Tag Archives: Vanity

A Cosmogony of Fear

Posted on April 20, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

A Cosmogony of Fearby Michael DoyleIn a wide sweep of the Temple ApolloIs the beginning of what the Oracle knowsThe things of myth, from the the beginning growAs the memories of three sisters glowsImagined become the stories that resonateGlobal fears … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems, Uncategorized | Tagged Counterbalance, Cultural Dreams, Death Rattle, Define, Deplorable, Desperation, Destiny, Dread, Dream, Embryo, End, Explorable, Fate, Fear, Fears Grow, Feed On Us, Global Fears, Grow, H.P. Lovecraft, Hide, Humanity, Icons, Images, Imagination, Imagine, Imbalances, Inner Cosmogony, Inner Horrors, Inside, Kiss, Look, Lurid, Memories, Mess, Mountains of Madness, Myth, Offense, Oracle, Palin View, Parasitic Wasps, Poetry and Poems, Pretense, Purpose, Questions, Refine, Replacement Theology, Resonate, Sands, Scratch, Scream, Screen, Seeds of Jupiter, Shown, Silent and Dead, Space, Stories, Temple Apollo, Three Sisters, Tower of Bable, Unknown, Vanity, Wide Sweep | Leave a comment

Dependence

Posted on November 9, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Dependenceby Michael DoyleWhen the days are darkestThat’s when we need your lightKeeping hope alive when we’re saddestYou bring morning to our nightKeeping hope there and aliveYou are the source by which we surviveWalking beside us in our humanityAnd loving us … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Baptism, Believe, Celebration, Conceive, Darkest, Days, Depend, Dependence, Destination, Forgiven, Given, God, Hope, Humanity, Journey, Light, Morning, Night, Poetry and Poems, Promises, Saddest, Survive, Vanity | Leave a comment

This Is the Baseline

Posted on October 12, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

This Is the Baselineby Michael DoyleThis This is the baselineMissed The punchline that was a signThat That showed us the worldAs Every dream was found fetal and curledMost stages of consciousnessAre degrees of insanityMirrored images of pretentiousnessHeld to the light … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Baseline, Breath, Bullet, Clear, Control, Death, Decision, Definition, Degrees, Dream, Error, Extractions, Faithful Soul, Fidelity, Flesh, Generation, Half Truth, Hit the Bottom, Insanity, Light, Memory, Mistakes, Outrun, Poetry and Poems, Precision, Pretentiousness, Primary Drive, Punchline, Real, Recognition, Situated, Stages of Consciousness, Struggle, System, Think and Feel, Trigger, Underneath, Vanity, Veneration, World | Leave a comment

Strike the Match

Posted on May 4, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Strike the Matchby Michael DoyleLife broke our heartsAnd filled it with sorrowLife killed our hopeBy filling us with promised tomorrowsThere inside our broken smilesAre the tatters, we won’t leave behindEven for a sacred shot at sanityThat is, after all, naught … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alexandria, Bad, Broken Smiles, Care, Children, Choose, Core, Darkness, Eyes, Fair, Flames, Good, Hard Price, Harshness, Heart, Hope, Immortality, Learn, Life, Live For Love, Match, New World, Nice to Win, Old World, Open, Poetry and Poems, Promise, Sanity, Secret Pain, Shame, Should, Sigh, Sleep, Sorrow, Stay Alive, Strike, Sunrise, Survive, Tatters, Vanity, Win | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: There Comes A Time When One Must Take A Position That Is Neither Safe, Nor Politic, Nor Popular But One Must Take It Because One’s Conscience Tells One That It Is Right

Posted on January 15, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, “Is it politic?” Vanity asks the question, “Is it popular?” But, conscience asks the question, “Is it right?” And there comes a time when one must take a position … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Conscience, Cowardice, Expediency, Is It Right?, Martin Luther King Jr., Politic, Popular, Question, Safe, Thought Fort The Day, Toe, Vanity | Leave a comment

Thoughts On Dorian Gray

Posted on October 5, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Thoughts On Dorian Grayby Michael DoyleTextured as it is in prescienceAre those things outside of scienceAmong these is the legend of Dorian GrayOf which there is much yet to sayImages that stick through flesh like a knifeSliced cleanly through the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Artist, Bacchanalian, Bad Memories, Beauty, Call, Closed Doors, Clown, Commonsense, Crime, Deal, Death, Devil's Altar, Diabolical, Distract, Dorian Gray, Drink Up, Duty, Fair Trade, Flame, Flesh, Folly, Forever, Forgotten Scenes, Frolic, Games, Heart of Life, Hellfire Club, Human, Images, Introduce, Jest, Knife, Legend, Lesson, Life, London Town, Looks, Lost Moment, Memory, More, Nail, Open Door, Party, Philsopher, Pity, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Prescience, Pretense, Price, Reach, Say, Science, Seeker, Seen, Sermon, Shame, Sin, Sketches, Slice, Sould, Sympathy, Tea, Textured, Thoughts, Time, Truth, Vanity, Victorian Days, Ways of Darkness, Worse Dreams, Young | Leave a comment

