Tag Archives: Hearts

Blank Verse

Posted on May 24, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Blank Verseby Michael DoyleThe other day, I went to the libraryWith no intention to become contraryAnd picked up a famed anthologyOf poetry to see what it might teach meI’m sorry to say that it seems perverseWhen someone writes poetry in … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abuse, Anthology, Best, Blank Verse, Capability, Confuse, Contrary, Create, Days, Detection, Dramatic Monologue, Emphasis, Essay, Essays Incomplete, Functionality, Grammatically, Half-Stated Thoughts, Hearts, Incomplete, Intention, Lazy, Library, Meaning, Methods, Perverse, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Reflection, Replete, Reward, Rhyme, Rhythm, Romantic, Said, Souls, Spatters, Specific Grandeur, Teach Me, Test, Time, Trolls, Waste, Ways, Wonder, Word Patterns | Leave a comment

First Principles: I Now Make It My Earnest Prayer That God Would Have You, and the State Over Which You Preside In His Holy Protection

Posted on May 2, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have you, and the State over which you preside, in his holy protection, that he would incline the hearts of the Citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Brotherly Affection, Characteristics of the Divine, Charity, Circular Letter of Farewell, Citizens, Citizens of the United States, Earnest Prayer, First Principles, George Washington, God, Government, Hearts, Holy Protection, Humility, Justice, Mery, Obedience, Our Blessed Religion, State, Subordination | Leave a comment

Self-Stirred To Capability

Posted on April 23, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Self-Stirred To Capabilityby Michael DoyleStepping up to live and serveI walk in more blessings than I deserveIn this faith, I grow and growLiving more love than I might knowGuilt and innocence is our cultureLitigious in nature is what we nurtureCaught … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abundance, Accounability, Answer, Artistry of God, Authenticity, Awarness, Best, Best Answers, Better, Blame, Blessings, Breath, Capability, Casting Blame, Chaos, Choices, Coached and Nurtured, Conceive, Confide, Confidence, Connection, Core, Culture, Cure, Dare, Disease, Distrubring, Due, Dynamic, Earth, Ease, Endure, Every Setting, Expression, Faith, Fate, Father's Kingdom, Feedback, Fierce Listener, Final Destination, Flow, Forgive, Four-Letter Word, Frame, Freedom, God, God's Love, Healthy, Hearts, Help, Humble, Image of God, Integrity, Interpersonal, Iron, Justification, Learning to Live, Legacy, Life, Life's Game, Listen, Litigious, Live Up, Lived Gently, Love, Make, Man's Search For Meaning, Measure, Ownership, Part-By-Part, Particpation, Path, Patience, Pause, Perceive, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Predictable, Probabilities, Pushing Through, Rationalization, Real-Time, Reconcile, Redemptive View, Reflection, Relationship, Rescue, Respond, Responsibility, Roll, Rusted Triangle, Self-Stireed, Sense, Shades of Blame, Shame, Sharpen, Side-By-Side, Societal Cancer, Spent, Stepping Up, Substantive, Take, Time, Triggered by, Troubles, Trust, Truth, Victim, Villain, Violation, Voices, Weight | Leave a comment

Jack Frost (On the Window Pane)

Posted on December 9, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Jack Frost (On the Window Pane)by Michael DoyleAnnually, we celebrate Groundhog’s DayHoping for winter’s passing and spring on the wayEvery year the reclusive groundhog and his shadowComes out to reveal which way it’s bound to goWith chestnuts roasting on that … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Between the Clouds, Blinding Blue, Calling Card, Cold, Conspire, Delight, Fire, Glow, Groundhog's Day, Hearts, Hide and Seek, Icy Traces, Jack Frost, Kittens, Linger, Memory, Mittens, Peeks, Poetry and Poems, Reveal, Revelry, Shadow, Shut Eye, Smiles, Smiles and Laugher, Snow, Snowman, Spring, Sun, Tales, Told, Warmth, Wave, Winter, Wistful Sigh, Woodland Creatures | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Before We Set Our Hearts Too Much On Anything, Let Us Examine How Happy Are Those Who Already Possess It

Posted on September 15, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it.” – Francois, duc de La Rochefoucauld, moralist (15 Sep 1613-1680)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Anything, Before, Examine, Fancois duc de La Rochefoucauld, Happy, Hearts, Possess, Set, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

Evil Does Not Truly Sleep

Posted on September 8, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Evil Does Not Truly Sleepby Michael DoyleEvil does not truly sleepIt merely waitsOut there in the darkness deepGone unseen, it seals our fateOnly in the blessed is there restIn the secrets where it’s confessedThat hearts must find their healingBringing truth … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Blessed, Breath, Confessed, Darkness, Death, Evil, Fate, Fear, Found, Healing, Hear, Hearts, Past Lives, Poetry and Poems, Recall, Rest, Revealing, Seal, Secrets, Sleep, Sound, Tragedies, Truth, Wait, Whispers | Leave a comment

