Tag Archives: Demanding

All the Days Are Gone

Posted on September 5, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

All The Days Are Goneby Michael DoyleListen a little closer to the song,Tell me, does it somehow belong?It’s not a case of stump the band,But it’s a memory of favorites across the land.Standing ready across this promised land,What you want … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Back Streets, Band, Belong, Best Friend, Born To Run, Carry On, Death's Final Gift, Demanding, Fairytale, Fallen Night, Family, Favorites, Fun, God's Full Sight, Gone, Happiness, Land, Last Chord, Left Behind, Life, Light, Listen, Living, Lost Chord, Love, Memory, Music, Pawn Shop, Poetry and Poems, Right, Sog, Standing, Sun, The Promised Land, Tramps, Whisper, Wish, Writing, Wrong | Leave a comment

To Live In the Law

Posted on March 30, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

To Live In the Lawby Michael DoyleWalked into the doctrines of controversyThere is a stiff challenge without heresyDown through God’s good agesThere are debates that readily rageThe dialog should be had with all humilityGracefully admitting a bit of grace and … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adjustment, Ages, Bible, Bonds, Challenge, Christianity, Conscience, Context, Contradictions, Controversy, Debate, Demanding, Dialog, Direction, Discernment, Doctrines, Expectation, Failed Understanding, Faith, Filters and Perceptions, Forgive, Fruit, God, God's Story, Grace and Mercy, Heresy, Humility, Jesus, Law, Live, Marriage, Martin Luther, Poetry and Poems, Rage, Root, Shades of Glory, The Law, Universal, Widow | Leave a comment

Benediction For A New Day

Posted on January 21, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Benediction For A New Dayby Michael DoyleIf it isn’t too demandingMight we live in peace and understandingWith opened eyes might we seeThe path walked within divinityThe wooded trace is sacred groundWaiting for its holiness to be foundWith every step each … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Absent, Benediction, Better, Bring, Demanding, Divinity, Every Song, Every Step, Everything, Eyes, God, Grace, Gratitude, Holiness, Hope, Life, Live, Long Road, Love, Mercy, Mistakes, New Day, Nothing, Path, Peace and Understanding, Poetry and Poems, Remember, Sacred Ground, Sing, Soar, Spirits, Walk Together, Walked This Way Before, Wooded Trace | Leave a comment

A Question of Dimension

Posted on July 26, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

A Question of Dimensionby Michael DoyleA question awaits every believerIs God or Is God not a deceiverFrom this point, we’ll need evidenceConclusions must be drawn based on relevanceIs the Earth young? Or Is It Old?Are we to believe our eyes … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2000 Years Ago, Adherents, Age, Answers, Appareance, Apprehension, Bats and Birds, Believer, Bible, Children, Clue, Complexity, Comprehension, Conclusions, Confuse, Deceiver, Demanding, Dimension, Disciples, Drawn, Earth, Evidence, Explain, Faith, Free, God, Good Enough, Jesus, Know, Life, Living, Love, Our Eyes, Page, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Point, Precious, Pretend, Pursue, Question, Relevance, Right, Seen, Sense, Simplicity, Today, Told, Truth, Understanding, World, Yesterday | Leave a comment

Red Light Kissing

Posted on June 10, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Red Light Kissingby Michael DoyleSometimes valid issues are hadEven true hearts can be sadBut the kiss of love is understandingAnd be giving, not overly demandingEach couple must without hesitationLearn to appreciate the value of questionsThere are many things of major … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Appreciate, Demanding, Each Couple, Giving, Hesitation, Kiss of Love, Kissing, Poetry and Poems, Questions of Policy, Red Light, True Hearts, Understanding, Valid Issues | Leave a comment

