Tag Archives: Miss

Enough Pain To Go Around

Posted on November 1, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Enough Pain To Go Aroundby Michael DoyleIf there’s one thingThat I’ve foundIt’s there’s enough painTo go aroundPages of sorrowTears of rageHolding on for tomorrowOn this world’s stageIt’s the state of artOf my darkened heartCalling out across the multiverseI’ve engineered it … Continue reading →

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Love Lives On

Posted on July 11, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Love Lives Onby Michael DoyleDriving around the middle of the nationTrying to stimulate my daughters’ imaginationsAnd love for seeing the beauty of this nationLike their grandmother would have; if the situationHad somehow allowed this to followIf she had thrived; but … Continue reading →

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The Journey of Parenting

Posted on June 15, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

The Journey of Parentingby Michael DoyleSeeded with a lot of quietudeIs the truth of parenting’s magnitudeEvery day begun in earnest prayerTo take on all moments, hard or fairThe challenges sometimes come on hardAs we hold closely to each player’s cardsIt’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accountable, All Moments, Approach, Begin, Belief, Belong, Bible, Blessing, Bright Light, Cast Aside, Challenges, Coach, Consistency, Darkness, Discern, Encourage, Frame, Free Will, Full-Hearted, Godly Ways, Grief, Grow, Guessing, Hearts, Hold Closely, Holiness of Life, Hypocrisy, Integrity, Journey, Legacy, Living Days, Love, Magnitude, Miss, Modeled Example, Parenting, Plays, Poetry and Poems, Prcoess, Preach, Principles, Protection, Quietude, Reach, Road, Scripted Lessons, Scripture, Seeded, Shape, Shine, Stages of Life, Teaching, Teaching Right, Think, Truth, Values, Walk the Walk | Leave a comment

One-To-One Hearted

Posted on March 26, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

One-To-One Heartedby Michael DoyleThere best belongs to be foundIn the miss that comes aroundWhere nothing becomes the somethingThat brings the best of everythingSo often we walk feeling perplexedUnsure of how it all connectsBut if we listen really hardOur dreams show … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Best, Best of Everything, Blessing, Breaking, Brink, Broken, Challenges, Coming Up Short, Connects, Correct, Deference, Deficient, Distance, Dreams, Experience, Faith, Forgive, Found, Fruits, Future, God's Grace, Grace, Heartbreaks, Hearted, Helpful, Humanity, Kingdom, Lessons Learned, Listen, Locked Eyes, Miss, Mistakes, Mistaking, No Disguise, Not Prefect, Nothing, Nurture, One-To-One, Perplexed, Poetry and Poems, Recognize, Record, Shame, Something, Spiritual Maturity, Spoken, Stay Humble, Stretched In Our Thinking, Stumbles, Sufficienct, Test, The Lord, Think, Toast, Truth, Truth of God, Wild Card, Wisdom | 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

Midnight Reflections

Posted on November 14, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Midnight Reflectionsby Michael DoyleSending I love you echoes across the canyon wallInto the frigid air of this late fallThinking to myself that you were once so nearNow gasping at the thought that you might disappearThe distance is no further than … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ache, Beautiful Face, Beside me, Close My Eyes, Disappear, Distance, Echoes, Fantastic Blunder, Hand, Heart, Infinite Grace, Kiss, Late Fall, Midnight Reflections, Miss, Near, Poetry and Poems, Pull Me Under, Soul, Start, Sunrise, Tear Drops, Then, Wait, Wake, Walking Dream, Wish, Without You, Wonder, Words Exchanged | Leave a comment

Lisa (How To Love A New England Girl)

Posted on July 7, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Lisa (How To Love A New England Girl)by Michael DoyleShe was born a New England girlWith dreams of her own and the leaves in a whirlEvery fall, she knew comfort in her seasonAnd he knew that she made sense beyond … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Beach, Beautiful Name, Best Place, Beyond Reason, Blame, Boston, Coffees, Comfort, Conversations, Cotton Candy, Dreams, Driven, Dunkin Donuts, Embrace, Enjoy, Every Morning, Fall, Fall Foliage, Flowers, Glad To Be Alive, God, Granite Swimming Holes, Hand-In-Hand, Hard to Resist, Hayrides, Heart, Her Ways, Hoome, Hung Out, Incredible Place, Kaleidoscope, Leaves, Lights, Lips, Lisa, Longfellow Serenade, Love, Love Like hers, Love Like That, Love of Music, Miss, Moon, Music, Never Alone, New England Girl, North Beach, North Conway, Overgrown Surfer Boy, Oyster, Plans Made, Poetry and Poems, Posse, Promised, Reach, Red Hair, Sand, Season, Settler's Green, Shade, Shores, Smart Enough, Songs, Sore Thumb, Splinter, Start, Story Land, Summer, Sunrise, Take the Blame, The Wall, Toes, Tourists, Two Hour Drive, Understand, W.C. Handy, Walking, Warm, Warning, Wicked Slippery, Winter, Wintry, Woods, Worth | Leave a comment

Rituals

Posted on July 2, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Ritualsby Michael DoyleRitualsTaken in sequenceProtect us from harmVisuals Seemingly in coincidenceHave their illustrious charmsEvery step takenTo shake the forsakenTo hunt or to be huntedHead on the swivel; fear bluntedTo move beyond first baseA destiny to embraceCaught in a game of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ashes, Betray, Cemetaries, Charms, Coincidence, Commentaries, Death, Embrace, Fast, First Base, Flow, Forsaken, Good and Evil, Hunt, Kiss, Leading With A Smile, Lessons, Lies, Lost Religion, Miss, Overheard, Past, Poetry and Poems, Protect, Ready, Redemption, Rituals, Sequence, Step, Surprise, Swivel, Thoughts, Undertow, Visuals, Worth | Leave a comment

Take the Dice and Roll

Posted on April 11, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Take the Dice and Rollby Michael DoyleEvery choice that we makeCould be the wrong oneMake it anyhow!The best shot we takeCould miss the targetTake it anyhow!Wrong or rightIf you couldn’t live with youIf you didn’t do as you mightDo what … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anyhow, Best Shot, Bluff, Choice, Dice, End, Eyes, Find, Good Enough, Groove, Known, Life, Live, Make It, Might, Miss, Need To Do, Poetry and Poems, Right Move, Roll, Rolling Up Our Sleeves, Stare, Take It, Target, Unconcerned, Wrong One, Wrong or Right | Leave a comment

While They Break Our Hearts

Posted on April 8, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

While They Break Our Heartsby Michael DoyleLife is full of imprecisionsToo many mistakesAnd too many bad decisionsRomances gone wrongNever knowing where one belongsJust another round of heartbreak songsStaying up late to catch a breakSome things can’t be fakeWhile they break … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Another Kiss, Bad Decisions, Belong, Best Swing, Break Our Hearts, Burn, Burn Slow, California Sands, Catch A Break, Certain, Dance, Dream, Dreams, Every Night, Eyes Sparkle, Fake, False Start, Find Ourselves, Fire Pit Embers, Forgot, Full Moon Fever, Gone Wrong, Guitar, Hands, Heartbreak Songs, Holding You Tight, Huntington Beach Girl, Imprecisions, Keep You, Know, Life, Lose Ourselves, Love At First Sight, Magic, Miss, Mistakes, Never Let You Go, Night, Pardon, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Pretty Ballerina, Rarely Right, Romances, Sands, Senorita, Sight, Slipped Through Our Hands, Slow, Staying Up Late, Sure As We Are, Sure Chance, Times, True, Walk, Watch | Leave a comment