Tag Archives: Stand

The Quiet Colors

Posted on June 5, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

The Quiet Colorsby Michael DoyleAs the quiet colors Of the midnight hour Starts to come to closeAs the quiet colors Of the midnight hour Starts to come to closeI feel as lonely as the pain insideTortured to my soul, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abandoned, Above Water, Aks, Bluff, Broken, Broken Cross, Call, Close, Confuse, Cross, Crucified, Damaged Control, Dead, Deep, Done, Drown, Father, Feel, From the Inside, Going On, Hang, Head, Hide, History, Inside, Job, Killing Me, Lonely, Look Into My Eyes, Mercy, Midnight Hour, Misery, No Longer Know Me, No Right To Complain, Nobody's Son, Nowhere to Hide, Overwhelm, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Pull, Pulled, Quiet Colors, Reach, Realize, Reminded, Rot, Satan, See, Soul, Sould, Stand, Strings, Strong Enough, Teeth, The Lord, Too Much, Tortured, Wrong | Leave a comment

To Find That One Person

Posted on May 10, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

To Find That One Personby Michael DoyleTo find that person in life’s journeyIs instrumental to being happyWith each touch and every kissI know now how much I would truly missIf ever I should not have foundIn this world where no … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Barefoot, Best, Best Dream, Better, Black, Bring, Fat, Find, Found, Fragility, Hand In Hand, Happiness, Happy, Heart To Heart, Instrumental, Joys, Kiss, Lfe, Life's Storms, Life's Journey, Life's Noise, Lifetime, Love, Marry, Meant, Miss, Near, No One Else, One Look, One Person, Passion, Poetry and Poems, Pour, Return, Ring, Sand, Secret, Special Peace, Stand, Still, Test, There, Thousand Reasons, Together, Touch, True, True Bliss, Veil, World, You | Leave a comment

Standing At the Brink

Posted on April 19, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Standing At the Brinkby Michael DoyleThis age of prevailing ill-liberalismBreeds little but despair and pessimismThere’s a breakdown in our societyThat has brought us into a time of anxietyOnce beautiful cities have turned into blightIt seems we are falling into our … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Addiction, Age, Anxiety, Beautiful Cities, Birth, Blight, Breakdown, Breed, Brink, Changes, Civil War, Common Good, Connect, Constitutino, Continuity, Darkest Night, Decide, Democracy, Despair, Destined, Divide, Dustbin, Eco-Theology, Economic Deicsions, Edge, Electronic Distraction, Elite, Fail, Future, Historical Inevitability, History, Hope, Ill-Liberalism, Leaders, Lost, Misunderstood, Mob Rule, Nation, New Humanity, Next, Oligarchy, Order and Stability, Ordinary People, Overturn, Pessimism, Pharmaceutical, Plumbing Project, Poetry and Poems, Pollution, Ponzi Schemes, Poor, Prevail, Priority, Progressive Empathy, Recovery, Recreation, Result, Riddle, Schools, Society, Solution, Stand, Student Loans, The People, Threat, Time, True Progress, Tyranny, Wept, Yesterday's Debt | Leave a comment

First Principles: It Is Error Alone Which Needs the Support of Government. Truth Can Stand By Itself. Subject Opinion To Coercion: Whom Will You Make Your Inquisitors?

Posted on April 11, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors?” – Thomas Jefferson (1781)

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Alone, Coercion, Error, First Principles, Government, Inquisitors, Itself, Make, Need, Opinino, Stand, Support, Thomas Jefferson, Truth, Whom | Leave a comment

To Our Feet

Posted on March 25, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

To Our Feetby Michael DoyleWe stand to our feetHanding Satan his defeatSinging our redemptionRising up in contemplationAs we think of our freedomHere in the Lord’s kingdomWe find the Lord in praiseSinging throughout our daysWe have defeated the graveThrough the power … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Belong, Christian Faith, Christian Friends, Contemplation, Days, Defeat, Embrace, Ends, Feet, Freedom, God's Love, Grave, Holy Song, Home, Joy, Lord's Kingdom, Poetry and Poems, Power, Praise, Redemption, Rightful Place, Rise Up, Satan, Saves, Sing, Stand, Think | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Where We Stand Is Not As Important As the Direction In Which We Are Moving

Posted on March 8, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Where we stand is not as important as the direction in which we are moving.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Direction, Important, Moving, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr, Stand, Thought For the Day, We | Leave a comment

First Principles: Truth Can Stand By Itself. Subject Opinion To Coercion: Whom Will You Make Your Inquisitors

Posted on March 6, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Truth can stand by itself. Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors?” – Thomas Jefferson (1781)

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Bad Passions, Coercion, Desirable, Face and Stature, FallibleMen, First Principles, Inquisitors, Opinion, Private, Public, Reasons, Stand, Subject, Thomas Jefferson, Tuth, Uniformity | 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

First Principles: Always Stand On Principle…Even If You Stand Alone

Posted on December 30, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“Always stand on principle…even if you stand alone.” – John Adams

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Always, Even, First Principles, John Adams, Principle, Stand, Stand Alone | Leave a comment

Searching For Reasons Why

Posted on December 22, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Searching For Reasons Whyby Michael DoyleSearching for wordsThat just won’t comeHoping for a pocketful of miraclesBut finding noneThis is no way to spendThe moments leading to Christmas DayJust hoping for them to endCause they make no difference anywayTake another sip … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Able, Believe, Blues, Cards, Chair, Christmas, Christmas Day, Comfort, Could, Cry, Daughters, David, Die, Difference, Dream, Dreams, Drenched, End, Father, Give, Gone, Good, Half, Happy, Hard, Hearts, Hope, Knocked Back, Lack, Life, Life's Pain, Long, Moments, None, Nudge, Pocketful of Miracles, Poetry and Poems, Pouring Rain, Read, Reasons, Rhyme, Sadness, Seams, Searching, Shoulders, Sip, Snowman, Spend, Stand, Stars, Table, Think, Time, Watch, Why, Without A Reason Why, Words | Leave a comment