Messages Needed

Posted on April 20, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Messages Neededby Michael DoyleThere is something unsaid gone unheededIn all the messages truly neededMessages to and from so many strangersWho are embroiled in all their angerWhat happened to peace, love, and understandingI know I’m no longer hip, and not to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anger, Around, Beauty, Brokenness, Center Stage, Cross My Heart, Dead, Demanding, Disilluion, Duty, Embroil, Feet, Fight, Fire, Flat, Getting Better, Give It, Ground, Heed, Hip, In This Together, Inspired, Light, Live It, Living In the Past, Load, Looking Around, Lost Generation, Love, Love and Peace, Messages Needed, Mirror, New Humanity, Page, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Quest, Rage, Say Nothing, Secret Alphabet, Seldom Heard, Shaman, Shuffling Heels, Sign, Speak, Strangers, Summer of Love, Talk, Tongue, Truly Give, Truly Live, Unconscioiusness, Understanding, Unsaid, Vanity, Veneration, Work, World of the Ugly | Leave a comment

Beautifully Amazed

Posted on April 17, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Beautifully Amazedby Michael DoyleWe paint a life seen togetherCertain that our blessings are betterAs we talk into the nightBefore we know it, it’s the morning lightLearning things of complexityAs we break it down into simplicityLife can be overly demandingBut it … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Aloud, Amaze, Astound, Beautiful, Better, Blessings, Break It Down, Care, Certain, Complexity, Demanding, Dreams, Eyes, Know, Learn, Life, Look, Love Is Blind, Make, Moments, Morning Light, New Traditions, Night, Paint, Play, Poetry and Poems, Quiet Moments, Realize, Rendition, Safe, Share, Shared, Show, Simplicity, Space, Talk, Together, Understanding, Vision, Words, Your Ways | Leave a comment

Discernment Revisited

Posted on November 21, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Discernment Revisitedby Michael DoyleI guess that’s the dealLetting Jesus take the wheelLike the wisdom of Solomon’s sealIt is what keeps it realGoing deep into the ScriptureWe find the things of GodSurrendering in devotion to ScriptureWe recommit to the ways of … Continue reading →

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On Understanding Children’s Literature

Posted on June 9, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

A wisely crafted tale invites its reader or listener, young and old, to inquire what good might be learned from the tale. On Understanding Children’s Literature by Michael Doyle The stories we have heard from childhood Are the classics of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Aim, Allow, Aristotle, Art, Attention, Awe, Bless, Blunder, Childhood, Children's Literature, Classic, Craft, Creation, Deep Learning, Demanding, Depth, Detection, Draw, Education, Embrace, Endow, Enjoy, Escapism, Fable, Fiction, First Acts, First Time, Focus, Foster, God, Good, Grow, Heart, History, Hocus Pocus, Imagination, Imitation, Jesus, Know, Knowledge, Learn, Legacy, License, Limitation, Literature, Magic, Making, Met, Metaphor, Morality, Near Perfection, Nobility, Open Inquiry, Other Worlds, Parable, Passages, Photograph, Poem, Poetics, Poetry, Points, Prison, Reality, Retention, Seek, Sense of Wonder, Sharpen, Smaller Scale, Sterility, Story, Sublime, Sum of Darkness, Tale, Tell, Think, Together, Told, True Liberation, Truth, Understand, Understanding, Understood, Unfold, Want, Will, Work, Yearning | Leave a comment

Let Us Begin

Posted on February 27, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

So many promises of the 20th century have led to false starts, broken hearts and the horror of confronting the results of our delusions. Let Us Begin by Michael Romani In pursuit of stronger minds Do we risk leaving souls … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 20th Century, Agree, Begin, Biology, Blind, Calculated Risk, Cold, Demanding, Distance, Divinity, Eugenics, Expectation, False Start, Game, GMO, Grasp, Journey, Justify, Less Traveled, Manipulate, Master, Melt, Mind, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Promise, Risk, Road, Roll, Seldom, Soul, Strong, Timothy Leary, Told, Travel, Travesty, Truth, Understanding, Unravel, Us, Vilify, Weary, Within | Leave a comment