Tag Archives: Void

Healing Scars Into Stars

Posted on August 29, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Healing Scars Into Starsby Michael DoyleWe can beat ourselves up in the void,In all the shame we try to avoid. Waltzing through interconnecting rooms of shameThis is where we learned to wear our blame.We tell ourselves that we’re different,Acting humble … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alone, Atone, Avoid, Belong, Different, Extended Hand, Far, Feel, Friend, Heal, Hopeful Eyes, Humble, Learn, Lives, Moments, Okay, Pain, Phone, Poetry and Poems, Real, Reverent, Rooms of Shame, Scars, Shame, Skin of Stone, Smile of Low, Stars, Stranger, Strong, Understand, Voice, Void, Waltz, Wonder, Wound | 1 Comment

Of Things Known and Unknown

Posted on May 30, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Of Things Known and Unknownby Michael DoyleSitting around with my eyes dilated For hours, wishing I was a sedatedIt leaves time to think and daydream.The universe expands at its seams.Stark pen scratches on a blank pageDrives the thoughts of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Awesomeness, Blank Page, Born, Celestial Bodies, Chance, Colors of Trance, Creation, Dark, Dark Energy, Daydream, Dilated, Divinity, Embraces, Emptiness, Expand, Fabric, Fragments, Gardne, God's Mansion, Heaven, Hours, Infinity, Known, Mankind, Patterns, Pen Scratches, Poetry and Poems, Primal Spark, Query, Questions, Sacred Heart, Sage, Seams, Semblance, Silence, Silent Scream, Single Point, Singularity, Sitting Around, Spacess, Strange Places, Think, Thoughts, Unity, Universal Expansion, Universe, Unknown, Vastness, Void, Worship | Leave a comment

First Principles: No Legislated Act, Therefore, Contrary to the Constitution, Can Be Valid

Posted on May 2, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“[E]very act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid. To deny this, would be to affirm, that the … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Act, Affirm, Alexander Hamilton, Authorize, Constitution, Delegated Authority, First Principles, Forbid, India, Politics, Religion, Valid, Virtue of Powers, Void | Leave a comment

A Void of Emptiness

Posted on March 9, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

A Void of Emptinessby Michael DoyleApproaching the study of the edges of space Has only begun as technology sets the paceFor the time, it must be studied in deferenceAs it is a humbling, character-building experienceThe stars we watch are like … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alive, Alone, Anguish, Approach, Bell Jars, Better Angels, Beyond, Bleak, Bond, Breathing, Burn, Character Building, Choose, Compelling, Conversations, Crash, Cruelty, Decontamination, Deference, Distant Stars, Ebb and Flow, Edge, Emptiness, Envy, Essence, Experience, Fail, Fear, Flow, Forest, Happiness, Heads, Hear, Heirs Apparent, Human Heart, Humbling, Hurt, Imagination, Intrude, Jealousy, Know, Learn, Loneliness, Love One Another, Made of Stone, Making Friends, Moments, Mortals, Moving Sea, Muddy Waters, Need, One Another, Others, Ourselves, Ovens, Overwhelming, Pangs, Poetry and Poems, Promise, Shore, So Much Love, Soul Revealing, Space, Stars, Strive, Study, Suffering, Sum, Swear, Taking Form, Technology, Transparent, Trees, Vanity, Voice, Void, Voyage, Watch, Watch Back, Waves, Wear, Wore, Worn | Leave a comment

In A World of Thoughts and Other Misgivings

Posted on March 1, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

In A World of Thoughts and Other Misgivingsby Michael DoyleIn a world of thoughts and other misgivingsThere is a lot of hurt in need of forgivingNot just for you or for me, but all it seemsThere are just too many … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accept Less, Act, Artistic, Barbarians, Beholder, Bitter End, Burn, Camera, Certain End, Challenges, Complacency, Conundrum, Could, Deceiving, Decency, Declining Humanity, Disbelieving, Disruption, Do Less, Dreams, Empathy, Evidence, Eyes, Fear, Flame, Forgiving, Fragmented, Good, Harsh, Humanity, Hurt, Indifferent People, Logical, Majorrity, Matter, Media, Mind, Misgivings, Moth, Name, Narrative of Equilibrium, Necessity, Needed Solution, Normality, Poetry and Poems, Presupposed, Quietly, Recognition, Resolution, Scolder, Seems, Sense of Morality, Shadow, Should, Speak Up, Strengthen, Swan-Geese, Swept, Thoughts, True Friend, Verge, Void, World, Wrong | Leave a comment

