Tag Archives: Sacrament

Practiced Denial

Posted on February 2, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Practiced Denialby Michael DoyleWe laugh, we smileWe practice our denialTrying hard to hideFeelings we can’t confideThere are words unspokenLike sharp sticks pokingLeaving wounds that will scarIt all went a bit too farPainted like a clownIt always got me downLike a … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Big Top, Circus, Clown, Confide, Cure, Defiled, Denial, Doomsayers, Down, Endure, Feelings, Hide, Laugh, Love, Monkeys, Paint, Poetry and Poems, Poke, Practice, Prescient, Sacrament, Scar, Sharp Sticks, Smile, Stop, Three Ring, Too Far, Unspoken, Words, Wounds | Leave a comment

Lessons From Alcestis

Posted on March 8, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Lessons From Alcestisby Michael DoyleAlcestis was the fairest of daughtersMuch beloved by Pelias, her fatherSo too loved by her husband, AdmetusAnd of her son, the warrior EumelusFearing that death might come to soonMade Admetus err in bringing love to ruinFor … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ability, Action, Admetus, Affirmation, Alcestis, Amusement, Assembly, Athenians, Attachment, Awaken, Body and Blood, Breath, Chivalry, Christ, Citizen, Civic Performance, Clever, Communion, Complete, Confirmation, Credulity, Curse, Daughters, Death, Debts, Deeper Truth, Democracy, Destruction, Dionysus, Divine, Duty, Eight Labors, Emotions, Err, Essence, Eternal, Eumelus, Extipation, Father, Fear, Feeling, Fetility, First Desires, Forever, Forgiven, Freedom, Friendship, Gentiles and Pagans, Gentle Preparation, Gift of Immortality, Gift of Life, Glory, God So Loved This World, Grapes, Great Virtue, Healing, Hercules, Honor, Husband, Initiation, Instruction, King's Bride, Legacy, Lessons, Life, Light, Love, Love of a Good Woman, Madness, Mercy, Moderation, Mourning, Mute, Mystery, Noble, Obligation, Operatic, Passion, Pay, Pelias, Physician, Pity, Poetry and Poems, Point of Pride, Power, Profound Truth, Ransom, Ransom of Life, Reign, Religion, Reparation, Responsibility, Ruin, Sacrament, Sacred Reunion, Satisfaction, Saving Grace, Shrine of Eleusis, Sing, Son, Specter, Spring, Stoe, Sublime Beauty, Temerity, The Ransom Is Paid, Three Days, Tragedy, Truth, Vain, Vineyard, Voice, Ways of Gods, Wine, Winter, Yoke | Leave a comment

Comfort Zone Christianity

Posted on November 2, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Comfort Zone Christianityby Michael DoyleIt’s always seemed to lightlyHow we fail to take things rightlyIn our comfort zone ChristianityFailing to take on things needed by you and meTo the best of our capacityWe take up baptism in accountabilityRepentance to the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accountability, Angels, Awaken, Baptism, Beginning, Born, Capacity, Chaff, Christianity, Comfort, Comfort Zone, Conversion, Fail, God, Holy Devotion, Immersion, Light, Morn, Never Endind, Poetry and Poems, Repentance, Reverent, Right, Robes, Sacrament, Sacred, Service, Sing, Spoke, The Lord, Walks Among Us, Ways of the World, Weeding Away, Words, Yoke | Leave a comment

Seven Points of Beatitude (Sapientia)

Posted on January 1, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

Seven Points of Beatitude by Michael Romani As the ghosts of one year floated by to be received In a clarity of slumber of one refusing to be self-deceived I had turned on the television intending to rest a moment … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Awe, Beatitudes, Counsel, Courage, Endurance, Enlightenment, Family of God, Fortitude, Gifts of the Holy Spirit, Humility, Kingdom, Knowledge, Photograph, Piety, Pleasures, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Reverence, Sacrament, Self Deception, Seven Swans A Swimming, Tolerance, Treasures, Understanding, Wisdom | Leave a comment

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