Tag Archives: Friend

A Little Time To Kill

Posted on April 7, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

A Little Time To Killby Michael DoyleShe had a little time to killAmong other thingsHe had a need for a big game thrillAnd to find out what tomorrow bringsWith a single shot, she found whatShe was looking for and it … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Big Game, Black, Bought, Confess, Dreams, Fateful, Few, Found, Friend, Guilty, Head, Heart, Hunt, Led, Lies, Listen, Mess, Poetry and Poems, Protagonist, Pull of A Trigger, Screen, Single Shot, Slipping Away, Strike, Three Sheets To the Wind, Thrill, Time to Kill, Tomorrow, Trace of Blood, Truth, View To the Kill, War | Leave a comment

In the Face of Your Holiness

Posted on April 3, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

In the Face of Your Holinessby Michael DoyleIn the face of your holinessI acknowledge my sinKnowing your faithfulness and depending on thisRolling like a stone from tomb againAll of my burdens, you carryIn the reliance that you will not varyIn … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, Acknowledge, Bad Jokes, Burden, Carry, Commands, Condition, Contrition, Depend, Depending, Devotion, Dropped Balls, Face, Faithfulness, Friend, Generations, Godly Advice, Heart, Heavenly Host, Holiness, Light, Love, Mask, Matters, Matters Most, Most, Poetry and Poems, Price, Pure, Reliance, Roll, Seriousness, Sin, Soul, Stone, Task, Tomb, Vary, Walk Instead, Ways of Love | 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

The Sting of A Yellow Jacket

Posted on January 27, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

The Sting of A Yellow Jacketby Michael DoyleNaughty narrative braids togetherA story of coming of age but betterTwo tracks made into one storyNeither of them qualifying for gloryHigh school drama can be brutalityEven without its incessant fatalityAs childhood comes to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anarchy, Anxieties, Apart, Barbarity, Brewing, Brutality, Campfire, Childhood, Cling, Coming of Age, Complexity, Dreams, Embers, Emotional Undoing, Ends, Fatality, Fingers, Friend, Gore, Growing Pains, Hierarchy, High School Drama, Hormones, Iconic, Indolence, Instability, Intentions, Ironic, Lethal Stew, Lingers, Losing Touch, Narrative, Naughty, Negotiation, Poetry and Poems, Process, Qualify, Question, Remembers, Scars, Simplicity, Smothered, Stars, Sting, Swore, Threads, Toxicity, Transforms, True, Two Tracks, Woods, Yellow Jacket | Leave a comment

Words To Think

Posted on January 9, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Words To Thinkby Michael DoylePraying for blessing and favorAll words linked, meant to savorIn a world changing fastSo many moments that do not lastIn this living age of accelerationWe find many moments of fascinationLiving moments of radical transformationPast a bygone … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged A Little More God, Acquitted, Age of Accelration, Anchor, Authenticity, Blame, Blessing, Careful, Changing Fast, Communicate, Cultivate, Curb, Days, Deceit, Depart, Despair, Discouragement, Discrete, Doubt, Encouragement, Fascination, Favor, Feel, Focus, Forest, Forgiver, Friend, God, Goodness, Guide, Harmony, Harness, Heard, Heart, Helpful, Horse, Indiscretion, Information, Inspiring, Intentional, Jump the River, Kindness, Know, Labels, Lame, Last, Legacy, Linked, Magnificience, Missteps, Moments, Necessary, Passions, Path, Poetry and Poems, Praying, Quit It, Radical Tarnsformation, Refrain, Reins, Relevance, Repair, Reveal, Right to Say It, Rudder, Saturate, Savor, Ship, Sinning, Slander, Slips, Smiles, Spark, Speak the Good, Speaking Poorly of Others, Steward, Stumble, Think, Thinking Lane, Tongue, Tongue's Desire, Transcendent, Truthful, Understand, Understood, Verbal Bombs, Walk, Ways, Wildfire, Wind, Winning, Words, World, Wreaking Havoc | Leave a comment

