Tag Archives: Face to Face

Mountain of Consequence

Posted on February 28, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Mountain of Consequenceby Michael DoyleThere are legends of lost treasureThat goes deep and beyond known measureThe locks that must be brokenAs the stories are told, quietly spokenMankind’s greed leads to deathAn old man mumbles under breathWhile the bringer of life … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Age Old Story, Ansswer, Arrogance, Awe, Beg, Beyond, Bleed, Breath, Bringer of Lifee, Broken, Bury, Calculated Science, Call, Castle, Consequence, Control, Cres, Darkness, Date, Day, Death, Death and Misery, Deep, Dies, Disenchanted, Echo, Embrace, Everything and Everyone, Face to Face, Fairytales, Fate, Forgive, Fractured Soul, Fragile, Free, Frozen Prayer, Greed, Harshness, Heart, Heartbreak, Heresy, Horror, Intolerance, Know, Left, Legends, Length, Live, Lock, Lost Treasure, Love, Mankind, Measure, Meet, Mercy, Mountain, Mumble, Need, New Strength, Old man, Pines, Poet, Poetry and Poems, Pretend, Promise, Search, See, Seeking Glory, Snow, Sorrows, Spoken, Street, Survive, Tears, The End, Tomorrow, Tortured Souls, Trace, True Secret, Universe, Unknown God, Valley of Sorrow, Verse, Wish | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: We Never Get To the Bottom of Ourselves On Our Own. We Discover Who We Are Face To Face and Side by Side With Others In Work, Love, and Learning

Posted on February 24, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“We never get to the bottom of ourselves on our own. We discover who we are face to face and side by side with others in work, love and learning.” – Robert N. Bellah

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Bottom, Discover, Face to Face, Learning, Love, Others, Own, Robert N. Bellah, Selves, Side By Side, Thought For the Day, Work | Leave a comment

Sweet Victory

Posted on January 21, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Sweet Victoryby Michael DoyleNothing can take God’s placeI’ve felt His glory, face-to-faceI am grateful from my heartHe’s been here from the startSaving me from my transgressionsAnd from all this world’s aggressionsIt’s amazing all that He’s doneIn the trinity of Father, … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Aggressions, Amaze, Attitude, Badness, Blessed, Blessings, Convinced, Daughters, Deity, Enemies, Eternity, Face to Face, Father, God's Place, Good, Grateful, Grtatitude, Happiness, Heart, His Love, Holy Spirit, Madness, Path, Poetry and Poems, Redemption, Reign, Retoration, Saving Me, Silencing, Son, Start, Sweet Victory, Transgressions, Trinity, Understood, Voice, World | Leave a comment

Face To Face

Posted on May 30, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Face To Faceby Michael DoyleComing face to faceWith my mortalityI’ll be never beJust another fatalityLet there be no doubtingThat I’ll go out shoutingGrabbing on as hard as I canI live to be that kind of manGonna, gonna hit it!You know … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Animus, Bleeding Out, Blind, Blow My Lid, Clue, Doubting, Face to Face, Fatality, Fight, Find, Forget-Me-Not, Grabbing On Hard, History, Hit It, I'm Good, Kind of Man, Know, Learned, Living, Morning Light, Mortality, Mystery, Poetry and Poems, Quit, Raising the Devil, Reach, Right, Rocking Hard, Serious Fight, Shouting, Solid, Strarting, Think, Tight Shot, Top Again, Twisted and Turned, Within | Leave a comment

Long Time, No Talk

Posted on September 12, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Long Time, No Talkby Michael DoyleThough the Lord is my shepherdI think you know, Lord, that it’s inferredThat though I should not, yet I doIt’s been a long time since I’ve talked to youStanding as I am amidst life’s mysteryWondering … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adjustment, Alone, Anchor, Attitude, Best, Daily, Deep Conversation, Demands, Desperate, Do, Eyes, Face to Face, Father, Fill, Grace, Gratitude, Harmony, Heal, Heart, Infer, Inquisition, Keep Things Real, Know, Life, Long Time, Lord, Marvel, Melody, Mind, Mystery, Need, No Talk, Open, Pass, Passes, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Polite Society, Prodigal Son, Propriety, Questions, See, Shepherd, Time, Too Late, We, Welcome, Yet | Leave a comment

