Tag Archives: Lessons

Life For Dummies

Posted on March 12, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Life For Dummiesby Michael DoyleLife for dummiesWould be a fine dealOn in any studyThere are skills to revealBuilding blocks of lifeThat take us from here to thereLessons needed to move past strifeAre to be heeded without fearLiving by the Gospel … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Affirm, Building Blocks, Darkness, Deal, Discern, Dummies, Embrace, Faith, Favor, Fear, Forgiven, Gift, Given, God, Gospel, Grace, Head, Heart, Heed, Here To There, Kinship, Lessons, Lessons Learned, Lessons Live, Life, Light, Poetry and Poems, Reject, Rejoice, Reveal, Right, Righteousness, Royal, Said, Skills, Step-By-Step, Strife, Study, Through, Voice, Wisdom, Worship | Leave a comment

Lessons From Alcestis

Posted on March 8, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Lessons From Alcestisby Michael DoyleAlcestis was the fairest of daughtersMuch beloved by Pelias, her fatherSo too loved by her husband, AdmetusAnd of her son, the warrior EumelusFearing that death might come to soonMade Admetus err in bringing love to ruinFor … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ability, Action, Admetus, Affirmation, Alcestis, Amusement, Assembly, Athenians, Attachment, Awaken, Body and Blood, Breath, Chivalry, Christ, Citizen, Civic Performance, Clever, Communion, Complete, Confirmation, Credulity, Curse, Daughters, Death, Debts, Deeper Truth, Democracy, Destruction, Dionysus, Divine, Duty, Eight Labors, Emotions, Err, Essence, Eternal, Eumelus, Extipation, Father, Fear, Feeling, Fetility, First Desires, Forever, Forgiven, Freedom, Friendship, Gentiles and Pagans, Gentle Preparation, Gift of Immortality, Gift of Life, Glory, God So Loved This World, Grapes, Great Virtue, Healing, Hercules, Honor, Husband, Initiation, Instruction, King's Bride, Legacy, Lessons, Life, Light, Love, Love of a Good Woman, Madness, Mercy, Moderation, Mourning, Mute, Mystery, Noble, Obligation, Operatic, Passion, Pay, Pelias, Physician, Pity, Poetry and Poems, Point of Pride, Power, Profound Truth, Ransom, Ransom of Life, Reign, Religion, Reparation, Responsibility, Ruin, Sacrament, Sacred Reunion, Satisfaction, Saving Grace, Shrine of Eleusis, Sing, Son, Specter, Spring, Stoe, Sublime Beauty, Temerity, The Ransom Is Paid, Three Days, Tragedy, Truth, Vain, Vineyard, Voice, Ways of Gods, Wine, Winter, Yoke | Leave a comment

A Penitent’s Tale Begins

Posted on February 9, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

A Penitent’s Tale Beginsby Michael DoyleWhat do we do then when we awakeTo find our life has been a mistakeWhat then is life if we do not growExamined questions offer answers yet to knowThere is greatness in the sum of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Awake, Begin, Bible, Draw, Examined Questions, Exile, God, Grow, Jerusalem, Jewish Insurgency, Know, Legacy, Lessons, Lore, Mistake, Penitent, Poetry and Poems, Rabbis, Read, Righteous, Speak, Tale, True, Wailing Wall, World's Sin, Yiddish | Leave a comment

Interiorly Designed

Posted on January 31, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Interiorly Designedby Michael DoyleThe things that come along to discern thisThat God places use where we can learn goodnessHow then can we make the most of it and embraceWhere God has put us in our time and spaceTo make the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abrasive, Accord, Adversary, Advocate, Appeal, Approach, Arguments, Authority, Basis, Bind, Blind, Blindness, Bridge, Brink, Captive, Challenges, Change, Changing Conversation, Choose, Christ, Circumspection, Contemplation, Convince, Damascus, Dark of Night, Design, Destination, Destruction, Discern, Embrace, Every Single Thought, Face-To-Face, Fight, Find, Gentleness, God, Good, Goodness, Grace, Heart, Holy, Hour, Humility, Inside, Interior Design, Kindness, Ledge, Legacy, Lessons, Life Stealing, Light, Linking, Lives, Love's Power, Magnification, Mind, Obedient, Oblvious, Obvious, Outward, Path, Pattern, Paul, Peace, Persausive, Persecution, Pivot, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Prcoess, Radical Difference, Resolution, Resolve, Reveal, Reverence, Right Intentions, Root, Saved, See, Share, Signification, Soul, Strongest Thoughts, Students, Tactful, Tension, The Bible, The Gospel, Think, Thrust, Time and Space, Traces, Truth, Wisdom, World | Leave a comment

