Tag Archives: Father

Radically Reversed

Posted on October 10, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Radically Reversedby Michael DoyleReversing the brokenness of circumstanceTo give sacred life to its every chanceKnowing that those who have less are not lessHowever much life’s moments might be a messThe most hurting present are our familyBlessed be this truth in … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Affirmed, Affirmed Dignity, Appreciation, Atone, Be Not Afraid, Blessed, Blown Away, Brokenness, Brother, Chance, Choice, Circumstance, Climb, Decision, Deserve, Destination, Dignity, Dread and Danger, Drink, Each Child, Each Step, Encourage, Faith, Father, God, God's Blessing, Hopeful Reminder, Humble Supplication, Hurting, Isolation, Kingdom, Legacy, Less, Life's Moments, Lift, Mercy, Mess, Nation, Needs, Not Alone, One Family, Opportunity, Our Family, Poetry and Poems, Radical, Raise, Ready, Real Time, Release, Restore, Reverse, Rhyme, Roads, Sacred Life, Seismic Shift, Service, Sin Confessed, Sister, Stranger, Swirled, Take A Moment, Troubles, Truth, Vision, Walk, Water, Words | Leave a comment

Na/GloPoWriMo #20: Sijo For An Ill-Turned Vaccination

Posted on April 20, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Na/GloPoWriMo #20: Sijo For An Ill Turned Vaccinationby Michael DoyleFather, will you be alright? But of course, I will my dearsWith one hundred three point three, who might I fooling?The fire blazes hot inside, but not as deep as my … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 103.3, Alright, Be Fine, Dad, Daugthers, Dears, Deep, Do Not Worry About A Thing, Father, Feeling Better, Fire, Fooling, Had Worse, I Am Fine, Ill-Turned, Love, Mother, Na/GloPoWriMo, Poetry and Poems, Sijo, Sleeping, Sunshine, Temperature, Time, Too Much, Two, Two To Love, Vaccination, Vaccine, Wait, Worry | Leave a comment

Na/GloPoWriMo #11: Letters From Father To Daughter

Posted on April 11, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Na/GloPoWriMo #11: Letters From Father To Daughterby Michael DoyleDearest Daughter,I didn’t know I would be a fatherWhen I took the chances that I didAnd I’ve always tried to keep it hidI see your eyes of confusionBetween truth and illusionAnd, yes, … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All of the Stories, Always Near, Called, Chances, Chemical Exposure, Composure, Confusion, Covid Shot, Dad, Daddy, Dare Show, Daughter, Do, Every Day, Every Way, Eyes, Family, Father, Feel Less, Fooling, Hardly Wait, Hero, Hid, Hold Your Hand, I Love You, I've Heard of You, Illusion, Immunity, In My Heart, Lay Awake, Less To Fear, Less to Revere, Letters, Listen, Love, Make Me Laugh, May Not Say, Na/GloPoWriMo, Need to Know, Not Easily Forgot, Not Hid, Not There, One Day, Out of Control, Pardon, Play Guitar, Poetry and Poems, Proud, Proud of all, Say It, Scared Me, Sorry, Star, Stay Alive, Survive, The Best of You, Times, Times Like These, To Be Your Father, Truth, Understand, Until Then, Want Your World, Wipe OUt, You, You Are My Hero, You Touch My Soul, Youngest Daughter, Your Daughter, Zero | Leave a comment

Na/GloPoWriMo #6: Setting Fires To Feel Joy

Posted on April 6, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Na/GloPoWriMo #6: Setting Fires To Feel Joyby Michael DoyleI set fires to feel joyIt’s just one of those tricksThat I employ – I ate my twin inside the wombNot being malicious, but…Just to have more elbow roomThey say,.. and maybe … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adventures, Book, Couple of Lines, Daugthers, Day, Elbow Room, Employ, Father, Feel Joy, Fire, Found Myself, Gold Mines, Hemlock Cliffs, In Need, Lincoln's Boyhood Home, Made You Look, Malicious, Na/GloPoWriMo, Not Quite Right, Nothing Short, One of Those Tricks, Photographing, Poetry and Poems, Really Done It, Recall, Responsive Poem, Rightly So, Set, They Say, Traveling, Twin, Two Lines, Unravelin, Verbal, Want To Read, Waterfall, Weary, Womb, Wordsmith's, Worth the Smile, Wouldn't Be Right | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: The Word Became Flesh and Made His Dwelling Among Us. We Have Seen His Glory, the Glory of the One and Only Son, Who Came From the Father, Full of Grace and Truth

Posted on December 25, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.” – John 1:14

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Among Us, Dwell, Father, Flesh, Full, Grace, His Glory, John 1:14, Son, the Word, Truth | Leave a comment

I, Noelle

Posted on December 18, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

I, Noelleby Michael DoyleGrowing up there was nothing as pleasantAs waiting on Christmas Eve for presentsHe was like a lamb to metaphorical slaughterAs I snuck up on my Santa Claus fatherAs his daughter, there was much prideExcept for the part … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Big Year, Cheer, Children, Chimney, Choice, Christmas Day, Christmas Eve, Complete Perfection, Dasher, Daugther, Destiny, Detail, Doing Well, Father, Feeling, Getaway, God, Growing Up, Hope, Lamb, Look, Magic, Me, Merry Gentlemen, Metaphor, Morning Light, New Direction, Noelle, Phoenix, Photograph, Pleasat, Poetry and Poems, Presents, Pride, Promise, Pushed Aside, Rest, Santa Claus, Shining, Silent Night, Sled, Snowy Night, Snuck Up, Spinning, Tale, Tragic, We, Without Presents, Words | Leave a comment

