Tag Archives: Living

Wall of Ego

Posted on September 10, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Wall of Egoby Michael DoyleSelf righteous PhariseesAre often truth’s worst enemiesIn looking down on others, you miss the skiesSelf-deceived by our prideful, lying eyesMissing the mark of God, in favor of meBelieving myself the pilot of my lifeI mistake my … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged A Say, Adds Up To Nothing, Arrogance, Aspire, Bad Habits, Blasphemy, Boastfulness, Celebration, Certain, Cheapens, Choose, Chord, Circle, Cognition, Compare, Compared Against, Complaints, Control, Cure, Define, Destination, Determine, Divinity, Driven, Enemies, Evaluation, Fault, Favor, Forget, Full-Blown, Gifted People, God, God Flow, Habit of the Heart, Heaven, Humbleness, Humility, Identity, Insist, Know, Life In the Spotlight, Living, Looking Down, Lose My Steps, Loud, Lying Eyes, Mature, Me, Miss, Missing the Mark, Mistake, Others, Part, Pharisees, Pilot of My Life, Poetry and Poems, Reality, Realize, Recognition, Replace, Respectability, Revealed, Second Nature, Self Given, Self Righteous, Self Sympathy, Self Worht, Self-Deceived, Self-Fascination, Skies, Spirituaity, Squeeze, Story, Stumble, Success, Superiority, Tale, Truth, Unneeded Strife, Victory, Walk, Walking Straight, Wall of Ego, Want To See | Leave a comment

The Problem of Pride

Posted on September 7, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

The Problem of Prideby Michael DoyleEasily knownPride is the diseaseWe’ve seen this and it showsPutting us all ill at easeSeen in others, we forgetAll of those thingsWe struggle and yet we forgetAll the troubles, living bringsSeemingly standing positiveBut we think … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Affirmation, Again, Bring, Confirmation, Contemplative, Dignity, Discord, Disease, Every Sin, Exercise, Forget, Genesis, Good, Guard, Haughty Eyes, Ill At Ease, Kill, Known, Lesson, Living, Lying Tongue, Negatives, Neglect, Others, Past, Poetry and Poems, Positive, Present, Pride, Problem, Relevant, Respect, Seen, Show, Sow, Spin, Struggle, The Moment, Think, Troubles, Walk Past, Wear Our Pride, Will Not Last | Leave a comment

If I Have More to Live

Posted on August 24, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

If I Have More to Liveby Michael Doyle If I have more to liveI would live it with youIf I have more love to giveMy love, I would love you If I get to live any moreI want to live … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All of the years, Any More, Being, Day, Day Complete, Days, Dream, Friends, Half Smile, Hidden Tears, I Would Love You, Learning, Life, Live It With You, Living, Lovers, Might, Miss, More, More Love To Give, More To Live, My Arms, My Love, Never End, One More Kiss, Poetry and Poems, Real, See, See me, Seem, Share, Thank you, You, Your Smile, Your Ways | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: We Have the Right To Give Away As Much of Our Own Money As We Please In Charity; But As Members of Congress We Have No Right To Appropriate A Dollar of the Public Money

Posted on July 28, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. I will not attempt to prove that Congress has no power … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Act of Charity, Act of Injustice, Appropriate, Attempt, Balance of the Living, Charity, Congress, Davey Crockett, Dead, Dollar, Floor, Give Away, Individuals, Living, Member, Money, Own Money, Permit, Public Money, Respect, Sympathy, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

Skandalon

Posted on July 11, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Skandalonby Michael DoyleI won’t take the baitOf living this fateFalling for the offenseOf people speaking through pretenseTriggered into living this trapThinking and feeling the rapHit after hit comes my wayI see it happening day after dayThe pains that are feltIn … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bad, Bait, Being Bitter, Best Life, Better, Bitterness, Breath, Choice, Day After Day, Dealt, Dey, Drip, Escape the Fate, Ever Had, Falling, Fangs of Despair, Fatal Test, Fear and Doubt, Felt, Finger Trap, Flow, Glory, God's Best Truth, God's Plans, Great Signifiance, Happening, Heart, Hit After hit, How I live, Injustices, Kingdom, Learn, Legendary, Lesson To Heed, Let Go, Listening, Living, Living This Fate, Magnificence, My Days, Need, Not Stand Alone, Offense, Offenses, Offenses of the Past, Overlooking, Pains, Patience, People, Poetry and Poems, Pretense, Rap, Rip Me Apart, Sad, Satan, Skandalon, Slights, Small Still Voice, Stands Alone, The Story, Trap, Trap of Offense, Triggered, Try As I might, Turn the Page, Ugly, Venom, Way, Wisdom, Yields | Leave a comment