Waters Felt As Wild

Posted on July 8, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Waters Felt As Wildby Michael DoyleLooking to the commons differentlyWe sip at the waters reverentlyWith willows and elms along the banksAs a praying man, I stop to give thanksNo matter how much we pollute the watersTheir resilience slips back dreamilyAs … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adolescent, Banks, Camelot, Days, Days Gone By, Differently, Dreamily, Dusk, Elms, Friends, Give Thanks, Guilty, I Let Go, Idles, Ignorant, Insanity, Lost Lore, Memory, Might Have Been More, Once Again, One Word, Past, Poetry and Poems, Policeman's Blotter, Pollute, Praying Man, Pristine, Rainforest, Resilience, Restorative, Reverently, Sins, Sip, Soul, Sunlight, The Commons, Think, Thinking, Today, Undertow, Unseemly, Vanity, Waters, Wild, Wished Against Hope, Yearn, Yesterday, You and I, Youth | Leave a comment

A Visit To An Exotic Feline Rescue

Posted on June 5, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

A Visit To An Exotic Feline Rescueby Michael DoyleI visited a feline rescueWith my daughters to take a viewThoughts given to the depravedAnd the gracious souls who’ve savedThese big cats, who were once littleDrawn towards the drama’s middleOf how humans … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, Abused, Big Cats, Brutes, Clever, Daughters, Did Not Know, Drama, Drawn, Egotists, Engulfed, Exotic Feline Rescue, Fault, Fill With Tears, Gives Me Hope, Gracious Souls, Grow, Habit, Humans, Kittens, Lovingly Care for Them, Madness, My Eyes, Nothing Else, Poetry and Poems, Reasonability, Revolt, Sadness, Saved, Sense of Love, Stars, Sweet and Cute, Thought Very Little, Tragic, Vanity, View, Visit, Wantonly Defiled, Wish | Leave a comment

Na/Glo/Po/Wri/Mo #21: In Believing We Can

Posted on April 21, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Na/GloPoWriMo #21: In Believing We Canby Michael DoyleIn today, I see tomorrowIn today, perched as it isIn today, seated on the edgeIn today, formed by yesterdayAnswers needed to questionsAnswers in need of themselvesAnswers that go unansweredAnswers we still need to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accepting Difference, Answers, Ask Deeper, Believes, Believing We Can, Complete, Dignity, Done, Door, Edge, Extinguish, Find Our Journey, Formed, Hard Work, In Need of Themselves, In the End, Journey Is Long, Let Go of Hate, Life Will Win, Love Is the Answer, More, Na/GloPoWriMo, Offer Best Equity, Only We, Perch, Poetry and Poems, Question, Replete, Seated, Smarter, Society, Start In Belief, Stay the Course, Still Need To Find, Today, Tomorrow, Truly Grow, Truly Know, Unanswered, Vanity, Ways of Opportunity, We All Truly Belong, Yesterday | Leave a comment

In Reverence For Life

Posted on November 10, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

In Reverence For Lifeby Michael DoyleFrom out of his humble life and thoughtA reverence for all life was truly soughtDoing his duty to a higher authoritySeeking the best for all of sacred humanityThe human spirit displayed at its bestWhen it … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 20th Century, Adversity, Albert Schweitzer, All of Life, All Things Have A Purpose, Approach, Awe, Bach, Betrayal, Big Business, Church, Civilization, Complete Obedience, Cultivation, Death, Deference, Devastation, Discern, Distinct, Divine, Duty, End of Days, Eschatology, Fails, Familiar, Free Conscience, French, Future, Gentleman, German, Global Security, Golden Rule, Heed, Higher Authority, History, Human Spirit, Humanity, Humble, International Friendship Day, Jesus, Life, Love, Mankind, Material Prosperity, Medical Missionary, Music, Need, Nuclear Blast, Nuclear Bomb, Overpowering, Peace, Photograph, Pity, Poem, Poetry, Pretense, Promises of Prosperity, Recall, Respect, Reverence, Right, Right Intention, Sacred, Savage War, Scholar, Seek, Tears, Technology, Test, Theology, Thought, Tremble, True Divinity, Vanity, War's End, World War I, World War Two | Leave a comment