Tag Archives: Choices

Dreams and Voices

Posted on July 6, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Dreams and Voicesby Michael DoyleThe real truth revealed in the nightRevels in its parts brought to lightEven those that sear and hurtBringing the mind in focus, fully alertPretending to give an ounce of careAbout all the divisiveness laid bareIt is … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alibi, Choices, Cost, Deep Inside, Details, Device, Different, Divisiveness, Doubt, Dreams and Voices, Essence, Facades, Faith, Focus, Freedom, Haunt, Hid, Hidden Secrets, Hope, Hunter and Prey, Hurt, Laugh, Legends in Their Own Minds, Light, Lost, Ounce of Care, Play, Poetry and Poems, Real Truth, Reverent, Saviors, Shade, Thoughtless and Crass, Underestimate, Voices, Wrong Decisions | Leave a comment

A Dance of Fate

Posted on March 16, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

A Dance of Fateby Michael DoyleLife is more than merely fateIt is never really too lateTo realize that we have choicesLifted up in our true voicesIf only we might chooseNo longer allowing life to abuseExamining what we might refuseAnd refusing … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abuse, Blame, Blindness, Chance, Choices, Choose, Choosing, Churn, Circumstance, Collide, Confuse, Dance, Decisions, Depth, Destinies, Discern, Examine, Fate, Fault, Frame, Glance, Happenstance, Hard To Realize, Late, Life, Make, Mere, Ocean, Paths, Poetry and Poems, Possible, Refuse, Ride, Rush, Shoulder, Subtle, Take, The Past, Troubled, True Voices | Leave a comment

We’ll Burn Our Memory

Posted on February 23, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

We’ll Burn Our Memoryby Michael DoyleThere is nothing more humanThen knowing that you are brokenAs time slips by as it canAnd words meander or are unspokenTime is fleeting and not to squanderLet me entreat you to spend yours wellThere are … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Armor, Ashes, Battle, Better Senses, Broken, Burn, Carry, Choices, Cracks, Dance, Defeat, Difference, Eyes, Fast, Fire, Fleeting, Forget, Hope, Human, Inner Essence, Inner Light, Inner Voice, Know, Life, Limits, Love, Memory, Nothing, One Last Time, Past, Paths, Poetry and Poems, Promise, Regret, Right, Shine, Skies, Spell, Squander, Streets, Time Slips By, Tomorrow, Unexplored, Unspoken, Victory, Wish, Won, Words Meander | Leave a comment

The Paths Ahead

Posted on January 22, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

The Paths Aheadby Pure Love and Michael Romani So many roads yet to be takenSo many choices yet to be givenThe path stretches out beforeWith life yet for us to explore There is a magic in the moreWhen we open … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ahead, Believe, Bliss, Choices, Days, Door, Dream, Explore, Fear, Future, Given, Happiness, Holding On, Hope, Imagination, Life, Live, Love and Care, Magic, Melody, Moments, Open, Paths, Peace, Play, Poetry and Poems, Reality, Roads, See, Share, Smiles, Songs, Stream, Stretch, Sun, Taken, Ways | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: All Great Human Deeds Both Consume and Transform Their Doers

Posted on November 2, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“All great human deeds both consume and transform their doers. Consider an athlete, or a scientist, or an artist, or an independent business creator. In the service of their goals they lay down time and energy and many other choices … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged All, Artist, Athlete, Become, Choices, Consume, Doers, Energy, Goals, Great, Human Deeds, Independent Business Creator, Lois McMaster Bujold, Pleasure, Return, Scientist, Self, Service, Thought For the Day, Time, Transform, True | Leave a comment

