s endIt seems I’ve not been … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Amen, Ask, Deadlines, Earn, Edge, Empahty, Endless Tasks, Entropy, Focus, Fun, Gain, Guess, Hall, Happy, Hide, Holidays, Horror, Human Mess, I, Impress, Landimes, Learn, Liberty, List, Missed, My Friend, My Life, New Year, Pearl, Poetry and Poems, Point, Productivity, Reluctance, Ruin, Rush, Share, Shell, Sorrow, These Days, Undone, Wall, Year's End | Leave a comment

Nuclear Winter Hues

Posted on October 7, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

To those who guessed, this Halloween’s poetry theme for me is the monster that lays within far too much of humanity. Nuclear Winter Huesby Michael DoyleNuclear WinterBegins to splinterWith daylight undefinedTricks begin to play on the mindAnother day off the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Air, Another Day, Anyone, Bad, Beginning, Blast, Board, Bored, Creep, Daylight, Decay, Defend, End, Ending, Fast Forward, Fear, Found, Halloween Theme, Hallucination, Hear, Hole, Hope, Hues, Humanity, Live, Mind, Monster, Morning Light, Nation, Never Too Late, Night, Nuclear Winter, Particles, Past, Patch It Up, Perpetual Darkness, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Praying To God, Radiation, Rain, Sad, Seep, Self-Afflicted, Slip, Splinter, Survivors, Today, Transmit and Send, Tricks, Underground, Undone, Uneasy Game, Wait, Whisper | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: What Power Has Love But Forgiveness?

Posted on September 21, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“What power has love but forgiveness?” – William Carlos Williams, poet (17 Sep 1883-1963)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Done, Forgiveness, Intervention, Love, Power, Thought For the Day, Undone, William Carlos Williams | Leave a comment

Love Is Never So Blind

Posted on July 24, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Love Is Never So Blindby Michael DoyleA good conversation Might lead to devastationIf you don’t play it rightYou can lose love in one nightBoy, what are you trying to proveBy making every wrong moveIt’s not like you don’t knowWhat comes … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All Away, Art, Best Play, Books, Candid Expression, Charm, Conversation, Crossed, Devastation, Fatal Line, Flow, Fly, Flying Too Close, Follow, Godsend, Good Days, Good Impression, Harm, Hurts the Most, Ignore, Know, Little Conversation, Little Drinking, Lived, Lose Love, Love, Might Have Been, Million Ways, Never So Blind, One Night, Play It Right, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Pride, Prove, Shine, Sun, Thinking, Thrown, Undone, Unkind, Waxen Wings, Writing, Wrong Move | Leave a comment

Life So Far

Posted on January 11, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Life So Farby Michael DoyleIn the righteousness and errorsLife is often smoke and mirrorsWe walk in our best composureAnd hiding ourselves from exposureOf being seen for who we areHoping our best selves will travel farWe hide ourselves in the shadowsHoping … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bare, Best Friends, Best Selves, Care, Charades, Composure, Confusion, Determine, Done, Doubt, Errors, Exposure, Face-To-Face, Fall, Feel, Found, Game, Ground, Happiness, Heart, Helpless, Hide, Hope, Illusion, Know, Life, Life So Far, Little Losses, Living History, Lost, Low, Made, Matter, Misery, Pieces, Pierce, Play, Poetry and Poems, Remains, Resiliency, Righteousness, Saying, Shadows, Smoke and Mirrors, Soul, Splinters, Stars, This Far, Truth, Uncertain, Undone, Waking Days, Walk, Who We Are | Leave a comment

Life Without Light

Posted on January 6, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Life Without Lightby Michael DoyleLife without lightIs the color they died inDarker than nightIs the least of their sinsI can’t say you’ll like thisBut we need to risk regretFor all the world cried amissAt the lost beauty, we must regretSabbath … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Amiss, Calm, Color, Crimes, Dark, Depravity, Die, Doubt, End, Ends of Our Ropes, Friends, Glow, Graves, Hatred, Hearts, Hell, Hide, History, Hope, Humane, Humanity, Inside, Least, Life, Light, Lost Beauty, Madness, Melt, Never Forget, Night, No Way Out, Pages, Poetry and Poems, Prisoners, Regret, Remember, Risk, Sabbath Candles, Shot, Sin, Someday, Taint, Tears, The Other, Undone, Unfelt, Unifnished, World | Leave a comment

Like Souls Rising From the Dead

Posted on November 4, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Like Souls Rising From the Deadby Michael DoyleHidden symbols press the conscienceAnd then denies the separation of scienceFrom the spirituality of all things trueThis is independent of a fearful point of viewMorals only tend to get in the wayOf moments … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anger, Asp, Blasphemous Prayers, Block, Born, Clasp, Company, Conscience, Consequence, Cosmic Strife, Craven World, Cursed, Damned, Darkness, Dead, Divine, Engrave, Eternal Fire, Evil, Fallen Angels, Fear, Godless, Greed, Hand, Harness, Hellish Choir, Hidden Symbols, Hidden Truth, Knowledge, Life, Lightning, Majesty, Mire, Mirror, Morals, Mother Nature, Names, New Day, New Life, New Meaning, Night, Outshine, Pain, Palmistry, Past Light, Phoenix Rises, Poetry and Poems, Point of View, Price, Rise, Sacred Veil, Satan, Science, Separation, Souls, Spirituality, Stranger, Sun Rise, Sympathy, True, Undone, Winter Storm, Wish, Womb | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Besides the Noble Art of Getting Things Done, There Is the Noble Art of Leaving Things Undone. The Wisdom of Life Consists In the Elimination of Nonessentials

Posted on October 10, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.” – Lin Yutang, writer and translator (10 Oct 1895-1976)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Done, Elmiination, Leave, Life, Lin Yutang, Noble Art, Non-Essentials, Thought For the Day, Undone, Wisdom | Leave a comment

Seasons Shift In Meaning

Posted on September 28, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Seasons Shift In Meaningby Michael DoyleIn times filled with doubt and questionOne certainty stands without hesitationThat as the seasons shift in meaningThese changes influence every human beingHearts break on the shores of coincidenceIn this time seemingly devoid of justiceAs phases … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Autumn, Callous Truth, Calmness, Carefully Made Plans, Certainty, Changes, Coincidence, Cultivaation, Detangled Values, Dystopian Pandemic, Fliimsy, Hope, Humanity's Back, Justice, Liberation, Meaning, Morning Sun, Neolithic Observation, New Norm, Optimsim, Pessimism, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Pointlessness, Question, Romance, Seasons, Spring, Summer, Times, Trepidation, Undone, Weather This Storm, Whimsy, Winter | Leave a comment