Tag Archives: Talk

Growing Vulnerability

Posted on April 5, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Growing Vulnerabilityby Michael DoyleSome fools say that men don’t cryBut let me tell you, that’s just a lieIt’s so hard to express inner truthAnd it’s played that way since youthWe need to get the curtains down and outMoving hard beyond … Continue reading →

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Like Saul To Paul

Posted on March 18, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Like Saul To Paulby Michael DoyleTogether, we learn to live outWhat our sermons are aboutDay by day, we learn the talkAnd put it into practice in our walkSpiritual growth brings our skillsLike Saul to Paul, we serve God’s willAll the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bible, Christian, Church, Conversion, Day by Day, Destroy, Divine Light, Divinity, Future, God, God's Will, Heal, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Learn, Legalism, Nurture, Past, Persecute, Poetry and Poems, Practice, Pure, Reveal, Road to Damascus, Salvation, saul, Saul To Paul, Sermon, Skills, Spiritual Growth, Talk, Together, Walk, Zeal | Leave a comment

First Principles: To Listen Well Is As Powerful A Means of Communication and Influence As To Talk Well

Posted on March 15, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.” – John Marshall

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Communication, First Principles, Influence, John Marshall, Listen, Means, Powerful, Talk | Leave a comment

Growing Our Intimacy

Posted on March 6, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Growing Our Intimacyby Michael DoyleWe have so little time for introspectionAs we approach life with our expectationsSometimes it’s an easy flow of conversationOther times, we’re micro-managing our destinationBeing present and being openly hereIs the experiment of what might disappearAs our … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Affirmation, Alibis, Anticipating, Approach, Approach Love, Attract, Bad Girls, Becoming Us, Being Present, Comfortable Silence, Confirmation, Conversations, Cry, Dance, Destination, Disappear, Each Day, Easy Flow, Electricity, Excitement, Expectations, Experiment, Fake, Feel, Friendship, Grow, Hope, Internal Debate, Intimacy, Introduce, Introspection, Just Because, Letting Love Flow, Life, Little Time, Love, Magnet, Micro-manage, Nice Guys, Nights of Love, Open, Party, Path, Poetry and Poems, Reason, Rough, Scaru, Sentimental, Sincerity, Smile, Something Much Better, Something Real, Spark, Spend Together, Sweet surrender, Take, Talk, The same, Think, Together, Touch the Flame, Try, Welcome, Why, Words | Leave a comment

Turkey Run State Park

Posted on February 17, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Turkey Run State Parkby Michael DoyleIndiana is prone to having a second winter appearAfter it seems the real winter has disappearedThis was the circumstance in February 2024When a snowfall came, inviting my family to exploreMy daughters and I loaded up … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Allow, Beauty, Circumstance, Cold, Commentary, Creek, Daughter of Mine, Daughters, Disappear, Distance, Driftwood River Tributary, Duty, Enchant, Eroded, Etymology, Explore, Father, Forgot, Found, Good Company, Hit the Road, Indiana, Internet, Joy, Learn, Life Refines, Listen, Mansfield Formation, Meant To Be, Native American, New and Interesting, Photographs, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Preservation, Resin, Rocky Hollow Reserve, Runs, Sandstone, Second Winter, Slippery Rocks, Snow Melt, Sugar Creek, Sugar Pines, Suspension Bridge, SUV, Sweet, Sweet Tooth, Symbology, Tales, Talk, Turkey Run State Park, Unfold, Walking, Youngest | Leave a comment

Ghost Story

Posted on January 5, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Ghost Storyby Michael DoyleRemember Remember meMy death Was cold miseryThere is no record At least officiallyBut my lynching Is part of historyI’m cold and alone Without a name on the stonePlease talk to me I need a sort of legacyI … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Built, Care, Cold and Alone, Connection, Death, Desperation, Division, End, Fate, Forget, Forgotten, Ghost Story, Glory, Heal, Hiding Place, History, Imaginary Friend, Laugh, Legacy, Longing, Lynching, Misery, Official, Pain, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Promise, Reach Out, Record, Regret, Remember, Right, Sacred, Sane, Scare, Sedate, Space, Spirituality, Survival, Talk | Leave a comment

When High Brow Meets Low Brow

Posted on December 21, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

When High Brow Meets Low Browby Michael DoyleBoundaries of jazz smashed into neoclassical rockAnd the people who listened began with the talkTrying to be impressive though they couldn’t define itListening harder, the intellectuals began to refine itThere it was in … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Boundaris, Closer, Define, Eloquence, Extravagance, Goal, High Brow, Higher Art, Implausible, Impressive, Intellectual, Intensity, Jazz, Listen, Low Brow, Lyrics, Neoclassical Rock, Odd Instruments, Poetry and Poems, Refine, Sacred Chord, Sonic Burts, Talk, Threhold | Leave a comment

In A Parisian Crowd

Posted on December 14, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

In A Parisian Crowdby Michael DoyleThe French soul Is wrapped around500 year old plumbingLike a lump of coalOn a Christmas dayIt has its significanceAnd at times its magnificenceBut there’s something to sayFor finding other, better waysAnd even the naughty findIt … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Acquit, Better Ways, Brazen, Breaks Your Fall, Bridge, Christmas Day, Clueless, Coal, Contribution, Controversy, Crowd, Faux Culture, French Soul, French Way, Gaze, Guilty, Habit, Heresy, Honest, Joke, Knife, Lonely, Magnificence, Nude, Numb, Paris, Parisian, Play, Plumbing, Poetry and Poems, Politically Incorrect, Quit, Rightful Place, Say, Significance, Solution, Sranger, Talk, Truth, Wrap | Leave a comment

Cracking Hearts Into Holiness

Posted on November 26, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Cracking Hearts Into Holinessby Michael DoyleThe temptations that we faceAre common to others as we embraceGod’s family, and begin to shareThis walk of love in all that we careIndifference and hurt build the wallsThat hardens us, until we recallOur need … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Art, Care, Clay, Common, Daily Walk, Eden, Embrace, Harden, Hearts, Holiness, Hurt, Illustrate, Love, Poetry and Poems, Potter's Hands, Renew, Share, Talk, Temptations, Vessels of Clay, Walls | Leave a comment

Like Wanderers Seeking

Posted on October 11, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Like Wanderers Seekingby Michael DoyleLike wanderers wandering a lovelier wayWe plant the seeds that bring the new daysWith a fullness of dreams filling our heartsWe loosely planned how the days would startBut kept the freedom breathing in and outNever steadfastly … Continue reading →

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