Tag Archives: Children

In Kalkota’s Slum

Posted on November 4, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

In Kalkota’s Slumby Michael DoyleEven in the Kalkota ghetto,You can see courage in the shadows.Youths capture the waters of historyWhile finding hope for tomorrow’s mystery.Revolutionary optimists fetch the waterWhile knowing so little of mother or father.Living life there in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Brave, Change, Children, Community, Cradle, Early Grave, Flth, Hazrdous, History, Kalkota's Slum, Message, Poetry and Poems, Politicians, Poloio, Poverty, Revolutionary Optimsts, Shadow, Slum, Street, Talk, Tomorrow, Travel, Water, Youth | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: If You Want Children To Keep Their Feet On the Ground, Put Some Responsibility On Their Shoulders

Posted on September 5, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.” – Abigail Van Buren

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Well Met In the Night

Posted on August 14, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Well Met In the Nightby Michael DoyleWe meet in the night, hiding in the masqueradePretending, as we do, in our game of charade,That while we pretend to have no hint of fearThere’s security that gains us gathered here. Social wallflowers … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Borrowed Shoes, Charade, Children, Coal, Dance, Diamond, Eyes, Fear, Fiction, Giants, Gravity, High-Class, Legal Friction, Levity, Love, Masquerade, Night, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Pretend, Security, Social Wallflowers, Well Met | Leave a comment

Tomorrow’s Children

Posted on July 23, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Tomorrow’s Childrenby Michael DoyleBy a leap of faith, we look into the futureLearning what there is to know and nurture.But the best of yet to come, so it seems,Belongs to those who believe in their dreams.I’ve spoken, often, of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Another Way, Believe, Capability, Cave, Children, Choices, Dreams, Faith, False Gods, Flow, Free-Thinker, Future, God, Half-Forgotten Faces, Hearts, Hell, Know, Leap of Faith, Life, Listen, Living Forard, Love, Nurture, Philosopher-King, Plaent, Poetry and Poems, Responsibility, Spoiled Odds, Stay the Courcse, Tide, Today, Tomorrow, Traces, Voices, Winds, Witness, Yesterday | Leave a comment

First Principles: Fathers, Do Not Exasperate Your Children; Instead, Bring Them Up In the Training and Instruction of the Lord

Posted on July 13, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Fathers,[do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.” – Ephesians 6:4

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Thought For the Day: The Best Inheritance A Parent Can Give His Children Is A Few Minutes of His Time Each Day

Posted on June 24, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.” – Orlando Aloysius Battista

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First Principles: Start Children Off On the Way They Should Go, and Even When They Are Old They Will Not Turn From It

Posted on June 15, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.’ – Proverbs 22:6 (NIV)

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Set Free

Posted on March 23, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Set Freeby Michael DoyleLife has me trying to find myselfIt’s not like a book on the shelfBut it’s me who I learn how to readAs life comes at me as it makes me bleedTo live in faith brings graceIt’s known … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Affection, Believe, Bible, Bleed, Children, Christianity, Confidence, Confront, Face-To-Face, Faith, Faithfulness, Find Myself, God, Grace, Holy Way, Jesus, King, Life, Nation, Place, Poetry and Poems, Read, Receive, Relation, Set Free, Worthy | Leave a comment

Truths Inside A Marsh

Posted on March 3, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Truths Inside A Marshby Michael DoyleThe watershed exists as a space of lightThat becomes evermore magical at nightAs water evaporates into the skyWe sit here watching as the egrets flyIn true swampy marsh, the herons nestThey fly there at night … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Believe, Brutality, Children, Courage, Crawdads, Cruelty, Doubt, Egret, Explore, Guilt Or Innocence, Heart, Herons, Hide, Hurting Things, Incredible, Invincible, Jury, Learn, Life and Death, Listen, Live Without Love, Magical, Marsh, Mystery, Night, Poetry and Poems, Private Hells, Rumor, Seen, Shells, Sky, Space of Light, Town Folk, Treated, Trouble, Truths, Watershed | Leave a comment

First Principles: Education Is Not Complete Unless We Teach Our Children Not Only How To Read and Write But the Difference Between Right and Wrong

Posted on February 28, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Education is not complete unless we teach our children not only how to read and write but the difference between right and wrong.” – George H. W. Bush

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