Tag Archives: Hope

A Faithful Companion

Posted on May 4, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on 2 Sam. 7:29: A Faithful Companion by Michael Doyle In a world filled with grief and acrimony God wants to bless our lives through testimony Loving us unconditionally and wanting our best He walks beside us … Continue reading →

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On An Ancient Pathway

Posted on April 30, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Today is the last day of NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo 2020! 30 days of poetry. Congratulations to my traveling companions through this journey who stuck with all of this. They tell me it’s really something to write 30 days of poems. I … Continue reading →

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A Life In Size

Posted on April 26, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

The saga of Dracula continues: A Life In Size by Michael Doyle In the dark castle hangs her face A painting of the sunlight he once embraced Hidden within were passages of a maze Guarded from the sun that continues … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Artist, Belief, Blame, Blaze, Blessing, Blood, Broken, Castle, Cave, Creatures of the Night, Cryptic, Darkness, Dead, Death, Devil, Dracula, Eat, End, Ending, Evil, Eyes, Face, Faith, Glow, Good, Gory, Guard, Guess, Hang, Hope, Hunger, Immortal, Immortality, Know, Language, Life, Light, Love, Loveless Marriage, Lucifer, Maze, Monster, Mortal, Pain, Painting, Passage, Photograph, Poem, Poet, Poetry, Quest, Roof, Safety, Saga, Save, Secret, Shock, Sight, Size, Sky, Story, Sun, Sung, Sunlight, Taste, Time, Touch, Truth, Understood, Undone, Unspoken, Vampire, Warmth | Leave a comment

Tongue Tied In Wonderland

Posted on April 24, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Sometimes one person is all the view you find you need for a lifetime. Tongue Tied In Wonderland by Michael Doyle Pretty isn’t enough for the view For the wonderfulness of the avenue A white wave of sheerest delight Canopied … Continue reading →

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Holding Hands With the Sun

Posted on April 23, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Falling in love with art is an intimate construction within ourselves expressed both outwardly and inwardly. Holding Hands With the Sun by Michael Doyle An experience of the narrative Doodles swirled in declarative Filling out the feels An imaginative look … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abstraction, Advocacy, After All, Art, Awake, Bottom, Call, Clear, Complicity, Construction, Darkness, Declarative, Destruction, Detection, Distraction, Doing, Doodle, Escape, Experience, Exquisite, Fall, Fantasy, Feels, Fill, Glacier, Granted, Hands, Heed, Hold, Hope, Humanity, Imaginative, Improvement, Intimate, Life, Light, Look, Lost, Love, Melt, Mirror, Moment, Movement, Moving, Narrative, Noise, One, Photograph, Poem, Poet, Poetry, Positive Sight, Precious, Rant, Reality, Reel, Reflection, Rope, Scrawl, Secret, Simple, Simplicity, Sun, Thinking, Unknown, Voice, We, World, You and Me | Leave a comment

Retroactive Kaleidoscope

Posted on April 17, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

The optional objective for Day 17 of Na/GloPoWriMo 2020 is to write a poem incorporating a ‘forgotten’ technology. Well, my choice is not so much as forgotten but once a has been yet now a collectible among some. Retroactive … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2020, 45s, Angst, Artisanal, Aural, Bad, Bake, Believe, Brilliance, Bulge, Burrow, Capability, Capacity, Cave, Childhood, Days, Digital, Drive By, Economy, Fail, Favorite, Fear, Feet, Fix, Forgotten, Fulfill, Ghost, Good, Grasp, Ground, Hipster, Hope, Indulge, Kaleidscope, Last, Luddite, Millennial, Mind, Mistake, Na/GloPoWriMo, Need, Nostalgia, Past, Permanence, Phototgraph, Planned Obsolescence, Poem, Poetry, Portable Console, Reason, Reilience, Remade, Remember, Retroactive, Sage, Save, Savor, Silicon Valley, Sister, Soul, Sound, Sound Track, Sun Stroke, Technology, Time, Vinyl, Wallet, World, Zen | Leave a comment

First Principles: However Weak Our Country May Be, I Hope We Shall Never Sacrifice Our Liberties

Posted on April 17, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“However weak our country may be, I hope we shall never sacrifice our liberties. .” – Alexander Hamilton

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Alexander Hamilton, Be, Country, First Principles, Hope, Liberty, Never, Sacrifice, Weak | Leave a comment

An Easter Of Empty Churches

Posted on April 15, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

What an odd sort of Easter wasn’t it? But perhaps a lesson to be learned… An Easter of Empty Churches by Michael Doyle April of 2019, Notre-Dame was burning And in this, we were surprised and learning That there would … Continue reading →

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A Nation In Need of Unity

Posted on April 13, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

In the last of this series, American history continues through the present: https://flic.kr/p/vCW1P4 A Nation In Need of Unity by Michael Doyle George H. Bush struggled under Reagan’s shadow With his pedigree and skills he led well as most know … Continue reading →

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The Reagan Renewal

Posted on April 12, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

American History continues through the Reagan presidency: The Reagan Renewal by Michael Doyle By the late 70s, the Conservative movement formed a coalition Not all were of the same mind, but it combined of its own volition Seeking smaller government … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 1984, American History, Berlin, Brandenberg Gate, Budget, Bureaucratic, Coalition, Cold War, Compel, Conservative Movement, Deficit Spending, Dignity, Electorate, Empathy, Establishment, George H Bush, Gift, Glasnost, Government, Great Communicator, Greater Revenue, History, Hope, Increase, Inflation, Kennedy, Landslide, Liberal Democrat, Long Coat Tails, Lose, Lower Taxes, Mellon, Message, Mikhail Gorbachev, Military, Military Might, Nation, Opportunity, Orwell, Perestroika, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Precision, Public Confidence, Qualification, Question, Questions, Reagan, Reagan/Bush, Recession, Reformation, Regulation, Renewal, SDI, Shining Moment, Small Government, Soviet Union, Spending, Strength, Technocratic, Television, The People, Time, Transformation, Unemployment, Vision, Voice, Win, Youth | Leave a comment