Tag Archives: Sight

The Framing of Frida

Posted on March 29, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

The Framing of Fridaby Michael DoyleStains of colors come aliveThese help one to liveWe are happy as we arriveFinding life giving what it has to giveWe run as fast as the breezeThat whisper lessons under backyard treesSome are laughing at … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, Alive, Arrive, Art, Artistic Light, Backyard Trees, Brave Soul, Breath, Breeze, Bringing Life, Colors, Conflict, Crash, Crying, Cycles of Grief, Decipher, Definititions, Defy, Different Way, Dignity, Drab Grays, Drawn, Drying, Earhtly, Exceed, Exceeed, Find, Flights of Imagination, Frame, frida, Frida Kahlo, Give, Good, Green Light, Grow, Happy, Happy Game, Hesitation, History, Irreverent, Laugh, Laughter, Lesson, Lies, Life, Limits, Lived, Love, Magenta, Mangle, Mexico, Minds, Moments, Mystery, Oils, Old Mexico, Painting, Pass, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Question, Raw Scent, Rebellion, Red, Relief, Remain, Rosary, Run, Said, Same, Sheerest Sensuality, Sight, Stains, Suffered Wounds, Tears, The Bible, The Cachuchas, The World, Tragic Reality, Truth, Undderstood, Water Colors, Whisper, World of Colors, Years | Leave a comment

There’s Been A Little Damage

Posted on March 7, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

There’s Been A Little Damageby Michael DoyleThere’s been a little damage to my eyesBut that’s the cost to all that I’ve seenAs with a brave heart ready for the sunriseThere have been so many places that I’ve beenThe experts say … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Been, Blind, Brave Heart, Cost, Damage, Dead, Encouragement, Estimate, Experts, Eyes, Fade, Find, First To Admit, Guess, Heartbreaks, Heavy, Joy, Larger, Life, Manage To See, Mistakes, Much Less, Not Seen Everyday, Okay, Places, Poetry and Poems, Pushing On, Quite Nice, Quite Right, Report, Seen, Seen Along the Way, Sight, Somehow, Strong, Sunrise, Sy, Travesty, Vascular Enchroachment, Wrong | Leave a comment

Minding God’s Own Business

Posted on February 26, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Minding God’s Own Businessby Michael DoyleIt’s how it is that we should liveWe find that God has work to giveIn an echo of principles, we need clarityOf what is necessary to enable us to seeTo lack in clarity is an … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ability, Approach, Ark, Bible, Biblical Verbs, Blessings, Blindness, Boundaries, Burden, Business, Carry, Christ, Christianity, Clarity, Complication, Creation, Dancer, Depth, Discern, Dysfunction, Earn, Easy Path, Echo of Principles, Egypt, Enable, Ethics, Exaggerate, Exhausted People, Faith, Fallen Humanity, Fate, Forgiven, Free, Function, Give, Given, Given By Grace, God, Godly Freedom, Godly Ways, Grave, Heart, Heavy Lifting, Hurt, Impulse, Jesus, Kingdom, Least Resistance, Lifetime, Live, Living Start, Love, Marathon, March, Margins, Mark, Meet and Exceed, Mind, Necessary, Need, Onset, Pace, Path, Persistence, Poetry and Poems, Reach Out, Relationship, Rely On, Rest, Rhythm, Righteous Worship, Rules, Safety, Salvation, See, Sight, Snail, Society, Solution, Sprint, Strife, Sustainable, Sustainable Path, Ten Commandments, Test, Toxicity, Trap, Unkind, Weight, Work, Yoke of Evil | Leave a comment

Free From the Inside

Posted on February 25, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Free From the Insideby Michael DoyleRemembering when I was lostThankful for how you paid the costGetting me across the great divideSetting me free from the insideYou took away my wretched prideSetting me free from the insideThree days blind until that … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Across, Blood, Cost, Darkness, Free, God, Good, Great Divide, Hardness, Inside, Life, Lost, Loving Light, Night, No Limit, Paid, Poetry and Poems, Pride, Remember, Right, Rolled, Shine, Sight, Sky, Son, Stone, Stumble, Sve, Taught, Thankful, Thanks, Three Days Blind, Understood, Walking Me Back, Wrong | Leave a comment

