Tag Archives: Soul

Honored In My Praise

Posted on March 7, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Honored In My Praiseby Michael DoyleFrom now until my deathI’ll praise God to my last breathWhether doubtful or in confidenceI’ll put my faith in providenceKnowing that God stays in controlHis is the hold on my soulThere is nothing to hideAs … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alive, All My Days, Astound, Bounty, Calvary, Confidence, Control, Death, Dedicated, Doubtful, Faith, Forgiven, God, Hide, His Ways, Honor, Last Breath, Living, Moments, Now, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Praise God, Providence, Sarifice, Savior, Sins, Soul, Thrive, Tide, Trust | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Flowers Always Make People Better, Happier, and More Helpful; They Are Sunshine, Food and Medicine For the Soul

Posted on March 7, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.” – Luther Burbank (7 Mar 1849-1926)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Better, Flowers, Food, Happier, Helpful, Luther Burbank, Medicine, People, Soul, Sunshine, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

The Thick of the Thin

Posted on March 5, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

The Thick of the Thinby Michael DoyleWhispered rumor has itThat we’re the thick of the thinIf you were in HellI’d come barreling inFounded on trust and loyaltyThis is what makes us a familyMy soul is resolved in this decisionYours is … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Barreling In, Breathe, Broken Places, Commitment, Cover You, Damage, Decision, Dying Breath, Eyes, Falling, Family, Fills, Founded, Give This To You, Hard Times, Hardships, Healing, Hearts, Hell, Holding of Hands, Honesty, Integrity, Keep Loving You, Know, Lasting Trace, Living Trust, Longest Day's Length, Loving Traces, Must, Never Betray, Never Surrender, No More To Say, Other Side of Death, Poetry and Poems, Resolve, Respectful Loyalty, Silence, Soul, Standing In Front, Stay To the End, Strength, Stronger, Struggles, Surprise, Tender, Thick of the Thin, True Friend, True Friends Do, Trust and Loyalty, Vision, Voice, Worst | Leave a comment

Silently Feeling

Posted on February 24, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Silently Feelingby Michael Doyle In this world that shifts and shattersMiracles happen most when they don’t matterIt feels a bit like cosmic confusionBut it’s really just a humbling illusionAll these thoughts of constant intrusionCome in layers of complex conclusionsEven these … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Always, Beautiful, Better Places, Bleed, Body, Breaking Hard, Complex Conclusions, Constant Intrusion, Cosmic Confusion, Dead, Edge, Embrace, Escape, Fake, Feel, Four Leaf Clover, Good Sign, Hate, Humbling Illusion, Kiss, Layer, Lose Control, Loss, Lost, Love, Makers, Matter, Miracles, Missed, Moments, Need, Nightscape, Ocean Shore, Our Own Days, Our Own Way, Over, Play, Poetry and Poems, Pseudo-Messiah, Push On, Redefine, Said, Separate, Shatter, Shift, Silently Fading, Silently Feeling, Soul, Sustain, Takes the Place, Thoughts, Trick of the Tale, Wait, Want, Way, Wonderful, World | Leave a comment

I Thought Myself An Eagle

Posted on January 30, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

I Thought Myself An Eagleby Michael DoyleI thought myself an eagleAnd built me a nest in solitudeAbove where I could watch beautyAnd very few might intrudeThe disappointments I’ve knownHave dried up my springs of hopeI retreat to that comfort shownAnd … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Absence of Love, Atone, Beauty, Broken, Comfort, Complement, Connection, Cope, Decision, Defect, Disappointments, Discovery, Eagle, Heart, Hope, Hypertensive World, Imagination, Inside Myself, Intrude, Jouney, Known, Leap of Faith, Life, Moments, Music, My Love, Nest, Notes, Own, Poetry and Poems, Precision, Private Sins, Pulled Apart, Refuge, Retreat, Revea;, Right Direction, Rote, Search, Secrets, Shattered, Shelter, Shown, Solitude, Soul, Spoken, Springs of Hope, Steady Eyes, Surprise, Survive, Talk, Thought, Times, Walk, Watch, Wordless Words, Would-Be Travelers | 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 →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, Arm In Arm, Beautiful, Best Part, Control, Dreams, Enemy, Forget, Friend, Half-Way, Heart, Hidden, Hope, Know, Love, Magic, Nadia, New Day, Peek, Poetry and Poems, Positive, Rays, Run Away, Shadow, Sorrow, Soul, Start, Stay, Stroll, Sunshine, Tomorrow, Virtual Love Song, Window, World | Leave a comment

