Tag Archives: Struggle

Second Life: The Vibes of Reggae, Loopman, and One Love

Posted on January 9, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Raggae was first mentioned as a musical term in the 1968 tune by Toots and the Maytals called “Do the Reggay”. This song introduced the genre to the world. It is a popular music form originating in Jamaican popular music … Continue reading →

Posted in Bible Study Tools | Tagged Afrocentric, American Jazz, Bass and Drum, Bible Study Tools, Bob Marley, Brasil, Contemporary Events, Diaspora, Do the Reggay, Evolution, Fusion, Genre, Global Changee, Guyana, Hard Times, Jamaica, Listen, Loopman, Loopman Bleh, Lyrics, Mento, Music, new-music, News, One Love, Panama, Patois, Peter Tosh, Pidgin, Political and Social Commentary, Popular Music, Rastafari, Reggae, Reggae en Espanol, Resonate, Rhythm and Blues, Rhythm Section, Rock, Rocksteady, Ska, Social Revolution, Soldiers and Musicians, South America, Steel Pulse, Struggle, Third World, Toots and the Maytals, Venezuela, World | Leave a comment

One By One

Posted on January 3, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

One By Oneby Michael DoyleWe work the problemsOne by oneOne at a timeThat’s how it’s doneWe face the worldOne step at a timeRemaining undefeatedWe struggle for primeThe point of no returnComes fast as we learnThere’s no turning backFrom the life … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All We Got, Blood, Done, Down and Dirty, Earn, Face, Fast, Fight, Forgot, Give, Good, Hard, Hit, Hurt, Laugh, Learn, Life, Mud, Never Mind, No Turning Back, One By One, Poetry and Poems, Point of No Return, Prime, Problem, Right, Roll, Step, Struggle, Swing, Time, Undefeated, Understood, Win Or Lose, Work, World | Leave a comment

Exiting To A New Beginning

Posted on December 31, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Exiting To A New Beginningby Michael DoyleThe alpha and the omegaThe beginning and the endLife’s alpha and its omegaLaid bare at the year’s beginning and endGod breathes our lives into motionWhatever the season’s emotionsWe aim to begin and finish strongAs … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2024, Aim, Anchored, Biblical, Blind, Breathe, Church, Community, Complaints, Courage, Desire, Emotion, Empty, Exit, Faith, Family, Glasses, Habakkuk, Half Full, Happy, Heal, Hesitation, Motion, New Beginning, One, Poetry and Poems, Political, Presses On, Principles, Question, Relatinship, Right, Right Choice, Sacred Family, Season, Sight, Spiritual Blindness, Story, Strong, Struggle, The Alpha and the Omega, Voice, Walk, Worship, Wounds of Division, Year | Leave a comment

Things Seen In 2023

Posted on December 27, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Things Seen In 2023by Michael DoyleLooking back on what has been 2023There was a lot to know and more to seeAI taught us some about our self-doubtAnd as always, there was a lot to work outEverywhere we looked, there was … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2023, AI, Allergy Seasons, Carbon Dioxide, Cause, Christmas, Databank, Debate, Decline, Electric Cars, Everywhere, Fall, Feral Chickens, Fit, Fold, Front Page, Fungi, Hawaii, Hippo, Impossible, Know, Local Waters, Mars, Pablo Escobar, Pirated Books, Plastic Sweaters, Poetry and Poems, Poets, Question, Ragee, Rank, Re-Engineering, Seasons, See, Self Doubt, Sky, Snow, Snowmen, Struggle, Style, Things Seen, Verse, Winter, Work Out, Worse, Yerba Mate | Leave a comment

