Tag Archives: Grave

Above the Earth, Heaven Reigns

Posted on May 23, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Above the Earth, Heaven Reignsby Michael DoyleAbove the earth, Heaven reignsNone of our efforts are in vainGod is with us in all our daysPresent for us always, in all waysWe would be nowhere without His lovePouring down from the Heavens … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, Adoration, All Our Days, Chains, Dedicate, Devote, Earth, Efforts, Eternal Gratitude, Faithfulness, Father's Kingdom, Forget, Freedom, God, Grave, Heart, Heaven, His Love, Hour, Humility, In All Ways, Platitude, Poetry and Poems, Pouring Down, Power, Praise, Present, Regret, Reigns, Salvation, Save, Sin, Supplication, Thankfulness, Vain, Voices | Leave a comment

A Song of Thanksgiving

Posted on January 31, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

A Song of Thanksgivingby Michael DoyleA song of thanksgivingSung to be braveIn need of forgivingI claw my way from my graveWith apprehensionI am reaching outBeyond comprehensionMy thoughts are filled with doubtStill, I danceIn your rain of kindnessTaking this chanceDespite my … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Apprehension, Better Choice, Blindness, Brave, Chance, Circumstance, Comprehension, Dance, Days, Doubt, Forgiving, Good, Grave, Heaven, Kindness, Love, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Prayer, Reaching Out, Relevance, See, Song, Thanksgiving, Theology, Understood, Voice | Leave a comment

Angelic Choirs Sing

Posted on December 4, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Angelic Choirs Singby Michael DoyleThe angelic chorus became distortionEven mountains felt small in proportionStill the choir sang songs giving evil warningThat Jesus Christ was born that blessed morningJoy to the world came with this first NoelHere came the gifted blessing … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Beginning To End, Bleak Midwinter Day, Blessed Morning, Blessing, Death, Declared Authority, Distortion, End of Our Days, Eternity, Final Vidtory, First Noel, Grave, Holiness, Jesus Christ, Joy to the World, Keep Hope Alive, Light, Lord's Grace, Magnify, Mountain, Nation, Old-Fashioned Ways, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Preservation, Salvation, Sing, Sins, Tale, Tididings, Warning | 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

Reflections On Dorian Gray VI: Tethered Leashes

Posted on October 25, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Reflections On Dorian Gray VI: Tethered Leashesby Michael DoyleA slit-throat bloodied scarf knows its sacrilegeAs Dorian’s portrait holds his stains like privilegeHiding what’s done in the waters by the river bankIt offers little good to say about position and rankUntil … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Burn, Cerberus, Darkness, Death, Dorian Gray, Eternity, Existence, Grave, Illumination, Lost Children, Poetry and Poems, Portrait, Prayers, Rank, Reflections, Revelry, River, Scarf, Scarilege, Soul, Tale, Tethered Leashes, Warn | Leave a comment

To Live Beyond the Grave

Posted on September 4, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

To Live Beyond the Graveby Michael Doyle There are things I think onThat I wish not to be goneThere are words I have saidThat might help others ahead it’s these things I would saveTo extend these beyond the graveIn hope … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adding Up To Nothing, Ahead, Aspiration, Beyond the Grave, Choose To Write, Confide, Cried, Dare, Dreams, Emptiness, Extend, Gone, Grave, Happiness, Help Others, Hope, Inspiration, Into, Keep, Lead, Live, Mean, Might, Need, Not Today, Paper, Poetry and Poems, Purpose, Said, Save, Secrets, Share, Smiles, Someone, Something, Something Yet To say, Stepped, Tears, Things I Think On, Words, Words of Care, Words of Hope | Leave a comment

