Tag Archives: Confess

A Tale of Two Kings

Posted on December 5, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

A Tale of Two Kingsby Michael DoyleWatching as our days unfoldInto the stories yet untoldLife is a gift for us to liveIn taking less than we have to giveLet’s not let the Grinch steal ChristmasNo snarling sneer will stop this … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anger, Baby, Best, Cheer, Christmas, Christmas Story, Confess, Death, Deception, Egypt, Evil, Fail, Fate, Fear, Forfeit, Gift, Gift of Gab, Give, Glory, God, Gold, Grinch, Hatred, Herod the Great, History, Impression, Insecurity, Joy, King of the Jews, Kingdom, Kings, Life, Live, Mary, Mass, Mirage, Myrrh, narcissistic, Nothing, Obsession, Poetry and Poems, Posession, Power, Preoccupation, Prestige, Prevail, Pride, Riches, Rule, Salvation, Savior, Separation, Serve, Sigh, Sin, Sneer, Soul, Strife, Surrender, Taking Less, Tale, Test, The Magi, Two, Tyranny, Unfold, Untold, Violence, Watch, Ways | Leave a comment

There You Are, It’s Spoken

Posted on November 12, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

There You Are, It’s Spokenby Michael DoyleOh, it’s a messy messIf only the truthYou would confessA shake of a handUsed to be the bondSincerity, we could understandBut when you pretendSnaking aroundAs if it’s something you can defendWhy you stalk and … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Act, Anger, Because, Believe, Bond, Broken, Confess, Dance, Deception, Defend, Familiar, God, Hand, Harassment, Hellhounds, Hellish, Hope, Hunch, Kindness, Knew, Know, Learn, Leashes, Leave Alone, Let You Get Away, Madness, Manipulation, Mercy, Mess, Mistake, No Control, No Part of You, Not Strong, Once, Peace, Pick Up, Pieces, Plunder, Poetry and Poems, Pretend, Seem, Seen Through, Shake, Sincerity, Skilled, Snake Around, So Much, Spell, Spoken, Stalk, Stand Down, Stop, Stranger, Terrifying, There You Are, Thought, Thrilled, Truth, Understand, Walked Away, Weak, Weakness, Woman, Wrong, You'll Never Own | Leave a comment

On Hearing Without Listening

Posted on May 5, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Hearing Without Listening: In the modern age, we are constantly in a state of ‘hearing’. The best adapted of us have learned to listen to what is important and tune out the rest of the aural bombardment we live in. … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Accurate, Active Listening, Adapt, Aggressive, Any Given Day, Appropriate, Argument, Art of Listening, Attend, Aural Bomardment, Awards, Barrage of Information, Barriers, Beliefs, Benefit, Best Possible Outcome, Better Handled, Calm Feedback, Career Aspirations, Challenges, Circumstances, Communication, Communication Partners, Competing Stimuli, Concerns, Confess, Connections, Context, Conversations of Others, Created, Deep Woods, Defensive Listening, Different Goals, Disagree, Each Style, Effective Communication, Effective Multitasking Cannot Be Done, Empathy, Empowering, Evidence, Fears, Focus, Foresight, Fully Understand, Gone Differently, Good Result, Hear Without Listening, Hearing, Important, Incorporate, Information Gathering, Intended, Intention, Isolated Place, Jargon, Kind Demeanor, Lesson, Listen, Listen Closely, Listening, Listening Fidelity, Listening Styles, Meant, Mental Distractions, Message, Modern Age, Modern Office, Motivation, Multitasking, Music, Myriad of Reasons, Nonverbal Communication, Once Attacked, One Mouth, Opportunities, Past, Peacefulness, Processing, Reality, Respond, Reveal Their Thoughts, Save Time and Money, Scenarios, Significant Feedback, Skillful Communicator, Slang, Solution, State of Hearing, Stop Listening, Stopping Talking, Strategies, Strengthens Relationships, Struggle, Television, Thought For the Day, Thoughts of the Listener, Training and Preparation, Tune Out, Two Ears, Understand, Used In That Proportion, Value In Being Lost, Values, Variant Goal, Wilderness, Words, Work | Leave a comment

What Is Jeopardy?

Posted on November 18, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

What Is Jeopardy?by Michael DoyleIt’s a strange thing, pop culture’s popularityI, among the many, revered moments of JeopardyPredictably catchy theme played on hesitationAs each of us hoped we just might have the questionThat matched the answer showing up on the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alex Trebek, Angel, Answer, Best of the Show, Bid, Board, Coax, Confess, Dignity, Fact, Final Jeopardy, Forward, Full Worth, Glow, Gracious, Handled It, Harsh, Heartfelt, Hestitation, Host, I Cried, Know, Life, Match, My Life, Mystery, Next, North, Obsess, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pop Culture, Popularity, Question, Quiet, Revered, Shadow, Show, Sigh, Star, Stoic, Them, Warm Heart, What is Jeopardy, What Is Life For? | Leave a comment

