Tag Archives: Mark

It’s A Wonderful Wonder

Posted on October 30, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

It’s A Wonderful Wonderby Michael DoyleThe works at God’s handsAre a wonder to understand.I worship all that the Lord has made,And my love for this will never fade.It’s a wonderful wonderFilled with love and grace.There is no unforgiven blunder,Just an … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Blunder, Conform, Embrace, Fade, God's Hands, Journey, Little Good, Love, Love and Grace, Mark, Miracles, Mystery, Past, Poetry and Poesm, Praise, Reemption, Relasionship, Revealed, Sin, Song, Storm, Trinity, Trnsofrm, Understand, Understood, Undying Love, Ways of Jesus, Wondeful, Wonder, Works, Worshup, Wrong | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Thoughts Are Like Arrows, Once Released They Strike Their Mark. Guard Them Well Or One Day You May Be Your Own Victim

Posted on November 6, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Thoughts are like arrows, once released they strike their mark. Guard them well or one day you may be your own victim.” – Navajo Saying — Navajo (“Dine”) culture has many proverbs beyond human memory. Such wisdom lasts for generations … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: Silence Is Not Always A Sign of Wisdom, But Babbling Is Ever A Mark of Folly

Posted on August 29, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly.” – Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck, poet, dramatist, and Nobel laureate (29 Aug 1862-1949)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Always, Babbling, Folly, Mark, Maurice Maeterlinck, Sign, Silence, Thought For the Day, Wisdom | 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

Minding God’s Own Business

Posted on February 26, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Minding God’s Own Businessby Michael DoyleIt’s how it is that we should liveWe find that God has work to giveIn an echo of principles, we need clarityOf what is necessary to enable us to seeTo lack in clarity is an … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ability, Approach, Ark, Bible, Biblical Verbs, Blessings, Blindness, Boundaries, Burden, Business, Carry, Christ, Christianity, Clarity, Complication, Creation, Dancer, Depth, Discern, Dysfunction, Earn, Easy Path, Echo of Principles, Egypt, Enable, Ethics, Exaggerate, Exhausted People, Faith, Fallen Humanity, Fate, Forgiven, Free, Function, Give, Given, Given By Grace, God, Godly Freedom, Godly Ways, Grave, Heart, Heavy Lifting, Hurt, Impulse, Jesus, Kingdom, Least Resistance, Lifetime, Live, Living Start, Love, Marathon, March, Margins, Mark, Meet and Exceed, Mind, Necessary, Need, Onset, Pace, Path, Persistence, Poetry and Poems, Reach Out, Relationship, Rely On, Rest, Rhythm, Righteous Worship, Rules, Safety, Salvation, See, Sight, Snail, Society, Solution, Sprint, Strife, Sustainable, Sustainable Path, Ten Commandments, Test, Toxicity, Trap, Unkind, Weight, Work, Yoke of Evil | Leave a comment

Cumberland Falls

Posted on November 8, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Cumberland Fallsby Michael DoyleInternet sites, articles, and word of mouthHas Cumberland Falls as the Niagara of the SouthAnd though we haven’t made it to see the moonbowWe have been there to see the gentle waters flowThe Cumberland River’s water ripples … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Beautiful, Change, Cumberland Falls, Cumberland River, Daniel Boone National Forest, Daughters, Eyes, Father, Flow, Forge, Full Moon, Giant Boulders, Impression, Kept, Light, Majestic, Mark, Moonbow, Niagara of the South, Nights, Path, Pinkies, Poetry and Poems, Polish, Promise, Promises, Record, Ripple, River, Slept, Sunrise, Tall, The Girls and I, Time, Unfold, Water, Word of Mouth | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: You Always Know the Mark of A Coward. A Coward Hides Behind Freedom. A Brave Person Stands In Front of Freedom and Defends It For Others

Posted on August 10, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“You always know the mark of a coward. A coward hides behind freedom. A brave person stands in front of freedom and defends it for others.” – Henry Rollins.

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To London, Across the Sea

Posted on June 15, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

A further retelling of Dracula in poetic form: To London, Across the Sea by Michael Doyle In a tested game of chess A knight is menacing a queen The losing side will confess What this really means A voyage has … Continue reading →

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Stay On the Path

Posted on April 25, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Due to time constraints and a day much better spent with my two princesses, I will be going off prompt from Day 25 of Na/GloPoWriMo gazillion requirements for a form of poetry that I would never want to write in … Continue reading →

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Bricks Into the Future

Posted on January 3, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

We live in an interesting time of transition. Into what exactly is yet to be seen. It’s both exciting and scary to watch and more to be part of this transformation. Greater degrees of uniqueness have somehow merged into a … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abundance, Alive, Assembly, Atom, Beleiver, Best of Times, Big Bang, Breathe, Brick, Consciousness, Construct, Day, Define, Design, Dreams, Environment, Excite, Fear, Flow, Future, God Flow, Heart, Home, Hope, Integrity, Know, Last, Learn, Love, Macro, Mark, Merry, Micro, Microscope, Miracles, Mold, Moment, Nature, Night, Part, Pass, Past, Photograph, Planet, Poem, Poetry, Possibility, Post-Industrial, Reality, Relationship, Sadnness, Scare, Sentiment, Show, Soul, Span, Story, Survive, Synchronize, Threhold, Tomorrow, Trace, Transition, Unique, Unite, Way, Whole, Window, Worship | Leave a comment