Tag Archives: Know

Firefighter 54 (In Memoriam for the Death of My Sister)

Posted on August 5, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

For those who remember Michele, I offer in her memory on this anniversary of her death: Firefighter 54 by Michael Doyle ..Firefighter 54, firefighter 54 This is Ashland Fire Department Firefighter 54, Firefighter 54 This is Ashland Fire … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 14 Hours, 14 Hours More, All I Should Have Ever Wanted, Angel Tears, Ashland Fire Department, Barrel Racing, Before Me, Brother, Brother In Law, Buddy, Cattle Cutting, Community, Compare, Death, Diamonds and Rust, Distinct Prairie Bonnet, Do you Know?, Doing My Best Cowboy, Doorways, Drive, Drove By, Early Morning Drizzle, Except, Fake, Father In Heaven, Felt, Few Stories, Final Journey, Firefighter 54, Firemen, Found A Way, Found Herself, Found There, Fullest Degree, Gathered, Go Ahead Cowgirl, Gucci, Hang My Head and Cry, Happiness, Hard Part, Harder, Heaven, High Life, His Long Face, I know, I must, Irony of It All, Joke, Joked, Joyful Pride, Knew At Least, Know, Laying you In the Ground, Learned In An Instant, Left Behind, Life Without Fear, Lifetime of Memories, Little More, Live, Lived As She Dared, Lived Just As She Wanted, Lost Up, Love, Love She Had Needed, Loved and Cared, Loved Her, Marbled, Memoriam, Michele, Middle of the Middle of Nowhere, Mind Distacted, Miss Her, Model, More Life, Move, Muddled Haze, My Best Friend, My Fatal Flaws, My Greatest Hero, My Sister, Mysteriously, Neighboring Counties, No Longer Responding, Nose To Nose, Nothing At All, Old Blue, Or Even Whimper Why, Our Father In Heaven, Out of Pain, Patted, Peaceful, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Quietly Taking It All In, Rain, Respond, Rest, Ride Your Ride, Riding, Sadly True, Sadness, Saluting, Selfish of Me, Share, Shared, Sincere, Sincerely Embraced, Sister, Slowly, Small Town People, Soul To Soul, Speaker, Stare, Stirred Up, Streets Lined, Such Are the Feelings, Sweet Photos, Tales of Admiration, Thank You For Your Service, Time, Too Much To Take In, Too Tough To Cry, Town, Trading In, Trail, Trying To Be Strong, Under This Steeple, Until the Very End, Waiting, Wake, Want In Any Way, Warmth and Truth, While She Had To Die, Who Knew Me Best, Wonder, Your Final Peace, Zero | Leave a comment

Outside My Shadow (Happy Birthday Angie At 14)

Posted on August 1, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Outside My Shadow (Happy Birthday Angie At 14)by Michael DoyleHas it been a lifeOr some kind of a dreamIt’s hard to believeThat you’re turning fourteen14 years ago tomorrowYou first opened your eyesTaking away my sorrowAnd bringing a million surprisesThey say … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Angie, Baby, Be Your Own, Being Your Father, Blossoming, Brilliance, Bringing Me Pride, Brought Me, Concession, Couldn't Ask For More, Daughters, Day, Dream, Early, Every Beat of My Heart, First Opened Your Eyes, Fourteen, From the Very Start, Growing, Happiness, Happy Birthday, Happy Father, Hard To Believe, Hold My Hand, Impression, Joy, Know, Know These Things, Learned, Life, My Shadow, Nearly Grown, Never Be Poor, One of Life's Best, Outside, Outside My Shadow, Pass the Test, Poetry and Poems, Remember, Resilience, Richer, Say Hello, Since, Sister, Sorrow, Standing By My Side, Tomorrow, Treasured, Treasures You, Trust In You, Turned, Turning Fourteen, Ultrasound, Under, Young Lady | Leave a comment

I Wouldn’t Disagree

Posted on July 27, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

I Wouldn’t Disagreeby Michael DoyleWas it youOr was it meI wouldn’t disagreeMaybe it wasBoth of usAnd just becauseThe truthOf our youthThat never wasPerceptionsMisconceptionsSelf-deceptionsIt’s a matterOf interpretationMiscalculationsToo many distractionsIn our interactionsWouldn’t allow for detractionsDoesn’t take long to realizeI haven’t the words … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Apologize, Appreciation, Both of Us, Bridge of Sighs, Cross, Detractions, Disagree, Disconnection, Distraction, Events, Eyes, Grow, Haven't the Words, Interactions, Interpretation, Just Because, Know, Matter, Me, Miscalculation, Misconceptions, Moment, Negotiation, Never Was, No Longer Room, No Room, Perceptions, Poetry and Poems, Realize, Self-Deceptions, Truth, What Else Is There, Without Respect, You, Youth | Leave a comment

