Tag Archives: Touch

Let the Party Begin

Posted on November 5, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Let the Party Beginby Michael DoyleDon’t let your emotionsCloud your best judgmentKeeping faith in your devotionDespite the world’s begrudgementFailures never help one’s attitudeStill it’s best to keep in gratitudeFor all the good that has come beforeBrings a feeling we cannot … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Attitude, Begin, Begrudge, Brook, Confuse, Crown, Days, Drink Up, Emotion, Emotions, Eyes, Failures, Frown, Good, Gratitude, Human Condition, Ignore, Judgment, Laughter, Look, Nice, Now, Party, Poetry and Poem, Pool, Price, Princess, Round and Round, Smile, Sorrow, Start, Substance, Surprise, Then, Tomorrow, Touch, Unleashed, Upside Down, Wall of Pride, Ways, Win | Leave a comment

Passing It Down

Posted on August 28, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Passing It Downby Michael DoylePassing it down to the next generationHoping it might be held in venerationSharing openly our ways of instructionIn hopes that they would avoid destructionFrom child to child this is taughtTo do as we should and not … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accountability, Accounts, Acrimony, All Lands, Beginning and Ending, Confession, Consequence, Destruction, Dwell, Encouragement, Glory, God, Grow, Guidance, Ignorance, Instruction, Kingdom, Layer, Lessons, Lifting Up, Love of God, Mouth-To-Mouth, Next Generation, Obey, Pages, Passing It Down, Patiently, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Pressed, Purest Hearts, Pursuing, Relevance, Responsibility, Sages, Sanctificaiton, Satan, Satisfaction, Set Us Free, Sip, Taught, Teach, Touch, Tripping Up, True Wisdom, Truth, Veneration, Victory's Cup, Wages, Walk, Word of God, Wrong Doing | Leave a comment

Circling Around Symmetry

Posted on July 30, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Circling Around Symmetryby Michael DoyleLike a wanderer of lost momentsI find myself with ghosts in memoryCircling around the tormentsTo sharpened to find the symmetry Needed to find balance in the crawl outIn the long kiss good night In a gathering … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Attention, Balance, Balloon, Capability, Circling Around, Community, Conversations, Counting, Covers Blown, Deep Truths, Depth, Engage, First Contact, Gathering of Kings, Ghosts, Good Night, Grown, Improvisation, Innocent, Islolation, Lessons, Lost Moments, Magic, Memory, Minor Moment, Overheard, Poetry and Poems, Pretense, Reality, Repressed Emotions, Seek, Sharp, Sincerity, Siren's Calling, Steps, Strain of Cynicism, Strained Torment, Symmetry, Tension, Torment, Touch, Vulnerability, Wanderer, Wish, World | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: I Believe the Greatest Gift I Can Conceive of Having From Anyone Is To Be Seen, Heard, Understood, and Touched By Them

Posted on June 26, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen, heard, understood, and touched by them. The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand, and touch another person.” -Virginia Satir, psychotherapist … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Another Person, Anyone, Believe, Conceive, Give, Greatest Gift, Have, Heard, Seen, Thought For the Day, Touch, Understood, Virginia Satir | Leave a comment

Among the First Casualties

Posted on May 14, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Among the First Casualtiesby Michael DoyleAmong the first casualties of warIs the promise that love will live onAnd if something goes wrong, lovers will love moreThe white heat of passion burns until it’s goneA touch, a line, a singular traceA … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Among, Borne, Broken Hearts, Burn, Comfort, Embrace, Fallen, Fear, First Casualties, Forget, Heart, Hide, Hope, Left Behind, Line, Linger, Lingering Memory, Live On, Love, Lovers, Mind, Mustache, Okay, Paassion, Poetry and Poems, Pretend, Promise, Reflections, Regret, Scars, Stars, Touch, Trace, Void, War, White Heat, Wish, Wounded Heart, Wrong | Leave a comment

In the Depth of God’s Love

Posted on April 15, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

In the Depth of God’s Love(Thoughts on Good Friday 2022)by Michael DoyleIn the depth of God’s loveWe’re wondered after life’s disastersAs we raise our prayers aboveAnd think on the outcome of forever afterTrue love is held in meditationIts meaning causes … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Action, Adjective, Answer, Choice, Christ, Come and Go, Comprehension, Consistent, Deep, Depth, Dice, Divnity, Enemies, Family, Find, First and Greatest Commandment, Foot of the Cross, Forever After, Forgive, God's Love, Good Friday, Good Friday 2022, Grace, Gratification, Greater, He Loved Us First, Heart, Hesitation, Humanity, Illustrate, Learn, Life's Disasters, Linger, Living Sacrifice, Living Waters, Love Others, Loving the Lord, Many Feelings, Meaning, Meditation, Mercy, Mind, Outcome, Poetry and Poems, Powerless, Prayers, Purest Love, Quench, Realization, Realize, Redemptive, Revealing, Roll, Roman Soldiers, Sacred Theology, Sacrifice, Salvation, Shame, Sin, Sinners, Sisters and Brothers, Soul, Station, Strong, Suffice, Thirst, Touch, True Love, Ungodly, Unholy, Voice, Whole, Wrath | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: As the Pain That Can Be Told Is But Half A Pain, So the Pity That Questions Has Little Healing In Its Touch

Posted on January 24, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch.” -Edith Wharton, novelist (24 Jan 1862-1937)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Edith Wharton, Half A Pain, Little Healing, Pain, Pity, Questions, Thought For the Day, Told, Touch | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: One of the Great Principles of Socialism Is Division. If Everything Is Racist, Then Nothing Is Racist

Posted on October 7, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“One of the great principles of socialism is division. If everything is racist, then nothing is racist. In our culture today, we have many racial issues that need to be dealt with. And in my estimation, we were making some … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Culture, Deal, Discussion, Division, Estimation, Everything, Great Principles, Growing, Progress, Racial Issues, Racist, Real Issues, Reverend David Jeremiah, Socialism, Thought For the Day, Touch | Leave a comment

Through the Eyes of Love

Posted on July 12, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Through the Eyes of Loveby Michael DoyleThrough the eyes of love I see youDreaming of things we’ve grownTo become and what it is we doWhat the future holds is shownIn the way that you touch my handAnd how you kiss … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Become, Blind, Care, Close, Closer In Heart, Do, Dreaming, Each Other's Arms, Embrace, Face, Find, Future Holds, Grown, Hand, Happiness, Heart, Insistence, Kiss, Love To Light, Magic, Mind, Miss, Morning and Night, My Lady, Only Get Better, Our Lives, Own Kind, Place, Poetry and Poems, Promise, See, Shining Down, Shown, Smile, Start, Sweet Trace, Sweetness, Through, Together, Touch, Traces, Understand, Walking the Distance, Wonderland, Year, Years, You and I, Your Love | Leave a comment

In the Bard’s Memory

Posted on July 7, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

In the Bard’s Memoryby Michael DoyleThere is something in elevated speechThat touches the depths of our soulsKeeping these words close within reachIs truly something worthy to extolIt’s something far greater than fallacyTo believe that words and phrases hold powerI say … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bard's Memory, Blessings, Eclipse, Elevated Speech, Fallacy, Gracefully Forgiven, Greater, Holy Bible, Implore, Keeping These Words, Memorable Passages, Memory, Mortal, On the Shelf, Openly, Poetry and Poems, Power, Precepts, Sacred Place, Shakespeare, The Bard, Touch, Utterances, Without Jealousy, Words, Words and Phrases, Worthy, Woven | Leave a comment