Tag Archives: Love

On the 1619 Project

Posted on May 5, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

An ahistorical work that seeks to repudiate the founding principles of America won the Pulitzer Prize today. In my eyes, all luster is now gone to both the Nobel prizes and the Pulitzer with this move. It’s not … Continue reading →

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A Faithful Companion

Posted on May 4, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on 2 Sam. 7:29: A Faithful Companion by Michael Doyle In a world filled with grief and acrimony God wants to bless our lives through testimony Loving us unconditionally and wanting our best He walks beside us … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2nd Samuel, Acknowledge, Acrimony, Aim, Alive, Alone, Appreciation, Approach, Ask, Believers, Beside, Best, Bless, Blessed, Blessings, Brought, Child of God, Choose, Circumstance, Companion, Counsel, Cross, Days, Discipline, Doing, Dream, Each, Earnest, Empower, Endeavor, Ensure, Everlasting, Expedience, Faithful, Family, Father, Fear, Flock, Foot of the Cross, Forgive, Forgotten, Forsake, Forward, Future, Gather, Getting By, God, Good, Good Habits, Good Life, Good Will, Grief, Guidance, Hear, Him, History, Home, Hope, Humility, Jesus, Joy, Keep, Last, Lesson, Lift, Listen, Lives, Loss, Love, Magnify, Moments, New Beginning, Obedience, Obey, Past, Personal Savior, Photograph, Plan, Poem, Poetry, Promise, Providence, Purity, Reap As We Sow, Refuse, Relationship, Reliance, Remember, Right, Satisfaction, Seek, Slavation, Stand, Star, Step, Stewardship, Supplication, Survive, Temporal, Testimony, Thin, Truth, Unconditional, Understand, Understood, Undivided, Walk, Ways, Weigh, Wisdom, Word, World | Leave a comment

An Examination of Novels

Posted on May 3, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

When it comes to fiction, there is no greater work of prose than the novel. An Examination of Novels by Michael Doyle A fiction in prose of a certain extent Presented in many ways of palatable content How further might … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Allege, Art, Best Voice, Chronology, Circumstance, Classics, Complicate, Content, Define, Demand, Diversion, Division, Double Helix, Dreams, Embrace, Examination, Extent, Extraordinary, Fiction, Forms, Glory, Hamlet, Heroes, Human Beings, Irony, Jourmalism, Journal, Literature, Love, Mankind, Metafiction, Modality, Modes, Moments, Mortality, Mythology, Narrative, Novel, Novels, Ordinary, Palatable, Perspective, Photograph, Place, Poem, Poetry, Present, Pretense, Professionalism, Prose, Real Life, Realism, Refine, Romance, Smile, Story, Style, Superlative, Tales, True, Understanding, Words, World | Leave a comment

Fool’s Errand

Posted on May 2, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Arguing with those we love is maybe sometimes natural. But, it’s a fool’s errand. There can be very little good in having to be right just to make the person you love somehow wrong. Especially in the modern age, … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Argue, Bring, Complete, Days, Dreams, Elf, Errand, Fight, Fool, Foolish, Forever, Fuss, Harmony, Heart, Hurt, Kiss, Life, Love, Magic, Make, Miss, Never Right, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Queen, Read, Sit, Stay, Table, Take, Tear, Think, Tranquility, Walk, Words | Leave a comment

Green Tea Haiku

Posted on April 27, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

From the prompt tea at the Fantasy Faire in Second Life: I love to visit Drinking my morning’s green tea Quiet morning’s blossoms fall

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Blossom, Drink, Fall, Green Tea, Haiku, Love, Morning, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Quiet, Tea, Visit | Leave a comment

A Life In Size

Posted on April 26, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

The saga of Dracula continues: A Life In Size by Michael Doyle In the dark castle hangs her face A painting of the sunlight he once embraced Hidden within were passages of a maze Guarded from the sun that continues … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Artist, Belief, Blame, Blaze, Blessing, Blood, Broken, Castle, Cave, Creatures of the Night, Cryptic, Darkness, Dead, Death, Devil, Dracula, Eat, End, Ending, Evil, Eyes, Face, Faith, Glow, Good, Gory, Guard, Guess, Hang, Hope, Hunger, Immortal, Immortality, Know, Language, Life, Light, Love, Loveless Marriage, Lucifer, Maze, Monster, Mortal, Pain, Painting, Passage, Photograph, Poem, Poet, Poetry, Quest, Roof, Safety, Saga, Save, Secret, Shock, Sight, Size, Sky, Story, Sun, Sung, Sunlight, Taste, Time, Touch, Truth, Understood, Undone, Unspoken, Vampire, Warmth | Leave a comment

Sunshine On A Rainy Day

Posted on April 26, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Day 26th of NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo and the optional prompt is to write an almanac poem using: Almanac Questionnaire Weather: Rainy Day Flora: Marsh Roses Architecture: Limestone Customs: Pork Tenderloin Mammals/reptiles/fish: Sandhill Cranes Childhood dream: Becoming the president Found on … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: A Grateful Heart Is A Beginning of Greatness

Posted on April 24, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being.” – James E. Faust

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Beginning, Contentment, Courage, Development, Expression, Faith, Foundation, Grateful Heart, Greatness, Happiness, Humility, James E Faust, Love, Prayer, Thought For the Day, Virtue, Well Being | Leave a comment

Holding Hands With the Sun

Posted on April 23, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Falling in love with art is an intimate construction within ourselves expressed both outwardly and inwardly. Holding Hands With the Sun by Michael Doyle An experience of the narrative Doodles swirled in declarative Filling out the feels An imaginative look … Continue reading →

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First Principles: A Love of Truth and A Veneration of Virtue Are the Latent Spark For People Capable of Understanding

Posted on April 23, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. These amiable passions, are the “latent spark”… If … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Advocate, Amiable Passions, Apply, Difference, Feel, First Principles, Friends of Mankind, Human Nature, Indignation, Injury, John Adams, Latent Spark, Liberty, Love, Novanglus, Prinicple, Resentment, Right and Wrong, See, Sense, The People, True and False, Truth, Understanding, Veneration, Virtue, Virtue and Vice, Wrong | Leave a comment