Tag Archives: Choice

Empty Jar

Posted on January 7, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Empty Jarby Michael DoyleIt’s an empty jar that we fillGiven the many choices of our free willIt’s best to live with full intentionLooking back, we’ll see what’s had our attentionThis jar of ours, might just shatterIf we fill it with … Continue reading →

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I, Noelle

Posted on December 18, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

I, Noelleby Michael DoyleGrowing up there was nothing as pleasantAs waiting on Christmas Eve for presentsHe was like a lamb to metaphorical slaughterAs I snuck up on my Santa Claus fatherAs his daughter, there was much prideExcept for the part … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Big Year, Cheer, Children, Chimney, Choice, Christmas Day, Christmas Eve, Complete Perfection, Dasher, Daugther, Destiny, Detail, Doing Well, Father, Feeling, Getaway, God, Growing Up, Hope, Lamb, Look, Magic, Me, Merry Gentlemen, Metaphor, Morning Light, New Direction, Noelle, Phoenix, Photograph, Pleasat, Poetry and Poems, Presents, Pride, Promise, Pushed Aside, Rest, Santa Claus, Shining, Silent Night, Sled, Snowy Night, Snuck Up, Spinning, Tale, Tragic, We, Without Presents, Words | Leave a comment

The Boundaries of Humanity

Posted on November 13, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

The Boundaries of Humanityby Michael DoyleA problem in law that too often escapes detectionIs the weakest in life to have adequate protectionRather the unborn or those at the ends of their lifeEach deserves their own good without facing strifeTo pursue … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abortion, Adequate Protection, Affirmation, At Play, Atomized Strangers, Beginning, Believe, Bioethics, Body-Soul Dualism, Bonds of Society, Boundaries, Break, Choice, Conflicts of Interests, Conspire, Contribution, Correct, Danger, Defense, Desreve, Dignity, Dignity of Life, Dominance, End of Life, Equality, Equitable Solution, Errors In Thought, Essence, Ethical Anthropology, Explicit, Family, Freedom to Kill, Functional Personality, Ghosts, God, Good, Harm, History, Human Being, Human Community, Human Rights, Humanity, Ignore, Implicit, In the Light, Individual Desires, Infanticide, Invisible, Lack Capability, Lacking Argument, Law, Legitimate, Liberty, Live Our Lives, Machines, Meaning of Self, Mistake, Morality, More Than Survive, Mother and Child, Murder, Network of Interdependent Vulnerability, Persons, Philosophy, Photograph, Place, Poem, Poetry, Pretense, Principle, Problem, Pursue Happiness, Put To Right, Pyres, Requirement, Responsiability, Sacred Sense, Sake of A Thrill, Speak, Throw Away Culture, Today, Unborn, Understanding, Unreasonable, Uphold, Varying Degrees, Vulnerable, Weakest In Life, Will, Without Strife, Worth | Leave a comment

First Principles: Providence Has Given To Our People the Choice of Their Rulers, and It Is the Duty, As Well As the Privilege and Interest of Our Christian Nation, To Select and Prefer Christians For Their Rulers

Posted on November 6, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation, to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.” – John Jay

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Choice, Christian Nation, Christians, Duty, First Principles, Given, Interest, John Jay, People, Prefer, Privilege, Providence, Rulers, Select | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Trump Supporters Wave American Flags; Biden Supporters Burn American flags. That’s the Choice.

Posted on November 3, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“Trump supporters wave American flags; Biden supporters burn American flags. That’s the choice.” – Michael Knowles

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged American Flags, Biden, Burn, Choice, Michael Knowles, Supporters, Thought For the Day, Trump, Wave | Leave a comment

Knowing of the Why

Posted on October 15, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Knowing of the Whyby Michael DoyleI believe I know the whyOf why a weeping willow criesWhen there was no time for goodbyeAnd that’s the case for each of us who diesEven in the best case of stabilityThere lies the uncanny … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accept, Air, Ambiguity, Believe, Best, Best Case, Beverage, Case, Caught, Chill, Choice, Choose, Clue, Cold, Country, Cry, Death, Defusion, Dies, Drink, Ease, End, Flourish, Gather Around, Ghost, Ghost Stories, Give Time, Glory, Good, Goodbye, Hesitation, Hide, Home, Illuminate, Illusion, Imagination, Imperfection, Inner, Just Beyond the Bend, Knowing, Live, Love, Most, Mystery, Night, No Time, One, One More Story, People Die, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Probability, Question, Reach, Risk of Losing, Run On, Serves, Situation, Some, Spurt, Stability, Storied Voice, Superstition, Tales, Think, Tragic, Truth, Two, Uncanny, Warm the Heart, Weeping Willow, Why, Wonder, Worth While | Leave a comment

Musing My Articulation

Posted on September 17, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Musing My Articulationby Michael DoyleFilled with intense moments of suspensePut aside as real and yet it’s just pretenseThere is the much to do about all these thingsMusical, be it instrumental or songs I singI approach forward in my matriculationLooking at … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adjustment, All Who Came Before, Amplitude, Articulation, Attack, Attitude, Change, Choice, Composition, Decay, Establish, Exploratory, Feel Deep, Fill, Flourish, Forward, Gratitude, Grounded In, Heaven Sent, Instrumental, Latitude, Matriculation, Moments, Motifs, Muse, Musical, Musical Notation, Myself, Oratory, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pretense, Real, Remember, Sing, Single Notes, Sound, Standard, Suspense, Swell, Texture, Things, Timbre, Tone Colors, Travel, True, Voice | Leave a comment

Keeping Our Truth

Posted on September 14, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Keeping Our Truthby Michael DoyleReaching out in my cognitionHoping that my thoughts and perceptionsMight find a little recognitionAnd from that grow some receptionLiving life under another’s definitionPoints in mockery at the deceptionAs we walk this world in disguiseKeeping our truth … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged After, Best Outcome, Bold, Certain, Choice, Chose, Cognition, Creativity, Deception, Definition, Destination, Destiny, Disguise, Do the Math, Edge, Explore, Eyes, Find My Way, Grow, Head, Imagination, Inner Voice, Journey, Keep, Know, Laughter, Living Life, Mock, Originality, Other, Path, Perceptions, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reaching Out, Reception, Recognition, Restrain, Step, Stumble, Thoughts, Truth, Walk, World | Leave a comment

Born In the Dawn

Posted on July 17, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Tales of magic and the quests that invariably accompany these always tug at my soul. Born In the Dawn by Michael Doyle In the mists of time, there is a story Of the sword of power and it’s full glory … Continue reading →

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Flaws of My Heart

Posted on July 1, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Sat in on an early morning sermon today. While listening in, this came to mind… Flaws of My Heart by Michael Doyle My flaws of the heart Directed by sin from the start My eyes closed to Godly fear I … Continue reading →

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