Tag Archives: Down

Thought For the Day: Two Drowning People Cannot Save Each Other. All They Can Do Is Drag Each Other Down

Posted on July 24, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Two drowning people can’t save each other. All they can do is drag each other down.” – Carsten Jensen, in “We the Drowned”

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Victory Worn

Posted on April 30, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Victory Wornby Michael DoyleWhen we talk about my king,I can’t help but sing.Wide awake with praise,I lift my voice in all my days.Into the world, He shines His light.Darkness is defeated in this fight.With Grace given on Calvary,He has given … Continue reading →

Posted in Photographs & Memories | Tagged Arose, Calvary, Darkness, Days, Devil, Dignity, Down, Enemy, Felt Victory, Fight, Grace, Heaven, Heaven and Earth, His Life, Holiness, Holy Veil, Jesus, Light, Lion, Mine, My King, Parades, Poetry and Poems, Powerfully Real, Praise, Reveal, Seamlessly, Sing, Stone, Talk, The Lamb, Torn, Victory Worn, Voice | Leave a comment

Asian American Is Not A Color

Posted on August 19, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Asian American Is Not A Colorby Michael DoyleAll these phenotypes and social constructionsHave led to oppression and humanity’s destructionColors cannot be the references of relationshipWarped as it is under the God that we worshipImperfect groups are clustered in racial identityAnd … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Asian American, Atonal Racism, Blinking Hazard Lights, Busy Streets, China Town, Clustered, Colors, Destiny, Destruction, Divide, Double Parked Cars, Down, Fuss Enough, Gauntlet, God, Hallways, Hard To Own, Hate Others, Holler, Humanity, Imperfect Groups, Injustice, Journey, Lasting Peace, Nations, Not A Color, Oppression, Phenotypes, Poetry and Poems, Procrastination, Questions, Racial Fairness, Racial Identity, References, Relationship, Rules, Semi-Tragic Way, Shape, Skin Tone, Social Constructions, Stars, Struggle, War, Warped, Wonder, Worship | Leave a comment

An Albatross Weighs Me Down

Posted on May 11, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

An Albatross Weighs Me Downby Michael DoyleOnce again, I stand reminded of a weightThat my days are numbered and have a dateOn which no more effort will be to my gainI push forward that my life is not in vainIt … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ability, Albatross, Ancient Mariner, Behind, Beseiged, Best Friend, Blind, Capability, Ceiling, Conscience, Cost, Date, Death, Done, Down, Each Tiime, Effort, Every Day Opportunities, Fan-Boy, Gain, Head, Inner Convictions, Invitations, Last Breath, Leave Alone, Life, Life's Bangers, Listen, Memories, Mess, Mind, My Days, My Soul, Naked Trauma, Numbered, Once Again, Poetry and Poems, Push Forward, Quiet Drama, Reminded, Sage Advice, Said, Serve, Shape, Sight, Soul, Soul Undressed, Strength, Tears, Tortured Poet, Troubles, Visions, Weigh, Weight, Whisper | Leave a comment

Practiced Denial

Posted on February 2, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Practiced Denialby Michael DoyleWe laugh, we smileWe practice our denialTrying hard to hideFeelings we can’t confideThere are words unspokenLike sharp sticks pokingLeaving wounds that will scarIt all went a bit too farPainted like a clownIt always got me downLike a … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Big Top, Circus, Clown, Confide, Cure, Defiled, Denial, Doomsayers, Down, Endure, Feelings, Hide, Laugh, Love, Monkeys, Paint, Poetry and Poems, Poke, Practice, Prescient, Sacrament, Scar, Sharp Sticks, Smile, Stop, Three Ring, Too Far, Unspoken, Words, Wounds | Leave a comment

The Kindness of Blind Love

Posted on December 13, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

The Kindness of Blind Loveby Michael DoyleEvery once in a while, you findThat life can be a smile and be kindYou find, as I’ve sometimes foundThat if you don’t chase it aroundLove shows up, and it is kindThe best kind … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ages, Ask, Ask For More, Authentic Communication, Blind Love, Charge, Cleanest Way, Connection, Core, Down, Eyes, False Pride, Find, Found, Great Sign, Heart, History's Pages, Kind, Kindness, Led, Life, Lost, Love, Nose, Nowhere, Once In A While, Poetry and Poems, Questions, Real, Show Up, Smile, Somewhere Inside, Soul, Stop Trying, Trace, Truest Connection, Vanity | Leave a comment

