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Praying Love Is Blind

Posted on February 23, 2026 by alohapromisesforever

Praying That Love Is Blindby Michael DoyleFalling in true love,It comes hard and fast.How do you know it’s real love?You pray that it will last.You find the oneThat will help you make a home.And you know that the quest is … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alone, Beginning, Blind, Brass Ring, Connect, Done, Endinig, Focus, Forever, Hard an Fast, Home, Human Being, Last, Left Behind, Love, Love Is Blind, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Quest, Real Love, Real Thiing, Ride and De, The one, True Love, Unseen, Value Added | Leave a comment

Laughing At Life

Posted on September 22, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Laughing At Lifeby Michael DoyleHere I am, sitting on the floor.I’m lost in numbers, collating the score.I’m not saying that I need it easy.But wish for once it would even up to please me.We’re laughing at all of life’s dramady,But … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Afraid, Alone, Backbone, Coke, Comedy, Currency, Doubt, Dramady, Dream, Easy, Family, Feelings, Fiber, Floor, Forgotten, Funny, Glory, Guitar, Hanging Stars, Heart, King, Last, Laugh, Lifee, Love, Mean, Meaning, Misspoke, Myth, Number, Okay, Past, Poetry and Poems, Queen, Remember, Score, Settle, Shoot, Sip, Songs of Yesterday, Spend, Stars, Stone, Stories, Streets, Thoughts, Today, Truth, Understand, Urgency, Walk, Work Out, Wrap It Up, Writer | Leave a comment

Hollow Words and Climbing Trees

Posted on July 12, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Hollow Words and Climbing Treesby Michael DoyleHanging out on an oak limb Beneath the canopy’s shadow,The moves we made brought us safety.Empty words ring kind of hollow.Left on their own, kids flourish.It’s the way we allow them to nourishThe decision-making … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alive, Bock Bottoms, Boundaries, Brilliant, Build, Canopy, Climbing Trees, Compassion, Darkness, Decision Making, Discern, Dream, Experience, Explore, Falling Down, Fashion, Firm Foundation, Flourish, Fluency, Free Life, Get Back Up, Hanging Out, Harshness, Hollow Words, Independence, Kids, Last, Learn, Life's Lessons, Meaningful Purpose, Move Forward, Moves, Nourish, Oak Limb, Past, Play, Poetry and Poems, Preferences, Resiliency, Resilient, Return, Rock, Safety, Scars, Shadow, Skin-Deep, Sooner Then Later, Souls, Stream, Survive, Tears, Tragic End, Weep | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Appeasement Is the Policy of Feeding Your Friends To A Crocodile, One At A Time, In Hopes That the Crocodile Will Eat You Last

Posted on May 27, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“‘Appeasement’ is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile, one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat you last.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Appeasement, Crocodile, Feed, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Friends, Hope, Last, Policy, Thought For the Day, Time | Leave a comment

Believing in Blessings

Posted on May 24, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Believing In Blessingsby Michael DoyleEncountering the profound,I praise the goodness I have found.Looking into God’s face,I find myself touched by His grace.I have nothing left to prove,Loving to watch God as He movesThe world with His ways.I’ve seen a lot … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Believe, Blessings, Father, Found, God, God's Face, Goodness, Grace, Jesus, Last, Love, Loving Life, Move, Nation, Passing Days, Past, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Profound, Prove, Salvation, The Son, Touch, Touched, Trace, World | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: The Habit of Reading Is the Only Enjoyment In Which There Is No Alloy; It Lasts When All Other Pleasures Fade

Posted on April 24, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.” – Anthony Trollope, novelist (24 Apr 1815-1882)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Alloy, Anthony Trollope, Enjoyment, Habit, Last, Pleasure, Read, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

Stuck In Limbo

Posted on April 23, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Stuck In Limboby Michael DoyleI believe in miracles.Since you’ve arrivedSo much has happened And somehow, I’ve survivedThe time has pastBut we’re still dancingThey said we wouldn’t lastYet, we’re still romancingI’m stuck in limboBut I keep holding onI’m so afraidThat I’ll … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Afraid, Arrived, Believe, Dance, Gone, Hand, Happen, Immense, Last, Life, Lightly, Limbo, Love, Miracles, Poetry and Poems, Romance, STuck, Survive, Tight, Time | Leave a comment

History Dignifies the Presidents

Posted on February 17, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

History Dignifies the Presidentsby Michael DoyleOn this Presidents Day, a few comments are deservedAs we look back on nation as it is preservedTrue to the faith of our republic’s sovereignty Is the struggle to keep our nation’s dignityOur story is … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Absent, America, Analyze, Beacon of Light, Best Way, Brave Men, Bullets, Cause and Pride, Comments, Compromise, Conflict, Criticism, Death, Deep Regret, Dignity, Faith, Future, Giant Steps, Hats, Hearts, Hill, History, Ideals, Imperfect, Integrity, Last, Legacy, Mantle, Moon, Nation, Nurture, Past, Present Day, Preserved, Presidents, Presidents Day, Races and Thoughts, Republic, Residence, Respect, Solemn Oath, Sovereignty, Step Back, Strength, Struggle, Sunrise, Territory, Time, Well-Shaken Past, White House, Wise, Woman | Leave a comment

To Make A Man Invincible

Posted on November 27, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

To Make A Man Invincibleby Michael DoyleYou know that a moon full of madnessAnd a heart filled with sadnessAin’t never done any man no goodFrom that gun in your handIt seems you just might understandYour eyes say it is understoodRiding … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Choices, Dead, Draw, Eyes, Faith, Fears Call, Feel, Ghosts, Gumman, Gun, Hand, Head, Heat, Invincible, Invisible, Kill, Last, Madness, Man, Midnight, Moon, Moonlight, No Good, Outgunning, Past, Poetry and Poems, Regret, Riding Hard, Running, Sadness, Silence, Simple Secret, Stir, Sun, Three Men, Trembling Voices, Two Men, Understand, Understood | Leave a comment

Unburdened (A Quest For Inner Peace)

Posted on September 3, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Unburdened (A Quest For Inner Peace)by Michael DoyleUnburdened by what is in the pastSo many things that couldn’t lastThe way of life is to carry onBeyond what we survive and is goneIn all the parts that are rearrangedNot everything in … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Arrival, Back, Bits of Good, Brutal, Candle, Chances, Changed, Circumstances, Compromise, Connection, Cool Breeze, Deepest Level, Dream, Embraced, Faced, Fascination, Forward, Goal, Gone, Imagination, Inner Peace, Inner Smile, Inward, Last, Life, Light, Matter, Message, Mirror, Outward, Overwhelm, Parts, Past, Path, Peace, Peak, Peering Eyes, Pleases, Poetry and Poems, Quest, Realize, Rearanged, Reflection, Release, Seek, Slow, Storm, Strife, Survival, Survive, Thousand Words, Unburdened, Understood, Valley, Way of Life, World, You and I | Leave a comment