Tag Archives: Drive

Thought For the Day: No Life Ever Grows Great Until It Is Focused, Dedicated, Disciplined

Posted on May 24, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Confined, Dedicate, Disciplined, Drive, Focused, Gas, Grows Great, Harnessed, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Horse, Life, Light, Niagara, Power, Stream, Thought For the Day, Tunneled, Turned | 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 →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Better Decisions, Buoyancy, Deep, Demanding, Destination, Devastation, Deviation, Devotion, Dimension, Discernment, Distracted, Do the Math, Drive, Dwell, Elimination, Eyes Set, Footing, God Is In Control, Grace, Grow Strong, Impediment, Inclination, Insecurity, Jesus, Know, Living, Lose, Loss, Maturity, Meander, Mindful, Narrow Path, Overestimation, Path, Personal Inadequcy, Played, Poetry and Poems, Prayed, Pressures of Life, Pushing Through, Put Aside, Real, Recommit, Reconsideration, Refuse, Revisited, Rhyme, Right Sentiment, Satan, Scripture, Serve, Significance, Slip, Solomon's Seal, Soul, Stay, Stay On the Path, Strive, Surrender, The Deal, Things of God, Thoughts, Time To Time, Tool, Tragic, Tricks, Truth, Understanding, Undiminished, Ways of God, Wheel, Wisdom, Words, Wrong Emphasis | Leave a comment

Firefighter 54 (In Memoriam for the Death of My Sister)

Posted on August 5, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

For those who remember Michele, I offer in her memory on this anniversary of her death: Firefighter 54 by Michael Doyle ..Firefighter 54, firefighter 54 This is Ashland Fire Department Firefighter 54, Firefighter 54 This is Ashland Fire … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 14 Hours, 14 Hours More, All I Should Have Ever Wanted, Angel Tears, Ashland Fire Department, Barrel Racing, Before Me, Brother, Brother In Law, Buddy, Cattle Cutting, Community, Compare, Death, Diamonds and Rust, Distinct Prairie Bonnet, Do you Know?, Doing My Best Cowboy, Doorways, Drive, Drove By, Early Morning Drizzle, Except, Fake, Father In Heaven, Felt, Few Stories, Final Journey, Firefighter 54, Firemen, Found A Way, Found Herself, Found There, Fullest Degree, Gathered, Go Ahead Cowgirl, Gucci, Hang My Head and Cry, Happiness, Hard Part, Harder, Heaven, High Life, His Long Face, I know, I must, Irony of It All, Joke, Joked, Joyful Pride, Knew At Least, Know, Laying you In the Ground, Learned In An Instant, Left Behind, Life Without Fear, Lifetime of Memories, Little More, Live, Lived As She Dared, Lived Just As She Wanted, Lost Up, Love, Love She Had Needed, Loved and Cared, Loved Her, Marbled, Memoriam, Michele, Middle of the Middle of Nowhere, Mind Distacted, Miss Her, Model, More Life, Move, Muddled Haze, My Best Friend, My Fatal Flaws, My Greatest Hero, My Sister, Mysteriously, Neighboring Counties, No Longer Responding, Nose To Nose, Nothing At All, Old Blue, Or Even Whimper Why, Our Father In Heaven, Out of Pain, Patted, Peaceful, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Quietly Taking It All In, Rain, Respond, Rest, Ride Your Ride, Riding, Sadly True, Sadness, Saluting, Selfish of Me, Share, Shared, Sincere, Sincerely Embraced, Sister, Slowly, Small Town People, Soul To Soul, Speaker, Stare, Stirred Up, Streets Lined, Such Are the Feelings, Sweet Photos, Tales of Admiration, Thank You For Your Service, Time, Too Much To Take In, Too Tough To Cry, Town, Trading In, Trail, Trying To Be Strong, Under This Steeple, Until the Very End, Waiting, Wake, Want In Any Way, Warmth and Truth, While She Had To Die, Who Knew Me Best, Wonder, Your Final Peace, Zero | Leave a comment

