Tag Archives: Soul

What’s Your Story?

Posted on July 25, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

What’s Your Story?by Michael DoyleTell me, please, of the gloryThat opens up your storyLeaving behind the ninety-nineFor the inheritance that is mineDoing that riotous livingNeeding more than a little forgivingFeeling more than unworthyBrother, you are no lesser than meAt least, … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alibi, Assured, Belief, Brother, Changing Lives, Contemplation, Could Not Keep, Dead Man Walking, Extermity, Faith, Far Country, Feeling, Forgiving, Found, Free, Freed, God Reached Out, God Shaped Vacuum, God's Glory, Goodness, Grace, Grown Dim, His Majesty, In Him, Inheritance, Leaving Behind, Lights, Linger, Living Past Thirty, Living Prayer, Lost Coins, Lost Sheep, Matter of History, Me, Mine, Moments, Need, Ninety-Nine, No Lesser, Open, Overdose, Peace, Plant, Poetry and Poems, Prodigal, Promises, Read, Redemption, Riotous Living, Satan's Snare, Seed, Sins of the Family, Society, Soul, Stand up, Story, Straight Talking, Taken Back, Tell Me, The Father's Glory, The Glory, Thrown Books, Tossed, Unworthy, What's Your Story?, Without A Clue, Words, Worthy, Wouldn't Keep, Wrecking Crew | Leave a comment

Through the Years

Posted on July 14, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Through the Yearsby Michael DoyleSilently in my day to dayI live just as I prayNeeding a miracle some wayKnowing that at least God will stayEvery step grows my walkTaking my soul beyond talkInto the power of my emotionsEvery lesson strengthens … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accept, Beauty, Day To Day, Destination, Devotion, Earthly Devastation, Emotions, Every Lesson, Every Step, Explanation, God, Hear, In You, Inside Information, Invitation, Knowing, Learn, Live, Needing A Miracle, Poetry and Poems, Power, Pray, Salvation, Silently, Soul, Stay, Talk, Taught, Through, Truth, Two Ears, Walk, Years | Leave a comment

Waters Felt As Wild

Posted on July 8, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Waters Felt As Wildby Michael DoyleLooking to the commons differentlyWe sip at the waters reverentlyWith willows and elms along the banksAs a praying man, I stop to give thanksNo matter how much we pollute the watersTheir resilience slips back dreamilyAs … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adolescent, Banks, Camelot, Days, Days Gone By, Differently, Dreamily, Dusk, Elms, Friends, Give Thanks, Guilty, I Let Go, Idles, Ignorant, Insanity, Lost Lore, Memory, Might Have Been More, Once Again, One Word, Past, Poetry and Poems, Policeman's Blotter, Pollute, Praying Man, Pristine, Rainforest, Resilience, Restorative, Reverently, Sins, Sip, Soul, Sunlight, The Commons, Think, Thinking, Today, Undertow, Unseemly, Vanity, Waters, Wild, Wished Against Hope, Yearn, Yesterday, You and I, Youth | Leave a comment

Truth of Soul In Our Voices

Posted on July 1, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Truth of Soul In Our Voicesby Michael DoyleThe soul brings access metaphysicallyTo animate our being into rationalityThe soul is the place philosophy can shineIn the light of the heart and the divineA spark of God comes to be understoodThough the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Actuality, Animate, Chemistry, Divine, Good, Gulag, Hard Sciences, Heart, Light, Metaphysical, Modernity, Mystery, Philosophy, Poetry and Poems, Rationality, Reconstruction, Scholastic, Shine, Soul, Spark of God, Stew, Substance, Tradition, Truth, Understood, Voice | Leave a comment

Somehow Clinging

Posted on June 25, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Somehow Clinging by Michael Doyle Slipped halfway down The edge of the rabbit hole The Cheshire Cat in his crown Ripped apart his soul Seeking to find a path through To the center of the maze Somewhere between half to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Believer, Between, Center, Certain, Cheshire Cat, Clinging, Crown, Daze, Debt, Deception, Edge, Fortune Tellers, Garden's Wall, Halfway, Hatter, Humility, Ledge, Manipulate, Maze, Misconception, No Longer Pure, Path, Pays the Price, Poetry and Poems, Price, Pride, Rabbit Hole, Real, Recall, Remain, Rusty Chains, Sinless Savior, Somehow, Soul, Spin Doctors, Story Sold, Strain, Suffer, Think and Feel, Twist of Fate, Twisted, World | Leave a comment

Lessons In Life’s Suffering

Posted on May 19, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Lessons In Life’s Sufferingby Michael DoyleSpring isn’t the sameWhen love has been lostSorrow calls out the nameBut refuses to pay the costThe thing held sacred as follyTouch the inner workings of the soulA moment away from devotionHas the depth of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Circumstances, Clings, Control, Decision, Deeply Morose, Depth, Devotion, Divinity, Fallen Knee, Feel, Folly, Forlorn Eyes, God, Hides Within, Human's Being, Infinite Femininity, Inner Workings, Lessons, Lies, Life's Suffering, Lost, Love, Matchlock Pistols, Matter of Finality, Mortality Known, Mother Mary, Name, New Meaning, Ocean, Pay the Cost, Perishing Soul, Poet's Pen, Poetry and Poems, Reveals, Romantic, Sacred, Same, Scribbled Verse, See, Serious Passions, Small Hope, Smallest Details, Sorrow, Soul, Spring, Tales of Ossian, Teach Me, Time, Touch, Truth Bent, Tyrant, Waking, Worse, Wrecked and Weak, Young Lovers | Leave a comment