Lessons From Life’s Jungles

Posted on July 27, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

There are laws that are met in all jungles be these forested or concrete. The two most vital are survival and truth. Lessons From Life’s Jungles by Michael Doyle The jungle has two laws Survival and truth There is no … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Always, Ample, Anger, Be Fair, Belongs, Best, Best Lessons, Best of Life, Bitterness, Change, Choices, Close To Shore, Concrete, Danger, Each Person and Thing, Earned, Escape Clause, Eyes Forward, Fate, Firm, Forest, Forget, Fortune, Humor, Ignore, Jaws, Jungle, Jungle's Laws, Jungles, Last, Learn, Learned, Less, Lesson, Lessons, Lies, Life, Life's Lessons, Live Life, Lwas, Moments, Monkey, Must, Narrow, Not Learned, Ones, Opportunities, Particular, Parts Unknown, Past, Path Taken, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Room, Self, Shelf, Somewhere, Start, Straight As An Arrow, Streets, Strong, Surprise, Survival, Taught By Example, Too Late, Trust, Truth, Tumor, Us, Vital, Want, What's In Store, Youth | Leave a comment

Just Where You Belong

Posted on July 22, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Funny thing about life is we have a choice of going with the flow or pedaling as fast as our hamster wheel allows us to spin and often times regardless of effort or lack of effort, we end up just … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Around, Being Okay, Belong, Best, Capability, Certainty, Chasing, Choices, Circles, Comfort, Day After Day, Direction, Duking It Out, Each Day, Ease, Far, Felt Less, Find Yourself, Flexibility, Forward, Found, Gaining More, Going With the Flow, Hamster Wheel, Journey, Kind of Day, Least, Let Things Go, Life, Life's Road, Life's Test, Lost, Never Know, Off Script, On with the Show, Out of Control, Pass, Pedaling, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Precise, Reasons, Rest, Run, Running At Full Speed, Soul, Spin, Still Flow, Take You Along, Than Lost, Travel, Troubling, Turn Out, Unfold, Variables, Wheels, Where, You | Leave a comment

Facing Fear Toward Tomorrow

Posted on June 18, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

A review of race history in America is a mix of hope and of fear; rights and wrongs; in short and in truth a mixed story. Today, we confront that which was wrong. Still, we should do so not in … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 13th Amendment, 25%, 5%, Alleged, America, American Blacks, Art, Avoidance, Border, Broad Based, Brothers and Sisters, Burning Crosses, Choices, Civil War, Commentary, Confront, Contain, Convicts, Cried, Criminality, Culture of Fear, Death, Delayed, Democratic Convention, Denied, Descent, Done, Economic Devastation, Economy, Emancipation, Emmett Till, Envision, Equal, Exactitude, Exception, Explode, Exploit, Face, Fear, Fragmentary, Freedom, God's Family, Great Nation, Grow, Harm, Home, Hope, Indignity, Innocent, Jim Crow, Justice, Klansmen, Learn, Liberty, Loom, Mix, Nation, Neighbors, Not Allowed To Stand, Not Alone, One, People, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Predicament, Prison, Prison Boom, Punitive, Race History, Relegate, Remedy, Resistance, Right, Righteous Kill, Righteous Nation, Second Class, Seek, Segregation, Servitude, Shackles, Shadow, Shatter, Slavery, Survivors, Tattered, The Birth of A Nation, The Other, The South, Thousand Points of Light, Tomorrow, Toward, Tried, Truth, Understood, Unity, Width, Wise, World Population, Wrong, Wrong Answer | Leave a comment

Handling A Bad Day

Posted on May 6, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on 2 Cor 1:8 : Handling A Bad Day by Michael Doyle Slewfoot raises to destroy Always out to kill your joy If you serve God, you endure The temptations for sure Brave hearts without fear Through … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2 Corinthians, Alone, Attitude, Bad Day, Blessed, Brave, Choices, Clarity, Clear, Climb, Courage, Daily, Desperation, Destroy, Endure, Faith, Fault, Fear, Fight, God, Gratitude, Handling, Heal, Hold On, Inclination, Integrity, Joy, Kill, Knees, Know, Light, Listen, Lives, Lord, Near, Peak, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Right, Serve, Sincere, Speak, Supplication, Sure, Temptation, Voice, Walk | Leave a comment

A Nation In Need of Unity

Posted on April 13, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

In the last of this series, American history continues through the present: https://flic.kr/p/vCW1P4 A Nation In Need of Unity by Michael Doyle George H. Bush struggled under Reagan’s shadow With his pedigree and skills he led well as most know … Continue reading →

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