Tag Archives: Family

The Fight After the Fight

Posted on December 5, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

The Fight After the Fightby Michael DoyleThe first death you seeStrips away a layer of life’s dignity.It stays with you like an aura you wearWhile you fight the pangs of despair.The pain grips you by the heart.As you look into … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Aura, Battle, Bury, Christmas Season, Dead and Gone, Despair, Dignity, Due, Eyes, Family, Fight, First Death, Glory, Heart, Lack, Layer, Life, Love, mental-health, Misery, Move On, Mystery, Night, Pain, Pan, Pangs, Poetry and Poems, Rattle, Rucksack, Saber, Soul, Story, Treason, War, Writing | Leave a comment

It’s Not So Funny Now

Posted on December 1, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

It’s Not So Funny Nowby Michael DoyleIt seems like the truth behind so many stories.We had to dare the lightning to find the glories.Yesterday’s lessons, we thought would never end,These were the moments we really needed a friend.It’s really not … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Advice, Believer, Believers, Chilren, Clock, Cope, Dare the Lightning, Days, Deceiver, Deserving, Discern, Discipleship, Dodge, End, Eyes, Falling Rain, Family, Forgive, Friend, Funny, Glory, Head, Hope and Faith, Know, Learn, Lessons, Life, Live, Love, Man Above, Moments, Now, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Prophets, Serve, Stories, Thanks To God, Thirst, Toughen, Trouble, Truth, Wall, Wrong Turns, Yesterday, Young | Leave a comment

Macy’s 99th Thanksgiving Day Parade

Posted on November 27, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Macy’s 99th Thanksgiving Day Paradeby Michael DoyleA slight smile replaces my poker faceAs I rush with everyone to find my place.This beautiful parade of yours and mineComes just like an early Valentine.A little special love shines our way,Brought to us … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 99th, Balloon, Broadway, Character, Christmas, Dancers, Dancing Shoes, Elves, Explore, Family, Felix the Cat, Float, Happiness, Herald Square, Holidays, Inflation, Love, Mack the Knife, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Marching Band, New York City, Poetry and Poems, Radio City Rockettes, Ragtime, Smile, Super Fan, Thanksgiving, Tom Torkey, Travel | Leave a comment

Happy Thanksgiving To One and All!!

Posted on November 27, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

As families gather across the nation, and our military families may gather overseas, I wish everyone a joyful, Happy Thanksgiving 2025! We are grateful and give thanks to the Lord, God Almighty above us all, for the love and goodness … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Aloha Promises Forever, Family, God Almighty, Gratitue, Happy Thanksgiving, Joy, Lord, Love and Goodness, Military, Prayer, Shared, Thankfulness, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

A Reverence For Hurts Felt

Posted on November 20, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

A Reverence For Hurts Feltby Michael DoyleIt’s never easy on the children. Is it?Perfection is not really a standard. Is it?There is so much to be worked out,Between the fears, the tears, and the doubts.It’s too bad about the power … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Appreciation, Children, Daughter, Difference, Done, Doubt, Earnest, Failure, Faith, Family, Father, Fear, Felt, Forgiving, Hurt, Jesus, Life, Lord, Love, Measure, Omission, Perfection, Poetry and Poems, Power of Animosity, Pray, Rage, Reverence, Son, Starndard, Tears, Thanksgiving, Treasure, Understood, Worked Out, Writing, Wrongs | Leave a comment

All the Broken Pieces

Posted on November 14, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

All the Broken Piecesby Michael DoyleWhen our sanity has turned to treason,We make up every kind of reason.It seems like our life is by misconception,When we fall for our own self-deceptions.It’s next to tragic applied to our family,In the conflicts … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All, Broken Pieces, Choices of Love, Conceal, Conflict, Decency, Dignity, Family, Fantasy, Fight, Forget, Glory, Kindnesses, Life, Misconception, Misery, Poetry and Poems, Reason, Revealed, Sanity, Self-Decpetion, Sorrow, Story, Thrown Away, Tomorrow, Tragic, Treason, Yesterday | Leave a comment

Allowing Allowable Differences

Posted on October 6, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Allowing Allowable Differencesby Michael DoyleIn our family’s living sanctuary,The Bible serves as a special library.It teaches us how to live and to love,Instructed in conversation with Heaven above.Each of us has our own interpretationOf what it is and isn’t to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Allow, Bible, Christianity, Conversation, Differences, Faith, Family, God, God's Will, Harmony, Jesus, Library, Live, Living Sanctuary, Love, nterpretation, Poetry and Poems, Unity | Leave a comment

Laughing At Life

Posted on September 22, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Laughing At Lifeby Michael DoyleHere I am, sitting on the floor.I’m lost in numbers, collating the score.I’m not saying that I need it easy.But wish for once it would even up to please me.We’re laughing at all of life’s dramady,But … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Afraid, Alone, Backbone, Coke, Comedy, Currency, Doubt, Dramady, Dream, Easy, Family, Feelings, Fiber, Floor, Forgotten, Funny, Glory, Guitar, Hanging Stars, Heart, King, Last, Laugh, Lifee, Love, Mean, Meaning, Misspoke, Myth, Number, Okay, Past, Poetry and Poems, Queen, Remember, Score, Settle, Shoot, Sip, Songs of Yesterday, Spend, Stars, Stone, Stories, Streets, Thoughts, Today, Truth, Understand, Urgency, Walk, Work Out, Wrap It Up, Writer | Leave a comment

Every Day Lived On the Ledge

Posted on September 14, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Every Day Lived On the Ledgeby Michael DoyleI hear God’s children crying.Lord, hear your believers trying.We try hard to make sense of this all,As each of us responds to your call.We know with all legitimacyThat we must submit to godly … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Authority, Bible, Blame Game, Call, Charlie Kirk, Christianity, Church, Darknness, Dignity, Error, Every Day, Faith, Family, God, God's Children, Govenrment, Guide, Harshness, Humility, Jesus, Jesus Saves, Ledge, Liegitmacy, Mirror, Navigation, Path, Poetry and Poems, Politics of Everything, Redemption, Respect, Response, The Bible, World-Class Listening Problem | Leave a comment

All the Days Are Gone

Posted on September 5, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

All The Days Are Goneby Michael DoyleListen a little closer to the song,Tell me, does it somehow belong?It’s not a case of stump the band,But it’s a memory of favorites across the land.Standing ready across this promised land,What you want … Continue reading →

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