Dedicated To A Half Remembered Lorax, Part II

Posted on January 6, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Dedicated To A Half Remembered Lorax, Part IIIby Michael DoyleHowever much some point out their clarityA dreamer remains undeterred by realityEven when it seems everyone is living culpableIt never stops quixotic dreams of the impossibleFloating as it is into the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bottom-Line, Clarity, Culpable, Days, Death, Dedicate, Devastation, Devine, Dreamer, Dreams, Essence, Falls, Fire, Force Multiplier, Future Shock, Greed, Impossible, Last Breath, Last Hope, Lean, Lessons, Lorax, Mean, Mustard Seed, Nature and Trees, Need, Page, Perfect, Plays, Plead, Poetry and Poems, Pride, Rainbow, Reality, Shot, Sorrow, Soul, Stage, Success, Tomorrow, Truth, Vibes, Win, World, Worthy Thought, Zen | Leave a comment

Truth In Gratitude

Posted on November 28, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Truth In Gratitudeby Michael DoyleIt isn’t just a thoughtBut the needed actionActing in rightful gratitudeBrings its satisfactionThankfulness is the beginningOf the truest gratitudeIt’s the fat chance that’s thinningUnless given in the right attitudeStruck as we are on life’s tread millWe … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Action, Action Step, All Right, Beginning, Bits, Breath, Chosen, Confession, Darkness, Discerning, Fat Chance, Follow, Given, Gratitude, Know, Learn, Lessons, Life, Light, Mindfulness, Need, Pass, Poetry and Poems, Progression, Right, Right Attitude, Satisfaction, Self Made, Struck, Thankfulness, Thinning, Thought, Torments, Tread Mill, Truth, Unclean Moments | Leave a comment

A Dragon Born

Posted on September 20, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

A Dragon Bornby Michael DoyleIn the province of Henan, gungfu was bornTo rise to defeat China’s enemies as swornShaolin’s grace side by side with Tai Chi’s schoolBrought honor to their disciples’ ruleA battle head was one of strictly set contestFighting … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All That Is Left, Alley Ways, Anger and Pride, Avoid, Battle, Born, Brick, Building Up, China, Contest, Deciding Factor, Defeat, Disciple, Discipline, Dragon, Ebb and Flow, Enemy, Equilibrium, Every Moment, Extra Weight, Fall, Fate, Fights, Forget, Game, Glass, Glory, Grace, Gracious, Grow, Gungfu, Hard Learned, Henan, Hollywood, Honor, Humility, Importance, Increase, Increasing Strife, Inside, Keep Control, Lessons, Life Comes, Live, Live Strong, Live Yet Another Day, Lost In Life, Need, Other Person's Head, Pain, Path, Penance, Poetry and Poems, Power, Province, Restoration, Rule, Seal, Seifoo, Shaolin, Share, Side By Side, Skill, Spirit Unbroken, Spoken, Step By Step, Street, Strict, Tai Chi, Tea, Torn Down, Trick, True, Unspoken, Victory's Crown, Ways, When, Whisper, Will, Win, Won, Words | 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

Books Read Throughout Life

Posted on May 20, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Books Read Throughout Lifeby Michael DoyleIn a repeated mantra of lifeIn all the things we have soughtThere is the truth reflectedIn lessons accidentally taughtIn this and all stages of lifeWe find it’s worth another lookTo sit and quietly curl upWith … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accidentally Taught, Another, Books, Connectives, Curl Up, Excuse, Experience, Failed, Finding Hope, Genius, Golden Rule, Guess, Hamlet, Know Better, Lessons, Look for the Less, Mantra, Mediocre Minds, Nobility, Our Eyes, Philosophy, Playwright, Poetry and Poems, Read, Reflective, Shakespeare, Sit, Sought, Space, Stage, Stages of Life, Steep, Stumble, Tragic Comedy, Truth Reflected, Vengeance, Words, World, Worth Another Look, Wrong, Yet to Learn, Youth | Leave a comment

Lessons In Life’s Suffering

Posted on May 19, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Lessons In Life’s Sufferingby Michael DoyleSpring isn’t the sameWhen love has been lostSorrow calls out the nameBut refuses to pay the costThe thing held sacred as follyTouch the inner workings of the soulA moment away from devotionHas the depth of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Circumstances, Clings, Control, Decision, Deeply Morose, Depth, Devotion, Divinity, Fallen Knee, Feel, Folly, Forlorn Eyes, God, Hides Within, Human's Being, Infinite Femininity, Inner Workings, Lessons, Lies, Life's Suffering, Lost, Love, Matchlock Pistols, Matter of Finality, Mortality Known, Mother Mary, Name, New Meaning, Ocean, Pay the Cost, Perishing Soul, Poet's Pen, Poetry and Poems, Reveals, Romantic, Sacred, Same, Scribbled Verse, See, Serious Passions, Small Hope, Smallest Details, Sorrow, Soul, Spring, Tales of Ossian, Teach Me, Time, Touch, Truth Bent, Tyrant, Waking, Worse, Wrecked and Weak, Young Lovers | Leave a comment