Tag Archives: Childhood

The Great American Train Song

Posted on March 19, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

The Great American Train Songby Michael DoyleSometimes words come out stiltedLeaving heads hung and tiltedListening as the lonesome whistle blowsSuddenly, we’re all raggedy hobosAs we wonder to ourselves where time has goneWasn’t it just yesterday when trains rolled onSomewhere down … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Blow, Childhood, Coincide, Country, Days of Our Lives, Great Ameridcan, Horizon, Lonesome Whistle, Memories, Outside, Poetry and Poems, Pride, Pushing Our Luck, Raggedy Hobos, Rolled On, Rubber Hoses, Tilted, Time, Tracks, Train Song, Trains, Truck, Wonder, Words, Yesterday, Youth | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: I Cannot Think of Any Need In Childhood As Strong As the Need For a Father’s Protection

Posted on September 16, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.” – Sigmund Freud

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Thought For the Day: The World Is Full of People Who Have Never, Since Childhood, Met an Open Doorway With an Open Mind

Posted on July 11, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.” – E.B. White

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Childhood, Doorway, E.B. White, Full, Mind, Open, People, Thought For the Day, World | Leave a comment

A New Horizon

Posted on February 8, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

A New Horizonby Michael DoyleOpen up your eyes and seeLook into the new horizonThe morning light brings possibilityShining on without corruptionThe purity of this new dayLies in your hands to be madeThe rain may fall along the wayBut don’t hide … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Afraid, Arc, Begin Again, Believe, Bound, Childhood, Compassion, Corruption, Darkness, Ears, Eyes, Fears, Forget, Future, Hand In Hand, Hands, Hate, Hide Away, Hoome, Keep, Known, Late, Leave, Light, Look, Love, Made, Morning Light, New Day, New Horizon, Northern, Ourselves, Past, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Purity, Rain, Run, See, Shadow, Shine, Stars, Today, Truth, Understand, Understood, Way, Whisper, Win, Woods | Leave a comment

Wandering In the Night

Posted on November 9, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Wandering In the Nightby Michael DoyleWeary souls wandering in the nightIn need of a healing lightWe are not ever truly aloneThanking God, we are not on our ownWe are unburdened from bitternessOur saved souls have felt the tendernessWalking each moment … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alone, Another One, Bitterness, Childhood, Christ, Days, Done, End, Fee, Final Days, Friend, God, Good, Gratitude, Great, Healing Light, Hell, Instances, Journey, Know, Lives, Lost, Love, Night, Own, Path, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Push, Right Attitude, Saved Souls, Tenderness, Thank, Understood, Walk, Wander, Weary Souls, Worthy | 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

Leather Jacket Nerves

Posted on April 3, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Leather Jacket Nervesby Michael DoyleThere I was bleeding on the insideHidden behind the tall wallThat bears the scars of my prideA worn mask with a hidden callNot quite worn as a poker faceDrifting back in my perilous dazeWe would toughen … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Amaze, Bleed, Bloody Fingers, Brace, Brutal Sin, Chains, Childhood, Dying Inside, Dzae, Heroes, Iron Men, Leather Jacket, Mask, Nerves, Nerves of Steel, Painted Black, Play, Poetry and Poems, Poker Face, Pride, Scars, Six String, Solo, Unforgiving, Vain, Wall | Leave a comment

Born In the Rockies (Part III)

Posted on April 1, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Born In the Rockies (Part III)by Michael DoyleAs much as childhood is sweet, it wouldn’t be cleverTo ever believe these days will last foreverThe ending of one relationship spells the start of the newThis is how the grasslands play out … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Atmosphere, Biosphere, Bison, Born In the Rockies, Childhood, Clever, Clouds, Cold, Cyclone, Days, Drift, Experience, First Sight, Flow, Focus, Forever, Funnel, Grasslands, Kid, Master Class, Mother, Mountain, Nanny, Poetry and Poems, Prairie, Purpose, Reassurance, Relationship, Rocky Mountain, Serenity, Sigh, Snowmelt, Storm, Survive, Sweet, Wall, Winter, Yellowstone Valley | Leave a comment

Born In the Rockies (Part II)

Posted on March 30, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Born In the Rockies (Part II)by Michael DoyleThe backbone of North America stretches for milesBring life across the land with ceaseless smilesFrom shifting sand dunes to deep river valleys it goesFrom the most brilliant stretches of sun to deep shadowsEach … Continue reading →

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Love Was There

Posted on July 11, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Love Was Thereby Michael DoyleAlong the country roads of my youthI learned a few jokes and a lot of truthSinging along with the radio showA lot joy there and it continues to flowSo many smiles built on memoryTimes spent with … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Art, Childhood, Choice, Country Roads, Coy, Crashing Down, Dad Joke, Daughters, Distractions, Doing My Best, Everything, Family, Fight, Follow Their Hearts, Give, Good Cheer, Grow Up, Hope, Jokes, Joy, Kind, Learn, Live, Love, Love Was There, Love Will Be There, Loving, Memories, Memory, Million Songs, Moment, Music, Patient, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Push Through, Radio Show, Roadside Attractions, Sing, Smiles, Stay, Their Way, Times, Tired, Truth, Voice, Wish, Youth | Leave a comment