Tag Archives: Weary

Held Like A Dream…Let Go

Posted on November 6, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Held Like A Dream…Let Goby Michael DoyleLife can make me wearyDropping me down until I’m tearyClinging to the edges as we sail into the nightIt’s as if we only have lanterns for lightAfter the day’s journey, makes us tireCome warm … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged A Million Years Ago, Ability To Give Life, Blood, Case, Cliing, Do or Die, Dream, Dropping Me Down, Edges, Eyes, Feet, Ferry, Fire, Hands, Haunted, Held, Her, Hold, Journey, Lanterns, Let Go, Light, Meant, Memory, Night, Onward, Other Side, Past, Poetry and Poems, Remember, Run, Sail, Tears, Teary, Tire, Travel, Weary, Why, Yesterday | Leave a comment

First Principles: Those Who Hope In the Lord Will Renew Their Strength. They Will Soar On Wings Like Eagles

Posted on September 24, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall;31 but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength.They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. “ – Isaiah 40:30-31(NIV)

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Eagles, Faint, Fall, First Principles, Hope, Isaiah 40:30-31 (NIV), Lord, Renew, Run, Soar, Srength, Stumble, Tired, Walk, Weary, Wings, Young Men, Youth | Leave a comment

To Yet Believe

Posted on August 12, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

To Yet Believeby Michael DoyleConfused by shadowsWe wonder at what we knowTo the heavens and to belowWe feint at what we might knowPerhaps spoken dreamsAre our best questsThe impossible, so it seemsGives us our best testsTo fight to right the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Believe, Belong, Below, Brave Hearts, Call, Confuse, Courage, Destiny, Down-At-Heart, Dream, Dreamer, Earnest Hearts, End, Feint, Fight, Final Home, Give, Glory, Greatest Gift, Heart, Heaven, Heavens, Home, Impossible, Knight, Know, Lerry, Passing Years, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Quest, Recall, Reval, Right, Seem, Shadow, Start, Story, Tear, Test, Try, Weary, Wonder, Wrongs | Leave a comment

Na/GloPoWriMo #6: Setting Fires To Feel Joy

Posted on April 6, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Na/GloPoWriMo #6: Setting Fires To Feel Joyby Michael DoyleI set fires to feel joyIt’s just one of those tricksThat I employ – I ate my twin inside the wombNot being malicious, but…Just to have more elbow roomThey say,.. and maybe … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adventures, Book, Couple of Lines, Daugthers, Day, Elbow Room, Employ, Father, Feel Joy, Fire, Found Myself, Gold Mines, Hemlock Cliffs, In Need, Lincoln's Boyhood Home, Made You Look, Malicious, Na/GloPoWriMo, Not Quite Right, Nothing Short, One of Those Tricks, Photographing, Poetry and Poems, Really Done It, Recall, Responsive Poem, Rightly So, Set, They Say, Traveling, Twin, Two Lines, Unravelin, Verbal, Want To Read, Waterfall, Weary, Womb, Wordsmith's, Worth the Smile, Wouldn't Be Right | Leave a comment

21st Century Goings On

Posted on June 3, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Dedicated to George Floyd and all victims of brutality in hope that we may yet find our way to a more just and less cruel world shared in our walk of humanity. Marvin Gaye would probably be rolling over in … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 21st Century, America, Antifa, Arm In Arm, Belong, Better Way, Brick, Brother, Brutality, Burning Down, Cancer, City, Common Bonds, Conquer, Cruel World, Death, Despair, Do the Trick, Dying, Each Other, Embrace, Farther, Father, Find Our Way, George Floyd, God's Sake, Goings On, Good Answer, Hate, Humanity, Just, Lawlessness, Light, Locking, Loss, Love, Make, Martin Luther King Jr, Marvin Gaye, Me, Mother, Not Too Late, Our Day, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Radicals, Rage, Right, Riot, Scar, See, Shared Humanity, Sigh, Strong, Talk Your Truth, Tell Me Now, Terms, The Streeets, Think, Today, Together, Uncaring, Understanding, Unjustified Homocide, Us, Walk, We, Weary, What's Going On, World, Wrong | Leave a comment