Revisiting Truth In the Post-Modernist Age

Posted on December 10, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Revisiting Truth In the Post-Modernist Ageby Michael DoyleIt can be said with conviction of feelingThat the ways of God are revealingHere in this mid-DecemberIt seems timely to rememberAll of God’s loving tracesIn all the history of a life’s embracesAre like … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Atone, Balance, Brain, Broken, Chaos, Clarity, Confusion, Contrition, Conviction, Cost, Destruction, Dysfunction, Faithless, Feeling, Grace, Grace and Truth, Heartless, Heed, History, Human Race, Humanity, Ideology, Illusion, Imposition, Incarnation, Jordan, Law andTruth, Lean-In, Loving Traces, Meaning, Memorial, Mercy, Mid-December, Neighborhood, Nihilism, Optimism, Poetry and Poems, Poison, Post-Modernist Age, Preacher, Question, Reason, Rebellion, Relativism, Remember, Revealing, Revisit, Righteous Path, Seduce, Shadow, Stones, Struggle, Teach, Teacher, The Law, The lost, the Word, Truth, Ways of God | Leave a comment

Truth of War

Posted on November 27, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Truth of Warby Michael DoyleMost of the world’s problems start with warIt’s a noteworthy thing that it takes moreThen dreamy words offering a shallow victoryTo come out on the winning side of historyMany a fool has believed themselves betterWhen cooler … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Arms, Begun, Breath, Brilliance, Choose, Cooler Head, Creep Up, Depths, Done, Dream, Equally Sad, Fight, Fight Hard, Fool, Fought, Hell, History, Journey, Legacy, Lesson, Lessons Learned, Lose, Luck, Mirror, No One Wins, Poetry and Poems, Price, Problem, Reflection, Reliance, Review, Roulette Wheel, Rush of Exuberance, Shallow Victory, Sin, Slow Drag of Death, Struggle, Tragic, Truth, Truth of War, Victory, Wages of War, War, Well-Earned, Winning Side, Won, World, Wounded | Leave a comment

A Story’s End

Posted on November 17, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

A Story’s Endby Michael DoyleA story must be told through its endHowever little we think that we can defendAs the hero struggles to free himself from chainsWhile holding onto the dreams of the morning rainsIt’s hard to cut through the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anger and Fear, Attendant Lies, Blur, Chains, Charade, Cut, Defend, Dreams, End, Grow, Hero, Hidden Road, Humanity, Ignorance, Maturity, Morning Rains, Offense, Paid In Full, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Pretense, Security, Story, Struggle, Think, Tired Eyes, Travel, Truth | Leave a comment

…Of Hope

Posted on October 29, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

…Of Hopeby Michael DoyleOur nightmares become us in the nightStartling us with their unholy lightMankind has always struggled as we doBut it is only in this that we renewAs God has mercy on us sinners in our endIn our knowledge … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Barren Souls, Bite, Blood, Darkness, Days, Fall, Forget, Healing Rains, Hold On, Hope, Light, Mankind, Mercy, Mire and Mud, Nightmare, Peek, Plague, Poetry and Poems, Purity, Rats of Life, Renew, Rhymes, Scourge, Sinners, Speak, Struggle, Vein, Vices | Leave a comment

A Humble Servant’s Inquiry

Posted on October 28, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

A Humble Servant’s Inquiryby Michael DoyleIs it rebellious to question?I ask this in humblest confessionWe wish only that those we loveMight escape a little longer from heaven aboveWhile others wish for that deathThrough the struggle of wounded breathA second prayer … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Become, Blemish, Children, Confession, Conquest, Death, Eternity, God, Heaven Above, Holy Rain, Humble Servant, Inquiry, Life's Journey, Love, Merciful End, Mirror, Noble Quest, Paid In Full, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Question, Rebel, Redeem, Rest, Second Prayer, Servant's Request, Struggle, Test, Wish, Wounded Breath, Younger Self | Leave a comment

The Rejected Man Stumbles

Posted on October 27, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

The Rejected Man Stumblesby Michael DoyleThe rejected man stumbles back into the darknessFilled as he has become by this life’s harshnessHe had been helpful and knowledgeable in his waysAnd though ill-tempered, he was useful in his daysScience, too, is useful … Continue reading →

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