Tag Archives: Life

In His Name

Posted on January 19, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

In His Name by Michael DoyleThe stars of lifeThese come and glowIn peace and strifeFaithful love is what I knowWhatever the circumstanceI’ll make it throughTo dance again, this danceOf joy felt through faith in youThis faith is more than a … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Blame, Blood of Christ, Circumstrance, Come and Go, Dance, Enemy, Faith, Faithful Love, Fear, Feeling, Frame, Free and Whole, Glow, His Power, In His Name, Jesus, Joy, Know, Life, Live, Mine, Peace and Strife, Permanent Line, Persevere, Poetry and Poems, Precious Name, Proclaim, Revealing, Satan, Separate, Spirit of God, Stars, Through, Winds | Leave a comment

If You Should Let Go

Posted on January 16, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

If You Should Let Goby Michael DoyleBelieveJust believeA little bit longerHold OnJust hold onA little bit strongerTo that love in your soulWhen your passion gives up controlEven when you feel down and outThis is the only thing you can’t doubtYou … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Afraid, Alone, Alone and Afraid, Art, Believe, Best Fight, Bones, Cheek, Closing In, Cold and Dark, Control, Cry, Doubt, Down and Out, Echoes, Eyes, Eyes Wide Open, Feel, Happiness, Hide, Hold On, Image, Inside, Just This Side of Sane, Let Go, Life, Longer, Love, Love Again, Love Song, Miss, Moon Above, Moonlight, Morning, Pain, Passion, Photography, Plans Made, Poetry and Poems, Praying To God, Radio, Recount, Someone, Somewhere, Soul, Speak, Special Place, Stronger, Tears, Wake, Wonder, Yearn | Leave a comment

Separate Lives

Posted on January 15, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Separate Livesby Michael DoyleWhat we know is so littleAnd we’re feeling stuck in the middleIt’s said that is a perfect scoreFor life; we still want morePlaying chutes and ladders in the corporateFrom the outside, it seems something desperateThere’s some room … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accomplishment, Category, Chutes and Ladders, Company Policy, Consignment, Coporate, Coporations, Credence, Decide, Desperate, Done, Evidence, Feeling, Finished, Friends, Honesty, Improvement, Informal Chatting, Know, Life, Little, Lives, Management, Mandated, Manual, Means To the Ends, Microdata, More, New Life, Outside, Perfect Score, Picket Fences, Piracy, Poetry and Poems, Pose, Priaccy, Question, Question One, Replacement, Rule, Scatttergories, Separate Lives, Separated, Stuck In the Middle, The Great Divide, Wait, White Walls, Workaday World, World | Leave a comment

Making It Do

Posted on January 14, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Making It Doby Michael DoyleThe world’s painIs dipped in blueThinking I remember thatAbout me and youWalking in withMy life’s game faceIf you keep on running awayDoes it leave its traceMost of the living worldIs a bit under the weatherWe keep … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Behind, Better, Blind, Blue, Bound, Bribes, Game Face, Hard To See, Hope, Life, Living World, Making It Do, Me and You, Plan, Poetry and Poems, Pretend, Remember, Running Away, Sound, Trace, Under the Weather, Walk, World, World's Pain | Leave a comment

Fires Framing Truth

Posted on January 10, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Fires Framing Truthby Michael DoyleHow can you serve the peopleWhen you’re feeding them lies?How can you mislead a motherAnd look her straight in the eyes?You think a dismissive smileIs all you need to wearAs you issue your political denialDon’t you … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Authority, Burning, Care, Choke, Clarified, Common Sense, Compassion, Controversy, Courage, Decision, Dismissive Smile, Eyes, Fires, Flow, Forgot, Frame, Going Up In Smoke, Grieving Families, Homes, Houses, Hydrants, Integrity, Leader, Lies, Life, Listen, Lives, Love, Love of Ease, Love of Power, Maquerade, Matched, Measure, Memories, Mislead, Mother, No Defense, Office, Ought, People, Perceptions of Truth, Poetry and Poems, Policy, Political Denial, Power, See, Serve, Social Disease, Tears, Times of Challenge, True Strength, Trust, Truth, Vote, Walk Away, Water, Wear, Who | Leave a comment

