Tag Archives: Details

Thought For the Day: Once You Hear the Details of Victory, It Is Hard To Distinguish It From A Defeat

Posted on June 21, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.” -Jean-Paul Sartre, writer and philosopher (21 Jun 1905-1980)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Defeat, Details, Distinguish, Hard, Hear, Jean-Paul Sartre, Once, Thought For the Day, Victory | Leave a comment

What Our God Does

Posted on June 3, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

What Our God Doesby Michael DoyleLooking at what God has doneWe become baptized in the SonThe details have some meaningIn burying the wrong of our beingStepping into being taken into a new lifeWe take on the peace by putting away … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Acts, Ananias, Audacious Purpose, Baptized, Being, Blinding Light, Bumpy Path, Bury, Christian Zeal, Death, Details, Early Church, Enemy, Faith, Following God, Foundation, God Does, God's Intent, Hero, Instrument, Last Breath, Meaning, Mistaken, New Life, New Look, Odds, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Purposes, Radical Expression of Grace, Right, Righteousness of Ministry, saul, Saul Became Paul, Set Us Free, Son, Strife, The Book, Victory of Christ, Walk, Wrong | Leave a comment

The Magnificence of Significance

Posted on May 6, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

The Magnificence of Significance by Michael DoyleFrom the beginning, we have the visionWe might lack in our precisionBut we know what we’re going forFaith is the kindness that opens the closed doorIn all the paths we are shownWe look back … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Arose, Authority, Baton, Beginning, Biblical Verse, Billy Graham, Character, Christ, Christianity, Circumstances, Closed Door, Created, Cross, Details, Done, Ears To Hear, Eden, Embrace, Eyes To See, Face, Faith, First, Generosity, Gnosticism, God, Grown, His Blood, In the Name of, Interwoven, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Kindness, Know, Lack, Magnificence, Open, Palestine, Paths, Pessimism, Poetry and Poems, Post-Modernism, Poverty, Precision, Purpose, Redemption, Reveal, Serpent, Service, Shown, Significance, Spoken, Stay, Steadfast, Sucession, Supremacy, Teach, Temptation, Thirst, Three Days, Universe, Victory, Vision | Leave a comment

Time and Illusion

Posted on January 24, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Time and Illusionby Michael DoyleWalking through life’s many milesI count my wins by my smilesSome might think I’ve been abusedBut mostly, I stand amusedAll the countless false chargesDesigned by enemies to somehow enlargeThe bad things I’ve sometimes doneIn the end, … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abused, Amused, Annoys, Bad Things, Behind, Big, Clarity, Closed Minds, Compete, Confusion, Connections, Countless, Design, Details, Divding, Done, Door, End, Enemies, Enlarge, Evil, False Charges, Feathery Bed, Fighting the Clock, Friendship, Future Recollection, God, Good, Good Advice, Greater Evils, Guide, Head, Humorous Jokes, Ignorance, Illusion, Impurity, Irritation, Laugh, Lean In Hard, Lesser Evils, Life's Joys, Life's Many Miles, Listen, Locked Doors, Love, Need, Nostalgic, Open, Opportunities, Poetry and Poems, Points, Pour, Prisoners, Read, Seen, Small, Smiles Shared, Sorrow, Subtle, Time, Tomorrow, Walk, Whisper, Won | Leave a comment

The Original Wild Child

Posted on January 20, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

The Original Wild Childby Michael DoyleOver pizza. we swung from vine to vineThese laughing daughters making the timeTo watch a remake of Tarzan this Saturday nightEach smile a moonbeam of their father’s delightWe talk as we watch Africa’s original feral … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Act, Africa, Argumentation, Behind, Best, Brave, Burroughs, Change, Cheer, Circle, Complicated, Contemplation, Contemptuous, Creativity, Details, Director, Drama, Endless, Expression, Father's Deligh, Father's Delight, Fear, Feral Child, Fierce, Filed, Friendless, Glory, Guard, Heard, Lack of Dignity, Laughing Daughters, Leave, Liberty, Memories, Moonbeam, Nickname, No Matter How Right, Notes, Original, Peace of Mind, Pizza, Poetry and Poems, Reasoning, Regard, Remake, Rules of Civilization, Saturday Night, Slight, Smile, Society, Society's Lions, Story, Tale, Tarzan, The Wild, Thought, Time, Vine To Vine, Waste, Well, Wild Child, Youngest | Leave a comment

The Naughty List

Posted on December 6, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

The Naughty Listby Michael DoyleWhen the truth’s told even in the best of timesA heart should beware of the easiest rhymesKeeping an eye out for the details of the DevilIs best because we know he’s never on the levelThere’s a … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Because, Best, Best of Times, Beware, Bright Lights, Careful, Christmas, Christmas Magic, Coca-Cola Santa, Contest, Crass Commericalism, Dark Side, Decorations, Details, Devil, Display, Doubt, Eye Out, Fights, Forgotten, Heart, Hustle and Bustle, Level, Modern Age, Parades, Poetry and Poems, Point of View, Pray, Question, Real Reason, Reason For the Season, Rhymes, Room Enough, Teasin', The Naughty List, Time Enough, Told, Too Bad, Tragic, True, Truth, Wish | Leave a comment

Turning the Tables

Posted on July 31, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Turning the Tablesby Michael DoyleCome on now; be on the levelThe details between God and the DevilAdd up to a fuzzy sort of mathWhere we humans stumble on the pathSometimes the thoughts spin our headsAnd we sink into slouch, pretending … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Deceitifulness, Details, Devil, Doze, Foot, Fuzzy, God, Human, Level, Math, Pain, Path, Poetry and Poems, Pride, Self-Chosen, Slouch, Stumble, Table, Thoughts, Toes, Turn | Leave a comment

Dreams and Voices

Posted on July 6, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Dreams and Voicesby Michael DoyleThe real truth revealed in the nightRevels in its parts brought to lightEven those that sear and hurtBringing the mind in focus, fully alertPretending to give an ounce of careAbout all the divisiveness laid bareIt is … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alibi, Choices, Cost, Deep Inside, Details, Device, Different, Divisiveness, Doubt, Dreams and Voices, Essence, Facades, Faith, Focus, Freedom, Haunt, Hid, Hidden Secrets, Hope, Hunter and Prey, Hurt, Laugh, Legends in Their Own Minds, Light, Lost, Ounce of Care, Play, Poetry and Poems, Real Truth, Reverent, Saviors, Shade, Thoughtless and Crass, Underestimate, Voices, Wrong Decisions | Leave a comment

The Rights of Even the Wrong

Posted on May 5, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

The Rights of Even the Wrongby Michael DoyleIt doesn’t matter if right or wrongAll ideas politely put do belongIn the public market for all to hearThis is the way of liberty and not of fearSpeak up for the sake of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All Ideas, All Words, Allow, Anyway, Belong, Death of Our Nation, Details, Everyone, Favor, Fear, Hear, Hint, Liberty, Matter, Poetry and Poems, Polite, Public Market, Right or Wrong, Rights, Sake, Say, Speak Up, Suppression, Tale, Tell, True Diversity, Truth, Uncivil Perversity, Wrong | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: It Is Important To View Knowledge As A Sort of A Semantic Tree – Make Sure You Understand the Fundamental Principles…Before You Get Into the Leaves/Details

Posted on April 23, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree — make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Big Branches, Details, Elon Musk, Fundamental Principles, Hang On To, Important, Knowledge, Leaves, Nothing, Semantic Tree, Thought For the Day, Trunk, Understand, View | Leave a comment