Tag Archives: Begun

River Rain

Posted on August 27, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

River Rainby Michael DoyleAs a gift from the CreatorThe rain fills into the riverBringing new life just begunWith a toss of dice, it’s wonLike a raindrop fills the creekWords become love we dare to speakSpilling out like a timeless riverInto … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Aniticipation, Begun, Best of Lives, Book of Life, Child's Voice, Creator, Creek, Delivered, Dice, Dreamer's Head, Dreams, Father, Gift, Handheld, Life, Listen Close, Love, Love Will Call, Lovers, Mother, Ocean's Depths, Oceans, Past, Poetry and Poems, Query, Questions, Rain, Rain River, Raindrop, Read, Rising Sun, River, Shake and Shiver, Smiles, Speak, Streams, Tested, Theory, Timeless, Won, Words | Leave a comment

The Chasm Between

Posted on August 10, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

The Chasm Betweenby Michael DoyleWhen man creates the perfect machineWill it be as some utopian dreamsOr will they find the chasm betweenWho we are and how we wish to seemIs one which it escapes all detectionThat mortals such as we … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Begun, Between, Body, Breaks, Chasm, Create, Detection, Flaws, Friends, Love, Man, Mind, Mistakes, Mortals, Perfect Machine, Perfection, Poetry and Poems, Recalibration, Start, Test, Utopian Dreams, Wish | Leave a comment

Beneficial Benediction

Posted on February 11, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Beneficial Benedictionby Michael DoyleIt should really come as no surpriseThat when all anyone ever tells is liesTo tell the truth is a revolutionBut it’s beneficial in our evolutionDon’t fear the monsters in your headMake them afraid of you insteadLike figments … Continue reading →

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Reflections On Dorian Gray, Pt VIII: Reality’s Seams

Posted on October 29, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Reflections On Dorian Gray, Pt VIII: Reality’s Seamsby Michael DoyleThere on that snow fallen black of nightIn an alley filled with guilt’s blightDorian fears the tell of tongue wagged taleThat pursues him to the gates of HellThere are dreadful things … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: The Man Who Has Begun To Live More Seriously Within Begins To Live More Simply Without

Posted on July 21, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.” – Ernest Hemingway, author, journalist, Nobel laureate (21 Jul 1899-1961)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Begun, Ernest Hemingway, Live, Man, More Seriously, Thought For the Day, Within, Without | Leave a comment

To Learn To Love

Posted on July 11, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on Colossian 3:13: To Learn To Love by Michael Doyle Bearing as we do with each other Learning daily to forgive and love one another It is always the greatest of love’s expression And the hardest to … Continue reading →

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Into the Open Door

Posted on June 25, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

What if we could finally stop seeking and finally see? Into the Open Door by Michael Doyle If life were but a movie What would we really be But a story within the story That is all the glory Of … Continue reading →

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Sacred Questions

Posted on June 11, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

How do we have the courage to ask the questions that must be asked? We just do.. maybe? Sacred Questions by Michael Doyle Searching for the courage needed Listening to the inner voices, I’ve pleaded To the one that asks … Continue reading →

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In A Still Sleeping Place Inside My Head

Posted on April 4, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

The for the fourth day of NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo 2020 is: “…to write a poem based on an image from a dream”. … and so I did…. In A Still Sleeping Place Inside My Head by Michael Doyle The feeling comes … Continue reading →

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New Day Begun

Posted on February 7, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

A trend in the 21st century is finding ever increasing value in team and cohesion working in collaboration to finding needed solutions. While I’ll never devalue the power of one, I think there is also much merit in working together. … Continue reading →

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