First Principles: We Have More Machinery of Government Than Is Necessary, Too Many Parasites Living On the Labor of the Industrious

Posted on June 14, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.” – Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Ludlow, 1824

Posted in First Principles | Tagged First Principles, Government, Industrious, Labor, Living, Machinery, Necessary, Thomas Jefferson, Too Many Parasites, We | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: I Hope That In This Year To Come, You Make Mistakes

Posted on January 1, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Changing Yourself, Doing Something, Hope, Important, Learning, Living, Making Mistakes, Making New Things, Neil Gaiman, Never Done Before, Pushing Yourself, Thought For the Day, Year To Come, Your World | Leave a comment

Life Worth Living

Posted on December 27, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Life Worth Livingby Michael DoyleI’ve never been one given to chanceDetermined to rise above my circumstancesAs a child of God driven by destinyTaking this challenge as my legacyHeaven holds all of my best treasureGod first, then family, is my measureA … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Acts, Adversity, Belief and Love, Blindness, Bliss, Brith, Challenge, Chance, Cherish, Child of God, Circrumstance, Clasped, Destiny, Dignity, Discerned, Done, Driven, Embrace, Faith, Fall, Family, Forgiving, Gaze, God, God Above, God First, God's, God's Favor, Grace, Grown In Faith, Guided, Hands, Happiness, Heaven, Heavenly Host, Holds, Humility, Integrity, Learned, Legacy, Lessons, Letter, Life, Life Worth Living, Live, Living, Living These Moments, Lord's Face, Love, Love and Kindness, Mad, Mean To Me, Most, My Best Treasure, My Measure, Our Battle, Our Legacy, Place, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Prayer, Purpose Filled Life, Rattle, Recall, Rise Above, Son, Steward, Thanks, Thanks Be To God, This World, To All, Treat Others, True, Waking Moments, Walk Our Walk, World, Worth | Leave a comment

Pressure Put On Coal

Posted on December 2, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Pressure Put On Coalby Michael DoyleLike a herd of deer comes crashing inFalling like a gift from the skyFalling like snowflakes as it’s Christmas againAnd the angels sing their hallelujah replySnow clouds form again and yet there is no snowStill, … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Again, Air, Angels, Authenticity, Christmas, Coal, Crash, Diamonds, Drift, Fall, Fit the Part, Form, Gift, Given, Glow, Good For the Soul, Hallelujah, Happiness, Hard Pressure, Heart, Herd, Innermost, Integrity, Jolliness, Living, Love, Mirth, Nine Reindeer, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pressure, Said, Sing, Sky, Sleep, Snow, Snow Clouds, Snowflakes, Songs, Truth, Warmth, Within | Leave a comment

The Greater the Miracles

Posted on October 26, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

The Greater the Miraclesby Michael DoyleReligion it seems is love’s emotionPersonified and adhered to with devotionFor a person who lives life without reasonHas committed the most personal of treasonsIn the Grand Inquisitor we find rarified poetryIn which passions are taken … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Aching, Again, Arise, Astray, Atone, Belief, Burn, Capability, Constants, Desire, Despotism, Devil, Devotion, Divine, Easily Led, Edge, Emotion, Fable, Faith, Fed, Freedom, Grave, Greater, Hate, Hell, Heresy, Himself, History, Jesus, Keys to the Kingdom, Kind, Late, Laugh, Lessons, Life, Live by Bread Alone, Live Life, Living, Love, Man, Miracles, Mistake, Mystery, Not Hate, Passion, Photograph, Piety, Play, Poem, Poetry, Power, Random Chances, Rare, Religion, Responsibility, Save, Second Chance, Seek, Strife, Suffer the Children, Temporal, Temptation, The Grand Inquisitor, Three Days, Treason, True Sign, Turn, War, Water Into Wine, Ways of Love, Without Reason, Work Miracles | Leave a comment