Tag Archives: Life

This Haunting Song

Posted on May 25, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Some say this time we live in is too familiar to the Spanish Influenza back in 1918. So far, the numbers don’t even remotely echo that horrific event. Still… This Haunting Song by Michael Doyle This epidemic is a … Continue reading →

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Beasts of No Nation

Posted on May 24, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Random thoughts on children confronting war form the basis of this poem. Beasts of No Nation by Michael Doyle In a parliament of owls It’s easy to believe And to keep busy Certain only of the war Dancing now while … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Beasts, Believe, Busy, Can, Certain, Children, Coin, Dancing, Draw Out, Find, Hope, Imagination, Junk, Know, Learn, Life, More, Nation, Old Men, Owls, Parliment, Photograph, Picture Show, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Price, Questions, Random, Rescue, Smile, Spent, Teach, Television, Treasure, Unanswered, War, Way, Wish, Young | Leave a comment

Meditative Movement

Posted on May 24, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

In these last months, as if we haven’t been too sedentary in the first place, we have been almost nothing but stuck in and out of sorts with finding ways to keep moving. This is counter to what is best … Continue reading →

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Something In the Time

Posted on May 23, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

A brief reflection on life: Something In the Time by Michael Doyle There’s something wonderful to life Full of patterns and rhythms rife Skipping stones across wooded streams And summer evenings filled with dreams Beautifully seen through your elven eyes … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Beautiful, Blessing, Corridor, Creep, Crumble, Dazzle, Desire, Dream, Elven, Eyes, Fascination, Feeling, Fire, Fleet, Hope, Indiscretion, Life, Light, Meet, Moments, Moving, Mystic, New Norm, Night Skies, Pattern, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reflection, Rhythm, Rise, Skipping Stones, Something, Spark, Speak, Storm, Stream, Sublime, Summer, Summer Evenings, Sun, Suntan, Time, Tongue Tied, Travel, Walk, Whisper, Wonderful, Woods | Leave a comment

Woven Into A Delicate Tapestry

Posted on May 23, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Faith and reason must work in combination with one another to approach the balance necessary to navigate the life of individuals and of nations around the world. Woven Into A Delicate Tapestery by Michael Doyle Woven into a most delicate … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Balance, Blind, Bloody, Capricious, Church, Civilization, Combination, Creativity, Deity, Delicate, Deny, Diversity, Era, Evidence, Exceed, Faith, Freedom, God, Holy Kingdom, Incomplete, Inculcate, Known, Liberty, Life, Limits, Mankind, Mastery, Modernism, Monotheism, Navigate, Need, Pantheism, Path, Pathology, Philosophy, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Psychology, Rational, Realization, Reason, Record, Reverent, Roots, Seeds, Self-Evident, Struggle, Tapestry, Theology, Truth, Twentieth Century, University, Wisdom, Woven, Youth | Leave a comment

In A Place of Longing

Posted on May 21, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on Augustine’s Enchiridion: In A Place of Longing by Michael Doyle I suppose there’s no sense in prolonging Stating that the gist of life is belonging The rumor has it that its in what we love And … Continue reading →

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Dragged Into the Streets

Posted on May 20, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Thinking a lot on education and civilization and why and how there seems to be quite a bit of confusion as to how each is allegedly to work out. Fairly serious stuff and yet how can a person not … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ability, Alienation, Ancient, Avoid, Backside, Bad Advice, Belong, Bowl, Capable, Chase, Civility, Civilization, Confusion, Convenience, Convenient, Cruelty, Curious, Darkness, Days, Deal, Desire, Different, Done, Doubt, Drag, Drink, Education, Fish, Flag, Gin, God, Good, Happy, Head, Humor, Interest, Lazy, Life, Luck, Manage, Mentally, Miserable, Monkeys, Moral Courage, Mortals, New Life, None, Now, Ought, Photograph, Pit, Poem, Poetry, Pretend, Problems, Puzzles, Raps, Reverent, Run Away, Sail, Set Out, Sink, Sit, Solemn, Somehow, Sought, Street, Struck, Sun, Taught, Tell Me, Then, Think, Thought, Time, Trappings, Tree, Turn, Tutor, Unteachable, Want, Wince, Wish, Wonder, Workings, Wrong, You | Leave a comment

Rites of Passage

Posted on May 19, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

What might it be to see the rites of passage for a Viking daring to reach west not east and in so doing changes perceptions of possibility? Rites of Passage by Michael Doyle As odd as it may seem You … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Born, Confess, Dead Thigns, Depth, Die, Doorframe, Dragon Ships, Dreams, East, Edge, Eye, Family, Fight, Flavor, Give, Guard, Had, Knowledge, Life, Man, Mistress, Northern Lights, Odd, Odin, Passage, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Precious, Quest, Right, Rites, Sad, Satisfied, Sea, Seem, Seen, Seldom, Sight, Test, Tried, True, Viking, West, Worry, You | Leave a comment

Blowing Down the Walls

Posted on May 18, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on 2 Corinthians 2:14-16: Blowing Down the Walls by Michael Doyle Blown away by righteousness and grace Profound joy takes down all my walls Mercy has taken me to this place I have found my peace in … Continue reading →

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Lessons From Eden Park

Posted on May 17, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

The Roaring Twenties were a fascinating time. Among the lessons to be learned was that a woman could do and be more than they had been allowed until then, vice and other personal choices could not be controlled and that … Continue reading →

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