Tag Archives: Eyes

As To Heaven, Our Hands Raise

Posted on February 20, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

As To Heaven, Our Hands Raiseby Michael DoyleIn our Christian legacyJesus is our first priorityHe is before all other thingsAnd He is for whom we singIn the beginning was the WordBefore any other thought occurredUntil He came to dwell among … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All Belongs To Him, Before All Things, Beginning, Catalyst, Center, Christian Legacy, Comfortable, Compass, Difference, Dwell, Every Other Part, Eyes, Glorify Him, Glory, Grace and Mercy, Hands, Heart, Heaven, His Purpose, History, Hymn, Jesus, Know, Look, Love, Mean, Nowhere Else, Page and the Book, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Priority, Raise, Reverence, Routine, Sing, Surprise, The First and the Last, The Lord, Thought, Treasure, Truth, Word | Leave a comment

A Father’s Love

Posted on February 19, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

A Father’s Loveby Michael DoyleA young girl hurtsWith the soul of a womanWhy doesn’t anyone understandA father listens, alert -Doing the best that he canSilently, he offers his handShe dries her eyesWhile he simply listensTo the questions on her mindHe … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged A Father's Love, Beauty, Best, Bond, Challenges, Charm, Coming Up, Cruel, Curled, Deep, Defend, Explain, Eyes, Faithfulness, Folly, Forever, Fussed, Hard, Harm, Heart, His Hand, His Stories, Hold, Know, Laughing Eyes, Lies, Listen, Listening, Love, Mind, Must, Necessary, Once, Once His Little Girl, One Voice, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Promise, Protect, Questions, Said, Sanctuary, Say, Sever, She, Silent, Simple, Soul, Survive, Swerved, Sworn Duty, Teach, Trust, Understand, Undeserved, Withstand, Woman, World, Young Girl | Leave a comment

Cicero Speaks On Becoming Older

Posted on February 8, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Cicero Speaks On Becoming Olderby Michael DoyleLife passes through many a stageUntil calumniating in old ageIt’s a folly to hold this in despiseWe’d be better off to open our eyesCicero offers us his philosopher’s lookIn his writing of many a … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Assassination, Assert, Assumption, Body, Cherished, Cicero, Clarity, Collective Wisdom, Constitutional Hall, Counsel, Despise, Die, Different, Education, Effective, Elder, Elocution, Ends of History, Essay, Estate, Eternity, Experience, Eyes, Fail, Fair Prize, Farm, Folly, Franklin, Freedom, Good Book, Grandparent, Guide, Hands, Heed, History, Ides of March, Immortality, Indignation, Infirmity, Inner Beauty, Integrity, Justice, Kingdom, Law, Leadership, Life, Life's Lessons, Loss, Meditate, Mental Abilities, Mental Faculty, Moments, Moral Duty, Observation, Offer, Old Age, Older, Open, Opportunity, Oratory, Phaedo, Philosopher, Plato, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Profound, Quality of Life, Reason, Sacred Ground, Sage, Sensual Pleasures, Sharp, Stage, Sweet Surprise, Teach, Throat, Tides, Time and Again, Triumph, Truth, Tyranny, Use, Useless, Valuable, Versed, Why, Wiser, Wonder, Write, Young | Leave a comment

To See the World Again

Posted on February 3, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

To See the World Againby Michael DoyleTo see the world through new eyesIt might help me to again realizeThe splendors too often taken for grantedBy those of us whose views are slantedLights like stars seem to aboundAs life loses its … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Again, Beauty, Believe, Child, City, Clearly, Coin, Control, Courage, Darkness, Dearly, Dreams, Eyes, Fairy Tale, Fallen Time, Faltered Question, Fantasy, Fear, Forget, Found, Friend, Ground, Harshness, Heart, Hesitation, Hold Your Hand, Lights, Lost Rhyme, Luster, Lyrical, Magical, Moonlight, Mystery, New Eyes, New Possibility, Once Upon, Pity, Playing Favorites, Poetry and Poems, Promises, Realize, Remembered Eyes, Rippled Pond, Search, See, Skeleton Hands, Soul, Splendor, Stardust, Staring Off, Stars, Strangeness, Taken For Granted, Talk, Touching the Good, Tragic, Tranquility, Understood, Views, Walk, Wishing Well, Wonders, World | Leave a comment

