Tag Archives: Ordinary

From High To Low

Posted on April 24, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

From High To Lowby Michael DoyleToo many people believe in the nicheAnd from there won’t budge an inch.Truth? It pays to know about everythingBecause then, you can choose what to bringTo the party of life’s extremes.From this, you can learn … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ability, Absuidity, Accumulation, Beat, Believe, Born, Budge, Despite, Developed, Dreams, Extraordinary, Extremes, Fusion, High, History, Horn, Improvised, Inch, Jazz, Know, Legendary, Low, Miss, More, Music, Nation, Needed, Niche, Ordinary, Plain English, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Reality, Richness, Sensibility, Skill Set, Spread, Street Urchin, Syncopated, Truth, Wise, Writing | Leave a comment

Angel In Blue Jeans

Posted on March 11, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Angel In Blue Jeansby Michael DoyleFrom across the fragile spacesI feel your soulful tracesIt was something like I’ve never feltAs your heavenly ways move me to meltMy heart was amazed by the hand dealtWhen your love shined my way to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accessible, Across, Afraid, An Angel, Angel, Angelic, Approachable, Beautiful Day, Blue Jeans, Capable, Clever, Complete Honesty, Complete Rejection, Dignity, Disguise, Divine, Dream, Extraordinary, Fallen, Felt, Figment, Forever, Fragile Spaces, Gatitude, Grounded, Guardian Angel, Halo, Heart, Heavenly Ways, Hello, Hope and Expectation, Humanity, Jeans, Loved Me, Majesty, Melt, Natural, Ordinary, Peace, Plain Sight, Poetry and Poems, Scared Me, Silver Screen, Soulful Traces, Stife, Stubborn heart, Sweet Humility, Tight, Valentine, Vanity, Watch Out For me, You In My Arms, Your Love | Leave a comment

A Broken Family Finds Healing

Posted on December 8, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

A Broken Family Finds Healingby Michael DoyleEmotions are relational in graceAs we love others in our embraceWe’re all dysfunctional as we striveIn God’s family, we will surviveEnriched by the joy that we shareIn every moment that we show we careLiturgical … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abraham, Advent, Belief, Bible, Broken Family, Broken Heart, Canaan, Care, Craziness, Deep Meaning, Descendants, Dysfuncational, Embrace, Emotions, Extraordinary, Faith, Family, Family Tree, Geneology, God, God's Call, God's Family, Grace, Greatest Story, Healing, History, Human Being, Importance, Impression, Intention, Jesus, Joy, Liturgical, Love, Nation, Ordinary, Pain, Passages, Path, Poetry and Poems, Proximity, Relational, Salvation, Set Apart, Strive, Survive, The Church, The Law, Theology, Times, Traces, Truth, Unfold, Vain, Wisdom, World's Breeze | Leave a comment

Just One More Psychotic Break

Posted on October 12, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Just One More Psychotic Breakby Michael DoyleCosmic horror played the killing schoolThat taught the writer of chilling ghoulsThis was the bogeyman’s secret in his tombThat rose up from the barren gothic wombThis was where a dark demon became a faceless … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abbey, Beast, Black Magic, Bogeyman, Brain, Candle, Chilling Ghouls, Cosmic Horror, Creation, Dark, Dark Demon, Dark Fantasy, Details, Devil's Staircase, Die, Duality, Faceless God, Film, Gothic Womb, Haunter, Heels, Hell-Bound Train, Horror, Jack the Ripper, Keeper, Killing School, Macabre, Mild, Movies, Murderous Day, Mythos, News, One More, Ordinary, Pass, Personal Hells, Poetry and Poems, Psycho, Psychotic Break, Psychotic Murderer, Robert Bloch, Secret Opener, Sinister, Sitution, Soul, Time, Tomb, Unholy, Werewolf's Bark, Wound, Writer | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: I See Men Ordinarily More Eager To Discover A Reason For things Than To Find Out Whether Things Are So

Posted on March 10, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether things are so.” – French philosopher Michel De Montaigne (1532-1592)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Discover, Eager, Find Out, Men, Michel de Montaigne, Ordinary, Reason, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

