Tag Archives: Light

Age of Anxiety

Posted on August 27, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Age of Anxietyby Michael DoyleLooking out for my daughters with empathyAs this modern age drips with anxietyThere are so many issues and concerns seenIt quickly overwhelms any human beingIt has become an epidemic across this nationWhere morbid complexity gives way … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, Age of Anxiety, Alienation, Angst, Anxiety, Community, Competence, Confidence, Connect, Corrected, Courses, Crisis and Challenge, Darkness and Blight, Daughters, Depression, Depth, Detection, Development, Earn, Empathy, Encouragement, Epidemic, Failure, Family, Fatherly Delight, Fear, Find Your Way, Focus, Friends, Growing, Heaven, High School, Human Being, Human Beings, Increasingly, Issues and Concerns, Knowing, Learn, Life, Life's Issues, Life's Lessons, Light, Listen, Love, Loving Family, Matters, Meaning, Middle School, Modern Age, Morbid Complexity, Nation, Overwhelm, Pandemic, Parent, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Right, Scared and Embarassed, Scatter, Screens, Scroll, Seen, Shadow, Sight, Smooth Roll, Social Media, Stranger's Love, Systematic, Therapy and Medication, Toll, Truly Know, Whisper, Wise | Leave a comment

Like A Child

Posted on August 12, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Like A Childby Michael DoyleUnafraid like a childFeeling the spirit of the wildI serve our Father’s kingdomIn the name of love and freedomPraising Jesus’s sweet nameThe spirit of the Lord is the sameThat brings our Father’s loveBelieved from below; proclaimed … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, Believe, Below, Bring, Child, Darkest Night, Darkness, Day, Days, Delivered, Deserve, End, Father, Father's Kingdom, Feel, Free, Freedom, Grave, Jesus, Light, Live, Lord, Love, Name, Night, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Remove, Same, Save, Serve, Sing, Son, Spirit, Spirt, The Living King, Unafraid, Wild | Leave a comment

The Power In His Name

Posted on July 23, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

The Power In His Nameby Michael DoyleThere is no real limitTo the power of the Holy SpiritIf only we’ll heed and hear itOpenly embracing, not to fear itThis is the way of His gloryRevealed with each page of His storyWe … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abundance, Ages, Call, Darkness, Death's Chains, Embrace, Eyes, Family, Fear, God, Guide, Hands, Hear It, Heed, His Glory, His Name, Holy Spirit, Hope, Hour, Joy, Light, Minute, Name, No Real Limit, Page, Pages, Path, Poetry and Poems, Power, Praise, Reveal, Salvation, Sight, Sing, Skies, Story, The Way, Truth, Walk, You and Me | Leave a comment

A Reach and Twitch

Posted on July 9, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

A Reach and Twitchby Michael DoyleA hand reaches out and twitchesHeld out toward the unseen switchesAs a life comes and then is goneAs easy as a light turned off and onWe come into this life cryingScreaming out for more and … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alive, Arms of God, Attention, Balloon, Blame, Call, Control, Corner Boys, Crash and Burned, Crawl, Crying, Death, Desire, Die, Different, Dollar, End of Night, Escape, Fall, Fantasy, Fatalstically, Fear, Fire, Friend, Gang, Gone, Gun, Hand, Heed, Holler, Jester Crown, Last Prayer, Life, Light, Lost Soul, Loud, Lower East End, Mark, Name, Need, Off and On, On Your Own, Phantasm, Poetry and Poems, Point, Pointed Fingers, Reach, Relationship, Revere, Reverent, Scratch, Scream, Shots Fired, Shuffle, Sinners, Snitch, Soldier, Soul, Stale, Street, Struggle, Switch, Tale, Temptation, The Devil, Truth, Twitch, Whole, World, Worship, Worth of Life, Wreckage | Leave a comment

Home Is Felt

Posted on July 3, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Home Is Feltby Michael DoyleBanging on the walls of our spacesChecking the layout of our placesPopping the bottle of our cheerWe’ll find our way to make our thereThe there of our shared creature comfortLearning how we’ll fit and comportSpinning around … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Added Splashes, Blend, Bottle, Cheer, Clouds, Coming Together, Creature Comfort, Days Ahead, Done and Said, Dreams, Embraces, Explain, Felt, Filling Our Dreams, Fit, Fit and Comport, Flash, Forever, Forward, Grow, Heads, Home, Home Is Felt, Know, Layout, Life, Light, Live the Love, Memories, One Step At A Time, Peace, Place, Poetry and Poems, Pop, Precision, Proud, Real Life's Paces, Refine Our Graces, Shine On, Sigh, Simple Words, Spaces, Spinning Around, Sublime, Suddenly, There, Thinking Of, Together, Traces, True Love, Vision, Walls, Woman's Touch | Leave a comment