Learning To Not Be Anxious

Posted on January 23, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Learning To Not Be Anxiousby Michael DoyleTossing and turning without sleepFilled with thoughts that won’t keepThis world is filled with complexityEnough to fill our hearts with anxietyThe restlessness of what we must endureFor all these trepidations there is a cureThere … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anxiety, Anxious, Appreciation, Belief, Blessed Days, Blessings, Bringer of Comfort, Chaos, Charm, Comfort, Complexity, Confidence, Contend, Cope, Counting, Cure, Daily Prayer, Despair, Door, Duplicity, Endure, Eyes, Failure, Faith, Fear, Focus, Free, Galilee, God, Good, Grateful, Harm, Hearts, Hope, King of Kings, Learn, Lord, Magnified, Master of All Things, Meditate, Mercy, Minds, Ministry, Our Times, Overcome, Overcoming, Paper, Peter, Poetry and Poems, Practical Passages, Praise, Prevail, Prism, Prison, Radio, Real, Reason, Rejoice, Restlessness, Ruminate, Safe, Sedate, Sleep, Soul, Storm, Supplication, Thankful, Thoughts, Tossing and Turning, Trepidations, Troubles, Truth, Understood, Valley of the Shadow of Death, Voices, Worrying, Year After Year | Leave a comment

Making Moments Memories

Posted on January 19, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Making Moments Memoriesby Michael DoyleIt’s the momentsNot selfies that we needIn these times that aren’t contentBut from these, we can be freedLike mental orgasmsCrept up on with enthusiasmNot the dull day of egoThat add up to practically zeroOne photo after … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alone, Amuck, Banality, Beauty and Kindness, Center, Complete, Connection, Content, Criminalize, Days, Dies, Direction, Disorder, Dull Day, Ego, Endless, Endure, Enthusiasm, Equal, Ever After, Every Breath and Sigh, Every Life, Exterminate, Eyes, Family, Finality, Freed, Friends, Grab Us A Memory, Grasp, Holy, Humanity, Ignore, Intimacy, Joy Thieves, Laugh, Laughter, Less Is More, Life More Livable, Life Reveals, Lifeless, Living In Memory, Memories, Mental Orgasms, Moments, Music, Need, Onslaught, Opened, Poetry and Poems, Potential, Sacred, Scenes of Beauty, Self, Selfies, Smile, Steal, Tears, Timeless, Times, Times of Humor, Tiny Moments, True, Unforgettable, Vital, Wonder, Words, Zero | Leave a comment

A Brodsky View of the Pandemic

Posted on January 16, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

A Brodsky View of the Pandemicby Michael DoyleShow trial advances without stayCharges pressed without any delayThe time arrives to dispense all playIn a fluke filled with fearsCame the nice as if to cheersThat would repeat themselves through yearsQuickly then comes … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Affect, Battlefields, Beliefs, Bliss, Brodsky, Broken Out, Cast, Charges, Cheers, Citizens, Clue, Conscience, Consequences, Crisis, Crowned Head, Crush, Curtains, Delay, Duty, Errors, Experts, Eyes, Fact, Fears, Flail, Flu, Fluke, Freedom, Freedom and Liberty, Full Sail, Happiness, History, Horizon, Ignorance, Inner Cells, Judgment, Known, Labs, Last Act, Liberty, Looking Back, Marble, Masst, Mean, My Life, Not Forget, Pandemic, Paradise, Past, Play, Poet, Poetry and Poems, Politician, Prescience, Present, Prevail, Pride, Pseudo-Science, Repeat, Revealed, Sad, Sails, Shots, Show Trial, State of Freedom, Step On, Tarnish, Time, Truth, Wishes, Years | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: None Are More Hopelessly Enslaved Than Those Who Falsely Believe They Are Free

Posted on January 16, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Believe, Depth, Enslaved, Eyes, Falsehoods, Feed, Free, Hopeless, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Lies, Master, Minds, None, Right, Rule, Thought For the Day, Truth, Wrong | Leave a comment

On the Altar of My Life

Posted on January 12, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

On the Altar of My Lifeby Michael DoyleIn every moment, even or oddYou put me together, Lord GodIn every flaw and every breakYou have eased every single acheYou have shown me the truthLived every moment since my youthEvery shame of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ache, All of My Days, Altar, Altar of My Life, Beauty, Break, Breath, Christ, Creation, Cry, Day, Destination, Die, Enduring Faith, Every Moment, Eyes, Fullness, Glory, Heart, Law, Life, Lifting You Up, Living Altar, Lord God, Magnified, Man, Meaning, Near, Page, Paths, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Sacrifice, Shame, Shaped, Signified, Sing, Story, Strains, Sunrise, Thankful, The Glory, Truth, Your Ways, Youth | Leave a comment

Just Like Hollywood

Posted on January 1, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Just Like Hollywoodby Michael DoyleEvery baby truly belongsEven in the world of wrongsDreams turn into nightmaresIn this world filled with caresSometimes maybe it’s alrightTo know what’s worth the fightAnd maybe love is one of thoseThat would be one those we … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alright, Baby, Belongs, Came Here To Win, Cares, Chose, Dreams, Eyes, Good, Hard Knock Lives, Hearts, Hold On, Hollywood, Lift Up, Love, Nightmares, No Good, Play It Out, Poetry and Poems, Push Back, Push Us Down, Put It Together, Run, Say Goodnight, Song, Strong, Those, Throwing the Towel In, Tight, Truth, Victor's Crown, World, Worth the Fight, Wrongs | Leave a comment