Tag Archives: Life

She Learns To Survive

Posted on February 19, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

She Learns To Surviveby Michael DoyleTo her, I’m her fatherAs I watch my daughterWalking alone in the nightShe’s always been my lightBut it wasn’t always this wayShe’s haunted by the dayThese moments hidden insideBehind her fragile prideHe took her innocenceI’ve … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abandoned, Afraid, Agnoize, Agonizes, Almost Took Her Life, Alone, Beautiful, Beside, Blossom, Bold, Brave, Child of the Light, Confide, Creid, Darkest Depth, Daughter, Day, Dread, Eyes, Father, Feeling, Fight, Fragile Pride, Fright, Grow, Hand, Haunted, He, Head, Heat, Her, Hidden Inside, Hold, In the End, Innocence, Intended Offense, Intense, Know, Learn, Life, Light, Love, Meaning, New Meaning, Night, Poetry and Poems, Power, Remembers, Sad Eyes, Scared, She, Smile, Step Forward, Step-By-Step, Strength, Survive, Talk, Tears, The Past, This Way, Ties, Times, Told, Torment, Understood, Unfolds, Walk, Walking Alone, Worthy, Years | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Let Us Put Our Minds Together and See What Life We Can Make For Our Children

Posted on February 11, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.” – Sitting Bull

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Life, Make, Minds, Our Children, Sitting Bull, Thought For the Day, Together, Us | Leave a comment

Past Blinking Twice

Posted on February 5, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Past Blinking Twiceby Michael DoyleSome say forgetting is a giftIt’s a way past the riftBetween personal rationalizationAnd what allows you past sensationsThe ones that we cannot forgiveAnd yet it is that we must liveHowever, far past the thresholdThat our senses … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Blink, Crawl, Done, Evolve, Fear, Forgetting, Forgive, Gift, Human Beings, Life, Live, Longer, Mud, Nice, Personal, Poetry and Poems, Puddle of Blood, Rationalization, Rift, Sensation, Senses, Sorrow, Stronger, Survive, Threshold, Told, Tomorrow, Twice, Unthinkable | Leave a comment

I Thought Myself An Eagle

Posted on January 30, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

I Thought Myself An Eagleby Michael DoyleI thought myself an eagleAnd built me a nest in solitudeAbove where I could watch beautyAnd very few might intrudeThe disappointments I’ve knownHave dried up my springs of hopeI retreat to that comfort shownAnd … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Absence of Love, Atone, Beauty, Broken, Comfort, Complement, Connection, Cope, Decision, Defect, Disappointments, Discovery, Eagle, Heart, Hope, Hypertensive World, Imagination, Inside Myself, Intrude, Jouney, Known, Leap of Faith, Life, Moments, Music, My Love, Nest, Notes, Own, Poetry and Poems, Precision, Private Sins, Pulled Apart, Refuge, Retreat, Revea;, Right Direction, Rote, Search, Secrets, Shattered, Shelter, Shown, Solitude, Soul, Spoken, Springs of Hope, Steady Eyes, Surprise, Survive, Talk, Thought, Times, Walk, Watch, Wordless Words, Would-Be Travelers | Leave a comment

The Truth of Why We Fight

Posted on January 29, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

The Truth of Why We Fightby Michael DoyleIn different timesHow might it end?Could it have beenWe might have been good friends?Your job and mineHere on the frontlineIt’s a killing job to be doneYet, you are somebody’s sonThere is the truth … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bad Guys, Beware, Courtyard, Death, Die, Different Times, Done, End, Enemy Territory, Fight, Frontline, Glory, Good Friends, Good Guys, Hard, Jumping, Killing Business, Killing Job, Life, Mine, Moral, My Story, Name, Old, Poetry and Poems, Question Why, Rubble, Shame, Somebody's Son, String Quartet, Told, Truth, Wrong or Right, Your Job | Leave a comment

Benediction For A New Day

Posted on January 21, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Benediction For A New Dayby Michael DoyleIf it isn’t too demandingMight we live in peace and understandingWith opened eyes might we seeThe path walked within divinityThe wooded trace is sacred groundWaiting for its holiness to be foundWith every step each … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Absent, Benediction, Better, Bring, Demanding, Divinity, Every Song, Every Step, Everything, Eyes, God, Grace, Gratitude, Holiness, Hope, Life, Live, Long Road, Love, Mercy, Mistakes, New Day, Nothing, Path, Peace and Understanding, Poetry and Poems, Remember, Sacred Ground, Sing, Soar, Spirits, Walk Together, Walked This Way Before, Wooded Trace | Leave a comment

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