Standing In the Light

Posted on July 2, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Standing In the Lightby Michael DoyleLet me share a secretThat’s hard to forgetThey say to write what you knowThis blank page only goes to showMaybe how little that isAnd how much I missIn a life that’s full motionBut often empty … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged About, Anyone, Blank Page, Box, Broken Heart, Crying, Days, Done, Empty of Emotions, Experience, Forget, Found, Good Lord, Great, Heartbreaks, Keeping On Keeping on, Kicked, Know, Know So Little, Lean, Lending A Hand, Life, Light, Middle, Miss, Mistakes, Motion, Open Eyes, Pages, Painting By Numbers, Poetry and Poems, Poor Soul, Realize, Secret, Share, Someone, Songs, Standing, Standing In the Light, Start, Stubbed Toes, They, Trying, Understand, Unwise, Won, World, Write, Write What You Know, Writing Crisis | Leave a comment

Scargiver’s Fight

Posted on June 14, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Scargiver’s Fightby Michael DoyleTo fight and then to live to fightEven while knowing we cannot winTo hold pride in the battleEven though knowing pride is a sinThis is the way of warriorsWilling to bear the costEven while knowing the truthHonor … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Battle, Cause, Children, Choose, Cost, Die, Dignity, Fight, Firm, Freedom, Full Cost, Future, Goodness, Hold, Honor, Knights of Old, Know, Law, Liberty, Light, Lost, Measure, Nobility, Own, Place of Respect, Poetry and Poems, Price, Pride, Reasons, Sacrifice, Scargiver, Seasons, Sin, Sustain, Tales of Old, Told, Treason, Truth, Way of Warriors, Win, Win Or Die, Wlling | Leave a comment

Our Living Hope

Posted on May 22, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Our Living Hopeby Michael DoyleOur living hope is pureMaking our souls sureOf the Lord’s living graceAs we gaze on His holy faceWe know this by the tracesIn all we do as we embraceIn this living God we knowWho brings light … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Aware, Become, Been, Bible, Celebration, Christianity, Commit, Communion, Darkness, Dedication, Embrace, Family, Focus, Forever, Forward, Freed, Gaze, God, God's Community, Grace, Gratitude, Hallelujah, Hands, Heaven, Holy Face, Humble, Humbled Hearts, Individual, Jesus, Join, Know, Light, Living God, Living Hope, Living Right, Lord, Need, Offering, One-By-One, Partake, Poetry and Poems, Pride, Pure, Raise, Rendering, Repent, Right Attitude, Sacred Praise, Satan, Satan's Snare, Shadow, Sin, Soul, Soul Shake, Start, Sure, The Lord, Trace, Transform, Voices, Words | Leave a comment

As For Me and My House

Posted on May 12, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

As For Me and My Houseby Michael DoyleOn Mother’s Day, I have my inspiration,Finding faith in every day’s dedicationLike Joshua, I try to live braveFollowing the ways of God until my graveIn every generation, the baton passes onGod will be … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bible, Christianity, Faith, Generation, God, Inspiration, Jesus, Joshua, Light, Me, Mother's Day, My house, Poetry and Poems, Pormises, Scripture, Serve the Lord | Leave a comment

He Inspires

Posted on May 7, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

He Inspiresby Michael DoyleThough His body was brokenIn His words that were spokenHe revealed that we are forgivenEven in the times that we live inAs our living hope, He held out His handOffering grace that we might understandThe struggles we … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Body, Broken, Darkest Night, Done, Forgiven, Gentleness, Glory, God, Grace, He Inspires, His Puproses, His Story, Holy Spirit, In Him, Justify, Light, Living Hope, Poetry and Poems, Shine, Son, Speak, Spoken, Strength, Struggle, Testify, Times, Tire, Truth, Understand, Ways, Whisper, Words | Leave a comment