Tag Archives: Loss

Righteousness In Political Graces

Posted on November 24, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Righteousness In Political Gracesby Michael DoyleSome leave God in the cradle of His birthThough He’s shown us His love and worthSome have left God hanging on the crossBut that’s only to their sorrow and lossIt’s the rolling of the stone … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, All Actions, Best Walk, Birth, Celebration, Choose Wisely, Cradle, Cross, Distraction, Dreams, Empty Tomb, Face, Faith, Fragrances, God, Goodness, Grace, Graced, Grow, Hanging, Humanity, Humility, Jubilation, Learn, Leave God, Led, Lesser Kings, Loss, Love, Plurality, Poetry and Poems, Political, Profound Traces, Reign, Righteousness, Rob, Rolling of the Stone, Room, Shown, Social Graces, Sorrow, Suprreme, The King, True Love, Worth | Leave a comment

New Life Reborn

Posted on November 5, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

New Life Rebornby Michael DoyleThe new life rebornKnows its miseryCommon sense would mournThis loss of such historyAs a life lived in painThere are questions that strainA thousand cuts into our moralityAre the price of approaching immortalityLike pawns on chessboard gamesWe … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Common Sense, History, Immortality, Loss, Misery, Morality, Mourn, New Life, Pain, Poetry and Poem, Price, Reborn, Strain, Thousand Cuts | Leave a comment

I’m Growing Through It

Posted on September 24, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

I’m Growing Through Itby Michael DoyleEvery day brings the miracles that we prayIn peace and calmness as we stayCollected in the Church of His holy nameWe trust in God to remain the sameWisdom is shown when we pay attentionTo the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Able, Alone, Attention, Attentive, Available, Aware, Beautiful, Call, Calmness, Care, Church, Community, Creator, Cross, Easy Yoke, Embrace, Eyes of God, Faith, Family, Finished Work of God, Foolish Joke, God, Godliness, Grain, Grow, Growth, Heeded, Holy Name, Integrity, Lord's Will, Loss, Measure, Mercy, Miracles, Needed, Opportunity, Own, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Present, Questions, Real, Restore, Slug It Out, Soul, Sparrow, Stay, Stewardship, Tension, Theology, Treasure, Trust, Truth, Universe, Wisdom, Wonderful, Word of God, Worldly Domination, Wrestle | Leave a comment

My Foundation

Posted on July 20, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

My Foundationby Michael DoyleWhen everything around is shakingAnd my heart falls apart breakingMy best battles begin on my kneesCasting my worry and fears on the breezeKnowing that I can trust the LordTo find the words as shield and swordMy faith … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Battle, Breaking, Faith, Fear, Foundation, Heart, Holy Child, Jesus, Loss, Mercy, Poetry and Poems, Shaking, Shield and Sword, The Lord, Trust, Victory, Words | Leave a comment

Selective Slackerism

Posted on June 10, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Selective Slackerismby Michael DoyleWhen every word that has been written and readAnd when every loss has been found in things saidIt comes down to something less than intellectualBetween the discipline and the passing ineffectualWins and losses are shared within life’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Arbitrary, Challenges, Characteristic, Condescension, Discipline, Every Word, Fair Share, Inattention, Ineffectual, Intellectual, Loss, Mundane, Passing Regrets, Poetry and Poems, Primary, Process, Qwichanist, Satisfaction, Selective, Slackerism, Sloth, Stigma, Success, Tasks, Things Said, Wins and Losses | Leave a comment

Transition Versus Change

Posted on April 30, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Transition Versus Changeby Michael DoyleThe Lord knows that it’s hard to growThe paths taken are hard to knowIn the midst of life’s transitionsIt takes a long time to make right decisionsThat change our lives as we needWhen we find our … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anger, Begin, Bold, Born, Chaff, Change, Choice, Conflict, Contact Sport, Contribution, Control, Decision, Disturbance, Dynamic, Fear, Foothold, Footing, Full-Flow, Fuller Meaning, Garden of Eden, God, Good fight, Grapple, Grow, Heal, Heavy Questions, Hesitation, Hold, Human Beings, Humanity, Insecurity, Know, Learning Curves, Letting Go, Light, Lord, Loss, Love's Embrace, Made Right, Navigation, Need, Own Space, Past Clings, Path, Poetry and Poems, Preparation, Processes, Redemption, Relationships, Resolution, Reveal, Rules, Satan, School, Seed, Series, Slow, Soul, Stay Alive, Strength, Survive, Theology, Transition, Truth, Unfold, Vengeance, Versus, Voice, Wheat, Whisper, Win-Win, Wrestle | Leave a comment

