Tag Archives: Breathe

Disturbing the Status Quo

Posted on July 13, 2026 by alohapromisesforever

Disturbing the Status Quoby Michael DoyleWith a direct look filled with woe,Life is disturbing the status quo.A shotgun wedding points the way,Niagara Falls charges the path that stays.Pennies have been thrown awayAs if only a ghost from yesterday.Champagne and oysters … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Angst, Breathe, Champagne and Oysters, Deception, Direct Look, Disturbance, Ghost, Killlng Tme, Life, Monsters, Niagara Falls, Penny, Poetry and Poems, Rage, Shotgun Weddiiinig, Status Quo, Throw Awayy, Vallentines, Woe, Yesterday | Leave a comment

A Song of Testimony

Posted on November 13, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

A Song of Testimonyby Michael DoyleBy His breath, I learned how to breathe,Giving my love to His truth and no longer deceived.I stand with my hands stretched to Heaven above.I’ve put away the weakness of hate for God’s love.My heart … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Breath, Breathe, Broken Heart, Cried, Deceived, Enough, Face, Faith, God's Love, Grace, Hands, Hate, Heart, Heaven, Jesus, Learn, Life, Long, Love, Love of God, One-And-Done, Part, Path, Poetry and Poems, Proverbial, Revived, Servant, Song, Step, Survived, Testimony, Tough, Tried, Truth, Unknown God, Weakness, Wound | Leave a comment

The Thick of the Thin

Posted on March 5, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

The Thick of the Thinby Michael DoyleWhispered rumor has itThat we’re the thick of the thinIf you were in HellI’d come barreling inFounded on trust and loyaltyThis is what makes us a familyMy soul is resolved in this decisionYours is … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Barreling In, Breathe, Broken Places, Commitment, Cover You, Damage, Decision, Dying Breath, Eyes, Falling, Family, Fills, Founded, Give This To You, Hard Times, Hardships, Healing, Hearts, Hell, Holding of Hands, Honesty, Integrity, Keep Loving You, Know, Lasting Trace, Living Trust, Longest Day's Length, Loving Traces, Must, Never Betray, Never Surrender, No More To Say, Other Side of Death, Poetry and Poems, Resolve, Respectful Loyalty, Silence, Soul, Standing In Front, Stay To the End, Strength, Stronger, Struggles, Surprise, Tender, Thick of the Thin, True Friend, True Friends Do, Trust and Loyalty, Vision, Voice, Worst | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Live In Each Season As It Passes; Breathe the Air, Drink the Water, Taste the Fruit, and Resign Yourself To the Influence of the Earth

Posted on October 11, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.” – Henry David Thoreau

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Air, Breathe, Drink, Each Season, Earth, Fruit, Henry David Thoreau, Influence, Live, Pass, Resign, Self, Taste, Thought For the Day, Water | Leave a comment

Exiting To A New Beginning

Posted on December 31, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Exiting To A New Beginningby Michael DoyleThe alpha and the omegaThe beginning and the endLife’s alpha and its omegaLaid bare at the year’s beginning and endGod breathes our lives into motionWhatever the season’s emotionsWe aim to begin and finish strongAs … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2024, Aim, Anchored, Biblical, Blind, Breathe, Church, Community, Complaints, Courage, Desire, Emotion, Empty, Exit, Faith, Family, Glasses, Habakkuk, Half Full, Happy, Heal, Hesitation, Motion, New Beginning, One, Poetry and Poems, Political, Presses On, Principles, Question, Relatinship, Right, Right Choice, Sacred Family, Season, Sight, Spiritual Blindness, Story, Strong, Struggle, The Alpha and the Omega, Voice, Walk, Worship, Wounds of Division, Year | Leave a comment

Poinsettia Day 2023

Posted on December 12, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Poinsettia Day 2023by Michael DoyleUsually quiet and sometimes reservedSometimes death seems so undeservedIt’s hard to find the words to sayLike on this present Poinsettia DayLife is sad, yet interesting, in processionMoments like these reveal this is not a possessionBut a … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2023, Abovee, Accept, Afrar, Angels, Aware, Borrow, Breakdown, Breathe, Bring, Christmas Tale, David, Death, December, Do My Best, Eyes, Family, Filled, First Noel, Flower, Forgiving, Fullness, Gift, Giving, Guitar, Hard, Healing Light, Heart, Heavens, Him, Important, Know, Laughter, Life, Lived, Love, Midnight, Moments, My Life, News, Openly Weep, Plucking Notes, Poetry and Poems, Poinsettia Day, Possession, Procession, Quiet, Remember, Resentment, Reserved, Reveal, Sad, Sad Day, Shepherd, Shining Bright, Sing, Smile, Sorrow, Star, Story, Turn Out Right, Undesvered, Up Close, Wise, Wish, Words | Leave a comment

Like Wanderers Seeking

Posted on October 11, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Like Wanderers Seekingby Michael DoyleLike wanderers wandering a lovelier wayWe plant the seeds that bring the new daysWith a fullness of dreams filling our heartsWe loosely planned how the days would startBut kept the freedom breathing in and outNever steadfastly … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Air, Arrive, Better, Breathe, Care, Change, Cold, Curves, Days, Desrve, Doubt, Dream Together, Dreams, Drive, Earn, Family, Flow, Freedom, Future, GPS, Guide, Happen, Heart, Hours, Journey, Late, Myself, Nurture, Plan, Poetry and Poems, Pth, Seeds, Seek, Show, Start, State, Straight Roads, Talk, Wanderer, Way, Wiggle Room, World | Leave a comment

Seeing Light

Posted on March 20, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Seeing Lightby Michael DoyleLiving life, I learned to swimSeeing light through the dimTrying to learn the rules, then break themI couldn’t be someone else and fake themInto the battlefield of loveI breathe into the heavens aboveWalking barefoot through the fireHolding … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Barefoot, Battlefield, Break, Breathe, Desire, Dim, Drop, Endless Mile, Fast, Fire, Heavens, Light, Living Life, Loneliness, Love, Poetry and Poems, Rules, See, Stop, Swim, Trial, Walking Alone | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Liberty Is the Soul’s Right To Breathe

Posted on September 29, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Liberty is the soul’s right to breathe and, when it cannot take a long breath, laws are girdled too tight.” – Rev. Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Breathe, Girdled, Laws, Liberty, Long Breath, Reverend Henry Ward Beecher, Right, Soul, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

And Suddenly…

Posted on June 10, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

And Suddenly…by Michael DoyleAnd suddenly, I was the guy on the floorThe pain in my chestToo difficult to ignoreThe daughters stood thereIn frozen frames of timeBeing brave despite their fearWould daddy live to share another rhyme?Dear Lord, don’t let me … Continue reading →

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