Lessons From A Foggy Eve

Posted on December 17, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Lessons From A Foggy Eveby Michael DoyleI.Up at the old North PoleThere’s an awful lot of snowThere’s something to this time of yearA time of hope and peace and good cheerThat is except for that yearOf the big snow that … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Believe In Your Dreams, Best Day, Big Snow, Clarisse, Conform, Dash, Day, Dentist, Difference, Don't Quit, Father, Find, Fit In, Foggy, For Us, Glows, Gossip, Grand, Happiness, Hermie, Heroes, History, Hope and Peace, Lessons, Love, Love Us, Magnificient, Misft, Names, No Way To Win, North, North Pole, Poetry and Poems, Preference, Reindeer, Room, Rudolph, Say, Shiny Nose, Sleigh, Smallness, Snow, Special Way, Suppose, Time of Year, Tomorrow, Toy Making, Understand | Leave a comment

First Principles: May the Father of All Mercies Scatter Light, and Not Darkness, Upon Our Paths

Posted on December 10, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“May the Father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths.” – George Washington

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Due Time, Father, First Principles, George Washington, Happy, His, Light, Mercy, Not Darkness, Paths, Scatter, Useful, Vocations, Way | Leave a comment

The Death Head of Night

Posted on November 3, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

The Death Head of Nightby Michael DoyleThere in the darkest of the 20th CenturyWere pages to learn from in our historySuch evil as was darker than the nightWhere our traditions still bring us lightNo matter what the king tells usTruth … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 20th Century, Ability, Accident, Accusation, Adolph, All But Lost, All Peoples, Americans, Ancient Peoples, Apart, April Tenth, Arrive, Atmosphere, Atrocity, Auschwitz, Babies, Barren Fields, Believe, Betray, Bluffing, Buchenwald, Burn, Caged Ghetto, Captivity, Cattle Cars, Cleft, Communication, Cost, Crushed, Cry, Cup, Darkest, Daughters, Death Became the Mercy, Death Head, Deeds, Dehumanized, Demonized, Deportation, Desperation, Destination, Determination, Devil's Symphony, Doubt, Dread, Dying, Elders, Eternal, Eternity, Evil, Extermination, Face, Faith, Father, Fear, Few, Flames, Flick, Forced March, Forgotten, Germany, Ghost Train, God, God Be Willing, Going On, Goodness, Grapple, Graves, Grief, Grim Determination, Guide For the Perplexed, Hand, Happenstance, Haste, Hatred, History, Hitler, Hold On Tight, Hope, Huddle, Hunger, Incessant, Infernal, Jewish History, Kabbalah, King, Know, Learn, Left, Let This Be A Lesson, Light, Line, Literature, Live or Die, Living Skeletons, Loved, Madmen, Marginalized, Mengele, Mercilessly, Miracle, Mirror, Misery, Monsters, Mystic Union, Names, Necessary Lie, Night, No Coming Back, No End, Nothing, Optimism, Pages, Peace Alone, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Practice, Pray, Prophets, Prove Forgiving, Provident, Purpose, Question, Rage, Recall, Receptivity, Robbery, Rogues, Rule of Law, S;piritual, Sacred Ritual, Sake, Scarlet, Seek, Shame, Shed, Shrieking, Sighing, Slight, Slip, Snow, Sons, Soul, Spark, Suffering, Suffocating, Sunken Eyes, Survival, Survived, Surviving, Targets, Taste, Terror, Test, The End, The Jewish, The Jewish People, Track, Tradition, Transition, Transmission, Treasures, Truth, Ugliness, Unity, Water, Weisel, West, Whenever, Wherever, Wine, Wisdom, World, Worse, Worship, Yiddish | Leave a comment

The Rise and Fall of Boethius

Posted on September 27, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

The Rise and Fall of Boethiusby Michael DoyleGraven images are made and meant to saveWhen Christianity met Plato’s caveOffering more than shadows on the wallA philosophical bend had come to callChrist was both the Father and the SonJoined with Wisdom … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anger, Beleived, Belief, Blasphemy, Boethius, Brave Hearts, Call, Christ, Christianity, Constantine, Constantinople, Control, Convert, Created, Creator, Cruelty, Decency, Different, Dignity, Diocletian, Dispute, Divinity, Doing Good, East, Enemy, Fabricated, Fall, False Cries, Fatal Suppression, Father, Fight, Forbearance, Good Heart, Good Man, Good Measure, Goths, Grace, Graven Image, Hands, Heritage, Ill Repute, Justice, Legacy, Loss, Miracle, Nation, Patronage, Philosophy, Photograph, Plato's Cave, Poem, Poetry, Propserity, Quest, Reformation, Repression, Rise and Fall, Roman Empire, Romans, Save, Shadow, Sign of the Cross, Sonic Gems, Surrender, Temper, Testimony, Theodoric, Tolerance, Treason, Trinity, Triune, Understood, Victory, Wall, Western Roman Empire, Wisdom, Works | Leave a comment