Tag Archives: Talk

Finding A Seat At the Table

Posted on June 29, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Finding A Seat At the Tableby Michael DoyleFinding a seat at the tableSuch as it is and the best we’re ableBegins with a story of circumstanceIn which every effort acts to enhanceThe dreams that come in planting treesThe roots of … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: I Want People To Talk To One Another No Matter What Their Difference of Opinion Might Be

Posted on May 16, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be.” -Studs Terkel, author and broadcaster (16 May 1912-2008)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Difference, No Matter, One Another, Opinion, People, Studs Terkel, Talk, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Talk Not of Wasted Affection; Affection Never Was Wasted

Posted on February 27, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet (27 Feb 1807-1882)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Affection, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Never, Talk, Thought For the Day, Wasted, Wasted Affection | Leave a comment

To See the World Again

Posted on February 3, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

To See the World Againby Michael DoyleTo see the world through new eyesIt might help me to again realizeThe splendors too often taken for grantedBy those of us whose views are slantedLights like stars seem to aboundAs life loses its … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Again, Beauty, Believe, Child, City, Clearly, Coin, Control, Courage, Darkness, Dearly, Dreams, Eyes, Fairy Tale, Fallen Time, Faltered Question, Fantasy, Fear, Forget, Found, Friend, Ground, Harshness, Heart, Hesitation, Hold Your Hand, Lights, Lost Rhyme, Luster, Lyrical, Magical, Moonlight, Mystery, New Eyes, New Possibility, Once Upon, Pity, Playing Favorites, Poetry and Poems, Promises, Realize, Remembered Eyes, Rippled Pond, Search, See, Skeleton Hands, Soul, Splendor, Stardust, Staring Off, Stars, Strangeness, Taken For Granted, Talk, Touching the Good, Tragic, Tranquility, Understood, Views, Walk, Wishing Well, Wonders, World | Leave a comment

Under the Potter’s Hands

Posted on January 24, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Under the Potter’s Handsby Michael DoyleUnder the potter’s handsHe forms the clayWe talk, He understandsWe live yet another dayIn our time, we fold handsAcross the world, in many landsTalking to God quietlyRescued from myself politelyGod in His purpose and mercyCorrects … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Another Day, Burden, Clay, Daily History, Forgiven, God, Grace, Guidance, Hands, Hearts, Hurting, Keys, Kingdom, Lands, Law, Light, Live, Lives, Love, Mercy, Poetry and Poems, Potter, Purpose, Rescue, Right, Talk, Time, Together, Understand, Wisdom, Words, World | Leave a comment

Birds Aren’t Real

Posted on December 11, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Birds Aren’t Realby Michael DoyleSpoken with a sense of zealIs the thought, “Birds Aren’t Real”Youth joins together to upendA disturbing sort of the worse trendIn an age of misinformationGen Z links arms across the nationEngaged in a case of absurdismWith … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Absurdism, Admit, America, Banality, Birds, Birds Aren't Real, Charm, Collaboration, Conspiracy Theory, Construct, Cosplay, Diet, Drone, Engage, Enthusiasm, Fabricate, Falsity, Fiction, Friction, Frustration, Gateway, Gen Z, Good For the Soul, Growing Up, History, Improvement, Internet Age, Irreverence, Laugh, Line, Lunacy, Mad, Madness, McIndoe, Misniformation, Nation, Opportunity, Parody, Poetry and Poems, Pretend, Process, Rabbit Holes, Rage, Real, Reddit, Remote Control, Sadness, Social Media, Social Mirror, Social Movement, Soul, Talk, Theory, Trend, Upend, Viewpoint, Walk, World, Youth, Zeal | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: If You Talk To A Man In A Language He Understands, That Goes To His Head. If You Talk To Him In His Language, That Goes To His Heart

Posted on October 27, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.” – Nelson Mandela, activist, South African president, Nobel laureate (b. 1918)

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Struck On A Bridge To Nowhere

Posted on August 22, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Struck On A Bridge To Nowhereby Michael DoyleI’m struck on a bridge to nowhereLooking for a bit of faithfulnessI’m stranded in an unfaithful worldChasing around the circles and nobody caresSuddenly seeing with sight for awarenessFeeling so completely fetaled and curledI’ve … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alone, Awareness, Become, Bridge, Care, Care To See, Chasing, Circles, Cold, Curl, Darkness, Denial, Faithfulness, Fate, Feeling, Fetal, Grace, Hate, Heart, Home, Integrity, Live, Love, Meaning, No Longer, Nowhere, Offer, Pity, Poetry and Poems, Seal, See, Sight, Smile, Stranded, Struck, Talk, This Morning, Told, Truth, Two Eyes, Unfaithful World, Walking Wounded, Woke, World | 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

Little Rocket

Posted on May 8, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Twinkle, Twinkle Little Rocketby Michael DoyleTwinkle, TwinkleLittle RocketTruth be toldAnd we must talk itUp above the world somewhereWhere you are we know not whereBut worse is that we do not understandJust precisely where you will landI hear that we will … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems, Uncategorized | Tagged Despite, Find Out, Hear, Hope, Hurt, Land, Little Rocket, Near Me, No One, Poetry and Poems, Precisely, Somewhere, Talk, Tonight, Truth Be Told, Twinkle, Under the Command, Understand, Up Above the World, We Know Not, Where, Worse | Leave a comment