Flickr Photos
If you appreciate my work, please buy me a coffee
$3.00
Tag Archives: Struggle
If It Wasn’t For Courage
If It Wasn’t For Courageby Michael DoyleOn the other side lies paradiseThe captain offers his best adviceAs his pirate crew readies for the fightWho knows how many will live until the morning lightReady the muskets and say your last prayerAs … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Advice, Battle, Captain, Courage, Destiny, Eternity, Fight, Flight, Grave Insult, Ground, Hangman's Noose, Heart, Journey, Judgment Day, Last Prayer, Live, Morning Light, Muskets, Other Side, Paradise, Pirate Crew, Poetry and Poems, Power, Primal Urge, Result, Stare, Start, Steps, Struggle, Survival, Timing, Trial
Leave a comment
In Beginning To Chill Hostility
In Beginning To Chill Hostilityby Michael DoyleIn truth, Christ came to save us allBringing us peace, as we might recallChrist has already graced us as He’s doneIn the name of the Father, the Spirit, and the SonIn this world, hanging … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Align, Argument, Attention, Begin, Better Day, Bind, Blowback, Bread, Capture, Case Study, Chill, Christ, Christians, Civility, Confidence, Controversy, Conversation, Corruption, Critical Thinking, Derivations, Echo Chambers, Embrace, Eternal Liberty, Fall Short, Father, Golgotha, Good Repute, Grace, Guided By God, Hands of Providence, Holiness, Hostility, Humility, Impure, Incendiary, Insensibility, Intention, Know, Life's Purposes, Lip Service, Morality, Our Times, Passion, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Preach, Pretend, Public Square, Reach, Reasoned Dispute, Rules of Engagement, Seem, Son, Spirit, Spoken, Struggle, Study, Surface, True, Truly Woken, Truth, Understand, Words, World
Leave a comment
This Love Is Here To Stay
This Love Is Here To Stayby Michael DoyleIn our final steps toward the altarI feel that sometimes we falterIt seems for all purposes and intentsThe pressure is on, and it’s getting intenseMany factors lead to some off-daysThat leaves us side-tracked … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Above, Altar, Analysis, Below, Bride, Broken Trust, Chapter, Daze, Falter, Final Steps, Flawless, Groom, Intense, Life's Book, Love, Off-Days, Paralysis, Poetry and Poems, Right Here With You, Sentimentality, Smile, Stay, Struggle, Thick Or Thin, Twist of Fate
Leave a comment
Through the Years
Through the Yearsby Michael DoyleAlive somewhere in all my ADHDI sometimes walk right into meWhen I do, in times like thisI find there isn’t much to missI have always tried to be my bestStretching myself to meet my testsHead-on collisions … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Adapt, ADHD, Alive, Assurance, Beauty, Belong, Best, Blessing, Box of Cookies, Degrees, Drum, Gloom, God We Know, Godly, Gratitude, Guessing, Head On Collision, Hotel Room, Imagination, Indignation, Known, Learning, Lessons, Life Passes On, Love, Miss, Moonage Daydream, Movie Screen, Myself and Daughters, Overcome, Path of Life, Patience, Patient, Pensive, Please, Poetry and Poems, Princsses, Sensitive, Sharing Moments, Small Town, Smile, Sorrow and Silence, Stretch, Strive, Strong, Struggle, Suffering, Survive, Test, Think, Through the Years, Trapped, Turn Out Right, Walk, World, Wrong
Leave a comment
To Raise Godly Children
