Tag Archives: Days

Standing In the Light

Posted on July 2, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Standing In the Lightby Michael DoyleLet me share a secretThat’s hard to forgetThey say to write what you knowThis blank page only goes to showMaybe how little that isAnd how much I missIn a life that’s full motionBut often empty … Continue reading →

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Putting the Good In the Goodness

Posted on June 9, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Putting the Good in the Goodnessby Michael DoyleIn the days of my life, I seek every day to learnKnowing full well that there is much to discernSeeking only to do my best to live the good lifeI seek earnestly to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All Ways, Aspiration, Best, Chances, Circumstances, Comfort, Consistency, Constanct, Counsel, Days, Discern, Divinity, Earnest, Everyday, Expectation, Faith, Fear, God, God's Path, God's Plan, Good, Good Life, Goodness, Grace, Heed, His Holy Name, Holy Word, Hope and Purpose, Inspiration, Jesus, Joy, Know, Learn, Life, Lord's Plans, My Life, Pass, Path, Peace, Pillow, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Pure Goodness, Reason, Reassure, Reliance, Rest, Seek, Sorrow, Soul, Source, Sovereignity, Strife, Tests, Today, Tomorrow, Transform, True Dignity, Trust, Uncertainty, Wish, Wonders, Works | Leave a comment

Joyful Contemplation

Posted on June 2, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Joyful Contemplationby Michael DoyleLooking back on times I’ve hadI rejoice and find myself gladI’m certain of things I believeAnd I stand ready to receiveKnowing that God is wise and strongAnd I am often weak and often wrongI bless God’s name … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Believe, Certain, Contemplation, Days, Embrace, Glad, God, God's Name, Holy S;piirt, Joy, Joyful, Know, Looking Back, Mortal Limits, Place, Poetry and Poems, Power, Praise, Receive, Rejoice, The Lord, Times, Weak and Often Wrong, Wise and Strong | Leave a comment

Gratitude For Your Love

Posted on May 31, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Gratitude For Your Loveby Michael DoyleDrowning in an ocean of youFollowing my heart because it’s truePull me under these covers, please don’t stopI’m riding this love to the topTell me, who has time to sleepThese emotions keep running deepAll the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Admire, Aside, Attitude, Awkward, Beautiful, Become One, Best, Bullseye, Changes, Covers, Cupid, Days, Deception, Drown, Ego, Emotional, Emotions, Flow, Good Enough, Gratitude, Guided, Heart, Indivisible, Irresistbile, Know, Love, Ocean, Owe, Poetry an Poems, Pride, Question Why, Real Love, Right Stuff, Sleep, Stop, Ten Out of Ten, True, Unconditional, Ways, Wonderful, Your Love | Leave a comment

On Bended Knee

Posted on May 27, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

On Bended Kneeby Michael DoyleOn bended knee, I see the memoryOf the day and the costI watched you let it beGiving it your dignityIt’s hard to add the costMaking it worseIs I know that bullet was mineIt had my nameBleeding … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Across, American Liberty, Bended Knee, Blame, Bleeding, Blood, Breath, Bullet, Choose, Cost, Cry, Days, Death, Define, Depend, Dignity, End, Expend, Fight and Die, Forgive, Friends, Full Price, Hard, Hope, Indignantly, Integrity, Lives, Measure, Memory, Mine, Mistakes, Moments, My Name, Nation, Obligation, Poetry and Poems, Politicians, Pray, Protect and Defend, Refuse, Speak, Taken For Granted, The Cost, Toil, Treasure, Verse, Watch, Why, Worse, Your Death | Leave a comment

A Sultry Obsession

Posted on May 25, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

A Sultry Obsessionby Michael DoyleSince an early age, I have had a sultry obsessionWith a kind of magic that cannot be held in possessionCleaning up after others was maybe not so wonderfulBut it was doing my bit to keep our … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Acknowledge, Appreciation, Balance, Beauty, Camera, Camera's Eye, Capture, Cleaner, Cleaning Up, College, Country Roads, Crisp Morning Air, Days, Doing My Bit, Early Age, Effot, Feeling, First Touch, Forever, Gaze, God's Creation, Humanity's Ability, Keep Our American Beautiful, Kind of Magic, Knowledge, Lifetime Later, Meaner, Mountains, Nature, Never Truly Alone, Once Again, Please, Pledge, Poetry and Poems, Possession, Prairies, Real Home, Return the Care, Science, Share, Sultry Obsession, Sunny Days, Sunshine, Trash Bags, Trees, Walk, Water Ways, Wonderful, World, World Kin | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: How We Spend Our Days Is, of Course, How We Spend Our Lives

Posted on May 11, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” -Annie Dillard, author (b. 30 Apr 1945)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Annie Dilliard, Days, Doing, How, Our Lives, Spend, This Hour, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

Totality and Doom

Posted on April 9, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Totality and Doomby Michael DoyleYesterday, the moon blotted out the sunIn the same way, it has frequently doneThe people traveled from miles aroundHoping they would see something to astoundTheir weary minds at least for a little whileSome came to be … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Apocalypse, Appear, Astound, Bits and Pieces, Blood Moon, Bloom, Blot, Certain, Change, Chaos, Clever, Close Lips, Comfort, Conspiracies, Corner, Crowd, Cultural, Dandeliions, Darkness, Days, Devil's Comet, Die, Doom, Doomsayer, End, Faith, Familiar, Fear, Forever, Happy, Internet, Lear, Lives, Magical, Miles, Moon, Odd, Panic, Path of Totality, Poetry and Poems, Prediction, Prophecies, Reality, Regret, Religious, Resilient, Signficant, Signs, Sky, Smile, So Much for, Speak, Startled, Strong, Sun, Taught, Thinker, Totality, Travel, Trouble, Vibe, View, Wait, Watch, Weary Minds, Whisper, Wrong, Years, Yesterday | Leave a comment

I Surrender

Posted on April 7, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

I Surrenderby Michael DoyleFaith comes from hearingAnd learning to loveIt’s not from fearingBut following heaven aboveHolding the doors open wideWe know God always stands besideHis followers, as we lift our hands in praiseThis is the faith flowing from our daysIt’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All My Days, Breath, Darkest Night, Days, Door, Everywhere, Extol, Faith, Fear, Flow, Follow, Follower, Go, God, God's Purposes, Good, Guiding Light, Hands, Hear, Heaven, His Services, I Surrender, Know, Learn, Lift, Lifting My Hands, Live, Lord Jesus, Love, My Very Life, Open, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Promise, Sacrifice, Song, Soul, Stands Beside, Surrender, Sweet and Tender, Theology, Understood | Leave a comment

To Our Feet

Posted on March 25, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

To Our Feetby Michael DoyleWe stand to our feetHanding Satan his defeatSinging our redemptionRising up in contemplationAs we think of our freedomHere in the Lord’s kingdomWe find the Lord in praiseSinging throughout our daysWe have defeated the graveThrough the power … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Belong, Christian Faith, Christian Friends, Contemplation, Days, Defeat, Embrace, Ends, Feet, Freedom, God's Love, Grave, Holy Song, Home, Joy, Lord's Kingdom, Poetry and Poems, Power, Praise, Redemption, Rightful Place, Rise Up, Satan, Saves, Sing, Stand, Think | Leave a comment