On Finding You Finding You

Posted on August 31, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

On Finding You Finding Youby Michael DoyleWithout a snort and very little poutYou said it all when you walked outI’ll say that I admire your integrityAs you work your own path and identityWho is to say what forges a personalityOnly … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Admire, Authentic, Breeze, Bridge, Carry, Conversation, Deceptions, Dreams, Drive, Eventually, Everywhere, Fantasy, Fears, Feeling, Finding You, Fixed Destination, Forge, Gone, Identity, In the End, Integrity, Intimacy, Knee Deep, Lakeside, Little Girls, Make-Up, Mystic, Outright, Perceptions, Personality, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pout, Reveal, Run, Said It All, Snort, Society, Star Gaze, Sunday, Time and God, Today, Tom Boy, Tomorrow, Trust, Walked Out, Weeds, Whisper, Wind, Work Your Own, You | Leave a comment

Around Every Corner

Posted on August 13, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

As I was driving down the eastern terminus of the Old National Road, it occurred to me… Around Every Corner by Michael Doyle Around every corner There is a story Down every street Hiding from its glory Just a bit … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Around, Around Every Corner, Bit, Built, Careless, Down Every Street, Drive, Driven By, Eastern Terminus, Every Corner, Flown Over, Gain, Garden, Gates, Getting Through, Glory, Hand That's Dealt, Hidden, Hide, In Every Loss, Lost and Found, Moment, Mumble, Nothing, Old National Road, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pout, Pride, Quarry, Revealing, Road Side, See, Story, Stumble, Telling, Toss, Twist of Fate, Untold Story, Voice, Wait, Word | Leave a comment

Wild Winds

Posted on August 1, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

As mentioned before, it is birthday weekend for a very sweet daughter whose gentle spirit and artistic ways make me a better man in every way. I am so proud to be her father. I thought it might be, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Arrive, Assured, Back and Forth, Banter, Birthday Weekend, Bison, Blessed, Brought Back From the Edge, Buffalo, Buffalo Dreams, Buffalos, Calamity, Charge, Conversation, Cows, Daughters, Distinction, Drive, Eldest Daughter, Embrace, Explain, Explore, Extinction, Faint Marks, Family, Fascination, Father, Few Remaining, Flicker, Forward, Fremont, Friends, Future, Future Trips, Great Beasts, Horns, Indiana, Journey, Kayaking, Learn, Less Dim, Liberty, Long Drive, Love, Mile by Mile, Moment, Move Along, Nation, No Complaining, Old, Once Was A Time, Open Door, Outside, Photograph, Playfully, Plentiful, Poem, Poetry, Present, Preserve, Proud, Quicker, Raining, Risks, Rivers, Rus, Safer, Salvation, Saturday, Song, Soul, Stormy, Strength, Talking, Teach, Tenacity, Thankful, The Girls, The Great Creator, Their, Time Spent, Torment, Toward, Trace, Tragedy, Treasure, Vulnerability, Wild Winds, Wilderness, Wonderful, World | Leave a comment

Ohio River Driven

Posted on July 11, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Poem based on Part I of a scenic drive taken along the Indiana towns along the Ohio River. Part II will be today, probably. 🙂 Ohio River Driven by Michael Doyle Two hour drive to catch a bit of history … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Aurora, Beecher Church, Blast, Call Out, Care, Catch, Cemetery, Chasing Circles, Children's Children, Core, Details, Distillery, Drive, Each Age, Feel, Feeling, Fool, Found, Gamble, Give Thanks, Greek Revival, Guide Book, History, Iconoclast, Indiana, Integrity, Leave, Legacy, Legendary, Lessons Learned, Liberty, Life, Live, Live Ours, Lost, Manage To Survive, Memorial, Misery, Model-T, Moments Taken, Not Fake It, Ohio River, Out of Order, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Possibility, Prayer, Present, Prosperity, Rising Sun, River Towns, Scenery, Seagram and Sons, Shaken, Small Town, Some Day, Some Gave All, Street, Take A Drive, The Past, Times, Unique, War Dead, What We Make It, Whiskey, Wonder | Leave a comment

