Tag Archives: Charge

Hard To Fix

Posted on February 22, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Hard To Fixby Michael DoyleHitchhiking without a direction knownIt’s not on the map and is seldom shownLooking for God and if He’s in chargeIt’s as close as I come to living largeSome things are like bags of tricksImpossible to handle … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bags of Tricks, Best of Life, Bounce, Busy Looking, Charge, Crowded, Dead, Dear Life, Direction, Family, Forgot, God, Handle, Hard To Fix, Harder To Fix, Head, Here By Mistake, Hide, Hitchhiking, Impossible, Living Large, Map, Memory, Nothing, Poetry and Poems, Possibilities, Pride, Scars, Shown, Smile, Something, Specificty, Stars, Traveling Fast | Leave a comment

Disciples By Grace

Posted on April 28, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Disciples By Graceby Michael DoyleJesus allows us to questionAccepting this without hesitationThough He was given all authorityHe charges His disciples authenticallyTo go and spread the good newsWhile allowing differing viewsThere was room for strategies and doubtWhile spreading the good news … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ability, Accept, Allow, Authentic, Authority, Charge, Community, Complxity, Disciples, Done, Doubt, Earth, Eternity, Eyes, Forget, God's Power, God's Family, Good News, Gospel, Grace, Great Commission, Gspel, Heart, Hesitation, Hope, Humanity, Hurting Places, Impact, Jesus, Omission, Poetry and Poems, Promise, Promises, Question, Real, Regret, Ripple, Seen, Share, Simplicity, Sorrow, Souls, Strategy, Supernatural Hour, Surrender, Testimony, Today, Tomorrow, Universal Paths, Vision, Witness, Word, Worth, Zeal | Leave a comment

The Kindness of Blind Love

Posted on December 13, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

The Kindness of Blind Loveby Michael DoyleEvery once in a while, you findThat life can be a smile and be kindYou find, as I’ve sometimes foundThat if you don’t chase it aroundLove shows up, and it is kindThe best kind … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ages, Ask, Ask For More, Authentic Communication, Blind Love, Charge, Cleanest Way, Connection, Core, Down, Eyes, False Pride, Find, Found, Great Sign, Heart, History's Pages, Kind, Kindness, Led, Life, Lost, Love, Nose, Nowhere, Once In A While, Poetry and Poems, Questions, Real, Show Up, Smile, Somewhere Inside, Soul, Stop Trying, Trace, Truest Connection, Vanity | Leave a comment

Seven Ways of Living A More Godly Life

Posted on August 20, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Seven Ways of Living A More Godly Lifeby Michael DoyleTaking and saving a life surrendered from sinFollowing God’s will and starting once againSanctification is the life’s journey we travelNever worried for our future; assured we will prevailThe first habit is … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accomplishment, Charge, Commandments, Conform, Constant Prayer, Contemplation, Control, Conversation, Dedication, Dependence, Devil, Dilemma, Faith, Faithfulness, Focus, Follow, God, God's Will, God's Word, Godly Life, Habits, Holy Conversation, Holy Relationship, Holy Spirit, Indwelling, Intimacy, Judge, Know, Live, Meditation, Obedience, Path, Poetry and Poems, Power, Prevail, Promises, Quibble, Repetition, Resilience, Righteousness, Sanctification, Seal, Seven Ways, Sin, Soul, Sovereignity, Surrender, Think and Feel, Thoughts and Questions, Trust, Understanding, Worship, Wrath | Leave a comment

Na/GloPoWriMo #22: As A Sign of the Times

Posted on April 22, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Na/GloPoWriMo #22: As A Sign of the Timesby Michael DoyleAs a sign of the timesThe last book I readWas read onlinePoetry told no longer rhymesNor does it impart lesson or deedYet, as an art, they call this fineAs a sign … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Art, Battle Flags, Beat, Become Our Ways, Blurred, Brave New World, Bravest Hearts, Charge, Considered Light, Contemporary Days, Criminals, Darkness, Dearest, Deed, Devils, Discussions, Elections, Engraved, Estranged, Exchanged, Fail To Condone, Few Rules, Fine, Fools, Garbo, Good Lord, Gorillas, Governed, Great Peace, Hard Cuts, I Have Heard, Impart, Into Life, Last Book, Last Photo, Laugh In Tears, Lesson, Lessons and Lies, Living In Isolation, Look, Made, Masked, Masterpieces, Mockery, Musicians, My Own, My Phone, Na/GloPoWriMo, Nearest, No Longer, Online, Our Nation, Paint, Passes for Thought, Perilous Times, Pinched Fingers, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Police, Quick Edits, Rhyme, Rhymes, Right, Saints, Sample, Sign, Socially Distanced, Stands Alone, Steady Gaze, Stealing, Stone, Stones, Straight Ahead, Street Crimes, These Days, Times, Tyrants, Unfurled, Wants To Be Alone, Willing, Won, Zoom | Leave a comment