Remember To Forget

Posted on July 6, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Remember To Forgetby Michael DoyleAs long as there is lifeThere is, at least, some hopeRegardless of our strifeThis helps us to quietly copeThose things that bring us to edgeWe need to forgive as our sinThat which as brought us to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Begin Again, Brashness, Break, Caught On Fire, Circle, Comedy, Common Man, Contradiction, Cope, Dante, Dawn, Deranged, Doing Good, Doing Unto Others, Dramas, Edge, Eternity, Fake, Forget, Forgive, Found, Ghosts, Goethe, Golden Rule, Good, Grow, Hope, Human Operation, In the Flesh, Infinity, Informal Philosophy, Inspire, Jealousy, Know, Lack, Learn, Ledge, Lessons, Life, Long, Mist, Motifs, Nations, No Getting Past, No Live and Let Live, Our Condition, Payback, Poetry and Poems, Precious Time, Puzzled Complexities, Remember, Revenge, Secret Alphabet, Secret Seeds, Shakespeare, Sin, Sincere, Souls, Spoken About, Stories, Strange, Strife, Sublime, Vengeage, Vexatious World, Words of Wisdom, World, Worthy To Hear | Leave a comment

First Principles: Do You Want To Know Who You Are? Don’t Ask. Act! Action Will Delineate and Define You

Posted on June 17, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.” – Thomas Jefferson

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Act, Action, Define, Delineate, Don't Ask, First Principles, Know, Thomas Jefferson, Want, Who You Are?, You | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: I Don’t Know What Your Destiny Will Be, But One Thing I Do Know; The Only Ones Among You Who Will Be Really Happy Are Those Who Have Sought and Found How To Serve

Posted on May 29, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.” – Albert Schweitzer, philosopher, physician, musician, … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Albert Schweitzer, Destiny, Found, Happy, Know, One Thing I Do Know, Only Ones, Serve, Sought, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

Once Too Many Times

Posted on May 12, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Once Too Many Timesby Michael DoyleYou there, who do so wrongIt’s me here, telling you that you don’t belongPointing at your mistake with my fingerThat is, until, I notice the smell lingersAnd it is myself who is wickedStinking in my … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accept, Acknowledging, Becomes Clear, Belong, Chafe, Christianity, Dare Not, Every Hour, Failed Possibility, Finger, Gap, Garb of Peasant, Gracious, Greatest Power, Keeping To Myself, Know, Lingers, Living My Life, Lord's Correction, Lord's Fire, Lord's True Presence, Mirror, Mistake, Mistakes, My Desires, My Own Heartbreaks, Myself, Once, Peasant Rhymes, Persevere, Poetry and Poems, Pointing, Profession, Pure Church, Purified, Quietly, Rebuke, Returning My Life, Right Direction, Robes of Royalty, Separating, Simple Look, Smell, Someone Else, Sticky Wicket, Stinking In My Own Skin, Tap, Too Many Times, True, Unrefined, Wheat, Wicked, Wish, Worship, Wrong | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: It Is Spring Again. The Earth Is Like A Child That Knows Poems By Heart

Posted on April 15, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.” – Rainer Maria Rilke

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Again, By Heart, Earth, Know, Like A Child, Poems, Rainer Maria Rilke, Spring, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

Whispered My Reminder

Posted on February 16, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Whispered My Reminderby Michael DoyleWhispered my reminderOf how it should beI thought I’d never find herMy side by side for eternityYou hear it said that true loveLasts and you know it never endsGod reveals this from abovePatiently blessing lovers as … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Always On My Mind, Bears All Things, Believing, Blessing, Blessings Felt, Brings, Circle, Completes, Conquer, Dimmed Mirror, Eternity, Every Beat, Every Day, Find Her, Fresh Start, Friends, From Above, God Reveals, Godly One, Good, Hear It Said, His Woman, Hope, Hope of Tomorrow, How It Should Be, I know, It Never Ends, Kind, Know, Knows, Lady, Lasts, Leave Me Undone, Leaving It Behind, Love, Love Is, Lovers, Mean, My Battle Flags, My Side By Side, My Wounded Heart, No Other Way, Nothing At All, Old Ways, One Another, Patient, Patiently, Poetry and Poems, Promising, Recall, Reminder, Replace, Slip Away, Sorrow, That I Should, This Man, This World, Thought, True Love, Walking, Whispered, You and Me, You Know | Leave a comment

First Principles: When the Well’s Dry, We Know the Worth of Water

Posted on February 14, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“When the well’s dry, we know the worth of water.” – Benjamin Franklin

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Benjamin Franklin, Dry, First Principles, Know, Water, Well, When, Worth | Leave a comment