Tag Archives: Bold

Standing Together

Posted on October 17, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Standing Togetherby Michael DoyleIn the face of recent brutalityIt’s hard to remain in our humanityBut lean-in we must in accountabilityHere in the last days to our best abilityGod calls for us to be boldPutting aside timidity, since the days of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ability, Accountability, Belief, Believe, Believers, Bold, Brutality, Community, Days of Old, Deceived, Doubt, Face, Faith, Family, God, Grief, Hands, Help, Honor, Humanity, Join, Joy, Know, Last Days, Lean-In, Linked, Must, One Community, Open Prayer, Poetry and Poems, Remain, Rise Up, Standing Together, Timidity, Together, Trust | Leave a comment

Remembering When Kindness Was In Fashion

Posted on October 5, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Remembering When Kindness Was in Fashionby Michael DoyleWe live in a time of self-limited imaginationWhere people cannot dream of outside creationBut mysteriously believe in writing only experienceSuch as found in personal and depraved dalliancesRather than dreaming of the bigger conceptionsToo … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Afraid, America, Appalling, Attacks, Authoritarianism, Awe, Believe, Bewilder, Bigger Conception, Bold, Brink, Bulldoze, Change, Closing Down, Coarseeness, Compassion, Confide, Connections, Counter-Atacks, Creation, Culture, Dalliance, Debate, Decline, Discerning, Dream, Edge, End, Exceptional, Experience, Fashion, Forget, Freely Told, Friend, History, Hold Back, Identity, Imagination, Individual Strands, Kindness, Learning, Liberate, Literature, Live, Love, Moral Courage, One-Sided, Orthodoxy, Peace, Peculiar Sense, Personal, Plurality, Poetry and Poems, Point, Pride, Progress, Refine, Regress, Remember, Responses, Self-Limited, Shadows, Shock, Society, Stories, Strife, Strong, Think, Time, Too Far, Tribes of America, Truth, Unity | 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

Transition Versus Change

Posted on April 30, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Transition Versus Changeby Michael DoyleThe Lord knows that it’s hard to growThe paths taken are hard to knowIn the midst of life’s transitionsIt takes a long time to make right decisionsThat change our lives as we needWhen we find our … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anger, Begin, Bold, Born, Chaff, Change, Choice, Conflict, Contact Sport, Contribution, Control, Decision, Disturbance, Dynamic, Fear, Foothold, Footing, Full-Flow, Fuller Meaning, Garden of Eden, God, Good fight, Grapple, Grow, Heal, Heavy Questions, Hesitation, Hold, Human Beings, Humanity, Insecurity, Know, Learning Curves, Letting Go, Light, Lord, Loss, Love's Embrace, Made Right, Navigation, Need, Own Space, Past Clings, Path, Poetry and Poems, Preparation, Processes, Redemption, Relationships, Resolution, Reveal, Rules, Satan, School, Seed, Series, Slow, Soul, Stay Alive, Strength, Survive, Theology, Transition, Truth, Unfold, Vengeance, Versus, Voice, Wheat, Whisper, Win-Win, Wrestle | Leave a comment

A Poem for Patriots Day 2023

Posted on April 18, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

A Poem For Patriots Day 2023by Michael DoyleIn the heart of every patriot rests a songIn our love of country, under God, as we belongThe foundations are strong and pillars are highAs long as Old Glory ripples across the skyOther … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2023, American Dream, Beauty, Belong, Bold, Brave, Centuries Old, Clarity of Reason, Coastal Gates, Dark Hour, Darkness, Deep, Dignity, Endure, Eternal Vigilance, Every Patriot, Fade, Faith, Fate, Foundations, Freedom, Future, God, Guard, Heart, High, Honor, Justice, Liberty, Light, Love of Country, Mankind's Troubles, Minds, Night, Nobility, Old Glory, Passing, Patriots, Patriots Day, Persevere, Pillars of a Healthy Society, Poetry and Poems, Power, Republic's Principles, Rule of Just Law, Secure, Song, Song of Our Nation, Stay, Stay Firm, Stream, Strong, The Course, The People, Under God, United, Virtuous, Without Fear | Leave a comment

