Tag Archives: Night

A Gathering of Understanding

Posted on October 6, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

In honor of the International Day of the World’s Indigenous PeoplesA Gathering of Understandingby Michael DoyleThe time has come for the Red Nations to riseAgain, and bring healing before the world’s eyesWith promised blessings that will cure the separationsBy and … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Blessings, Crippled Nations, Cure, Darkest Corners, Eyes, Families, First Nations, Gathering, Gifts, Glory, Gratitude, Green, Healing, Hope, Integrity, Intention, Lands, Learn, Light, Linger, Memories, Night, Poetry and Poems, Promise, Reciprocity, Red Nations, Rise, Separation, Sick World, Story, The Creator, The Great Spirit, Time, Tradition, Understanding, World | Leave a comment

Since the Days that Eden Fell

Posted on October 5, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Since the Days that Eden Fellby Michael DoyleEver since the dark days that Eden fellMankind has cast pennies down the wishing wellHoping to find some bright point of lightTo get us through our darkest times of nightEver since the dark … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Avoid, Awaken, Barbarism, Best Selves, Blight, Blurred, Boundaries, Cast, Curiosity, Dance, Dark Days, Days, Deposition, Disposition, Dwell, Eden, Enlightenment, Eyes, Fact-Checked, Fail, Fanaticism, Feelings, Fell, First Steps, Fruitless, Frustrated, Get It Right, Healing, Heart, Hell, Human Nature, Improvement, Incredulity, Indwell, Intellect, Light, Manage, Mankind, Night, Own, Peace and Love, Pennies, Philosophy, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Pursuit, Radiance, Right, Rootless, Sense, Shaken, Somehow, Soundrel, Step, Stirred, Struggle, Temperament, Unknown God, Wishing Well, Working | Leave a comment

I’m Not the Kind of Father

Posted on September 23, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

I’m Not the Kind of Fatherby Michael DoyleI’m not the kind of fatherWho can spend a lot of moneyHowever much I love my daughtersMy ex thinks this is funnyShe complains about the money she spendsDespite the child support givenAnd I … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Allow, Another, Answer, Best, Best of My Best, Blindness, Books, Brain, Busy, Cherish, Child Support, Cling, Compare, Complain, Could Be, Daughters, Deep, Disease, Doctors, Down Stairs, Doze Off, Dream On, Easy, Eighteen, Every Breath, Ex, Faces, Fall Asleep, Father, Forgiven, Funny, Go On, God, Gone, Grow Up, Hate, Hug, Hurry, I, Insane, Inside Me, Last Night, Lasting Memories, Life Upends, Limits, Listen, Live, Love, Memory Loss, Money, My Miracles, Need, Need to Know, Night, Not Letting Them Know, Other, Payers, Poetry and Poems, Push, Rest, Seems, Seen, Shelf, Spend, Steps, Sweetest Dreams, Taken, Tell, Time, Tolerably, Traces, Unkindness, Wake, Walk, Wearing Me Down, Wish, Wonder | Leave a comment

Inside the Temple

Posted on August 26, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Inside the Templeby Michael DoyleThe mercy of God fills the heartOf the blessed souls that will departBut as the light fades, the night grows longFor the sake of the fight, make the coffee strongIt might be hours; it might be … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Absolve, Blessed Souls, Coffee, Confusion, Days, Demon, Desperate, Destroy, Eternity, Fight, God, Heart, Hours, Inside, Light, Mercy, Name, Night, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Restless, Sacred, Serenity, Shame, Sins, Temple, Unclean Spirits, Vanquish | Leave a comment

Forbidden Fruit

Posted on August 24, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Forbidden Fruitby Michael DoyleLove of witchcraft presents the evidenceThat the ability to influence is no coincidenceAs they open up evil, door by doorAnd find a craven audience wanting moreThe portal to desires some wish to exploreOpen up to all, beginning … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Amuse, Audience, Beginning, Blame, Charade, Charm, Child's Play, Children, Coincidence, Contract, Craven, Danger, Delicious, Desire, Device, Door, Door By Door, End of Days, Engage, Enslave, Evidence, Evil, Explore, Forbidden Fruit, Freedom, Fright, Game, Grandmaster, Ground Floor, Hidden, Holy Advice, Ignore, Influence, Innocence, Intuit, Knock, Lie, Light, Lost, Masses, Messengers, Multiple Ways, Night, Perceive, Pleasurable, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Portal, Question, Run, Scatter, Secret, Shadow, Sudden, Task, Taste, Treasure, Witchcraft, Wonder | Leave a comment

For Your 16th Birthday

Posted on August 1, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

For Your 16th Birthdayby Michael DoyleThe hours are past and moved into the nightI was blessed by a day that you made brightA day before your actual birthday but beautifulIt was a celebration of how you’re so wonderfulSweet daughter of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 16th Birthday, Beautiful, Birthday, Blessed, Bright, Celebration, Daughter of Mine, Did Good, Face, Father, Gift, Greatest Treasures, Grow, Grow Up, Guess, Heart's Delight, Hours, Know, Live, Loving Daughter, Night, One, Poetry and Poems, Presents, Proud, Shopping, Smile, Step Farther, Thank God, Trial, Watch, Ways, Wonderful | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: There Are Stars Whose Radiance Is Visible On Earth Though They Have Long Been Extinct

Posted on July 17, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“There are stars whose radiance is visible on Earth though they have long been extinct. There are people whose brilliance continues to light the world though they are no longer among the living. These lights are particularly bright when the … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Brillaince, Dark, Earth, Extinct, Hannah Senesh, Humankind, Light, Living, Night, People, Radiance, Stars, Thought For the Day, Visible, World | Leave a comment

Justified By God

Posted on June 18, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Romans 5:1-8 Justified By Godby Michael Doyle We pray to God to continue to learnAll these things we must do to discernAll these things of greatness we observeBlessed in each moment that we serve Justified by God we find our … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adversity, Blameless, Blessed, Challenges, Comfort Zones, Conseqquence, Discren, Divine Embrace, Faith, Faithfulness, God, God's Plan, Grace, Heaven, Jesus, Justified, Learn, Nameless, Night, Observe, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Recompense, Right, Salvation, Scripture, Sight, Sin, True Peace, Trust | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: A Career Is Wonderful, But You Can’t Curl Up With It On A Cold Night

Posted on June 3, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.” – Marilyn Monroe, actress (1 Jun 1926-1962)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Career, Cold, Curl Up, Marilyn Monroe, Night, Thought For the Day, Wonderful | Leave a comment

On the Wrong Side of the Tracks

Posted on May 22, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

On the Wrong Side of the Tracksby Michael DoyleJust south Of Desolation BoulevardOn the wrong side Of those rusted tracksIs a place we knowWhere the kids all goAnd the traffic’s slowWhere hearts beat forever Than the speed of lightOn the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Barrios, Believe, Bleed Out, Cherish, Cling, Desolation Boulevard, Desperation, Dreaming, Dreams, Facts, Feeling, Flow, Hard and Fast, Hearts Beat, Hold Onto, Important, Kids, Kiss, Know, Life, Love, Madrid, Mistakes, Moment, Never Let Go, Night, Poetry and Poems, Rust, Scream, South, Speed of Light, Tears, Tracks, Traffic, Truth, Wrong Side | Leave a comment