Pain Enters the Building

Posted on October 19, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Pain Enters the Buildingby Michael DoylePain enters the buildingIt comes with the never-yieldingBut instead, putting your all into the gameWhether you lose or gain 15 minutes of fameSometimes conflict comes with painSometimes you ride the rails, barely saneYou give your … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 15 Minutes of Fame, All, Bright Lights, Building, Conflict, Contribution, Corner, Deserve, Down, Driven, End, Feed, Fight, Forever, Game, Gridiron, History, Home and Family, Intense, Last Nerve, Lose, Means, Mile, Million Dollar, Mystery, Nerves, NFL, Pain, Perspective, Poetry and Poems, Pushing Hard, Resolution, Ride the Rails, Sane, Sense, Smile, Snapped, Steel, Success, Underneath, Yield | Leave a comment

The Freedom Agenda

Posted on September 16, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

The Freedom Agendaby Michael DoyleI read the headlines to my great consternationThat Newsome and others would change our constitutionThe thoughts of over my dead body come to mindIt’s time we leave such foolish thoughts behindIt’s not enough to simply win … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Able, America, American, American Way, Approach, Articulation, Ashes, Attack, Back, Biden, Bidenomics, Big Business, Big Government, Blanket, Blind Man, Borders, Broken, Burn, Change, Cherish, Children, Christians, Cities, Compassion, Consequence, Conservative, Consternation, Constitution, Course, Course Correction, Crisis, Crying Point, Decide, Desire, Detection, Determination, Dignity, Disaster, Down, Education, Election Day, Elections, Elite, Enemies, Energy, Evidence, Faithful, Fight, First Principles, Foolish Thoughts Behind, Forget It, Founding, Freeborn Nation, Freedom, Freedoms, Fruitful, God's Timing, Good, Grounded, Haters of America, Headlines, Heritage, Hope, Ideals, Ideas and Ideals, Indoctrination, Inspection, Inspired, Integrity, Key, Knifepoint, Legacy, Let It, Liberal Policies, Liberty, Locked Arms, Manmade, Masses, Mind, Motion, Nation, Newsome, Nonexistent, Our Freedoms, Outspoken, Over My Dead Body, Pain, Path, Path Ahead, Perish, Poetry and Poems, Point, Policy, Pollices, Prices, Prosperity, Push Back, Questions, Rational Explanation, Real, Rebound, Republican, Right, Right Direction, Saddled, Self-Anoint, Set of Ideals, Shame, Spurious Election Prcoedures, Strength, Strong, Students, The Bible, The Freedom Agenda, The People, Thoughts, Truth, Tyranny, Unvarished Truth, Victory, Virtue, Vision, Way of Life, Weaken, Win, Words, Wrong | Leave a comment

Thought for the Day: Like A City Whose Walls Are Broken Down Is A Man Who Lacks Self-Control

Posted on June 10, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“Like a city whose walls are broken down is a man who lacks self-control.” – Proverbs 25:28 (New International Version)

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Na/GloPoWriMo #30: While By Rhyme We Say Goodbye

Posted on April 30, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Na/GloPoWriMo #30: While By Rhyme We Say Goodbyeby Michael DoyleMoving ever towardBy inching forwardIn a sideways slideWhere up tells down to hideLife becomes its hide and seekThough we remain afraid to speakWords we really want to sayThe truths that get … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged A Word Or Two, Afraid to Speak, Astray, Cheer, Day by Day, Down, Fresh, Get Us Through Our Days, Given To Poetry, Hide, Hide and Seek, Inching Forward, Legends, Life, Moving, Na/GloPoWriMo, Next Year, Once Again, Peeks, Poetry and Poems, Prophecy, Quite Outspoken, Raised, Rhyme, Say, Share, Sideways Slide, Slightly Broken, Thirty Days of Rhymes, Time, To Fly, Toast, Toward, Truths, Up, Want To See, We Always Do, We Say Goodbye, Well Played, Words | Leave a comment