Never Give Up

Posted on July 26, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

A poem written dedicated to my daughters in conjunction with the last class in a series on building resilience in life and to encourage them to chase their dreams always! Never Give Upby Michael DoyleLife like a Rembrandt paintingIs meant … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Believe, Bold, Chase, Control, Daughters, Dedication, Dim, Doing One's Best, Dreams, Earn, Father, Flair, Forgiven, Grow, Human Being, Inspiration, Know, Learn, Life, Live, Never Give Up, Poetry and Poems, Rembrandt, Resilience, Sacrifice, Soul, Stars, Swim, Unafraid | Leave a comment

Denunciation (of Joseph Brodsky)

Posted on January 15, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Denunciation (Of Joseph Brodsky)by Michael DoyleNo longer the young poet, but grown olderHe remained the lyric voice of his generationA social parasite who lived ever bolderAs an involuntary exile held in venerationTold he was pornographic and destroyed by an anxietyNot … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anxiety, Best, Bold, Breadth, Clarity, Cold Night, Condemn, Contempt, Crime, Dare, Denunciation, Destroy, Disguise, Embrace, Endless Space, Generation, Gray Breakers, Guardians, Guiding Light, Highest Degree, Honest Guise, Imbued, Inappropriate, Intensity, Involuntary Exile, Joseph Brodsky, Languages, Life, Lonely and Weary, Lyric, Lyrics, Maturity, Metaphysical, Mother Russia, Older, Poet, Poetry and Poems, Pornographic, Praise, Reality, Recant, Reflective, Roots, Schizophrenic, Sense, Short-Sighted, Social Parasite, Society, Soviet, The Authorities, Time, Transmission, Treat, Troubling, Truth, Understood, Velveteen Pants, Veneration, Voice, Western Literary Tradition, Words, Writing, Young | Leave a comment

Reckless Love of God

Posted on September 6, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Reckless Love of Godby Michael DoyleNever let the impossible stop youIf you live with faith, only victory will doPushing always forward into the newThere’s another miracle waiting to come trueRestoration given in heavenly graceFills the blissfulness in every traceDry bones … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Another Miracle Waiting, Belief, Blissfulness, Bold, Changed Attitude, Defend, Failures, Forward, God, Gossip, Gratitude, Grief, Healing, Heavenly Grace, Impossible, Joy, Live With Faith, Moments, Never Ending, Overwhelm, Poetry and Poems, Rattle, Renew, Restoration, Reveal, Shame, Shiver, Sin, Sorrow, Stop, Stories, Tomorrow, Trace, Transcend, True, Victory | Leave a comment

Echoes of A Dolphin’s Life

Posted on March 6, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Echoes of A Dolphin’s Lifeby Michael DoyleSynchronized sleepingFrom danger keepingHalf brained and one eyedThe pod keeps from being surprisedFollowing the secrets of mysteryA familiar echo explores the seaAs a whale’s song is heard in the distanceAnd against curiosity, there is … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Beauty, Beholder, Bold, Curiosity, Danger, Distance, Dolphin's Life, Echoes, Echolocation, Humpbacked, Hunger Calls, Impossible to Ignore, Majestic, Mother's Tone, Mystery, No Resistance, Ocean Floor, One Eyed, Poetry and Poems, Razor Fish, Romance, Safety By Numbers, Sea, Secrets, Security, Sleeping, Suitable, Surprised, Synchronized, The Pod, Whale's Song | Leave a comment

Lies For Truth

Posted on January 23, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Lies For Truthby Michael DoyleThere’s a lot of people mistakingThe Devil’s lies for the truthIt’s an easy road to heartbreakEspecially, in our bolder youthChasing at golden bits of hilarityWith blinders on as we strain to seeSeeking after just a little … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All We Cannot Eat, At Our Hands, Blinders On, Bold, Buffet, Clarity, Door, Doubt, Easy Road, Fill, For the Truth, From Things, Golden Bits, Heart, Heartbreak, Hilarity, Hope Rest, Humanity, Jaded Temptation, Lies For Truth, Life, Lost, Lot of Peopole, Mental War, Mistake, Never Fully Understand, Offer, Open, Paid In Full, Passages, Passions Burn, Poetry and Poems, Proffer, Puzzle, Realize, Redemption, Sincerity, Star-Gazing, Strain to See, Struggle, The Devil's Lies, The Wages of Sin, Work Out, Youth | Leave a comment