Tag Archives: Darkness

Trusting In His Resilience

Posted on September 26, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Trusting In His Resilienceby Michael DoyleSo many things constantly changeAs we live our lives rearrangeBut some things stay the sameThat’s how it’s lighted with God’s flameGod loves us with urgent insistencyStated with a solid state of consistencyBut he does want … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Christ, Conform, Consistency, Constant Change, Darkness, Flame, God, Grow, His, Holy Nation, Light, Love, Poetry and Poems, Rearrange, Reiliance, Same, Set Apart, Trust | Leave a comment

Trusting God’s Plan

Posted on September 14, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Trusting God’s Planby Michael DoyleLiving Life in my recoveryEach day becomes a new discoveryPrivileged to take another breathI choose life over living deathI’ve had my share of heartachesMore than enough of the heartbreaksI’ve been let down by my mistakesAnd now … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, Breath, Cardboard, Chained, Darkness, Desire, Each Day, Finding Faith, Forgiven, Freeway, Get It Right, God's Rainbow, God's Plan, Grace, Hell's Fire, Into, Knowing, Let Down, Light, Living Death, Living Life, My Mistakes, New Discovery, One and All, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Privileged, Promises Made, Ready To Do, Recall, Recovery, Rise, Running, Save, Saved, Shadow, Share of Heartaches, Should Have Done, Takes, Trust, Won, Written | Leave a comment

In the Church of the Open Field

Posted on August 30, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

In the Church of the Open Fieldby Michael DoyleIn the church of the open fieldThe glory of truth is revealedIn fellowship of God’s good companyIn the exclusive claims of divinityDarkness hates the shine of lightPreferring as it does, the things … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Blinding Fear, Brave, Children, Chruch, Comforts, Company, Contribution, Crime, Darkness, Divinity, Exclusive Claims, Fellowship, Gather, Gather Now, Glory, God, Hate, Lifetime, Light, Living Dead, Living Love, Night, Offer Up Love, Open Field, Persecution, Persevere, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Putting Away, Revealed, Shine, Shun, Soul, Steadfast, The World, Truth, Weigh | Leave a comment

Struck On A Bridge To Nowhere

Posted on August 22, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Struck On A Bridge To Nowhereby Michael DoyleI’m struck on a bridge to nowhereLooking for a bit of faithfulnessI’m stranded in an unfaithful worldChasing around the circles and nobody caresSuddenly seeing with sight for awarenessFeeling so completely fetaled and curledI’ve … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alone, Awareness, Become, Bridge, Care, Care To See, Chasing, Circles, Cold, Curl, Darkness, Denial, Faithfulness, Fate, Feeling, Fetal, Grace, Hate, Heart, Home, Integrity, Live, Love, Meaning, No Longer, Nowhere, Offer, Pity, Poetry and Poems, Seal, See, Sight, Smile, Stranded, Struck, Talk, This Morning, Told, Truth, Two Eyes, Unfaithful World, Walking Wounded, Woke, World | Leave a comment

Wonder Expressed Within Five Words

Posted on July 5, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Wonder Expressed Within Five Wordsby Michael DoyleIts in the habits of faith we liveTaking each day catching what it givesOn seeing Christ we believeDoubting as we do as we self-deceiveFeelings revealed in wounds feltThere in the good reasons dealtDenying as … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Believe, Believed, Best, Christ, Darkness, Deny, Determined In Purpose, Doubt, Each Day, Eternal Life, Expedience, Express, Faithful Obedience, God, God's Authority, Good Reasons, Habits of Faith, Knowing, Love, Modeled, Newness, One, Paiin, Poetry and Poems, Realized, Received, Recognized, Reliability, Resurrection, Self-Deceive, Sinful Condition, Submit, Triune Box, Trust, Truths, Twice Over, Undone, Unlocks, Walking, Wonder, Wounds | Leave a comment

Is Reverence So Alien?

Posted on June 14, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Is Reverence So Alien?by Michael DoyleAnd there it is againStated with righteous persistenceTrust is the necessary bondBehind peaceful coexistenceToo may ills bleed from greedArising in forms of aggressionPeace is easy enough to heedWhere love answers the questionsConflict splinters away all … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alien, Answers, Anyone, Beliefs, Burning Bright, Cling, Conflct, Consumption, Contemplation, Darkness, Easy Enough, Evil, Faith, Forms of Aggression, Goodness, Greed, Hard To Believe, Heed, Light, Love, Negativity, Peace, Peacefulness, Poetry and Poems, Questions, Redemption, Resumption, Reverence, Righteous Persistence, Rule, Serendipity, Splinters, Tight, Too Many Ills, Trust, Unity, Waiting, World | Leave a comment

Na/GloPoWriMo #22: As A Sign of the Times

Posted on April 22, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Na/GloPoWriMo #22: As A Sign of the Timesby Michael DoyleAs a sign of the timesThe last book I readWas read onlinePoetry told no longer rhymesNor does it impart lesson or deedYet, as an art, they call this fineAs a sign … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Art, Battle Flags, Beat, Become Our Ways, Blurred, Brave New World, Bravest Hearts, Charge, Considered Light, Contemporary Days, Criminals, Darkness, Dearest, Deed, Devils, Discussions, Elections, Engraved, Estranged, Exchanged, Fail To Condone, Few Rules, Fine, Fools, Garbo, Good Lord, Gorillas, Governed, Great Peace, Hard Cuts, I Have Heard, Impart, Into Life, Last Book, Last Photo, Laugh In Tears, Lesson, Lessons and Lies, Living In Isolation, Look, Made, Masked, Masterpieces, Mockery, Musicians, My Own, My Phone, Na/GloPoWriMo, Nearest, No Longer, Online, Our Nation, Paint, Passes for Thought, Perilous Times, Pinched Fingers, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Police, Quick Edits, Rhyme, Rhymes, Right, Saints, Sample, Sign, Socially Distanced, Stands Alone, Steady Gaze, Stealing, Stone, Stones, Straight Ahead, Street Crimes, These Days, Times, Tyrants, Unfurled, Wants To Be Alone, Willing, Won, Zoom | Leave a comment

Na/GloPoWriMo #13: Yesterday’s Tomorrow’s News

Posted on April 14, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Na/GloPoWriMo #13: Yesterday’s Tomorrow’s News by Michael DoyleSitting watching the evening news hourWatching the sun go down as night devoursI fell asleep to the bleat of the LED displayDisrupting a poem meant written yesterdayHaving missed my embossed invitationI make up … Continue reading →

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Na/GloPoWriMo #12: No More Sense Than the Ancient Mariner

Posted on April 12, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Na/GloPoWriMo #12: No More Sense Than the Ancient Mariner by Michael Doyle The river grew as it pushed Outward with its rich sediment Yet still, in this modern age, mankind Though too often willfully blind Fancies itself some sort of … Continue reading →