Tag Archives: Second Chance

Second Chance Poker

Posted on July 8, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Second Chance Pokerby Michael DoyleYou don’t truly knowWhat it’s like to live hollowHaving nowhere to goLiving in a jail cell’s shadowClinging to who you used to beSilently hoping for your dignityFeeling like your honor is goneIs this life worth going … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Blood, Chase, Cling, Comedy, Dignity, Disguise, Disintegration, Eyes, Fire, Grief, Hollow, Imagination, Indignation, Innocence, Jail, Killer, Life, Mud, Noose, Poetry and Poems, Poker, Relief, Rolling Up, Second Chance, Sorrow, Soul, Tears, Time, Tomorrow, Tragedy, Violence | Leave a comment

The High Water of Monumental Delineation

Posted on September 30, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

The High Water of Monumental Delineationby Michael DoyleI know I’m not the only one who confessesA life filled with crashes and messesHappening as you wait for the snapper in the last frameTo laugh a little and not feel so lameAll … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Cheer, Clear, Confess, Delineation, Design, Errors, High Water, Knock, Lame, LandMines, Language, Last Frame, Laugh, Mess, Opportunity, Poetry and Poems, Punchlines, Reality, Second Chance, Second Glance, Short Distance, Smile, Snapper, Travel | Leave a comment

The Greater the Miracles

Posted on October 26, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

The Greater the Miraclesby Michael DoyleReligion it seems is love’s emotionPersonified and adhered to with devotionFor a person who lives life without reasonHas committed the most personal of treasonsIn the Grand Inquisitor we find rarified poetryIn which passions are taken … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Aching, Again, Arise, Astray, Atone, Belief, Burn, Capability, Constants, Desire, Despotism, Devil, Devotion, Divine, Easily Led, Edge, Emotion, Fable, Faith, Fed, Freedom, Grave, Greater, Hate, Hell, Heresy, Himself, History, Jesus, Keys to the Kingdom, Kind, Late, Laugh, Lessons, Life, Live by Bread Alone, Live Life, Living, Love, Man, Miracles, Mistake, Mystery, Not Hate, Passion, Photograph, Piety, Play, Poem, Poetry, Power, Random Chances, Rare, Religion, Responsibility, Save, Second Chance, Seek, Strife, Suffer the Children, Temporal, Temptation, The Grand Inquisitor, Three Days, Treason, True Sign, Turn, War, Water Into Wine, Ways of Love, Without Reason, Work Miracles | Leave a comment

Tumbleweed Connection

Posted on March 17, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on The Epistle to the Philippians 3:7-14: Tumbleweed Connection by Michael Romani You only have this life to live For its worse and what it might give But each of us lives each day One at a … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Carpe Diem, Chisel, Connection, Curtain-Fall, Direction, Dress Rehearshal, Fate, Full, Glory, Gold Nugget, Hammer, Heaven, Highest Calling, Intentional Living, Journey, Kingdom, Life, Live, Number, Peace, Performance, Philippians, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Process, Procrastination, Road, Second Chance, Strife, Time, Tumbleweed, Way, Wisdom | Leave a comment

Tapestry of Change and Joy

Posted on February 24, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on 2 Cor.: Tapestry of Change and Joy by Michael Romani Praising our Lord and God in song and dance Loving the happenstance of our second chance Our God of second chances always there and willing To … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anoint, Bright, Burn, Challenge, Change, Crawl, Daily Walk, Dance, Day, Do, Dsiplay, Faithfulness, Fear, Fight, Give, Glory, God, Gospel, Guiding Light, Heal, Hope, Humble, Jewel, Joy, Knees, Lord, Love, Move, Need, Night, Outward, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Praise, Prayer, Reliance, Resurrection, Salavation, Second Chance, Shake, Shelter, Song, Strength, Struggle, Talk, Tapestry, Triumph, Truth, Wisdom | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Fiction Can Be Useful

Posted on January 23, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.” – Paul Theroux, novelist (b. 1941)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Fantasy, Fiction, Life, Paul Theroux, Second Chance, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Only Put Off What You’re Willing To Have Not Done

Posted on August 27, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone” – Pablo Picasso I haven’t always been this way. And people wonder why. Always pushing to get things done. Having nearly died a few year … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Be, Create, Do, Forgive, Love, Now, Pablo Picasso, Second Chance, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

The Last Flight

Posted on May 5, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

Based on a story about second chances and in which a coward lives a hero’s legacy: The Last Flight by Michael Romani In this story of recompense and second chance Second Lieutenant Becker escapes aerial combat over France Taking refuge … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Aerial Combat, Coward, Dignity, Hero, Legacy, Philosophy, Second Chance, Twilight Zone, World War I | Leave a comment