Tag Archives: Clarity

Lies For Truth

Posted on January 23, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Lies For Truthby Michael DoyleThere’s a lot of people mistakingThe Devil’s lies for the truthIt’s an easy road to heartbreakEspecially, in our bolder youthChasing at golden bits of hilarityWith blinders on as we strain to seeSeeking after just a little … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All We Cannot Eat, At Our Hands, Blinders On, Bold, Buffet, Clarity, Door, Doubt, Easy Road, Fill, For the Truth, From Things, Golden Bits, Heart, Heartbreak, Hilarity, Hope Rest, Humanity, Jaded Temptation, Lies For Truth, Life, Lost, Lot of Peopole, Mental War, Mistake, Never Fully Understand, Offer, Open, Paid In Full, Passages, Passions Burn, Poetry and Poems, Proffer, Puzzle, Realize, Redemption, Sincerity, Star-Gazing, Strain to See, Struggle, The Devil's Lies, The Wages of Sin, Work Out, Youth | Leave a comment

Christmas Lights

Posted on December 3, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Christmas Lightsby Michael DoyleLooking out from the heart of the cityIt’s best to take things with humor so wittyAnd to know that children are our possibilityBecause they still see impossible things with claritySanta doesn’t have one child, he has them … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All, Better, Carry Your Song, Children, Christmas Lights, City, Clarity, Complete, Everywhere, Gentle Touch, Glide, Heart, Heights, Hello, Humor, Impossible, Life, Looking Out, Love, One Child, Path, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Possibility, Recall, Santa, Softly Said, Somewhere, Wit, You Belong | Leave a comment

In Studying Jerzzie 101

Posted on October 22, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

In Studying Jerzzie 101by Michael DoyleIn the studying of my Jerzzie 101I think of all that you share and we’ve doneYou are more than the sum of your partsThough your love is the essence of my heartWhen I think of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Better, Blessed, By My Side, Clarity, Connection, Crazy Rich Asian, Day After Day, Dedication, Disney Princess, Done, Essence, Examine, Feel, Full Length, Grown, Heart, Human Being, Humbling, Inspiration, Jerzzie, Key of Love, Led, Live Each Moment, Message, No Doubt, Parts, Path, Persuasion, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pride, Satisfcation, See, Sense, Share, Shine, Shown, Sincerity, Strength, Studious, Study, Sum, Think, Traction, True, You, You Do, You Don't, Your Love | Leave a comment

A Birthday Week

Posted on October 5, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

A Birthday Weekby Michael DoyleSolid as it is with just a look2020 was a hard one for the history booksBut, as those pages have turnedThere was one thing that I have learnedMy love was born a Libra on her scaleAnd … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 2020, Agreeable Enough, Birthday, Birthday Week, Celebrate, Celebration, Clarity, Complexity, Connection, Contemplation, Dare, Deny, Easy, Fun, Golden Heart, Great Gift, Hard One, History Books, Insistence, Justice, Learned, Libra, Look, Love, Love of Fashion, Mumble, Need, One, Pages, Passion, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prevail, Reflect, Relaxation, Request, Scale, Sense, Simplicity, Sincerity, Solid, Speak, Strong Desire, Thing, Turn, Unity, Week, Words | Leave a comment

Slips of the Tongue

Posted on August 20, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Slips of the Tongueby Michael DoyleSlips of the feeble tongueCome more often when no longer youngThings ill thought should often not be saidBut instead kept inside one’s headOur lives are played out like a movieSometimes hellbent though that doesn’t move … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Acknowledge, Actual, Another, Awkward, Bad Decisions, Best, Better, Better Way, Charm, Clarity, Cling, Conspire, Copping Out, Dancing, Day To Day, Dealt, Derision, Desire, Dig Out of the Dirt, Doing Best, Embrace, End, Face to Face, Fade In, Fed, Feeble, Feel, Felt, Foot, Fragility, Freely, Front, Fully, Half, Hands, Harm, Head, Hearts, Hold Out, Hope, Hurts, Ill Thought, Intended, Kept Inside, Know, Less, Life, Lives, Living It Up, Make Believe, Masquerade, Means, Measured, Mouse, Move Me, Movie, Next Day, Often, Opening Scene, Other, Our Own Devices, Out of Control, Party, Photograph, Place, Played Out, Poem, Poetry, Premature, Realization, Roles, Roll Through, Said, Seek, Self, Slips, Sorrow, Start, Times, Tongue, Trap, Truths, Unintended, Universe, Wicked, Wrap, Young | Leave a comment