Dark Sources

Posted on January 7, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Dark Sourcesby Michael DoyleThe optics make me cringe.Almost every newscast is on the fringeIt seems that we’re invited into the conspiracyWhile they really don’t care about historyEveryone vents and is set on blamingIt’s that PR game known as framingTruth, it … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged :Profound, Blame, Captains of America, Care, Complexity, Connective Tissue, Conspiracy, Constitution, Cringe, Dark Sources, Downed, Endangered, Every Night, Explanation, Fleshed Out, Foundation, Framing, Fringe, Gangrene, Groove, Hide, History, Honest Brokers, Huddle, Invitation, Life, Looking In, Media, My Side, Neighbors, Newscast, Nowhere, Objective, Optics, Optimism, Original Sin, Pessimism, Poetry and Poems, Poison, Polluted Air, Power, Public Relations, Quizzically Smile, Roots, Rumors, Runaway, Shots, Society, Souls, Stay, Strategic, Subjective, Systemic Racism, Team, Television, Texts, Truth, Vent, Walls, Your Side | Leave a comment

Pushback On A Throw Away Life

Posted on January 6, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Pushback On A Throw Away Lifeby Michael DoyleWords are frequently flungLike bells that can’t be un-rungThere remains work to be doneWe can’t turn away before it’s wonFor those with caring heartsThis is off to a rough startPeople who deserve next … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 15 Minutes, Accusations, Alone, Another Day, Argument, Attention, Authority, Beats, Bells, Celebrity, Clime, Conspiracy, Cue, Deserve, Die, Discussion, Expensive, Game, Hearts, Hip Hop, Hipsters Life, Life, Media World, Memories, Morality, Mostly Peaceful Riots, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Pop It, Pray, Pushback, Rap, Rough Start, Social Media Comments, Someplace Quiet, Stone, Streets, Thoughts, Throw Away Life, Time, Town, Turn Away, Wonder Why, Words, Work, Writing | Leave a comment

A Desire For Positive Impact

Posted on January 4, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

A Desire for Positive Impactby Michael DoyleThis an age that embraces the apocalypse constantlyIt is hard to find anyone left who feels empathyFor those who want to live a life to its fullest measureIt is as though we have forgotten … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Achievement, Age, Apocalypse, Beacon of Light, Calamity, Challenges, Connection, Demise, Desire, Doing, Empahty, Fulfillment, Goethe, Imagination, Kernels of Wisdom, Life, Measure, New Experences, Nurture, Poetry and Poems, Positive Impact, Potential, Rage Against the Night, Satisfication, Thinking, Treasure, True Action, Vanity | Leave a comment

First Principles: Do Not Be Too Timid and Squeamish About Your Actions. All Life Is An Experiment. The More Experiments You Make the Better

Posted on January 2, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Action, Better, Experiment, First Principles, Life, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Squeamish, Timid | Leave a comment

Life’s Mystery Dance

Posted on January 1, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Life’s Mystery Danceby Michael DoyleIt’s true. God’s good love endures foreverWhile I’d love to claim differently, I’m not so cleverBut I do know this is a promise on which we can relyAfter chasing false love, I was led to this … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Analytical, Artistry, Attention, Awareness, Circumstance, Claim, Clarity, Clever, Contentment, Contrary, Craftsmanship, Deny, Eternal Love, False Love, Forever, Generosity, God's Love, Heavns, Intention, Invitation, Life, Living Life, Love, Mystery Dance, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Process the Claims, Promise, Real Thing, Reliance, Resentment, Revelation, Sincerity, Temporary, The Creator, Transactional, True, Truth, Visible, Walk, Worship | Leave a comment