Funny How Time Slips Away

Posted on April 29, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Funny How Time Slips Awayby Michael DoyleI was thinking just the other dayIsn’t it funny how time slips away?Somewhere between country and rockThere’s need for living by straight talkLife has its beats and tribulationsTimes of sadness and of jubilationsIndulging in … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Acquisition, Appreciation, Authority, Beats, Bob and Weave, Burning It Down, Canonical, Change, Choice, Composition, Confused, Contend, Conversation, Country, Croon, Dreams, Eavesdrop, Emotional Impact, End, Endure, Eternal, Evoke, Flame, Found, Funny, Generation, Heart, Heartbroken, Human Being, Hurry, Imaginaton, Incantation, Incendiary, Indulge, Introspection, Jaded, Jubilations, Knocked Off Balance, Life, Living Wealth, Loss, Meaning, Moon, Narration, Nuance, Older, Other Day, Outlaws, Path, Poetry and Poems, Punch, Reborn, Retrospection, Rock, Round, Sadness, Self-Deprecation, Serenade, Shade, Silky Groove, Slips Away, Slow Down, Somewhere, Straight Talk, Sun, Surprised, Think, Three Chords, Tight, Time, Tribulations, Veneration, Vindication, Voice, Yesterday | Leave a comment

Thoughts On Palm Sunday 2023

Posted on April 2, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Thoughts On Palm Sunday 2023by Michael DoyleEvery man’s life is a conversationIt’s in the soul, not the presentationPalm Sunday is it’s own celebrationThat turned from hosanna to devastationOr so perception blinded, yet it gave goodOne day at a time, as … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All In Good Time, Bad Over the Good, Belong, Below, Benefit, Body of Christ, Celebration, Changes, Close, Composure, Cpnversation, Cross, Crowd, Debt, Devastation, Die, Difference, Dignity, Doubt, Each Moment, End, Eternity, Experience, Exposure, Fate, Gates of Hell, Given, Goal, God's Love, God's Plan, Grace, History, Holy Connection, Homily, Hosanna, Jesus Above, Judas, Last Supper, Life, Loss, Mystery, Open Handed, Paid In Full, Palm Sunday 2023, Path, Perception, Pesssures, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Praying For Judas, Preach, Present, Presentation, Revealed, Right, Roll, Rule, Salvation, School, See, Service, Shape, Shifting Tides, Silence of God, Sin, Soul, Tame, The Body, Time, Understood, Veneration, Victory, Wait, Washed Feet, World, Wrong, You and Me | Leave a comment

The Spin of the Win, …Again

Posted on March 21, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

The Spin of the Win, ..Againby Michael DoyleOh the spin, the spinThe spin masters spinTurning America’s lossInto some kind of winOh the spin, the spinThe spin masters spinTrying to turn what should be a lossInto a political winMistaking the wrong … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adulterous Woman, America, American People, Begin, Betrayal, Blur, Brutally, Burr, Clarity, Condoned, Conviction, Crime, Cringe, Game, Game Is on, Ides of March, Invincibility, Legality, Loss, Miss, Pardoned, Poetry and Poems, Political Win, Pretense, Self-Aware, Sense, Shame, Spin, Stoned, Teflon Don, Tenuous Legal Theory, Thought, Trash Talk, Unpredictability, Win | Leave a comment

On Being the G.O.A.T….

Posted on July 3, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

On Being the G.O.A.T….by Michael DoyleHow to be the greatest of all timeIs to go beyond that easy rhymeAnd move past our selfish natureGrowing in the Lord and becoming matureStanding in life judging one anotherDebating who is best among all … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Acknowledge, Agree, Being the G.O.A.T., Best, Best Attitude, Beyond, Breath, Cause of the Cross, Contest, Cruxifixion, Debate, Easy Rhyme, Example, Faith, Fate, Feet, Finally Understand, First, Flow, Follow, Forget Yourself, Full Humiliation, Greatest of All Time, Greet, Grow, Healing Moment, His Word, His Works, Honor and Duty, Jesus, Journey, Judge, Last, Last Supper, Latitude, Leanring, Lend, Lord, Loss, Love, Mature, Mustard Seed, Needed Hand, Nobility, Obedient to Death, Passover, Poetry and Poems, Self-Adulation, Selfish Nature, Servant Leadership, Service, Suffocation, The Latest, Torment, True Humility, Truth, Understanding, Victory, Wash, Willingness | Leave a comment