Tag Archives: Simple

The Unfolding Story of the First Christmas Day

Posted on December 12, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

The Unfolding Story of the First Christmas Dayby Michael DoyleChristmas didn’t come with a pretty bowIf you didn’t know this, you need to knowThere was a lot of ugly in what became beautifulThe something simple transformed into the wonderfulShepherds were … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Admiration, Ambition, Angels, Approach, Attention, Beautiful, Bethlehem, Blessed, Bow, Bridge, Broken Parts, Christmas, Christmas Day, Completeness, Cure, Dread, Eden, Everywhere, Fall, Famine, Fateful Night, Fearful Ways, Feast, Field, First, Flock, Forgotten, Fountain, Friend, Fullness, God, Gratitude, Habits of A Lifetime, Heal, Hear, Hearts, High, Holy, Hosts of Heaven, Humble, Humbled, Imprint, Inspiration, Intent, Intention, Israeli Nation, Kingdom, Know, Lambs of God, Least, Light Show, Listen, Live, Living Invitation, Living Waters, Lord, Love, Loved, Low, Majesty, Manger, Matter, Message, Mountain, Night's Skies, Open Eyes, Our Father, Overcome, Peace, Pews, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Presence of the Lord, Pure, Pure Hearts, Relationship, Rescue, Restoration, Sacred Words, Salvation, Satisfaction, Selfishness, Shalom, Shepherds, Shine, Simple, Situation, Sky, Social Standing, Spread, Status, Stranger, Surpass, Surprise, Surrender, Testimony, Trust, Truth, Understanding, Unfolding Story, Walk Among Us, Welcome, Wholeness, Wonderful, Word of God, Worship | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Everyone Discusses My Art and Pretends To Understand, As If It Were Necessary To Understand , When It Is Simply Necessary To Love

Posted on November 14, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.” – Claude Monet, painter (14 Nov 1840-1926)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Art, Claude Monet, Discuss, Everyone, Love, Necessary, Pretend, Simple, Thought For the Day, Understand | Leave a comment

Na/GloPoWriMo #13: Yesterday’s Tomorrow’s News

Posted on April 14, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Na/GloPoWriMo #13: Yesterday’s Tomorrow’s News by Michael DoyleSitting watching the evening news hourWatching the sun go down as night devoursI fell asleep to the bleat of the LED displayDisrupting a poem meant written yesterdayHaving missed my embossed invitationI make up … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Beauty's Walk, Best Ever Lesson, Bleak, Bleak Veil, Blue Skies, Cheer, Consist, Darkness, Dazzlingly Beautiful, Deafening Wall, Disrupt, Embossed Invitation, Evening News, Exactly That, Exchanging Smiles, Filled, Finding that Moment, Fluffy Clouds, Gloom, Guessing, Harshness, Hear, Hello Back, Invocation, Joy, Last Year, LED Display, Let Them Serve Us Well, Life Is Better Served, Little Need, Matter of Fact, Meant, Morose Views, Na/GloPoWriMo, News, Newsman, Night, Off-Guard, Pleasantry, Poem, Poetry and Poems, Pointless, Presence, Punditry, Random Moments, Regardless, Remain, Risk All, Saying Hello, Serves To Fill Life, Simple, Sit, Slip Through, Sun, Sun Comes Out, Sunflowers, Sunlight, Sunny and Bright, Surprise, Talk, Task, Thousand Fears, Thud, Times, Today, Tomorrow, Tomorrow's News, Trapped, Truth, Unrequired, Verbal, Watch, We Are Best Served, Wipe Away, Wrapping My Mind, Yesterday | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Anyone Who Wishes To Become A Good Writer Should Endeavor, Before He (Or She) Allows Himself/Herself To Be Tempted By the More Showy Qualities, To Be Direct, Simple, Brief, Vigorous and Lucid

Posted on March 10, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“Anyone who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities, to be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid.” – H.W. Fowler, lexicographer (10 Mar 1858-1933)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Allow Self, Anyone, Brief, Direct, Endeavor, Good Writer, H.W. Fowler, Lucid, Showy Qualities, Simple, Tempted, Thought For the Day, Vigorous, Wish | Leave a comment

