Tag Archives: Good Cheer

Christmas Tree Lane

Posted on December 1, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Christmas Tree Laneby Michael DoyleLife can throw its curve ballsYet, still, it is that Christmas callsWith Christmas lights bringing good cheerEven when a little sadness nearsA smile offered over a little wineHelps to smooth the edgy linesBringing joy and times … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Beauty, Beneath, Bright Lights, Candy Canes, Children's Eyes, Christmas, Christmas Calls, Christmas Cheer, Christmas Eve, Christmas Lights, Christmas Tale, Christmas Tree Lane, Curve Bals, December's Night, Detours, Each Heart, Eave, Edgy Lines, Glow, Good Cheer, Good Will, Happiness, Heavens Above, Hold Dear, Hold Near, Holding On, Holding Tight, Holiday, Hugs and Kisses, Humor, Icicles, Joy, Kissing, Know, Kris Kringle, Life, Lights, List, Love, Loved Ones, Melt, Memories, Missing, Mistletoe, Moment, Money Spent, Neighbors, Neon, Poetry and Poems, Remind, Sadness, Season, See, Selfies, Share, Shine, Sing, Sleigh Bells, Smile, Smooth, Snow, Song, Sparkle, Spread, Staying Up, Sugar Plum Fairies, Sunrise, Surprise, Thieves, Time of Year, Treasure, Tree, Warmth, Went, Wine, World, Worthwhile | Leave a comment

Love Was There

Posted on July 11, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Love Was Thereby Michael DoyleAlong the country roads of my youthI learned a few jokes and a lot of truthSinging along with the radio showA lot joy there and it continues to flowSo many smiles built on memoryTimes spent with … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Art, Childhood, Choice, Country Roads, Coy, Crashing Down, Dad Joke, Daughters, Distractions, Doing My Best, Everything, Family, Fight, Follow Their Hearts, Give, Good Cheer, Grow Up, Hope, Jokes, Joy, Kind, Learn, Live, Love, Love Was There, Love Will Be There, Loving, Memories, Memory, Million Songs, Moment, Music, Patient, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Push Through, Radio Show, Roadside Attractions, Sing, Smiles, Stay, Their Way, Times, Tired, Truth, Voice, Wish, Youth | Leave a comment

On the Third Day

Posted on April 17, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

On the Third Dayby Michael DoyleThe Holy Spirit brings us powerBut we bring tenderness to this hourEaster then is the pinnacle of gloryAs we tell the tale of the resurrection storyGod is the business of setting things rightHe paid for … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accordance, Affirmation, Anchor, Ascension, Attitude, Blood Sacrifice, Bond, Bow, Burn, Candles, Changes Everything, Christ, Circumspection, Confess, Confirmation, Conscience Choice, Contest, Conversion, Creation, Cross, Daily Pain, Death, Death of Death, Death to Life, Debt, Deceived, Deliver, Disciples, Done, Dragons to Slay, Easter, Emerge, Empty Tomb, Eternity, Every Day, Every Knee, Experience, Eyes, Eyes of Our Hearts, Fade Away, Faith, Faithful, Fall, Family, Father, Fill, Final Victory, Finished, First Fruits, Focus, Folly of Man, Forget It, Four Part Play, Gather, Genesis Three, Get It, Glory, God, God and Man, God's Power, Good, Good Cheer, Good News, Gratitude, Grave, Harvest, Heart, Heaven, His Ways, Holy Light, Holy Resurrection Day, Holy Spirit, Holy Story, Immersioin, Journey, Joy, Knowledge of God, Light, Martyrs, Melody, Message, Ministry, Mystery, Newness, Night, Obedient, On the Third Day, Opportunity, Paid, Paid In Full, Patient Promises, Payment Made, Peace, Penalty, Pinnacle of Glory, Poetry and Poems, Power, Praised, Precious Message, Promises, Raised, Recall, Received, Reconciliation, Redemption, Renewal, Restore, Resurrection Story, Role, Setting Things Right, Sight, Significant Yes, Sing, Son, Spotless Lamb, Steadfast, Strife, Subjugation, Sunrise, Temporal, Temptation, Tenderness, The World, Theology, Third Day, Tomb, Tongue, Total Sum, True Loss, Truth, Water, Witness, World's Darkness | Leave a comment

