Tag Archives: Impression

A Set of Octodils

Posted on June 11, 2026 by alohapromisesforever

Following 3 years of a poem a day (+ 109 additional days), I am ready to go back to practicing short-form poetry again. We will begin with a form called the Octodil . I will introduce at least one short-form … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Beauuty, Conflct, Frame, Human Race, Impression, Lesson, Linda Varsell Smith, Nature Preserve, Octodil, Octodils, Past, Peace, Photos, Poetry and Poems, Set, Short-Form Poetry Style, Thought, Viola Berg, Wage | Leave a comment

First Principles: These Commandments That I Give You Today Are To Be On Your Hearts. Impress Them On Your Children

Posted on April 12, 2026 by alohapromisesforever

“These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts.” – Deuteronomy 6:6

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Children, Commandments, Deuternmy 6:6, First Principles, Hearts, Impression, Today | Leave a comment

Let God’s Love Flow

Posted on March 5, 2026 by alohapromisesforever

Let God’s Love Flowby Michael DoyleLook at what the Lord has done.He’s gone and set me free.By the power of the Father and the Son.Their truth brings our liberty.Here through my famished dignity,I experience my damaged humanity.Serious business finished on … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Believe, Blessed Echo, Blessing, Creation, Cross, Dignity, Experience, Fascination, Flow, Free, God's Love, Holy, Holy Story, Humanity, Impression, Kingdom and the Glory, Liberty, Poetry and Poems, Power, Receive, Sacrifice, Shadow, Stars, Step Out, The Father, The Lord, The Son, Truth, Wretch | Leave a comment

First Principles: We Cannot Be Happy, Without Being Free…We Cannot Be Free, Without Being Secure In Our Property

Posted on January 12, 2026 by alohapromisesforever

“Let these truths be indelibly impressed on our minds — that we cannot be happy, without being FREE — that we cannot be free, without being secure in our property— that we cannot be secure in our property, if, without … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Consent, First Princiiples, Free, Freedom, Happy, Impression, John Dicknson, Min, Property, Secuure, Taxes, Truth | Leave a comment

Of Space and Time

Posted on April 9, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Of Space and Timeby Michael DoyleI sat back as the nurse checked my vitalsThinking of all the drama queens and teen idolsStarting there, as I sincerely try to explainAll that I have seen, and to try to make it plainWords … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Age, Artistic Space, Astral Aliens, Comic Book, Comic Books, Comics, Drama Queens, Explain, Expression, Impression, Page, Poetry and Poems, Science Fiction, Secret Identity, Space and Time, Teen Idols, Time and Words, Trace, Transform, Vitals, Words and Pictures | Leave a comment

A Broken Family Finds Healing

Posted on December 8, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

A Broken Family Finds Healingby Michael DoyleEmotions are relational in graceAs we love others in our embraceWe’re all dysfunctional as we striveIn God’s family, we will surviveEnriched by the joy that we shareIn every moment that we show we careLiturgical … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abraham, Advent, Belief, Bible, Broken Family, Broken Heart, Canaan, Care, Craziness, Deep Meaning, Descendants, Dysfuncational, Embrace, Emotions, Extraordinary, Faith, Family, Family Tree, Geneology, God, God's Call, God's Family, Grace, Greatest Story, Healing, History, Human Being, Importance, Impression, Intention, Jesus, Joy, Liturgical, Love, Nation, Ordinary, Pain, Passages, Path, Poetry and Poems, Proximity, Relational, Salvation, Set Apart, Strive, Survive, The Church, The Law, Theology, Times, Traces, Truth, Unfold, Vain, Wisdom, World's Breeze | Leave a comment

Lost Plot

Posted on August 6, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Lost Plotby Michael DoyleEverywhere I look, it seems forgotIs it just me, or have we lost the plotI feel it in the murderous laughterThe distant thunder is lost but chases afterSociety’s fracturing psyche is in traumaAs wordlessly we watch all … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alive, Architecture, Around, Atonal, Audience, Bursting Seams, Children, Cohesive Whole, Consideration, Cry, Debussy, Declarative, Drama, Dreams, Dreamscape Logic, Embrace, Ethereal, Everywhere, Fail, Fantasy, Forgot, Found, Freud, Future, Hallucination, Harmony, Hold Onto, Hope, Horror, Humanity, Impression, Laughter, Look, Look Around, Lost, Melody, Murderous, Narrative, Neglect, Nose Dive, Passing Days, Play, Plot, Poetry and Poems, Psyche, Quietly Spoken, Retrospect, Rhapsody, Share, Society, Soul, Structure, Summation, Surface, Surrealism, Swim, The Present, Thunder, Trauma, True, Vision, Watch, Weird, Wordless | Leave a comment

For the Love Of God

Posted on January 7, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

For the Love of Godby Michael DoyleWe are offered advice every dayThere is no end to what people sayThough some things said are wiseOther things should open our eyes”For the love of God”, said in frustrationShould be redeemed without hesitationBecause … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Advice, All Encompassing, Atonement, Believe, Commands, Conceive, Condemnation, Confidence, Consideration, Define, Expression, Eyes, Faith, Fear, For the Love of God, Forgiven, Frustration, Full Reality, God's Love, Grace, Gravity, Impression, Increments, Jesus, Life, Love, Loving Others, Mountain, No End, Nobility, Open, Overwhelm, Persevere, Poetry and Poems, Pours, Primary, Purity, Purpose, Redeem, Redemption, Refine, Sacred Love, Salvation, Steps, Understand, Walk, Wisdom, Wise, Words | Leave a comment

Sharp Edges

Posted on December 28, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Sharp Edgesby Michael DoyleThe last eight years have been like a thrown gauntletBetween the sadness and anger, it’s been a punch in the gutThat serves best to divide this nation and world’s mindsIt is as if we’ve left our optimism … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alcohol, Alientation, America, Anger, Beehind, Depression, Despair, Desperation, Detail, Devotion, Divide, Dream, Drugs, Gauntlet, Hate, Hell, Impression, Mean, Mother's Child, Murder, Murder In Slow Motion, Nation, Optimism, Poetry and Poems, Publicized, Punch, Repair, Sadness, Sharp Edges, Suicide, Thread, Venom Trail, Wonder, World | Leave a comment

Cumberland Falls

Posted on November 8, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Cumberland Fallsby Michael DoyleInternet sites, articles, and word of mouthHas Cumberland Falls as the Niagara of the SouthAnd though we haven’t made it to see the moonbowWe have been there to see the gentle waters flowThe Cumberland River’s water ripples … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Beautiful, Change, Cumberland Falls, Cumberland River, Daniel Boone National Forest, Daughters, Eyes, Father, Flow, Forge, Full Moon, Giant Boulders, Impression, Kept, Light, Majestic, Mark, Moonbow, Niagara of the South, Nights, Path, Pinkies, Poetry and Poems, Polish, Promise, Promises, Record, Ripple, River, Slept, Sunrise, Tall, The Girls and I, Time, Unfold, Water, Word of Mouth | Leave a comment