Tag Archives: Blossom

Happy Father’s Day 2024!!

Posted on June 16, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

To all the fathers out there who realize being a daddy isn’t just to bring a child into the world. It is to raise them. It is to love them. It is to teach, clothe, and help them blossom into … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Become, Best Ability, Blossom, Child, Clothe, Daddy, Fathers, God, Good and Abiding, Greatest Privilege, Happy Father's Day 2024, Help, Love, Men, Nth Degree, Our Love, Persons, Raise, Shepherds, Teach, Thought For the Day, World | Leave a comment

Autumn Seen Starkly

Posted on October 2, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Autumn Seen Starklyby Michael DoyleOctober 2nd and the days are wearing thinI suppose it is true that Winter is coming againThis, then, is the truth of Autumn seen starklyAs the days grow shorter and are seen darklyPoetry captures violent moments … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Air, Amplify, Ancient Lineage, Autumn, Bend, Blessedness, Blossom, Breath, Change, Childhood, Cold, Collect, Creep, Cycles of Life, Dark, Days, Death, Decadence, Deciduous, Everywhere, Flower, Golden, Heartbeats, Hibernate, Hours, Ice, Knew, Love, Memories, Moments, New, Old Lifee, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Radiance, Reaper, Rearrange, Seep, Simple, Slip, Spin Out, Spring, Stark, Stay, Sunlight, Taces, Thin, Time, Transmute, True Growth, Truth, Universal, Vivid Color, Warnth, Weather, Winter, Wither | Leave a comment

The Eye of the Storm

Posted on September 9, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

The Eye of the Stormby Michael DoyleTo find the eye of the passing storm in life’s wildernessIs to find quiet hope in the chaos approached in the stillnessWhere the arts find our attention despite all life’s distractionsThe place where somehow … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Approve, Articulate, Attention, Attraction, Blind, Blossom, Bold, Burial, Chaos, Character, Civilization, Classic Construct, Complexity, Conformed Silence, Contrary, Cruel, Dead, Dignity, Distraction, Duality, Exceed, Eye, Focal Point, Form, Grow, Head, Institutions, Intellect's Community, Intuition, Intuitively, Jedi Masters, Know, Law, Literary, Literature, Long Ago, Mind, Missed Point, Mummy, Mystery, Notions, Obsolete, Plead, Poetry and Poems, Prioirty, Pseudo-Intellectuals, Question, Quiet Hope, Reader, Remember, Respectable Leaders, Right Words, Seeds, Seeker's Soul, Sin, Soft, Sought, Soul, Source, Stillness, Stopped Thinking, Storm, Tapestry, Technicalities, The Arts, Thinking, Thought, Threads, True Impressions, Truth, Tyranny, Unblinking, Unfilled Page, Unkind, Villiany, Warning Signs, Whitness, Wildnerness | Leave a comment

Blossoming Before Our Sight

Posted on August 19, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Blossoming Before Our Sightby Michael DoyleKeeping God’s presence on our mindsKeeps His will from being left behindWe must ask God to tell us the final costIt will help us from falling away lostKnowing God answers our needs we doThis is … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Answer, Blossom, Choice, Encourage, Final Cost, Foolishness, God's Presence, Holy Spirit, Poetry and Poems, Relationship, Saints, Sight, Sin, Toleration, Truth, Voice, Worship | Leave a comment

Love Lives On

Posted on July 11, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Love Lives Onby Michael DoyleDriving around the middle of the nationTrying to stimulate my daughters’ imaginationsAnd love for seeing the beauty of this nationLike their grandmother would have; if the situationHad somehow allowed this to followIf she had thrived; but … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Allow, Anniversary, Artist Eyes, Beauty of this Nation, Blossom, Bolder Dreams, Breath, Compromise, Daughters, Day, Death, Difference, Dreamer, Dreamt, Driving, Excited Eyes, Explore, Falling Tears, Fire, Follow, Food, Garden of Dreams, Grandmother, Happiness, Happy, Her, Home, Imagination, Inside of Me, Journey, Last Breaths, Lists, Lives On, Love, Love Lives On, Meant, Meet, Memories, Met, Middle of the Nation, Miss, More, Movies, Music, My Daughters, My Mom, Open, Pain, Paint, Places, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Rains, Regret, Remorse, Retrace the Steps, Reveal, Sad, See, Shadow, Situation, Sleep, Smile, Something More, Soul, Still, Stimulate, Surprise, Tears, Thrive, Tired, Traces, Two Hearts, Want, Watch, West Virginia, Whisper, Wish, World, Years Ago, Young Boy | Leave a comment

Happy Palm Sunday 2023

Posted on April 2, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

As we begin this Holy Week, I am blessed to have the presence of my two daughters that I love more than all the world. God blessed my ex-wife and I with their lives being shared with us and it … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Beauty, Blessed, Blossom, Compassion, Daughters, Deepest lesson, Different, Earthly Plane, Existence, God, Grace, Happy Palm Sunday 2023, Holy Week, Joy, Love, Moment, Reflect, Reflection, Share, Thought For the Day, Unique Attributes, Young Ladies | Leave a comment

To Angie (At Age 15)

Posted on August 3, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

To Angie (At Age 15)by Michael DoyleSince the day you entered the worldWith longish locks and fists uncurledI have stood amazed and maybe dotedAs I looked into your heart devotedAs it was and still in angelic senseArmed with a smile … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Age 15, Amazed, Angelic, Angie, Beautiful, Birthday, Blossom, Daughter, Daugther, Devoted, Easy, Father, Independence, Kind, Love, Make the World Better, Poetry and Poems, Smile, Treasure Chest, Wonderful, World | Leave a comment

On Behalf of the Uyghurs

Posted on July 16, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

On Behalf of the Uyghursby Michael DoyleGive me the whole of your sentence And I will still my will and serveGive me the entirety of your pretenseTell me what it is that I deserveAnd I will still write my poetryNever … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Banner, Behalf, Blossom, Bosom, Committing Verses, Conscience, Courage, Cried, Culture, Defend, Deserve, Encoourage, Endless Grief, Everything, Fade Away, Familiar Voice, Family, Fire n Throat, Flowers, Freedoms, Genocide, Gulnisa Imin, Hope, Human Contact, Integrity, Joined In Voice, Language, Live Dead, Live Freely, Living Legacy, Make Us Friends, Manner, Memory, Moonless Nights, Patriotism, People's Rights, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Pretense, Reeducation, Regret, Said, Sentence, Separatism, Serve, Shared Thoughts, Sharing Freedom's Plea, Sing Freely, Stars, Strength, Strokes of Penmanship, Stubborn Pride, Supress, Tenderness, Thoughts, Thousand Nights, Tribe of Poets, Truth of Peace, Uyghurs, Vital, WeChat Snippets, Wilderness, Yearn | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: And the Day Came When the Risk It Took To Remain Tight Inside the Bud Was More Painful Than the Risk It Took To Blossom

Posted on February 22, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” -Anais Nin, writer (21 Feb 1903-1977)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Anais Nin, Blossom, Bud, Day, Painful, Remain, Risk, Thought For the Day, Tight | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Thought Is the Blossom; Language the Bud; Action the Fruit Behind It

Posted on November 28, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Action, Blossom, Bud, Fruit, Language, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thought, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment