Tag Archives: Heart

Beneath the Skin

Posted on April 12, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Beneath the Skinby Michael DoyleThere just beneath my skinAs simple as you pleaseIs the real me that beginsWith the will not to appeaseBut to be just who I am insideBehind my appearance, I hideDisguised by the roles I playIs the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Appearance, Appease, Beneath, Blues, Disguise, Fiction, Guitar, Heart, Hide, Horror, Inside, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Real Me, Road, Roles, Short Story, Simple, Skin, Str, Tales, Thousand voices, Writing | Leave a comment

First Principles: Though You Used To Be Slaves to Sin, You Have Come To Obey From Your Heart the Pattern of Teaching That Has Now Claimed Your Allegiance

Posted on March 23, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you have come to obey from your heart the pattern of teaching that has now claimed your allegiance.” – Romans 6:17 (NIV)

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Allegiance, Claim, First Principles, Heart, Obey, Pattern of Teachings, Romans 6:17 (NIV), Sin, Slaves | Leave a comment

Angel In Blue Jeans

Posted on March 11, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Angel In Blue Jeansby Michael DoyleFrom across the fragile spacesI feel your soulful tracesIt was something like I’ve never feltAs your heavenly ways move me to meltMy heart was amazed by the hand dealtWhen your love shined my way to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accessible, Across, Afraid, An Angel, Angel, Angelic, Approachable, Beautiful Day, Blue Jeans, Capable, Clever, Complete Honesty, Complete Rejection, Dignity, Disguise, Divine, Dream, Extraordinary, Fallen, Felt, Figment, Forever, Fragile Spaces, Gatitude, Grounded, Guardian Angel, Halo, Heart, Heavenly Ways, Hello, Hope and Expectation, Humanity, Jeans, Loved Me, Majesty, Melt, Natural, Ordinary, Peace, Plain Sight, Poetry and Poems, Scared Me, Silver Screen, Soulful Traces, Stife, Stubborn heart, Sweet Humility, Tight, Valentine, Vanity, Watch Out For me, You In My Arms, Your Love | Leave a comment

First Principles: Love Your Life, Perfect Your Life, Beautify All Things In Your Life. Seek To Make Your Life Long and Its Purpose In the Service of Your People

Posted on March 8, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Beautify, Fear of Death, First Principles, Great Divide, Heart, Life, Love Your Life, Noble Death Song, Perfect, Purpose, Religion, Respect, Seek, Service of Your Peopl, Tecumseh, Trouble, View | Leave a comment

Truths Inside A Marsh

Posted on March 3, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Truths Inside A Marshby Michael DoyleThe watershed exists as a space of lightThat becomes evermore magical at nightAs water evaporates into the skyWe sit here watching as the egrets flyIn true swampy marsh, the herons nestThey fly there at night … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Believe, Brutality, Children, Courage, Crawdads, Cruelty, Doubt, Egret, Explore, Guilt Or Innocence, Heart, Herons, Hide, Hurting Things, Incredible, Invincible, Jury, Learn, Life and Death, Listen, Live Without Love, Magical, Marsh, Mystery, Night, Poetry and Poems, Private Hells, Rumor, Seen, Shells, Sky, Space of Light, Town Folk, Treated, Trouble, Truths, Watershed | Leave a comment

No Victim of My Circumstances

Posted on February 13, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

No Victim of My Circumstancesby Michael DoyleOn the mountains, in the sun raysIt’s your name that I praiseIn the green valley far belowIt is all your creation, and I knowSharing what I know of your graceThese are you living ways … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Blessings, Blood of Jesus Christ, Born, Cheer, Circumstances, Clear, Creation, Darkness, Days, Deeds, Embrace, Fear, Flow, Follow, Grace, Green Valley, Heart, Know, Lead, Light, Living Ways, Lord of My Life, Mountains, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Reins, Share, Source, Sun Rays, The God of Second Chances, Veins, Victim, Victory, World, Your Love, Your Name | Leave a comment

First Principles: Hold Fast To the Bible As The Sheet-Anchor of Your Liberties; Write Its Precepts In Your Hearts, and Practice Them In Your Lives

Posted on February 7, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet-anchor of your liberties; write its precepts in your hearts, and practice them in your lives.” – Ulysses S. Grant

Posted in First Principles | Tagged First Pricniples, Heart, Liberties, Lives, Practice, Precepts, Sheet-Anchor, The Bible, Ulysses S. Grant | Leave a comment

Quenching the Fires of Los Angeles

Posted on January 31, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Quenching the Fires of Los Angelesby Michael DoyleI saw a wise old hippy on the stageSinging about clouds as she turned the pageStaring out with love at the approach of deathShe sang her heart to her last breathIt seemed like … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, Approach, Ash, Blessings, Cane, Clouds, Death, Doors, Encourage, Faith, Families, Fight, Fire, Fires, Gateways To Love, Graceless City, Heart, Hearts, Hippy, Joined Hands, Keeping Tim, Last Breath, Live, Living Memories, Los Angeles, Loss, Love, Madness, Meant, New and Pretty, Page, Poetry and Poems, Press On, Quench, Rare Courage, Rebuild, Rubble, Rusty Wire, Sense of Sadness, Shine, Shoulder to Shoulder, Show, Special Trace, Stage, Stand Firm | Leave a comment

I Thought Myself An Eagle

Posted on January 30, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

I Thought Myself An Eagleby Michael DoyleI thought myself an eagleAnd built me a nest in solitudeAbove where I could watch beautyAnd very few might intrudeThe disappointments I’ve knownHave dried up my springs of hopeI retreat to that comfort shownAnd … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Absence of Love, Atone, Beauty, Broken, Comfort, Complement, Connection, Cope, Decision, Defect, Disappointments, Discovery, Eagle, Heart, Hope, Hypertensive World, Imagination, Inside Myself, Intrude, Jouney, Known, Leap of Faith, Life, Moments, Music, My Love, Nest, Notes, Own, Poetry and Poems, Precision, Private Sins, Pulled Apart, Refuge, Retreat, Revea;, Right Direction, Rote, Search, Secrets, Shattered, Shelter, Shown, Solitude, Soul, Spoken, Springs of Hope, Steady Eyes, Surprise, Survive, Talk, Thought, Times, Walk, Watch, Wordless Words, Would-Be Travelers | Leave a comment

A Call For the Nation’s Unity

Posted on January 28, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

A Call For the Nation’s Unityby Michael DoyleFor God’s good satisfactionPrayers must be followed by the right actionsThis is true in our way of governmentEspecially if we are seeking after our improvementWe know we care for our familyWe must, therefore, … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adversity, America, Call, Center, Common Ground, Cost, Debate, Dignity, Divinity, Family, Foundation, God, God's Help, Government, Heart, History, Honesty, Humility, Improvement, Lasting Peace, Mandate, Mercy, Nation, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Prayer, Right Action, Satisfaction, Shining Light, Speak, Stand, Start, Steady, Storm, Treat, Truth, Understand, Uniffier, Unity | Leave a comment