Tag Archives: Sorrow

Poetry Is Simple

Posted on May 3, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Poetry Is Simpleby Michael DoyleShe said writing poems is simple,Just write what you want to say.Then suddenly, it’s simple,Or so the natural-born poets say.They try to give the secret away,As if it were something of the everyday.Yet, what’s missing is … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Authenticity, Believe, Child's Face, Choked Up, Connection, Everyday, Fighting To Survive, Intrude, Life, Life's Struggles, Lonely Child, Loving Family, Making Food, Missing Clarity, Mother's Embrace, Natural-Born Poet, Negation, Play, Poems, Poetry and Poems, Poverty, Rejection, Say, Secret, Shared, Simple, Sorrow, Stay Above, Thought, Time and Again, Truth, Worse, Writing, Yesterday | Leave a comment

Into God’s Family

Posted on May 2, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Into God’s Familyby Michael DoyleLike prodigals, we hit rock bottom,Brokering what’s right for what’s rotten.The self-righteous can be too blind to see.The truth of grace is needed for you and me.Returning home, we are still family.We must, of course, accept … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Blind, Broeker, Christian Nation, Community, Compassion, Cue, God's Family, Gracefully, Heal Our Souls, Holy Connection, Invite, Inward, Live Life, Outward, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Prodigals, Rescue, Return, Rock Bottom, Rotten, Sorrow, Sself-Righteous, Tomorrow, Truth of Grace, Wandering Lost, Whole | Leave a comment

First Principles: On This National Day of Prayer and Remembrance, We Ask Almighy God To Watch Over Our Nation and Grant As Patience and Resolve In All That Is To Come

Posted on May 1, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“On this National Day of Prayer and Remembrance, we ask almighty God to watch over our nation, and grant us patience and resolve in all that is to come. We pray that He will comfort and console those who now … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Ask, First Pricniples, George W. Bush, God, Nation, National Day of Prayer, Patience, Pray, Promise, Remembrance, Resolve, Sorrow | Leave a comment

Past Blinking Twice

Posted on February 5, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Past Blinking Twiceby Michael DoyleSome say forgetting is a giftIt’s a way past the riftBetween personal rationalizationAnd what allows you past sensationsThe ones that we cannot forgiveAnd yet it is that we must liveHowever, far past the thresholdThat our senses … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Blink, Crawl, Done, Evolve, Fear, Forgetting, Forgive, Gift, Human Beings, Life, Live, Longer, Mud, Nice, Personal, Poetry and Poems, Puddle of Blood, Rationalization, Rift, Sensation, Senses, Sorrow, Stronger, Survive, Threshold, Told, Tomorrow, Twice, Unthinkable | Leave a comment

To Know Love Actually

Posted on January 27, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

To Know Love Actuallyby Michael DoyleI was just saying helloWhen you started saying goodbyeI kept trying the best I know Being persistent in giving it my best tryLove can be and is so cruelAnd I am inevitably its foolStill, I … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Actual, Agony, Beginning To End, Best Friend, Christmas, Cruel, Dark Horses, Emotion, Factual, Flaw, Fool, Forgiving, Gift, Giving, Goodbey, Heartbreak, Hello, Know, Love, Million MIles, Mine, Mistake, Motion, Persistent, Poetry and Poems, Real Answers, Sorrow, Text Lines, This Day, Tomorrow, True Love, Truly Mine, Valentine, Wish, Words | Leave a comment

Virtual Love Song

Posted on January 18, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Virtual Love Songby Michael Doyle She peeked inside my windowTell me how was I to knowFrom outside my hdden shadowWas the heart that would rattle my soul Shaking me into a hope for tomorrowAnd make me forget my sorrowShe’s filling … Continue reading →

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Shalom Charis

Posted on January 12, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Shalom Charisby Michael DoyleJarred by the fires that burnBroken hearted as we learnThe sorrow of this seasonWe extend our love beyond reasonCalled to be holy through graceWe keep our eyes on God’s faceA spiritual gift is shown with careGod’s love … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abounding, Abundant, Bible, Broken Hearted, Burn, Called, Care, Christianity, Community, Completeness, Darkest Hour, Devastation, Done, Embrace, Faith, Fires, Fix, Forgiven, God, God's Face, God's Family, God's Ways, Good News, Grace, Hang Tough, Head, Heart, His Will, Holy, Holy Conversation, Jarred, Jesus, Learn, Love, Marked By God, Overlfowing, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Power, Priority, Reveal, Serenity, Shalom Charis, Shape, Share, Sorrow, Spiritual Gift, Talk, Unashamed, Unmerited Favor, Walk, World's Strife | Leave a comment

Born Into This World

Posted on January 3, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Born Into This Worldby Michael DoyleWe are born into this wounded worldIn which we see the need for improvementIt often feels as if we’re hurledBecoming ourselves is our greatest accomplishmentGrasping for the bits and pieces we can findThat which which … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accomplishment, Beauty of Tomorrow, Becoming Ourselves, Behind, Bits and Pieces, Blind Faith, Books On Shelves, Born, Coming Years, Crowd, Culture, Dare, Desperate, Discontent, Discover, Drowning Surface, Ears, Eccentric Opinions, Essential, Eyes Above, Fallacies, Feel, Find, Fools, Gambit, Grasp, Grievous, Harshest Critics, Humble Beginnings, Hurled, Improvement, Into This World, Love, Ourselves, Poetry and Poems, Potential, Sorrow, Stumble, The Best, Vulturess, Wartmth, Whisper, World's Embrace, Wounded, Written Script | Leave a comment

What’s the Horror?

Posted on December 4, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

What’s the Horror?by Michael DoyleWhat’s the horror, you might ask.It seems my life is an endless taskIt seems what I take off the listIt only points to things that I’ve missedIn this rush toward year’s endIt seems I’ve not been … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Amen, Ask, Deadlines, Earn, Edge, Empahty, Endless Tasks, Entropy, Focus, Fun, Gain, Guess, Hall, Happy, Hide, Holidays, Horror, Human Mess, I, Impress, Landimes, Learn, Liberty, List, Missed, My Friend, My Life, New Year, Pearl, Poetry and Poems, Point, Productivity, Reluctance, Ruin, Rush, Share, Shell, Sorrow, These Days, Undone, Wall, Year's End | Leave a comment

If Space and Time…

Posted on November 24, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

If Space and Time…by Michael DoyleIt’s only been a matter of a few passing yearsI’m alone on your birthday except for my tearsTalking to God again, I stare off into the nightYours was the sisterly love that was my guiding … Continue reading →

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