Tag Archives: Learn

Christmas Island Memory

Posted on December 26, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Christmas Island Memoryby Michael DoyleEven Christmas Island has its rulesThough they’re not type you learn in schoolsBut the types that build useful toolsThe type needed by wise men, common folk, and foolsOne of these is to drop the guessingAccepting each … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Begin, Blessing, Christmas Island, Common Folk, Days, Each Moment, End, Fools, Guessing, Know, Learn, Lesson, Life, Memory, Poetry and Poems, Push and Pull, Rules, School, Special Way, Tools, Ways, Wise Men | Leave a comment

Just Learning My Faith’s Ways

Posted on December 15, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Just Learning My Faith’s Waysby Michael DoyleJust learning, I managed my doubtsFinding out what God’s all aboutThere was so much to take inWhen I was looking to escape my sinsOf all the miracles, like the virgin birthIt challenges most for … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All About, Bible, Challenges, Christian Nation, Christianity, Disciples, Doubt, Faith, God, Incarnation, Jesus, Learn, Life's Tests, Margins, Miracle, Miracles Out of Nowhere, Pharisees, Poetry and Poems, Progress, Received, Reliable and Reachable, Ressurection, Risk, Sadducees, Sins, Take In, Trust, Undertake, Virgin Birth, Ways, Worth | Leave a comment

To Stay Alive In All Seasons

Posted on December 7, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

To Stay Alive In All Seasonsby Michael DoyleWe give up our courageTrying hard to discourageOurselves or any othersAmong those we call our brothersBut not a single John Wayne aspirationWould save Pearl Harbor or our nationThe men present mostly fought to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged A Thousand Images, All Seasons, Aspiration, Attack, Belly Crawling, Bitter Memories, Boys, Brave Men, Breath, Brothers, Burn, Competing Reasons, Courage, Courage and the Dead, Cry, Dark Stain, December 7th, Dire, Discourage, Earn, Expected, Fire, Fought, Ghosts, Great War, Heart, Hide, History, Infamy, Insane, John Wayne, Learn, Lessons, Make It Home Tonight, Memorial, Men, Modern-Day Cowboys, Nation, No Glory, Ourselves, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Real War, Reality, Remain, Return, Sadness, Scars, Seasons, Situation, Sleeping Giant Awoken, Smoke, Spoken, Start, Stay Alive, Story, Stumble, Survive, Survivors, Talk, Tears, The USS Arizona, Tragic Day, Turn Out Right, Unsuspected, Walk, World | Leave a comment

What’s the Horror?

Posted on December 4, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

What’s the Horror?by Michael DoyleWhat’s the horror, you might ask.It seems my life is an endless taskIt seems what I take off the listIt only points to things that I’ve missedIn this rush toward year’s endIt seems I’ve not been … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Amen, Ask, Deadlines, Earn, Edge, Empahty, Endless Tasks, Entropy, Focus, Fun, Gain, Guess, Hall, Happy, Hide, Holidays, Horror, Human Mess, I, Impress, Landimes, Learn, Liberty, List, Missed, My Friend, My Life, New Year, Pearl, Poetry and Poems, Point, Productivity, Reluctance, Ruin, Rush, Share, Shell, Sorrow, These Days, Undone, Wall, Year's End | Leave a comment

First Principles: Falling Down Is Not A Failure. Failure Comes When You Stay Where You Have Fallen

Posted on November 2, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.” – Socrates I cannot help but like Socrates, who is quoted as saying that poets are the interpreters of the gods. We are not, and … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Aspiration, Challenge, Come, Dust Ourselves Off, Encounters, Failure, Fallen, Falling Down, First Principles, Giving up, Gods, Grow, Growth Mindset, Humor, Interpreters, Lamp Filament, Learn, Life, Life's Journey, Mistakes, Motivation, Obstacles, Opportunity, Overcome, Perseverance, Personal Growth, Poets, React and Respond, Resilience, Rethinking, Setbacks, Significant Error, Socrates, Stay, Stepping Stones, Success, Suitable Approaches, Surrender, Think, Thomas Edison, Time To Time, Vain, Wise | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: The Wisest Man Is He Who Does Not Fancy That He Is So At All

Posted on November 1, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.” – Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, poet and critic (1 Nov 1636-1711), in Satires, also known as Satire 4 (1716) The most authentic wisdom is humility, which recognizes … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Arrogance, Best Path, Blinding Factor, Educate, Fancy, First Step, Grow, Healthy Skepticism, Humility, Ignorance, Knowledge, Learn, Limitation, Man, New Experience, Question Authority, Satire 4, self-improvement, Social Media, Socratic Paradox, Thought For the Day, Understanding, Wisdom, Wise | Leave a comment

Raising Unnecessary Spirits

Posted on October 27, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Raising Unnecessary Spiritsby Michael DoyleConsigned to a comedic sense of HellThere is a demon who laughingly dwellsHe makes his home in haunted house scareBeetlejuice is filled with tricks and daresTo call his own shots filled with this synergyIt recalls the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Aesthetic, Alone, Back Down, Beetlejuice, Best Telling, Charmingly Twited, Demon, Don't Do Over, Dwell, Eccentric Parts, Half-Interest, Haunted House, Hell, Hollywood, Home, Imagination, Juice, Learn, Life Moves Forward, New Script, New Vision, Not New, Older Eyes, One Soul, Paralyzed, Pizzaz, Plot Line, Poetry and Poems, Profitable Return, Raise, Resume, Shake Loose, Shot, Spirit, Story, Stripped, Supernatural Complications, Synergy, Theory, Three-Ringed Energy, Unneccesary, View, Whole, Wise | Leave a comment

Faith Where Satan Lives

Posted on October 27, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Faith Where Satan Livesby Michael DoyleThere are times of great expectationBut none so much as in RevelationEschatology teaches us, and we learnAll the things that we need to discernKnowing what is spoken is realHas the possibility of making our spine … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Apathy, Bible, Christianity, Cleave, Close To Home, Confess, Culture Drift, Discern, Eschatology, Eternity, Every Knee, Faith, Faithfulness, Final Test, Fleeced, Forgive, God, God Or A Madman, Great Expectation, Hidden Manna, Hostile Space, Jesus, League of His Own, Learn, Lies, Need, Omnipresent, Poetry and Poems, Point of No Return, Question, Read, Revelation, Righteousness, Satan, Shifts In Tone, Steel, Thread, Thrive, Times, Tongue, Traces, Urgency, Vanity, Where Satan Lives, Word of God | Leave a comment

With His Grace

Posted on October 16, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

With His Graceby Michael DoyleI walk my life in honestyThankful for what God’s done for meRepenting now, I begin to turnAttentively finding things to learnLoving God with my deepest desireMy fervent faith burns like fireWalking away from culture’s toxicityI have … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Beautiful, Broken, Conversion, Culture's Toxicity, Desire, Done, Every Step, Faith, Filled, God, Honesty, Immersion, Learn, Living Testimony, Love For Love, Loving Embrace, Loving God, Loving Grace, More Than Talk, Out of Control, Poetry and Poems, Renewed Purpose, Repent, Servant, Simplicity, Sinner, Soul, Spirit, Spiritual Baptism, Spoken, Thankful, Turn, Walk, With His Grace | Leave a comment

First Principles: If Your Actions Inspire Others To Dream More, Learn More, Do More, and Become More, You Are A Leader

Posted on October 15, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” – John Quincy Adams

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Action, Become, Do, Dream, First Principles, Inspire, John Quincy Adams, Leader, Learn, Others | Leave a comment