Tag Archives: New Day

Keeping Faith Through Storms

Posted on July 2, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Keeping Faith Through Stormsby Michael DoyleWalking righteous amidst life’s corruptionThe faithful holds true without disruptionLike Noah and his ark saving our humanityThe chaos of new frontiers heals with peace, not vanityToo often, we live in coffins of our own makingWhile … Continue reading →

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Growing Up In the Tropics

Posted on June 4, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Growing Up in the Tropicsby Michael DoyleAcross the tropics, in early morning,We awaken sleepless, feeling the sunShining like a dreamBe it Cuba, Hawaii, or the PhilippinesThe breeze blows by coollyTurning the wind vanes slowly Dragonflies and butterflies floatOn mica wings … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All, Answer, Awake, Breeze, Butterflies, Children, Colored Skies, Cuba, Dragon Flies, Dream, Drowsy, Early Morning, Fields, Float, Glaze, Growing Up, Happiness Enough, Hawaii, Hit the Beach, Instinct, Island Time, Mica Wings, Names, New Day, Nourishment, Peaceful Bliss, Pineapple, Poetry and Poems, Rain, Reeds, Rice Paddies, Ride, See, Sleepless, Sleepy Day, Slow, Slow Heat, Sugar Cane, Summer All Year Long, Sun, Sunshine, The Philippines, Tropical Fish, Tropics, Waves, Wind Vanes, Yawn | Leave a comment

Illuminating Light

Posted on October 2, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Illuminating Lightby Michael DoyleEvery day is a new dayOf goodness felt in celebrationTo be lived in every wayWith the utmost fascinationRegardless of expectationLife comes just as it willHowever direct in contemplationEach day has its own unpaid billIt is all in … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Battles, Best Path, Blessing, Brace, Celebration, Challenges, Contemplation, Cues, Every Way, Expectation, Faith, Fascination, Feel, Give, Glorifying God, Goodness, Gospel, Guard, Happens, His Works, Illuminating Light, Keeping Real, Life, Misread, New Day, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Pray, Relationship, Savior, Say, Sheep, Shepherd, Skilled, The Lord, Theology, Unpaid Bill, Worship | Leave a comment

We’re Going To Make It

Posted on January 3, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

We’re Going To Make Itby Michael DoyleWhatever today’s bit of sorrowKeep holding on for tomorrowNot giving in to the gray skiesUntil you see the bright sunriseThat will greet your dreamsHeld together now taped at the seamsIn a world that even … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adjustment, Alibis, Blame, Brave, Cheerfulness, Clueless, Dreams, Empty, Empty Pockets, Fear, Gratitude, Gray Skies, Greet, Holding On, Hope, Hopes and Dreams, Linger, Make Believe, Make It, New Day, New Norm, Newsmen, Optimism, Pessimism, Platitude, Poetry and Poems, Quarter, Refuge, Same, Seams, Shanty Town, Sing, Someday, Sorrow, Souls, Stay, Sunrise, Today, Together, Tomorrow, Warm, Warmth, We, Winter's Day, Wise, World | Leave a comment

That Works For Me

Posted on September 23, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

That Works For Meby Michael DoyleShooting photos from a different perspectiveIs easy, fun and a bit magically reflectiveSeagulls flying around the statue’s baseAnd twilight falls giving its new embraceSo many things seen all of the timeNothing hard in finding the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Activitity, Adventure, All the Best, Base, Blunder, Blur, Connectivity, Easy, Embrace, Faces, Fun, Good, History, Iconic, Metaphysical Poetry, Moments, Mystery, New Angle, New Day, Night, Perspective, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Ready and Willing, Reflective, Seagulls, See, Shooting Photos, Sights, Soul, Speed of Life, Sublime, Sun, Tangle, That Works, Time, Twilight, Unusual, Wonder, Works | Leave a comment

Leaning On His Promises

Posted on July 15, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

It’s interesting times we live in. Watched a church sermon via the internet. Leaning On His Promises by Michael Doyle The church’s electronic bulletin board read Much as the Good Book itself has said We need to remember each other … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anxiety, Break, Break Down, Breakthrough, Calm, Church, Conquer, Control, Creation, Electronic Bulletin Board, Embrace, End, Faith, Fear, First Dawning, Forgiving, Friendly Reminder, Giants, Glory, God, Good Book, His Promises, Hope, Internet, Jesus, Lean, Living, Lord God, Love of God, Love One Another, Loving God, My Soul, New Day, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Praise, Prayer, Presensce, Pride, Promises, Remember, Said, Sermon, Silence, Sister and Brother, Society's, Storms, Sun, Take Fall, The Enemy, Unshakable, Wall, Walls, Weary Eyes | Leave a comment

To Find Peace

Posted on July 11, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

So many movies and books predict nothing but darkness and gloom in our future. Maybe that’s easy enough to understand with the fact that we so often seek force rather than reason to overcome past and present hurts. But, maybe … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Annihilation, Better, Beyond, Books, Bring, Dark, Darkness, Death, Desolation, Devastation, Down, Find, Find Our Way, Force, Forgiveness, Future, Gloom, Healing, Hope, Imagery, Key, Loss, Metaphor, Minds, Morning's First Light, Movies, Nakedness, Nation, Nations, New Day, Night, Once We Do, Only, Our, Overcome, Path, Peace, Photograph, Pithy Words, Poem, Poetry, Prayers, Prevent, Quicker, Reason, Reconciliation, Regrets, Release, Rolls Out, Ruin, Said, Selves, Set, Shelf, Sting, Stretch, Suffer, Toppled, Understand, Undoing, Victory, War, We, Whittled, World | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Finish Each Day and Be Done With It

Posted on June 7, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Absurd, Begin, Blunders, Could, Done, Doubt, Each Day, Encumber, Finish, Forget, High Spirit, New Day, Nonsense, Old, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Serene, Thought For the Day, Tomorrow | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: In the End It’s Only A Passing Thing, This Shadow

Posted on May 13, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn’t want … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Bad, Clear, Danger, Darkness, End, Frodo, Great Story, Happen, Happy, Here, Holding On, Keep Going, Lord of the Rings, Matter, New Day, Pass, Passing Thing, Rights, Samwise Gamgee, Shadow, Small, Stay, Sun Shine, Thought For the Day, Turn Back, Understand, Way It Was, World, Wrong | Leave a comment

Sudden Comfort of Intimacy

Posted on April 21, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

There is a certain joy in a young girl’s heart whose imagination overflows into a comfort that is hard to define and amazing to experience. Sudden Comfort of Intimacy by Michael Doyle You cannot buy loyalty Set at the table … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anxiety, Approve, Best, Comfort, Curious, Ebbs, Family, Flows, Give, Heart, Imagination, Indignity, Intimacy, Know, Life, Living, Loyalty, Much, New Day, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pulse, Rise, Star, Strain, Sudden, Suffer, Table, Test, Train, Wish, World, Young Girl | Leave a comment