Walking With the Giants

Posted on January 9, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Walking With the Giantsby Michael DoyleWalking with the giantsWe stand in our defianceCalling out the holy namesKnown with the mark of God’s fameWalking in the faith that’s knownConfidence that has grownThough the future remains unseenIn this assurance, we find new … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anger, Assurance, Base, Belief, Believe, Clouds, Commendation, Conception, Concern, Confidence, Control, Deception, Defiance, Depth, Difficult Seasons, Entangles, Evidence, Faith, Foundation, Frover, Future, Generation, Giants, God, God's Glory, Goodness, Heart, History, Holy Names, Improbable, In God, Jealousy, Joseph, Juggle, Keep True, Light, Living Love, Mangels, Mystery, New Meaning, Night, Passing, Path, Perserverance, Poetry and Poems, Protect, Shape, Sin, Soul, Spiritual Connection, Start, Story, Struggle, Told, Truth, Two Pillars, Unfold, Unseen, Walking | Leave a comment

Split the Difference

Posted on January 3, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Split the Differenceby Michael DoyleKicking back with my girls on the holidaysSharing life with them in a million waysWhen we happened on a soulful snip of movieWith a lot of heart that played out groovyThere in the middle of a … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 3-D, Abstract, Beat, Celestial Concept, Complicated Hearts, Culture, Difference, Displayed, Dreams, Each of Us, Enough, Every Bit, Everyone, Explore, Fascination, Fluff, Forgot, Future, Get Jazzy, Great Before, Greater, Groovy, Hear, Holidays, Improvised Part, In REach, Inference, Ink Dab, Jazz, Joy, Keep, Kicking Back, Known, Learn, Lennon, Lesson, Life, Living Our Soul, Lot of Heart, Lyric, Meaning of Life, Middle, Million Ways, Moment, Movie, My Girls, Nature, Needed Role, Nurture, Our Meaning To Others, Panorama, Parts, Photograph, Plausibility, Play, Played Out, Plot, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Postulation, Preach, Present, Probability, Pseudo-Intellectual, Punditry, Repartee, Say, Screens, Shadows, Sharing Life, Soul, Soulful, Split, Splitting the Difference, Stories, Subtle, Sum, Super Stars, Teach, The Streets, Tough, Twist, Waiting, Wonders of Life | Leave a comment

Hymn To the 2020 Christmas Star

Posted on December 24, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Hymn To the 2020 Christmas Starby Michael Doyle 2020 has been a year soul revealingCovid and larceny were ever stealingAny hope for semblance of hopefulnessDenying any hint of serenity and bliss We cried and wondered out of hopeTrying our best … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2020, Abide, Above Us, Advent, Angels, Baby Child, Bad Day, Beacon, Bliss, Blossom, Bow, Bright, Broken Hearts, Burn, Cherish, Christmas Day, Christmas Star, Comfort, Cope, Covid, Cry, Darkness, Deny, Embrace, Faces, Faith, Fallen, Far, Form, Found, Function, Giving Love, Glory to God, Good Will, Grace of God, Great Conjunction, Heavens, Herald, Hint, Hints, Holy Light, Hope, Hopefulness, Hymn, Joy, Jupiter, Larceny, Lean, Loom, Manger, Memories, Moments In Time, Morning, Most of Us, Near, Never Second Best, News, Night, Our Test, Peace On Earth, Perish, Poetry and Poems, Prevail, Rearrange, Revealing, Right, Saturn, Semblance, Serenity, Shadows, Share, Shine, Sing, Skies, Sky, Soul, Spiral, Spirits, Star, Stealing, Strange, Subside, Sweet Sorrow, The Christmas Star, The Lord, Think, Tonight, Truth, Try Our Best, Virgin Birth, Whisper, Wish It Away, Wishing, Women and Men, Wonder, Wondrous, Year | Leave a comment

Wounds Let In the Light

Posted on November 19, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Wounds Let In the Lightby Michael DoyleThey say our wounds let in the lightI don’t know if it’s by experience or second lightBut something about this notion is wound tightAnd from what I have seen, perhaps they’re rightThe worst wound … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bear, Believed, Better Selves, Born, Clear, Comfort, Dead, Deeply Understood, Defend, Enter, Experience, Fatality, Fate, Forced Wrong, Give Almost Anything, Guilt, Immortality, Innately Good, Innocent, Lane, Life, Light, Little Left, Moral Injury, Mortality, Name, No Going Back, Notion, Ourselves, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Right, River, Same, Sear, Second Light, Seen, Self-Confessed, Shame, Sin, Smoke Clears, Soul, Stood, To Return, War's End, Worst Wound, Wound Tight, Wounds | Leave a comment

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What’s Your Story?

Through the Years

Waters Felt As Wild

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Somehow Clinging

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