Faithful and Good

Posted on July 21, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

God’s words fill our souls like some sort of universal melody at times. Faithful and Good by Michael Doyle Faithful and good in what you do to me Filling my heart with your melody Every beat of my heart is … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Absolution, Atonement, Awaken, Beat, Believe, Blurred, Breaking, Calvary, Cast, Chosen, Clarity, Cling To Life, Conceive, Contemplation, Contribution, Darkness, Day, Defeated, Down, Embrace, End of Days, Faithful, Felt, Filling, Find, Focus, Forever, Gave, God's Words, Good, Goodness, Grave, Heart, In Need, Knees, Know, Malingering, Meant, Melody, Mercy, Moved Me, Obedience, One and All, Photograph, Place, Poem, Poetry, Praise, Price, Procrastination, Provide, Raise Up, Recall, Redemption, Sacrifice, Salvation, Save, Servant, Shaken, Shaking, Soul, Sould, Standing In Awe, Steadfast and True, Suffer, Take My Place, Taking the Beating, Tears, Tell, Three Days, True Worth, Understood, Us, Vision, Wear, Word, Words of Love, Worthy, Yoke, Your Love, Your Way, Yourself | Leave a comment

A Twinge of the Mundane

Posted on July 7, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

In the continuing series on seeing the world through a photographer’s eyes, we look at the question as to what is to be done about the mundane… A Twinge of the Mundane by Michael Doyle Seeing the mundane into extraordinary … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ability, Abound, All Places, Artistic, Atttention, Background, Being, Camera's Eye, Circumstances, Clarity, Clutter, Connections, Creative, Details, Done, Excellence, Extraordinary, Eyes, Flow, Focal, Forgot, Found, Glad, Grab Shots, Heart, Humans, Inane, Infinite, Known, Latitude, Life Lived, Meaning, Middle of Nowhere, Moments, Mundane, No Such Thing, Nuances, Opportunity, Ordinary, Page, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pop, Question, Quietude, Shown, Simple, Sky, Soft Light, Something, Something In the Something, Somewhere, Sought, Split Open, Stage, Stand Out, Subject, Surround, Tales, Truth, Twinge, Unexpected Moments, Where, Wide Open Spaces, World Is An Oyster, Zest | Leave a comment

Given the Dickens I’ve Known

Posted on June 10, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Show of hands, who has read Charles Dickens in their lives? Who in the last 30 years? Yet, he stands as perhaps the greatest novelist in the English language. It almost scares me to know that I had read five … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adventure, Alley Ways, Breach, Century, Charles Dickens, Childhood, Clarity, Classes, Common Cause, Days, Debt, Decade, Endure, English, Hope, Imprisonment, Industrial, Lawyer, Life, Masses, Misery, Morality, Novelist, Photograph, Poem, Poet's Corner, Poetry, Reaches, Sentimentality, Severity, Society, Society's Contract, Squalor, Strife, Struck, Struggle, Tales, Westminster Abby | Leave a comment

On the Gains of Godly Meditation

Posted on May 26, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on Psalm 19:14: On the Gains of Godly Meditation by Michael Doyle The Bible isn’t just words but application We must understand before proper supplication Thinking and asking in prayer and open heart Listening to God, hopeful … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Application, Authority, Blessing, Book of Psalms, Capacity, Circumstance, Clarity, Commandments, Correction, Direction, Faith, Free, Gain, God, Humility, Insight, Joy, Lamp, Learn, Legacy, Listen, Live Right, Meditation, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Presence, Principles, Promises, Purity, Saved, Shutting Out, Sin, Sincerity, Spirit, Strength, Supplication, Thinking, Understand, Wisdom, Wise | 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