New Beginning Off Of An Old Ending

Posted on December 29, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

There is a tradition at the Short Form Poetry Workshop to work a couple of new poems from the end of famous older poems. This is one of the two written last night: New Beginning Off of An Old Endingby … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2022, Again, Ask, Attain, Better, Cope, Date, Direction, Golden, Good Cheer, Grasp, Grow, Hope, Janus, Labor, Learn, List, New Beginning, Old Ending, Old Year, Perfection, Poetry and Poems, Promises, Question, Resolve, Short Form Poetry Workshop, Task, Try, Value, Weather, Why, Win, World, Year | Leave a comment

Thoughts On “It’s A Wonderful Life”

Posted on December 25, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Thoughts On “It’s A Wonderful Life”by Michael Doyle”It’s A Wonderful Life” is a different warMy kind of film and at times a lot moreThe critics can snark their hatred of platitudeOr maybe learn a thing or two about gratitudeThere is … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged America, American, American Value, Angst, Beautiful, Big City Dreams, Capra, Christmas, Common Man, Common Sense, Critics, Crummy Little Town, Cultural Monument, Depression, Different War, Dignity, Disappear, Easy Answers, Extraordinary, Faded, Fear of Failure, Forged, Good, Good Cheer, Good Hearts, Goodness, Gratitude, Guttural Fear, Hard, Hatred, Hidden Parts, Homage, Initimate, It's A Wonderful Life, Jaded, Learn A Thing Or Two, Loneliness, Magic, Metaphor, Moral Certainty, More, Nook, Norman Rockwell, Not Mistaken, Old Hollywood, Ordinary, People, Platitude, Poetry and Poems, Prevail, Sentiment, Sentimentality, Side of Angels, Small Town Reality, Snark, Taking Responsibility, Tale, Thoughts, Toughing It Out, Tradition, Unshaken, Very Best, Work-A-Day | Leave a comment

Na/GloPoWriMo #8: The Jester’s Crown

Posted on April 8, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Na/GloPoWriMo #8: The Jester’s Crownby Michael DoyleThis poem is for all who gatheredThat might have been better tarred and featheredFor all of those unfazed by the many stormsThat make up all of life’s normsIn the beginning, I knew there’d be … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All Those, Amply, An End, Been Better, Cold, Complaints, Complete, Depend, Family, Far Too Few, Friend, Gathered, Given, Good Cheer, Happier Still, Happily, Hard, Heaven, Helped To Pass the Time, Hoe-down, In the Beginning, Jester's Crown, Lend, Life, Mine, Na/GloPoWriMo, Never Mend, None Are Too Serious, Norms, One more Dance, Or Do, Payback, Play This Card, Poem, Poetry and Poems, Pouring, Rife, Silent Life, Simple Man's, Somebody, Someone, Spend My Moments, Storms, Tarred and Feathered, The In-Between, Time, Toasted, Unfazed, Vagabond's Company | Leave a comment

On Autumnal Equinox 2020 – Happy First Day Of Autumn

Posted on September 22, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

On Autumnal Equinox 2020by Michael DoyleThe world speaks of falling backThe world thinks on falling backYet, it is that as Fall comes to lockWe enter our Southward EquinoxThe Sun has shifts its celestial destinationNo longer balanced in the Libra constellationIt … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Algnment, Alone, Ancient, Autumn, Autumn Leaves, Blessing, Cardinal Point, Celestial, Change, Climatic, Colors, Constellation, Crown, Equinox, Expect, Fall Back, Falling Down, Farewell, Festival, Fragment, Gain, Good Cheer, Ground, Harvest Home, Holy, Hour, Libra, Life, Lock, Midpoint, Neglect, Oak King, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Seasons, Segment, Shadow, Shelter, Southward Equinox, Speak, Summer, Sun, Thanksgivign, Think, Turn, Virgo, Wane, Wheel of the Year, World | Leave a comment

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