Sea Fire

Posted on February 13, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Sea Fireby Michael DoyleI brush the strands of your long hairIt is as soft as the finest silkI can feel it as you stand thereAnd we talk about the seas white as milkAs our ship passes through deep blue waterStanding … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 1985, Airglow, Bacteria, Barriers, Beauty, Bioluminescence, Changes, Chemistry, Circular Dances, Cloud, Dance, Darkness, Daughter, Deep Blue Water, Degree, Diffusion, Dim, Disruption, Dread, Earth, Edges, Encroach, Eternity, Explore, Face of Nature, Father, Fed, Firmament, Glare, Glow, Harshness, Haunted Places, Hoirzon, Imagery, Imagination, Impossible, Infinitely Closer, Instrument, Interruption, Know, Learn, Living Light, Long Hair, Luminescent White, Mankind, Milk, Mix, Mysteries, Night, Ocean, Ocean Floors, Patches, Permanent, Phantom, Plethora, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Sail, Sea Fire, Sea Snow, Seas, Sense, Ship, Shore, Sight, Silk, Space, Stand, Strands, Supersititious, Swim, Tall Tales, Traces, Veil of Light, White | Leave a comment

Pulling On the Heart Songs (of the Blind)

Posted on February 6, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Pulling On the Heart Songs (of the Blind)by Michael DoyleThose with blinded eyes only know darknessAnd yet stand firm from life’s harshnessThe pain that finds its awkward wayAttempting to conceal the hope of a new dayEven still, there is an … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abandoned Hearts, Alone, Awkward, Blind, Blindness, Bottomless Pit, Broken Heart, Conceal, Darkness, Done, Exchange, Eyes, Fatally Flawed, Golden Moments, Hand-In-Hand, Harshness, Heart Song, Hide Together, Hideaway, Home, Hope, Innocent Life, Life, Nowheree, Pain, Path, Poetry and Poems, Pretnders, Pull, Sight, Tear, Truth, Understand, Unforgiven, Unpleasant Truth, Virtue, Wounded | Leave a comment

Exiting To A New Beginning

Posted on December 31, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Exiting To A New Beginningby Michael DoyleThe alpha and the omegaThe beginning and the endLife’s alpha and its omegaLaid bare at the year’s beginning and endGod breathes our lives into motionWhatever the season’s emotionsWe aim to begin and finish strongAs … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2024, Aim, Anchored, Biblical, Blind, Breathe, Church, Community, Complaints, Courage, Desire, Emotion, Empty, Exit, Faith, Family, Glasses, Habakkuk, Half Full, Happy, Heal, Hesitation, Motion, New Beginning, One, Poetry and Poems, Political, Presses On, Principles, Question, Relatinship, Right, Right Choice, Sacred Family, Season, Sight, Spiritual Blindness, Story, Strong, Struggle, The Alpha and the Omega, Voice, Walk, Worship, Wounds of Division, Year | Leave a comment

What Can Be Said of A Woman’s Touch?

Posted on December 18, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

What Can Be Said of A Woman’s Touch?by Michael DoyleWith a touch of her handHe finds happiness againWith her look, he understandsWhat he is meant to ascertainHer walking beside himMakes his sight less dimAs he opens his heart to seeHer … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alone, Arms, Ascertain, Beside, Bind, Bliss, Charms, Dim, Discover, Eyes, Fall, Falling Star, Fires, Hand, Happiness, Heart, Heart Unspoken, Lips, Look, Meant, No Longer Broken, Open, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Presence, Reach, Said, See, Shine, Sight, String, Surprise, Taste, Time, Togeher, Touch, Tranquility, Truth, Two Souls, Understand, Unwrap, Walk, Whisper, Wholeness, Woman's Touch | Leave a comment

Path of Humility

Posted on November 28, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Path of Humilityby Michael DoyleLike a vagabond in the nightI was just hoping to find the lightGrowing tired of relying on my own sightI was determined to get it rightTurning my habits to be set freeAs God came to save … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bed, Deteermine, Deteremine, Eyes, Faith, Gideon's Bible, God, God's Side, Habits, Hide, Hiding Places, Hope, Humility, Jesus, Joy, Light, Name, New Man, Openly, Path, Path of Humility, Poetry and Poems, Pride, Read, Rely, Righ, Satan, Save, Set Free, Shame, Sight, Thank God, The Son, True, True Courage, Vagabond | Leave a comment

The Benghazi Shooting Gallery

Posted on November 3, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

The Benghazi Shooting Galleryby Michael DoyleThey were left behindOut of sight, out of mindS.O.S. – we knew the addressS.O.S. – we created the messBreaching the agreement madeTo men unafraid To pay the price for our nationThere is no solid explanationStaring … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Address, Agrreement, Barrel, Benghazi, Breach, Explanation, Forgiven, Honor, Left Behind, Mess, Mind, Nation, Poetry and Poems, Price, S.O.S., Shooting, Shooting Gallery, Sight, Staring Down, Straight and Narrow, Unafraid | Leave a comment