In the Sweetness of Money

Posted on January 10, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

In the Sweetness of Moneyby Michael DoyleThe band leader says, “One, two..”And the band knows what to doEspecially slick with his brand new shoesFilled as he is with his particular viewsStepping it up to make it betterIn the harmony of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Back Luck, Band, Band Leader, Better, Can't Tell A Fool Nothing, Chart, Crooked Smile, Dance, Desire, Devil, Face, Found, From the Heart, Funny, Harmony, Headlines, Heritage, History, Leftovers, Level, Leverage, Ma Rainey, Misonstrue, Money, Moves, Nailing, New Shoes, Particular, Patent Leather, Piper's Price, Poetry and Poems, Reverent, Right, Sake, Selling Souls, Selling Voice, Set On Fire, Simple, Solid Choice, Something, Sound, Stew, Stomp, Strung Up, Sweetness, Sweetness of Money, Temple, Tight, Whispered Tales, Wicked Ways | Leave a comment

To Simply Believe

Posted on December 16, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

To Simply Believeby Michael DoyleThe Square root of the possibleOf all that we can achieveIs to have some gumption And to simply believeThrowing caution to the windTaking chances we defendMore on odds approximatedAnd guaranteed seldom as estimatedThe magic isn’t just … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Achieve, Afraid, Again, Approximate, Believe, Believing, Best Capability, Calculation, Capable, Choose, Closed Eyes, Dedication, Destination, Dreams, Estimate, Fear, Formulate, Gumption, Hard, Heart, Hearts, Heaven Sends, Imagination, Journey, Know, Magic, Mend, Mind, Mistletoe, No Telling, Odds, Persevere, Photograph, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Possible, Quite the Cost, Reality, See, Seeing the Way, Shared Smile, Simple, Square Root, Story Ends, Taking Chances, Things In Life, Throw Caution To the Wind, Together, Truth, Unafraid, What's Lost, Worth While | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: My Idea of Christmas, Whether Old-Fashioned or Modern, Is Very Simple: Loving Others. Come To Think of It, Why Do We Have To Wait For Christmas To Do That?

Posted on December 8, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?” – Bob Hope

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Bob Hope, Christmas, Do That, Idea, Loving Others, Modern, Old-Fashioned, Simple, Think, Thought For the Day, Wait, Why | Leave a comment

Attached In Meaning

Posted on December 4, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Attached In Meaningby Michael DoyleWords are mainly symbolsSomething that vaguely resemblesAn agreement between we human beingsAs to what it is that we are meaningWe need a little less of the dictionaryAs we each act out our own PictionaryOf all that … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Actions, Actions Speak Louder, Actual, Agreement, Allow, Arguments, Attached, Blur the Lines, Burst Out, Co-Construction, Come and Go, Communicate, Communicated, Communication, Complicated, Conflict, Contemplation, Contrary, Conventionality, Deceived, Deception, Defy, Destruction, Development, Dictionary, Encoded, Factors, Factual, Foolish, Forged, Hit That Restart, Human Beings, Intended, Intent, Intentionality, Interpretation, Late, Learn, Life, Look On Your Face, Meaning, Message, Nonverbally, Optimism, Perception, Pessimism, Photograph, Pictionary, Poem, Poetry, Prouder, Reach, Reassurance, Received, Relation, Resembles, Rut, Satisfying, Say, Says It all, Simple, Sink, Splash, Still, Symbols, Tender, Think, Truth Perceived, Unnecessary, Vague, Wall, Weight, Words, Words of Trust, Wounded Hearts | Leave a comment

In My Thanksgiving For You

Posted on November 16, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

In My Thanksgiving For Youby Michael DoyleI don’t have to wait for another dayTo tell you, I am thankful in every wayFor all those things you give to meThat’s putting it maybe too simplyFrom the day you quietly said helloMy … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Always Be the Same, Another Day, Closer, Counting My Blessings, Day, Every Way, For Worse Or For Better, Forever, Glad, Hello, Known, Met, My Heart, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Say My Name, Simple, Tell the World, Thankful, Thankgiving, Together, Wait, You | 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