It’s No Mystery

Posted on June 28, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

A thought that occurred to me over and over as I drove through Amish Country yesterday: It’s No Mystery by Michael Doyle Every day that we get to live We have to give what we can give To show that … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accepting Differences, Adds Up, Amish Country, Answer, Appears, Better, Blessing, Blindness, Brothers, Chance, Change Our Ways, Choose, Conquer, Different Fate, Drive, Each Other, End of Days, Every Day, Feel, Forgotten, Freed, Give, Grateful, Greater, Greatest Commandment, Greet, Hate, Hearts, Help, History, Kindness, Learn, Learn To Love One Another, Learned, Left, Lessons, Let's Talk, Live, Living, Looking Deep, Love, Love One Another, Love the Lord God, Moment, More Faith, Mystery, Need, Open Fist, Page Turned, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Present, Right, Said, Second Guessing, See, Seeing With Another's Eyes, Seeking, Show, Sisters, Smile, Stop Forcing, Sunrise, Surface, Take Hand, Than Fear, This World, Thought, Turn That Page, Understand, Walk Together | Leave a comment

Happy Mother’s Day, Too

Posted on May 10, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

My ex-wife could never gracefully receive a present. Not just from me but from our daughters, they tell me. Still, despite all, there is one gift I would yet give her on this day particularly after the reminders received over … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Agree, Apples, Bad, Best, Better, Blessed, Bliss, Button, Christmas Songs, Click, Company, Conversation, Country Road, Damage, Daughters, Day, Destinations, Done, Drive, Due, Eve, Ex Wife, Family, Fascination, Forever, Forgive, Forgiveness, Forgotten, Friends, Girls, Go, God, Good, Grace, Gratitude, Happy Mother's Day, Highway, History, Homeward, I, Inter-State, Joke, Joyful, Laugh, Laughing, Listen, Made, Marvel, Mirror, Near, Pandemic, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poetry, Present, Radio, Realize, Return, Reveal, Road, Road Trip, Search, See, Seen, Shine, Short Hike, Sing, Slow Down, Song, Soul, State, Station, Sweet, Tales, Tell, The Girls, Think, Thinking, Together, Told, Tomorrow, Tree, Ugly, Vibrant, Watch, Way Back, Wrong, Youngest | Leave a comment

A New Nation Born Pt II

Posted on March 25, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

The American story series continues… A New Nation Born Pt II by Michael Doyle In the haphazard wake of 1776 There were so many constructs to fix The ancients had always taught Only a smallish sized republic should be sought … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 1776, 1781, America, Anarchy, Ancient, Argument, Articles of Confederation, Balance, Bill of Rights, Born, British, Capable, Cause, Cautious, Centralized Power, Compromise, Conflict, Connection, Constitution, Constitution Day, Constrict, Construct, Convetion, Correction, Country, Daniel Shay, Deficiency, Democracy, Drive, Economy, Engrave, Equal, Expansion, Explanation, Explode, Explosiion, Fabric, Fair Say, Fear, Focus, Formation, Friendship, Function, General Good, George Washington, Government, Hamilton, Hellion, History, Human Condition, Human Nature, Implode, Impotence, Interests, James Madison, Just, Legacy, Legislation, Locus, Mature, Nation, Nation Under Law, National, National Identity, Natural Allies, New, New Jersey, Northwest Ordinance, Notes of the Constitutional Convention, Paralyze, Philadelphia Experiment, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Politics, Population, Possible, Power, Pressure Cooked, Primacy, Rebellion, Reliance, Rendition, Representation, Republic, Republican, Ruin, Sober, Spain, Standard, States, Survive, Ten Amendments, The Federalist Papers, Think, Time, Tinder Box, Understood, Unfold, Virginia, Wall, Westward, Wise, Work With the Grain, Young | Leave a comment