In the Providence of Seneca

Posted on August 24, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

In the Providence of Senecaby Michael DoyleIn the age of ancient tyrannyWhen Rome had lost its libertyEven a good man might compromiseFor the partial good seen in his eyesThough at times, it took its tollTo hide his better angels in … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Absolute, Age, All That Happens, Ancient, Beg For Mercy, Belong, Better Angels, Bind, Blessing, Breath of Life, Code, Complexity, Compromise, Confronted, Correspondence, Creation, Cringe, Death, Destroy, Deviation, Divinity, Done, E, Epistles, Every, Evil, Evil For Evil, Eyes, Face to Face, Facing Adversity, Fast, Felt, Fiddle, Final Analysis, For Good, Full, Garment, God, God Works, Good, Good Man, Good Person, Greater, Grow, Hide, His Creation, Hold True, Just, Kill, Knowing, Liberty, Life, Lost, Mankind, Moral Relativists, Mortal, Name of God, Nation, Natural Law, Nero, No Choice, Nobility, Order, Partial Good, Path, Perfection, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Providence, Regardless, Return, Right and Wrong, Right Way, Righteousness, Role, Rom, Rule, Satisfaction, Seam, Self, Seneca, Sense, Setting Sun, Shade, Shadows, Showing, Situational Ethics, Slavery, Socrates, Sonorous, Soul, Strains, Subjugation, Test of Evil, Testimony, Thoughts, Time, Times, Toll, Traces, Tyranny, Understood, Universe | Leave a comment

Slips of the Tongue

Posted on August 20, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Slips of the Tongueby Michael DoyleSlips of the feeble tongueCome more often when no longer youngThings ill thought should often not be saidBut instead kept inside one’s headOur lives are played out like a movieSometimes hellbent though that doesn’t move … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Acknowledge, Actual, Another, Awkward, Bad Decisions, Best, Better, Better Way, Charm, Clarity, Cling, Conspire, Copping Out, Dancing, Day To Day, Dealt, Derision, Desire, Dig Out of the Dirt, Doing Best, Embrace, End, Face to Face, Fade In, Fed, Feeble, Feel, Felt, Foot, Fragility, Freely, Front, Fully, Half, Hands, Harm, Head, Hearts, Hold Out, Hope, Hurts, Ill Thought, Intended, Kept Inside, Know, Less, Life, Lives, Living It Up, Make Believe, Masquerade, Means, Measured, Mouse, Move Me, Movie, Next Day, Often, Opening Scene, Other, Our Own Devices, Out of Control, Party, Photograph, Place, Played Out, Poem, Poetry, Premature, Realization, Roles, Roll Through, Said, Seek, Self, Slips, Sorrow, Start, Times, Tongue, Trap, Truths, Unintended, Universe, Wicked, Wrap, Young | Leave a comment

Tribalisms of Empathy

Posted on May 4, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Society’s kindness has gone markedly down as we tend to polarize and communicate online via social media more. It’s sort of sparking a lot of interest, particularly in these times of social isolation, in getting folks to begin dialoging … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Act, Acts, All In This Together, Amibition, Angry, Anonymity, Best, Better, Biology, Blindness, Bold, Break Down, Brutal, Burn, Challenge, Clues, Cold, Communicate, Communication, Community, Concern, Connection, Contagion, Control, Decline, Dehumanization, Dialog, Difference, Diminish, Direction, Disconnect, Edge, Empathy, Face to Face, Fear, Feelings, Fluid, Forget, Forward, Genes, Gradient, Hard, Harsh, Heart, Heredity, Human, Impersonal, Inference, Inhibition, Isolation, Kindness, Know, Life, Loss, Marsh, Meanness, Mirror, Morass, Nation, Need, Nuance, Pain, Photograph, Physiology, Poem, Poetry, Points of View, Polarize, Prevalence, Reality, Realm, Refine, Remove, Rise, Sad, Selfishness, Social Isolation, Social Media, Society, Spark, Startle, Sympathy, Text, Together, Tribal, Trust, Umbrella, Voice, Voices, Walk, Wobble, World | Leave a comment

Stars Align & Connect

Posted on March 21, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Her mind is a lot on the future and how that will be. I would lie if I said mine isn’t as well. Wrote this with real hope despite feeling a bit ill. Stars Align & Connect by Michael Doyle … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Align, Alone, Ambiance, Bold, Candlelight, Caught, Champagne, Connect, Cuddle, Dots, Dream, Emotions, Energy, Expectations, Face to Face, Fairy Tale, Free Fall, Future, Hesitation, Hope, Love, Magic, Mind, Moments, Next, Organic, Pace, Path, Petals, Photograph, Physical, Picture, Poem, Poetry, Question, Romantic, Rose, Soiree, Stars, Synergy, Talk, Touch, Touched, Understand, Unreal, Zone | Leave a comment

Walking In Thankfulness

Posted on November 13, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

A poem of thankfulness #13: Walking In Thankfulness by Michael Romani There in the goodness that is the God-ness That waltzes right past guilt into innocence With the grammar of faith we talk our talk Knowing that thankfully, we’ll walk … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Amaze, Best, Contemplate, Deeds, Defer, Doubt, Dwelling Place, Face to Face, Faith, Forgive, Gammar, Gift, Giver, Glass, God, Good Purpose, Goodness, Gratitude, Guilt, Hand, Help, Humble, Innocence, Love Letter, Man, Mirror, Muddle, Needs, Notion, Pain, Pass, Photograph, Plow, Poem, Poetry, Points of Light, Preference, Prose, Redemption, Reptenance, Salvation, Shame, Sin, Taker, Talk, Thank, Thankfulness, Truth of God, Walk, Waltz, Ways, Woe | Leave a comment