First Principles: Abuses of the Press and Media Are So Important To Freedom and Science As to Be Deeply Regrettable As These Tend To Lessen Its Usefulness and To Sap Its Safety

Posted on September 11, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“During the course of administration, and in order to disturb it, the artillery of the press has been levelled against us, charged with whatsoever its licentiousness could devise or dare. These abuses of an institution so important to freedom and … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Abuses, Administration, Charge, Dare, Deep, Devise, Disturb, First Principles, Freedom, Important, Institution, Lessen, Licentiousness, Order, Press, Regret, Safety, Sap, Science, Thomas Jefferson, Usefulness | Leave a comment

Wild Winds

Posted on August 1, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

As mentioned before, it is birthday weekend for a very sweet daughter whose gentle spirit and artistic ways make me a better man in every way. I am so proud to be her father. I thought it might be, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Arrive, Assured, Back and Forth, Banter, Birthday Weekend, Bison, Blessed, Brought Back From the Edge, Buffalo, Buffalo Dreams, Buffalos, Calamity, Charge, Conversation, Cows, Daughters, Distinction, Drive, Eldest Daughter, Embrace, Explain, Explore, Extinction, Faint Marks, Family, Fascination, Father, Few Remaining, Flicker, Forward, Fremont, Friends, Future, Future Trips, Great Beasts, Horns, Indiana, Journey, Kayaking, Learn, Less Dim, Liberty, Long Drive, Love, Mile by Mile, Moment, Move Along, Nation, No Complaining, Old, Once Was A Time, Open Door, Outside, Photograph, Playfully, Plentiful, Poem, Poetry, Present, Preserve, Proud, Quicker, Raining, Risks, Rivers, Rus, Safer, Salvation, Saturday, Song, Soul, Stormy, Strength, Talking, Teach, Tenacity, Thankful, The Girls, The Great Creator, Their, Time Spent, Torment, Toward, Trace, Tragedy, Treasure, Vulnerability, Wild Winds, Wilderness, Wonderful, World | Leave a comment

Integrative Imperative

Posted on May 29, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

If you’re roughly my age or older and maybe younger, the idea of taking an integrative approach to health and healing as a wholistic matter is probably approached with some caution. Honestly, though our health is in our hands … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alternative, Avoid, Behavior, Body, Body Heals the Body, Charge, Conjunction, Deserve, Disease, Doctors, Empower, Fate, Gain, Good, Health, Imperative, Integrative, Listen, Meditation, Mind, Mindfulness, New, Nutrition, Old, Path, Patients, Photograph, Pills, Placebo, Poem, Poetry, Relationship, Right Living, Sought, Spirit, Systems, Thought, Traditional, Wellness, Western Medicine, Whole, Wholistic, Wisdom, Worship | Leave a comment

Turbo Charged

Posted on April 9, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

American History continues through the Kennedy presidency. Turbo Charged by Michael Doyle Nixon versus Kennedy; election 1960 Workhorse versus glamor; it hits me That the sleek athleticism of the New Frontier Was as distinctive as this election year The torch … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 1960, Affirmation, All Men Are Created Equal, American, American History, Assassination, Athlete, Bigotry, Calculation, Camelot, Charge, Chin, Christian, Civil Rights, Creed, Criticism, Cuban Missile Crisis, Dead, Death, Discipline, Duty, Election, Era, Essence, Expert, Fight, Flair, Founding Principles, Full Stop, Generation, Glamor, Hard Peace, Human Rights, John F Kennedy, Keynesian, Lead, Lee Harvey Oswald, Liberty, Lunar Landing, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr, Mean, Mellon, Message, Midnight, Missiles, Nation, Negotiate, New Frontier, Noble, Nuclear, Optimism, Paradox, Participation, Past, Peaceful Resistance, Persistence, Phototgraph, Piety, Poem, Poetry, Policy, Posterity, Presidency, Pressure, Price, Prosperity, Richad M Nixon, Sad, Segregation, Sobering Effect, Social Change, Soviets, Taxaation, Thought, Torch, Trouble Spots, Turbo, Two Minutes, Unity, USSR, Veneration, Workhorse, World | 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