To Raise Godly Childrenby Michael DoyleTime travels as shadows grow longerAnd the need to be wiser is strongerI look on my children and hope the bestI look for answers that might pass the testAs we raise our children for successIt’s … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Above All the Religons, Actions, Affection, Answers, Attention, Authority, Believe, Best, Build, Children, Clear Expectations, Clear Rules, Comparison, Consistency, Control, Correction, Cue, Did, Direct, Do, Dream, Dress, Echoes, Encouragement, Example, Fair Consequences, Faith, Family, Fools, God's Way, Grace, Grown, Happiness, Hold, Holy Worship, Hope, Imprint, Instill, Instruction, Integrity, Intention, Keep, Known, Leave, Lessons, Live Righteously, Long Game, Long Ride, Longer, Look, Lord's Grace, Love, Maturity, Meant, Name, Parenting, Pass, Path, Place, Poetry and Poems, Presence, Presents, Promise, Quality, Quantity, Raise, Relationship, Rely, Rescue, Responsibility, Right, Right Direction, Rules, Said, Say, Shadows, Soul, Speaking Life and Love, Strong Balance, Stronger, Struggle, Success, Tears, Test, Tight, Time, Trace, Traces, Travel, Walk, Weep, Wise
Leave a comment
He Inspires
He Inspiresby Michael DoyleThough His body was brokenIn His words that were spokenHe revealed that we are forgivenEven in the times that we live inAs our living hope, He held out His handOffering grace that we might understandThe struggles we … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Body, Broken, Darkest Night, Done, Forgiven, Gentleness, Glory, God, Grace, He Inspires, His Puproses, His Story, Holy Spirit, In Him, Justify, Light, Living Hope, Poetry and Poems, Shine, Son, Speak, Spoken, Strength, Struggle, Testify, Times, Tire, Truth, Understand, Ways, Whisper, Words
Leave a comment
Coming To Peace With the Questions
Coming To Peace With the Questionsby Michael DoyleWhatever might be said as final proclamationOne way or another about Jesus’ divinationIt can’t fail to be noted, He changed civilizationRegardless of any attempts at miseducationJesus came to fulfill, and not overturn JudaismFrom … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged 4th Century, All, Apostles, Arose, Atonement, Beliefs and Perceptions, Betrayed With A Kiss, Civilization, Coming To Peace, Confluence, Confomed, Conforming Creed, Corinthian, Correction, Critical Truth, Crucifixon, Death, Debates, Decpetion, Discern, Diversity, Divination, Divinity, Dominance, Earliest Days, Easter Day, Essential Fact, Examination, Existing Sin, Explanation, Exponential Growth, Final Proclamation, Fulfill, Future, Galatians, Godly Breath, Happiness, Heresy, Historic Jesus, History, Holy Ways, Human and Divine, Ignore, Impact, In Controversy, Increase, Jesus, Jewish Conversion, Jews and Gentiles, Judaism, Learn, Love One Another, Miseducation, Modern Day, New Creation, No One University, One Way Or Another, Optimism, Overturn, Paul, Peaceful Life, Perception, Perfection, Poetry and Poems, Profound Differences, Question, Relief, Resurrection, Righteous, Shown, Significance, Significant Way, Standard of Belief, Strife, Struggle, The Church, The Good and the Truth, The Nicene Creed, Transofrmed, Truth, Two Billion Christians, Which Is Which
Leave a comment
The Love In Your Eyes
The Love In Your Eyesby Michael DoyleWe look for love in the life we embraceWe struggle to find our footing in this placeThere is nothing left for us to explainHow it is that we’ve walked past life’s painThe struggles that … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Accidental Kiss, Angst and Doubt, Blindness, Bound, Celestial Skies, Close, Comes Our Way, Embrace, Explain, Eyes, Fall In Love, Feeling, Feelings, Footing, Found, God Given, Keep, Kept, Kindness, Know, Left Behind, Life, Life's Pain, Love, Love In Your Eyes, Muzzle, Not For Play, Not That Deep, Nothing, Openly Say, Place, Poetry and Poems, Promise, Purpose, Puzzle, Question, Raw, Real, Reflect, Replace, Reveal, Say, Seals the Deal, Secret, Shining Star, Slip Out, Smile, Somehow, Struggle, Tear, Tears Wept, This World, Top of the World, Tortured Mind, Truth, Walked Past, Watch, Way, Wish, Worry
Leave a comment