If You Should Let Go

Posted on January 16, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

If You Should Let Goby Michael DoyleBelieveJust believeA little bit longerHold OnJust hold onA little bit strongerTo that love in your soulWhen your passion gives up controlEven when you feel down and outThis is the only thing you can’t doubtYou … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Afraid, Alone, Alone and Afraid, Art, Believe, Best Fight, Bones, Cheek, Closing In, Cold and Dark, Control, Cry, Doubt, Down and Out, Echoes, Eyes, Eyes Wide Open, Feel, Happiness, Hide, Hold On, Image, Inside, Just This Side of Sane, Let Go, Life, Longer, Love, Love Again, Love Song, Miss, Moon Above, Moonlight, Morning, Pain, Passion, Photography, Plans Made, Poetry and Poems, Praying To God, Radio, Recount, Someone, Somewhere, Soul, Speak, Special Place, Stronger, Tears, Wake, Wonder, Yearn | Leave a comment

In the Snows of France

Posted on January 11, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

In the Snows of Franceby Michael DoyleDoc was a medicRunning from hole to holeThere wasn’t a foxWho didn’t know his soulThe Germans kept comingWith machine guns drummingSounding off in the darkest nightThe 101st prayed for the morning lightA little drip … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 101st Airborne, Amaze, Battle, Brave, Company, Dead Men, Doc, Dreams, End, Falling Snow, Foxhole, France, Friends, Grace, Half-Alive, Hard Rain, Hold On, Hope, Kill and Die, Know, Lucky, Machine Guns, Man, Medic, Medics, Morning, Morphine, Mortar Rounds, Night, Numbered Days, On the Move, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Rememver, Secret, Shelling, Snow, Soul, Surgeon, Survive, The Boys, Virgin, Wounded, Young Man | Leave a comment

Star-Fall

Posted on December 12, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Star-Fallby Michael DoyleMy impulsive thoughts intrudeEven as I raise my hands in gratitudeArms wide open, I look aboveIn my experience of God’s loveI sing hallelujah in my loudest voiceLifting up my songs, I picked through my choicesKnowing all that you’ve … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, All, Answer, Arms, Call, Choice, Days, Experience, God's Love, Grace, Gratitude, Hallelujah, Hands, Heavenly Embrace, Humanity, Humility, Impulsive Thoughts, Jesus, Lift, Lost, Love, Poetry and Poems, Praises, Songs, Soul, Star-Fall, Surrender, Voice, Wide Open | Leave a comment

Like A Velvet Snare

Posted on December 10, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Like A Velvet Snareby Michael DoyleShe looked at meWith the eyes of an angelI was worried there’d beSome kind of angleI put my guard upShe dropped it with a smileBefore I knew what was upThere could be no denialI knew … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Air, Angel, Angle, Beyond, Bond, Common, Curiosity, Deep Look, Denial, Do-It-Yourself, Each Other's Face, Eternity, Eyes, Feeling, Forward, Gone, Grace, Guard, Her Man, Innuendo, Knew, Life's Journey, Life's Window, Look, Nobility, Our Hearts, Poetry and Poems, Question, Sensuality, Sepcial, Simple, Smile, Snare, Soul, Subtle Habits, Tale, Tone, Touch, Velvet, Velvet Snare, What Was Up, Wish, Worry | Leave a comment