The Greater the Miracles

Posted on October 26, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

The Greater the Miraclesby Michael DoyleReligion it seems is love’s emotionPersonified and adhered to with devotionFor a person who lives life without reasonHas committed the most personal of treasonsIn the Grand Inquisitor we find rarified poetryIn which passions are taken … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Aching, Again, Arise, Astray, Atone, Belief, Burn, Capability, Constants, Desire, Despotism, Devil, Devotion, Divine, Easily Led, Edge, Emotion, Fable, Faith, Fed, Freedom, Grave, Greater, Hate, Hell, Heresy, Himself, History, Jesus, Keys to the Kingdom, Kind, Late, Laugh, Lessons, Life, Live by Bread Alone, Live Life, Living, Love, Man, Miracles, Mistake, Mystery, Not Hate, Passion, Photograph, Piety, Play, Poem, Poetry, Power, Random Chances, Rare, Religion, Responsibility, Save, Second Chance, Seek, Strife, Suffer the Children, Temporal, Temptation, The Grand Inquisitor, Three Days, Treason, True Sign, Turn, War, Water Into Wine, Ways of Love, Without Reason, Work Miracles | Leave a comment

Inside the Cave

Posted on August 9, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Which side of a dream is real? Inside the Cave by Michael Doyle In this slumber we call life Some prefer peace over strife To these, I find that I agree But, that hasn’t been the life led by me … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Able, Agree, All I Gave, Any More, Blip, Cast, Cave, Clinging Tight, Closed the Door, Could Not Save, Crash, Cross, Die, Dine and Dash, Dream, Duty, Eternity, Fable, Felt Hard, Glimpsed, Grave, Higher Bar, I Might Save, Immortality, Inside, Laying Awake, Life, Life Led, Life's Beauty, Life's Test, Lived, Long Ago, More, Mother, Near Fatal, Night, No Safety, Not Easy, Obeying Orders, Only Goes So Far, Past, Peace, People, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Praying, Shadows Creep, Sleep, Slumber, Speak, Speak to me, Streaming Down, Strife, Struggle, The Cave, Think, Thoughts, Trail of Tears, Truth, Unquestioning, Want My life, Years | Leave a comment

Faithful and Good

Posted on July 21, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

God’s words fill our souls like some sort of universal melody at times. Faithful and Good by Michael Doyle Faithful and good in what you do to me Filling my heart with your melody Every beat of my heart is … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Absolution, Atonement, Awaken, Beat, Believe, Blurred, Breaking, Calvary, Cast, Chosen, Clarity, Cling To Life, Conceive, Contemplation, Contribution, Darkness, Day, Defeated, Down, Embrace, End of Days, Faithful, Felt, Filling, Find, Focus, Forever, Gave, God's Words, Good, Goodness, Grave, Heart, In Need, Knees, Know, Malingering, Meant, Melody, Mercy, Moved Me, Obedience, One and All, Photograph, Place, Poem, Poetry, Praise, Price, Procrastination, Provide, Raise Up, Recall, Redemption, Sacrifice, Salvation, Save, Servant, Shaken, Shaking, Soul, Sould, Standing In Awe, Steadfast and True, Suffer, Take My Place, Taking the Beating, Tears, Tell, Three Days, True Worth, Understood, Us, Vision, Wear, Word, Words of Love, Worthy, Yoke, Your Love, Your Way, Yourself | Leave a comment

Brand Me

Posted on June 20, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Watched a Ted Talk with my princesses on branding. Brand Me by Michael Doyle Thinking back on life Through all of the joy and strife There has been one question Held back with some hesitation What then is my story? … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adore, All I'll Ever Be, All-American, All-Star, American, Any, Bed, Believe, Best of Life, Body, Books, Brand, Branding, Care, Choir Boy, Conversation, Crazy, Destiny, Devote, Dream, Dreams, Echo, Eighteen, Family, Fine Enough, First Chorus, Glory, Gratefully, Grave, Grindstone, Head, Hell, Hesitation, Humble, Joy, Just As Well, Laughter, Life, Love, Many, Me, Military Man, Moment, Nose Held Down, One Question, Open Door, Passion, Photograph, Place, Placed, Poem, Poetry, Precedent, President, Pride, Pride and Joy, Princesses, Privilege, Put Away, Read, Song, Story, Stride, Strife, Study, Sunbeam, Team, TED Talk, Thank God, Thinking Back, Time, Tombstone, Trust, Two, Wounded, Years | Leave a comment