Road Tripping

Posted on July 10, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Road Trippingby Michael DoyleIn a long history of driving placesFilled with love and smiling facesWe took it up to a whole new levelWhere boredom was the only DevilIt’s all in about that sort of journeyOn our way to the edges … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged America, Better, Blame, Boredom, Broken Shame, Capability, Care of Broken Persons, Case, Choices, Comfort Zones, Concept Without Context, Conflcts, Containers, Deceive, Declarative, Destination, Detection, Devil, Drink, Driving Places, Earth, Edges of Eternity, Embrace, Endless Smile, Equal In Weight, Excitement, Experience, Faith of Promises, Flaws, Goodness, Goodness and Mercy, Grace, Hard Work, Harvest, Hearts, Heaven, History, Holiness, Hope, Incitement, Journey, Justice, Laws, Leaning In, Living Testimony, Living Waters, Loaded Conversation, Love, Managed Shame, Mission Field, Motivation, Narrative, Parsimony, Poetry and Poems, Preference, Receive, Reflected Contemplation, Road Tripping, Rrevealed, Samaria, Seder, Sending Capacity, Setting Example, Shared Grace, Shield, Smiling Faces, Soul, Standing Apart, Tools, Tread, Truth, Veil, Walk, Way In, Weigh In, Weight, Whole New Level, Worthwhile | Leave a comment

Dropping the Label

Posted on June 12, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Dropping the Labelby Michael DoyleIn every moment, any given momentCan become the truth of a holy momentGod is with us wherever we areWhether in a building or under starsLife may not be fair, but God is faithfulBringing to our lives … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abraham, Admission, Birthright, Blessings, Broken Road, Building, Caterpillar, Circles, Concession, Condition, Contention, Courage, Crises, Daybreak, Destination, Devotion, Discipline, Dropping the Label, Embrace, Eyes, Ezekiel, Face, Faith, Faithful, Family, Fights, Flow, Forget, Forgot, Forward, Fulfilled, Generations, Glory, God, God's Good Plan, Good Book, Grace, Great Nation, Heartbreaks, Hearts, Holy Perfection, Honest Story, Intention, Knights, Life, Listening, Loved and Forgiven, Metamorphosis, Metaphysical, Moment, Nothing, Paths, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Possible, Prayer, Premises, Prevail, Primary, Process, Profit, Promises, Prophecies, Purposes, Real Selves, Realize, Repentance, Revealed, Running, Situation, Solitude, Something, Spiritual, Stars, Stillness, Storm, Strife, Stubbornness, Superstar, Surrender, Truth, Twin Conceptions, Undertow, Wings, Wonderful, Wrestle | Leave a comment

A Rispetto of Loneliness

Posted on May 26, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Featured again is a poem form obtained from the weekly Short Form Poetry Workshop on Linden Lab’s virtual platform known as Second Life. This week the form was the rispetto. What then is a rispetto? It is a Tuscan folk … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Blind, Color, Commands, Conceptions, Curved, Embrace, Face, Feel, Folk Verse, Hard, Hearts, Imaginary, Knowing, LandMines, Loneliness, Moments, Poetry and Poems, Politian, Rhyme Scheme, Rispetto, Short Form Poetry Workshop, Showing, Straight Lines, Strambotto, Thinking, Thoughts, Time, Treasonous, Tripping, Tuscan, Understand, Walk | Leave a comment

Push Button

Posted on April 4, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Push Buttonby Michael DoylePushed buttons bring us to griefFrustrations from which we need reliefWe have but one Father, one God of creationBrothers and sisters sharing our one situationWe should then, treat one anotherAs we are, sisters and brothersEqually held in … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abandon, Altars, Belong, Blessing, Born, Brothers and Sisters, Cheat, Command, Correction, Creation, Cuts Deeper, Darkness, Direction, Disregard, Doing Wrong, Equally Held, Fake, Father, Forgiveness, Frustrations, Full Liberty, Gardens, God, God's Body, Godly View, Grief, Grow, Heads on Swivel, Hearts, Holiness, Honor, Light, Living, Living Years, Love, Make, Member, Our Father's Love, Poetry and Poems, Promise, Push Button, Regard, Relationship, Relief, Reveal, Right Move, Rightful Worship, Sacred, Sanctuary, Situation, Speak, Sword, Tears, Treat One Another, True Devotion, Wasteland, Will, Witness, World | Leave a comment