In A Place of Longing

Posted on May 21, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on Augustine’s Enchiridion: In A Place of Longing by Michael Doyle I suppose there’s no sense in prolonging Stating that the gist of life is belonging The rumor has it that its in what we love And … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, Abudance, Ad Men, Attitude, Awe, Bad, Battle, Belong, Bible, Bittersweet, Blind, Bonfire, Breath, Christ, Cliimb, Confusion, Connection, Crave, Dangle, Daughter, Days, Death, Dedication, Deep, Deeper Relationship, Derision, Desire, Determine, Distraction, Divinity, Do, Do Right, Double Vision, Dust, Earth, Echo, Enchiridion, Entangle, Eyes, False, Father, Feel, Fight, Fire, Forgive, Fulfillment, Fumbles, Generosity, Gift, Gist, God, God's Word, Good, Grain of Salt, Gratitude, Heart, Heaven, Heavy, His Will, Hope, Illusion, Immediacy, Integrity, Intervention, Intrude, Joy, Know, Laugh, Learn, Lesser Things, Life, Light, Listen, Live, Lives, Longing, Lose Our Way, Love, Madison, Meaning, Meant, Mere Christianity, Mindful, Mood, Parents, Permanent Vacation, Photograph, Place, Pleasure, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Precious, Prolong, Promise, Promises, Reflection, Rest, Rumor, Rut, Satisfaction, Self, Self Focus, Selfish, Sense, Shape, Shelf, Sight, Slight, Son, Soul, Spark, St Augustine, Storm Chase, Stumble, Subconcious, Suffer, Surround, Taste, Teach, Test, Tools, Transfix, Treasure, Truth, Understood, Vanity, Verbosity, Ways, Weary, Yoke, You | Leave a comment

Reading of Minds

Posted on May 13, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

The best and truest magic in the world remains love. Still all the same, there is even among even those wishing to become astute wizards, a strong desire to be able to read minds… Reading of Minds by Michael Doyle … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Are, Attention, Behind, Best, Book of Knowledge, Care, Chaos, Confidence, Control, Create, Depart, Desire, Diffidence, Earn, Everything, First, Flow, Fulfill, Grace, Heart, Hidden, Human Beings, Hyperborean Age, Illuminate, Information, Know, Known, Learn, Light, Little Things, Love, Magic, Mean, Mind, Minds, Mystery, Night, Notion, Passage, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Proposition, Quench, Read, Reading, Regard, Right Intention, Role, Secret, Show, Shown, Signs, Simple, Spells, Stars, Subtle, Sure, Tangle, Thirst, Thoughts, Trickery, True, We, Weary, Will, Wizard | Leave a comment

Cursed Fate

Posted on March 20, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Once upon a not so long ago, even words spoken could get you accused of all sorts of things. Now it’s a new sort of dogma that we have to conform to or pay a wicked price. Funny isn’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Banal, Blame, Cause, Challenge, Charge, Clever, Contempt, Cunning, Curse, Deception, Deprive, Deveiver, Device, Dogma, Dream, Evil, Fate, Fire, Flames, Glower, Grow, Guilty, Head, Hell, Honest, Ill Manner, Innocent, Inspire, Judgment, Know, Men, Moral, Nightmare, Outlaw, Photograph, Pity, Poem, Poetry, Power, Pretty, Price, Said, Scheme, Shame, Sharp, Slip of Tongue, Smil, Theive, Thought, Tongue, Trial, Undone, Weary, Wicked, Word, Young | Leave a comment

Let Us Begin

Posted on February 27, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

So many promises of the 20th century have led to false starts, broken hearts and the horror of confronting the results of our delusions. Let Us Begin by Michael Romani In pursuit of stronger minds Do we risk leaving souls … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 20th Century, Agree, Begin, Biology, Blind, Calculated Risk, Cold, Demanding, Distance, Divinity, Eugenics, Expectation, False Start, Game, GMO, Grasp, Journey, Justify, Less Traveled, Manipulate, Master, Melt, Mind, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Promise, Risk, Road, Roll, Seldom, Soul, Strong, Timothy Leary, Told, Travel, Travesty, Truth, Understanding, Unravel, Us, Vilify, Weary, Within | Leave a comment

A Vancouverite Current

Posted on April 15, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

The Na/GloPoWriM0 Day 15 challenge is to provide a Robert Brown or Shakespearian styled monologue sort of a poem. I opted for a redo on Hamlet’s “To Be or Not To Be” monologue. Kind of.. I opted for happy thoughts not … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Arms, Beaten, Border, Caution, Conscience, Country, Coward, Current, Decision, Deep, Delay, Devote, Dream, Flesh, Folly, Fortune, Friend, Gloom, Good, Gray, Happiness, Happy, Heartache, Heir, Hope, Infatuation, Insolence, Jammies, Know, Life, Love, Me, Merit, Moment, Monologue, Mortal Coil, Motivation, Na/GloPoWriMo, Naked, Native Resolution, Noise, Patience, Pause, Photograph, Pleasure, Poem, Poetry, Pride, Purn, Puzzle, Question, Quiet, Regret, Respect, Return, Reward, Robert Brown, Sake, Shock, Sky, Sleep, Song, Thought, Time, To Be Or Not To Be, Traveler, Trouble, Turn Back, Vancouver, Voyage, Warmth, Weary, Will, William Shakespeare, Wisdom, Wish, Worth | Leave a comment