Among the First Casualties

Posted on May 14, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Among the First Casualtiesby Michael DoyleAmong the first casualties of warIs the promise that love will live onAnd if something goes wrong, lovers will love moreThe white heat of passion burns until it’s goneA touch, a line, a singular traceA … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Among, Borne, Broken Hearts, Burn, Comfort, Embrace, Fallen, Fear, First Casualties, Forget, Heart, Hide, Hope, Left Behind, Line, Linger, Lingering Memory, Live On, Love, Lovers, Mind, Mustache, Okay, Paassion, Poetry and Poems, Pretend, Promise, Reflections, Regret, Scars, Stars, Touch, Trace, Void, War, White Heat, Wish, Wounded Heart, Wrong | Leave a comment

A Silent Genesis

Posted on May 9, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

A Silent Genesisby Michael DoyleMy new obsessionHas a silent genesisIn the maelstromOf ghosts and typhoonsBeyond our bodiesWe rest in eupnea Pure reason’s revolutionFlies on the wings of a dead butterflyLost in the fathoms Between the hammer and anvilIs the dark … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ambassadors, Apprentices, Believers, Between, Beyond, Bodies, Butterfly, Color, Dark Third, Eupnea, Fathoms, Genesis, Ghosts, Hammer and Anvil, Maelstrom, Magic, Morning, Obsession, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Pure Reason, Revolution, Silent, Stronger, Survive, Typhoons, Universe, Void, Willows, Wings, World | Leave a comment

Falling In the Darkness

Posted on April 21, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Falling In the Darknessby Michael DoyleWhatever your beliefI do not mean you griefPlease don’t be annoyedWhen I explain about the voidThat some see and believeBecause it is what they conceiveBetween God and brother manThat confuses us when it canSome react … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alienation, Anger, Annoyed, Belief, Believe, Conceive, Confuse, Darkness, Defiance, Done, Fall, Fist, God, Grief, Is It?, Man, Pain, Path, Poetry and Poems, React, Reconciliation, Reliance, Shake, Soul, Stranger, Vain, Void, Whole, Words | Leave a comment

Cancel Culture Must End

Posted on July 7, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

I was so heartened to see 100 voices from the Left have finally seen the light so much so that they themselves are now beginning to say what I have said for over 15 years now. This whole cancel culture … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems, Uncategorized | Tagged Anxiety, Any Over Others, Blame, Cancel Culture, Civility, Coercion, Contribution, Cultural Institutions, Demands, Dogma, Each, Encourage, End, Evil, Fascism, Fetish, Force, Force Against Force, Free Exchange of Ideas, Free Society, Free Speech, God, Going Too Far, Harshness, Humility, Intolerance, Justice, Kindness, Letter, Lifeblood of Society, Love, Main Street, Meet, Mess, North Star, Nothing Good, Once Excluded, Open Debate, Openness, Overdue, Persuasion, Photography, Poem, Poetry, President Trump, Protests, Public Shame, Raise, Retribution, Rival, Scars, Stand, Stand Together, The Left, Tolerate, Toleration, Trial, Voice, Voice of Reason, Void | Leave a comment

Thankful For Nothing

Posted on November 16, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

A poem of gratitude #16: Thankful For Nothing by Michael Romani Always looking to connect I hold things up to inspect Never intending to ever neglect Anything even where circumspect A question has haunted mankind Who is always probing trying … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Agree, Avoid, Beautiful, Bible, Circumspect, Connect, Divinity, Doubt, Everything, Fascination, Find, Gratitude, Gravity, Inspect, Microscope, Neglect, Nothing, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Quantum Void, Question, Something, Space, Thankful, Universe, Vibration, View, Void, Wonderful, Zoom | Leave a comment