Tag Archives: Love

Thought For the Day: Speak Your Mind. Even If You’re A Minority of One, The Truth Is Still the Truth

Posted on November 7, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth, for being correct, for being you. Never apologize for being correct, or for being years ahead of your time. If you’re right and you know it, speak … Continue reading →

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Looking Back On Quincy U

Posted on November 5, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Looking Back on Quincy Uby Michael DoyleMentor and teacherTo rocker and preacherWith a deepness of eyesThat made it easy to realizeRather rock or jazzHis licks and hooks had pizzazzCreating hits like a grand slamQuincy’s life was the master jamMusic is … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Believed, Conceived, Conjecture, Control, Desire, Ego, Emotional Architecture, Every Night, Eyes, Feel, Fire, Given or Stolen, Golden Trace, Grand Slam, Human Tapestry, Jazz, Licks and Hooks, Looking Back, Love, Love and Grace, Master Jam, Mentor and Teacher, Music, Must, Note, Poetry and Poems, Preacher, Quincy Jones, Quincy U, Realize, Received, Record Deal, Respect, reviews, Rhythm, Rock, Rocker, Score, Soul, Sound Right, Sunshine and Smiles, Thriller, Trigger, Trust | Leave a comment

One True Love

Posted on November 2, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

One True Loveby Michael DoyleIn understanding your painIt makes it quite plainYou are all that means anything to meThe worthy answer to my questions for meYou fill up my mindLike nothing else I findThese are the secrets we revealFeeling like … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All, All Else, Antidote, Blame, Control, Despite, Everything, Filled With Love, Find, Flame, Free, Happily, Held Above, Hope, Jealousy, Life, Life's Confusion, Love, Mean, Meant, Mind, Most, My Thoughts, One True Love, Pain, Plain, Poem, Poems, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Poison, Question, Reveal, Run, Secrets, Soul, Spark, Steal, Stumble, Toast, Understand, Unjust Illusion, Worthy Answer, Your Love | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: To Know and Love One Other Human Being Is the Root of All Wisdom

Posted on October 28, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.” – Evelyn Waugh

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Evelyn Waugh, Know, Love, Other Human Being, Root, Thought For the Day, Wisdom | Leave a comment

Whatever the Day’s Length

Posted on October 22, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Whatever the Day’s Lengthby Michael DoyleWhatever the day’s lengthMy joy in the Lord gives me strengthI say this in all that I speakFrom the ocean shore to the mountain’s peakGod is present in my every dayHe is here as I … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, All, Blessed, Calvary, Console, Darkness, Day's Length, Every Day, Forgiveness, Fullness of God, God, Grace, Grave, Harshness, His Love, Holy Name, Joy, Life, Light, Love, Mountain's Peak, Near, Nothing, Ocean Shore, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Reigning Down, Same, Say, Soul, Speak, Strength, The Lord, Whatever | Leave a comment

In All My Living Days

Posted on October 20, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

In All My Living Daysby Michael DoyleIn all my living daysI will lift my voice in praiseI’m overjoyed by what I’ve foundHappily blessed, chasing it aroundAll because He roseAs every wiseman knowsHe took our sins from usAnd we know this … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All, Baptized, Blessed, Catch My Breath, Chasing It Around, Connection, Conversion, Death, Devotion, Found, Grave, He Rose, Immersion, Know, Lifting My Head Up, Living Days, Love, Melody, Overjoyed, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Purpose, Reason, Relationship, Renewed, Save, Share, Sin, Voice, Wiseman, Worship, Write | Leave a comment

In the Solitude of Darkness

Posted on October 18, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

In the Solitude of Darknessby Michael DoyleTo the degree that I do not fearI am powerful enough to persevereI say this with a heavy-hearted sighAs my soul fixes its intellectual eyeThe love and rage that exists inside meHave become the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Beast, Beginning, Bitter Instinct, Change, Consolation, Creativity, Darkness, Depravity, Design, Destination, Divine, Dreams, Ending, Explore, Extinct, Fallen Angel, Fear, Harshness, Heart, Heart of Desire, Howl, Intellectual Eye, Knees, Level, Lie, Life, Love, Love and Rage, Malignant Devil, Misery, Outstretch, Persevere, Philosophy, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Sigh, Snarl, Solititude, Solitude, Soul, Understand, Wickedness, Wild Seas and Regions, Work, World's Secrets, Wounded Hand | Leave a comment

The Memory Is Bittersweet

Posted on October 17, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

The Memory Is Bittersweetby Michael DoyleI wish I could erase the darkness I have feltThat somehow, some way, I could escape the hand dealtAll the good and the bad that makes us who we areLeaves me wishing forlorn on that … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Apparitions, Bittersweet, Breaks Your Heart, Darkness, Dealt, Defeat, Echoes, Erase, Family, Fear, Felt, Ghosts, Good and the Bad, Life, Living Dead, Love, Memories, Memory, Past, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Reality, Sanity, Tears You Apart | Leave a comment

Nine Lives

Posted on October 15, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Nine Livesby Michael DoyleIt wasn’t exactly love at first biteBut it took an encouraging inviteShe wanted a man who loved her brainAt long last, the search wasn’t in vainIt was a love affair made for a fewIt was time to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged After, Alive, Beliefs, Brain, Broken Hearts, Conscience, Disaster, Done, Door, Families, Fate, First Bite, Gone, Grain, Grief, Haiti, Hang On, Hell, Hope, Horde, Invite, Lies, Lives, Love, Love Affair, Love Is Blind, Meant, New Tomorrow, Nine Lives, Optimists, Poetry and Poems, Ripped Apart, Say, Science, Scientist, Secrets, Sense of Humor, Sorrow, Strong, Struggle, Sun, Teeth, Think On, Vain, Way, What For, World | Leave a comment

Seeking the Ways

Posted on October 14, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Seeking the Waysby Michael DoyleSeeking the ways I can improveI know that God is going to moveI can’t help but chase it aroundThe power and glory that I’ve foundLife lived in all its harmonyThere in the notes that surround meYou … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Brings, Chase It Around, Dead, Done, Finish, Found, Frightening, Glory, God, Harmony, Heart, Improve, Jesus Christ, Joy, King, Know, Life, Lightning, Love, Move, Notes, Poetry and Poems, Power and Glory, Praise, Rejoice, Rock, Satan, Seeking the Ways, Shout, Sing, Start, Struck, Surrendered My Life, Surround, Talk, Talking About, The Father and the Son, Walk, Worship and Testimony | Leave a comment