Room Read

Posted on June 1, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Room Readby Michael DoyleIt’s hard to make a room readEspecially when I’m the hero no one needsBut there’s something to be saidFor all the nonsense that we’re fedNobody is that special anymoreI wonder if we ever were even beforeNo one … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Before, Better, Checkpoints, Connection, Dreams, Garbage, Gravity, Hero, Legendary, Levity, Mddle, Need, Nonsense, Ordinary, Plans, Poetry and Poems, Read, Reflection, Room, Said, Serious, Special, Together, Universe, Wrecked | Leave a comment

Thoughts On “It’s A Wonderful Life”

Posted on December 25, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Thoughts On “It’s A Wonderful Life”by Michael Doyle”It’s A Wonderful Life” is a different warMy kind of film and at times a lot moreThe critics can snark their hatred of platitudeOr maybe learn a thing or two about gratitudeThere is … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged America, American, American Value, Angst, Beautiful, Big City Dreams, Capra, Christmas, Common Man, Common Sense, Critics, Crummy Little Town, Cultural Monument, Depression, Different War, Dignity, Disappear, Easy Answers, Extraordinary, Faded, Fear of Failure, Forged, Good, Good Cheer, Good Hearts, Goodness, Gratitude, Guttural Fear, Hard, Hatred, Hidden Parts, Homage, Initimate, It's A Wonderful Life, Jaded, Learn A Thing Or Two, Loneliness, Magic, Metaphor, Moral Certainty, More, Nook, Norman Rockwell, Not Mistaken, Old Hollywood, Ordinary, People, Platitude, Poetry and Poems, Prevail, Sentiment, Sentimentality, Side of Angels, Small Town Reality, Snark, Taking Responsibility, Tale, Thoughts, Toughing It Out, Tradition, Unshaken, Very Best, Work-A-Day | Leave a comment

Bumping Into Jesus

Posted on November 7, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Bumping Into Jesusby Michael DoyleDivine encounters along the wayIt doesn’t necessarily happen on SundayLittle moments that teach usPut on as these are to reach usBumps on the road have their distractionThe way through gives the best tractionEach moment is given … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bumping, Certain, Chance, Circumstance, Clarity, Conclusion, Confusing, Cross, Depart, Distraction, Divine, Divine Encounter, Experience, Faithfulness, Fragment, Glory, God's Hand, Goodness, Heart, Horrify, Hour, Insecurity, Invasion, Invitation, Jesus, Light, Little Moments, Ordinary, Perceptions, Poetry and Poems, Preference, Promised Land, Purity, Reach, Story, Sunday, Teach, Teaching Moment, Throne, Trace, Traction, Trust, Understand, Victory, View, Water, Wine | Leave a comment

In Community

Posted on January 19, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

In Communityby Michael DoyleComing together in communityFulfills our need for familyAnxiousness brings rise to dangerAs to each other we have become strangersViolence takes away from us allDestruction only brings pride’s fallWhen we forget our relationsWe only bring sorrow to our … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Act, All of Our Days, Anxious, Arrogance, Become Strangers, Belief In God, Bring Sorrow, Challenging, Children of God, Coming Together, Cost, Danger, Destruction, Each Other, Embrace, Extraordinary, Family, Focus, Forget, God, Greatness, His Will, In Community, In Mind, Knees, Land, Living Our Lives, Lord's Loving Way, Need, Never Be Lost, Ordinary, Our Nation, Perseverance, Please, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Praying for Peace, Pride's Fall, Relations, Reverence, Righteous, Rise, Run Our Race, Stolen, Straight, Supplication, Takes Away All, Trusting God, Violence | Leave a comment

God Revealed In the Smallest Details

Posted on October 19, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

God Revealed In the Smallest Detailsby Michael DoyleThe eyes might be the windows of the soulBut it’s the little things that elude controlWhere through the lenses of macrophotographyWe become consumed with our use of technologyIt all opens up a new … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Autofocus, Background, Best Friend, Best Hour, Color, Composition, Consume, Created, Deep, Definition, Details, Elude Control, Embrace, Enhance, Extraordinary, Eyes, Face, Flower, Found, Friend, Gaze, God, Heartbreaks, Hint, Lense, Light, Little Things, Macrophotography, Masterpiece, Mistakes, New World, Ordinary, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reveal, Simple, Small, Soft, Soul, Tale, Tear, Technology, The Greatest Artist, Three Dimensions, Trace, True, View, Windows | Leave a comment