The Unfolding Story of the First Christmas Day

Posted on December 12, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

The Unfolding Story of the First Christmas Dayby Michael DoyleChristmas didn’t come with a pretty bowIf you didn’t know this, you need to knowThere was a lot of ugly in what became beautifulThe something simple transformed into the wonderfulShepherds were … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Admiration, Ambition, Angels, Approach, Attention, Beautiful, Bethlehem, Blessed, Bow, Bridge, Broken Parts, Christmas, Christmas Day, Completeness, Cure, Dread, Eden, Everywhere, Fall, Famine, Fateful Night, Fearful Ways, Feast, Field, First, Flock, Forgotten, Fountain, Friend, Fullness, God, Gratitude, Habits of A Lifetime, Heal, Hear, Hearts, High, Holy, Hosts of Heaven, Humble, Humbled, Imprint, Inspiration, Intent, Intention, Israeli Nation, Kingdom, Know, Lambs of God, Least, Light Show, Listen, Live, Living Invitation, Living Waters, Lord, Love, Loved, Low, Majesty, Manger, Matter, Message, Mountain, Night's Skies, Open Eyes, Our Father, Overcome, Peace, Pews, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Presence of the Lord, Pure, Pure Hearts, Relationship, Rescue, Restoration, Sacred Words, Salvation, Satisfaction, Selfishness, Shalom, Shepherds, Shine, Simple, Situation, Sky, Social Standing, Spread, Status, Stranger, Surpass, Surprise, Surrender, Testimony, Trust, Truth, Understanding, Unfolding Story, Walk Among Us, Welcome, Wholeness, Wonderful, Word of God, Worship | Leave a comment

First Principles: I Never Considered A Difference of Opinion In Politics, In Religion, In Philosophy, As Cause For Withdrawing From A Friend

Posted on December 7, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.” – Thomas Jefferson

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Cause, Consider, Difference, First Principles, Friend, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Thomas Jefferson, Withdraw | Leave a comment

First Principles: The Press Is Impotent When It Abandons Itself To Falsehood

Posted on October 29, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave to others to restore it to its strength, by recalling it within the pale of truth.” – Thomas Jefferson (1805)

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Abandon, Civil Liberty, Equal, Established, Fact, Falsehood, First Principles, Friend, Impotent, Leave, Noble Institution, Others, Pale of Truth, Press, Recall, Restore, Science, Strength, Thomas Jefferson | Leave a comment

Michelle’s Poem (A Poem for A Friend)

Posted on October 27, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Michelle’s Poem (A Poem for A Friend)by Michael DoyleShe’s not beyond magicTo believe otherwiseWould be something tragicYou can see it in her eyesShe’s got a laughFor every seasonIn her way of knowingBeyond all reasonIn that sunshine wayShe holds the world … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Beyond, Every Day, Every Season, Eye, Eyes, Far, Forward, Friend, Goodbye, Head, Hello, Hold, Hope, Hunter's Moon, Justice, Knows, Laugh, Long, Look, Magic, Melody, Michelle, New Dream, Play, Poem, Poetry and Poems, Reason, Rock Star, Said, Seen, She, Smile, Song, Sunshine Way, They Say, Tragic, Tune, Whistle, World At Bay, Write | Leave a comment

Na/GloPoWriMo #23: In Response To That Other Fantasy

Posted on April 23, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Na/GloPoWriMo #23: In Response To That Other Fantasyby Michael DoyleKeep your head on straightInstead of rushing head longWe’re always a bit short and latePretending our weak as something strongPartying on in our faded delusionThat we want to live foreverDisrespected as … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Best, Bit Short, Clever, Come A Time, Confusion, Decay, Delusion, Disrespected, Fade, Fantasy, Foe, Freddie, Friend, Head On Straight, Immortality, Late, Live That Long, Na/GloPoWriMo, Nowhere, Other, Ourselves, Partying On, Poetry and Poems, Pointless, Pretend, Rebelling, Response, Right, Rushing Head Long, Slip, Something Missed, Something To Say, Strong, Thinking, To Belong, To End, Want, We'll Let Our Time, Weak | Leave a comment