Logical Pursuit

Posted on July 27, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Though it ultimately comes down to faith, belief is also about evidence and applying logic to this evidence. Logical Pursuit by Michael Doyle Saying no over and over and then again Is the path of righteousness that we walk The … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Again, All Things, Apply, Attitude, Authenticity, Belief, Choose, Chosen, Clear, Cling To, Confess, Conviction, Cross, Crucified, Darkness, Death, Debt, Decision, Decline, Deeper, Earnestly Seek, Embrace, Enormity, Evidence, Excuses, Explanation, Faith, Fallibility, Fatality, Finger, Follow, Forgive, From Immorality, Gain, Get In the Way, Giving New Life, God's Plan, God's Will, Grace, Gratitude, Habit, Hardened heart, Harshness, Heaven, His Name, Holiness, Holy Spirit, Indication, Integrity, Keep Near, Know, Last Breath, Law, Life, Light, Live, Living In Love, Logical, Love, Milk, Need, Never Mind, Newness, No, Not Loss, Not Sinless, Path of Righteousness, Paves the Way, Perfection, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prayers, Priorities, Purity, Pursuit, Regardless, Reign, Repentence, Restoration, Sanctified, Saved, Seed, Seem, Sin, Sinning Less, Spiritual Maturation, Taken Place, The Lord, Transformation, Ultimate, Walk, Walk Past, Ways, Ways of God, Woman and Man, Work In Progress, Work our Way, World | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: This Is the Issue of This Election: Whether We Believe In Our Capacity For Self-Government

Posted on July 25, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“It’s time we asked ourselves if we still know the freedoms intended for us by the Founding Fathers. James Madison said, ‘We base all our experiments on the capacity of mankind for self-government.’ This idea that government was beholden to … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Abandon, American Revolution, Beholden, Believe, Capacity, Capital, Confess, Distant, Election, Government, History, Intellectual Elite, Issue, Man's Relation To Man, Our Lives, Ourselves, Plan, Ronald Reagan, Self Government, Source of Power, The People, Thought For the Day, Unique Idea, Us | Leave a comment

All Life Is Sacred

Posted on June 16, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Perhaps I repeat myself in saying that elevating one skin tone or sex over another is as wrong as having the first offense kept in place. Love and respect for each other is what is needed. All lives are sacred. … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Aggrieved, All Belong, All Life Is Sacred, All Life Matters, Another, Appalling, Ask, Bad Decision, Before, Believe, Bend Knee, Better Way, Betterment, Black Lives Matter, Brother, Burn, Children, City, Confess, Construction, Created All Equal, Creed, Deceive, Deference, Derision, Destruction, Dr. King, Elevate, Emblazon, Engrave, Equal Before the Law, Equality, Fascism, Fight, Firmament, Fought, God, Hell, Him, Hurt, Ill Afford, Inclusion, Injustice Toward All, Injustice Toward Any, Late, Learn, Lesson, Love, Lucifer, Mean, Meaning, Name of Love, Need, Not Good, Not Hate, Not Made Better, Offend, One Over the Other, Outrageous, Past Wrongs, Path, Permanent, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Positive, Pretend, Repeat, Replace, Respect, Reverence, Sex, Sister, Skin Tone, Society, Sought, Story, Strive, Tear Down, The Father, Things, Understand, Understood, Us For Them, Vicious, Wall, Ways, Well Disguised, Will, Win, Window, Wrong | Leave a comment

To London, Across the Sea

Posted on June 15, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

A further retelling of Dracula in poetic form: To London, Across the Sea by Michael Doyle In a tested game of chess A knight is menacing a queen The losing side will confess What this really means A voyage has … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Across, Age, Agreement, All, Appearance, Array, Attached, Breath, Broken Down, Canopy, Chess, Coffin, Complication, Confess, Conversation, Crul, Damnation, Dark, Deaf and Dumb, Death, Destination, Destroyer, Detached, Door, Dracula, Drape, Elegance, Eternity, Eyes, Eyes To See, Fear, Feared, Flies, Fog, Fragile, Glory, Good, Good Company, Hard, Hunger, Intuition, Journey, Knight, Known, Life, Light, Listen, London, Losing Side, Mark, Master, Master of Darkness, Means, Menace, Middle, Necessary Evil, Night, Nightfall, Obvious, Passage, Penalty, Photograph, Plain, Plans, Poem, Poetry, Price, Queen, Ravenous, Read, Sail, Scratches, Sea, Shaking Hands With the Devil, Ship, Slavery, Speak, Spice, Stark, Story, Strangeness, Tale, Test, Travel, Truth, Turns, Understand, Voyage, Vulgarity, Wages, Wickedness | Leave a comment

Checking My To-Dos

Posted on June 5, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

A little something that was kind of fun to come up with on my guitar: Checking My To-Dos by Michael Doyle Checking my to-dos Off of my list Brushing by your lips That needed kissed Baby, don’t you cry We’re … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Baby, Brush, Chase It Back, Checking, Confess, Cry, Cup, Dogs, Dress, Drink, Embrace, Eyes, Kiss, Lips, List, Mess, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pull, Shake, Shut, Sighs, Sometimes, Squeeze, Taste, To Do, We, Why, Witness | Leave a comment

Basket Case Blues

Posted on May 29, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Dedicated to many a victim of the music industry who thought themselves gods only to wake up suddenly finding differently… Basket Case Blues by Michael Doyle With your name up in the bright lights Enraptured by a million neon nights … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Addiction, Alibi, Alone, Amuse, Angel, Arrive, Awoke, Basket Case, Big Lie, Blues, Comfort Zone, Confess, Contortion, Courage, Disgrace, Dreams, Gardens, Gods, Home, Inner Child, Itch, Leather and Lace, Less, Life, Lights, Masterpiece, Million MIles, More, Music Industry, Mystery, Name, Neon Nights, Own, Paper, Photograph, Pliable, Poem, Poetry, Predilection, Real, Rock Bottom, Scarlet, Seems, Social Distortion, Therapy, Unreliable, Victim, Wake Up, World | Leave a comment