Tag Archives: Transformation

Scaling the New Heights of the Dawn Wall

Posted on June 23, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

(Scaling the New Heights of the) Dawn Wallby Michael DoyleIn the dawn of winterWe scaled the face of the wallLearning to never pause in winterWe rose above Yosemite’s fallCapturing the dreams of our own storyFinding the way through until the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ability, Achievement, Ambition, Baby Steps, Burning, Capability, Chance, Climb, Dawn Wall, Dead, Deliverance, Depressurized, Destination, Destiny, Doubt, Dreams, Extent, Fail, Fake, Fall, Flow State, Fortitude, Glory, Hardships, Heads, Learning, Moments, Mutuality, New Heights, Patches, Poetry and Poems, Pride, Rationality, Reason, Right Attitude, Right Intent, Scale, Season, Second Rate, Shaken, Silence, Story, Stride, Successes, Taken, Tectonic Shift, Thoughts, Transformation, Winter, Wonder, Yosemite | Leave a comment

The Power In God’s Name

Posted on May 7, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

The Power In God’s Nameby Michael DoyleWe believe in the sameThe power in God’s nameThough it feels impossibleWe know in God, all is capableMiracles out of nowhereThe final say of what is fairThe mover of the breakableFinds voice in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Altars, Attitude, Believe, Blessed, Breakable, Capable, Changed for Good, Cross, Crucifixion, Cry, Fair, Final Say, Found, Glory of God, Gratitude, Heaven Bound, Impossible, In God, Layer, Lives, Magnified, Miracles, Mover, Nowhere, Poetry and Poems, Power, Praise, Prayer, Sea, Sky, Sunrise, Sunset, Surprise, Transformation, Unspeakable, Voice | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: The Easter Egg Symbolizes Our Ability To Break Out of the Hardened, Protective Shell We’ve Surrounded Ourselves With

Posted on April 9, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“The Easter egg symbolizes our ability to break out of the hardened, protective shell we’ve surrounded ourselves with.”– Siobhan Shaw

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Ability, Beliefs, Break Open, Break Out, Discover, Easter Egg, Hearts and Minds, Life Enhancing, Limits, Ourselves, Protective Shell, Siobhan Shaw, Surround, Symoblizes, Thought For the Day, Thoughts, Thoughts and Beliefs, Transformation | Leave a comment

A Photographic Means

Posted on April 1, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

A Photographic Means(Dedicated to Berenice Abbott)To widen our knowledgeOf a world seen through camera’s eyeIt’s truly something to acknowledgeAn acquaintance of truth that will not dieThough it does sometimes fadeawayIn the meantime, it teaches us of todayThere’s an education in … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Acknowledge, Acquaintance, Appeal, Artistic Expression, Camera's Eye, Communication, Composition, Comprehensible, Concession, Contingent, Die, Education, Emphasisze, Facilitation, Fadeaway, Genuine Aesthetic, Hard Enough, Hint, Honest, Indication, Information, Inner Dialog, Interpretation, Isolated, Knowledge, Neutrality, Objective, Offering, Photographic Means, Photographic Print, Physics, Poetry and Poems, Squint, Summation, Tale, Teach, Times and Places, Today, Transformation, Truth, Unforgettable, Visual, Visual Art, Widen, World | Leave a comment

Thinking On Department Store Santas

Posted on December 16, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Thinking On Department Store Santasby Michael DoyleOver fifty-itis hits us allAs the world changes from what we recallEven the jolly old man is to be fearedAt least as he spends the rest of his yearRed suited and well shoed in … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Black Boots, Cahoots, Choice, Department Store, Destination, Devastation, Distinction, Dominoes, Dreams Live, Ensnare, Every Year, Eyes, Fifty-itis, Flow, Good and Bad, Happy and Sad, Heart of Santa, Jolly, Kids, Love, Make the Time, Negativity, North Pole, Patient, Poetry and Poems, Portray, Purest Love, Real Life, Recall, Red Suit, Rendition, Santa, Stuff of Dreams, Surprise, Temper, Think, Touched Lives, Tradition, Transformation, Treat, True Heart, Wishes, World Changes, Year, Yearly Voice | Leave a comment

Na/GloPoWriMo #5: Pennsylvania In Transformation

Posted on April 6, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Na/GloPoWriMo #5: Pennsylvania In Transformationby Michael DoyleBased on the prompt and Pennsylvania – Poetry Daily (poems.com)Other children, live freely and wildAs though energized to win the fight -Standing as I stood.Said in brave silenceWith me, as though violencesaid in shout. … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All Learning, As It Were, Bit, Born, Brave, Children, Down-n-Out, Empty, Energized, Feels Done, Fight, Holding Breath, Knowing, Lacking Game, Let It Go, Life, Life Free, Me, Moment, Na/GloPoWriMo, Other Is Due, Pennsylvania, Poem, Poetry and Poems, Quiet, Said, Short, Shout, Silence, Something, Stand, Stood, Stopped, Transformation, Uttering, Verse, Violence, Wild | Leave a comment

Logical Pursuit

Posted on July 27, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Though it ultimately comes down to faith, belief is also about evidence and applying logic to this evidence. Logical Pursuit by Michael Doyle Saying no over and over and then again Is the path of righteousness that we walk The … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Again, All Things, Apply, Attitude, Authenticity, Belief, Choose, Chosen, Clear, Cling To, Confess, Conviction, Cross, Crucified, Darkness, Death, Debt, Decision, Decline, Deeper, Earnestly Seek, Embrace, Enormity, Evidence, Excuses, Explanation, Faith, Fallibility, Fatality, Finger, Follow, Forgive, From Immorality, Gain, Get In the Way, Giving New Life, God's Plan, God's Will, Grace, Gratitude, Habit, Hardened heart, Harshness, Heaven, His Name, Holiness, Holy Spirit, Indication, Integrity, Keep Near, Know, Last Breath, Law, Life, Light, Live, Living In Love, Logical, Love, Milk, Need, Never Mind, Newness, No, Not Loss, Not Sinless, Path of Righteousness, Paves the Way, Perfection, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prayers, Priorities, Purity, Pursuit, Regardless, Reign, Repentence, Restoration, Sanctified, Saved, Seed, Seem, Sin, Sinning Less, Spiritual Maturation, Taken Place, The Lord, Transformation, Ultimate, Walk, Walk Past, Ways, Ways of God, Woman and Man, Work In Progress, Work our Way, World | Leave a comment

In Our Persistence

Posted on July 20, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

A fascinating presentation on cognition and how we’re all allegedly living in some sort of a shared hallucination that we call reality, led to this… In Our Persistence by Michael Doyle As I sit there listening My neurons sparkling and … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Absent, Actual, Agreed On, Apart, Best Estimation, Best Guess, Body, Brink, Certain, Cognition, Comes Down, Consequence, Controlled, Deception, Deep Immersion, Delusion, Different Version, Doubt, End Comes, Existence, Expectation, Experience, Fade, Fear, Feely, Filter, Fire, Followed Through, Fragile Construction, Fully Alive, Generation, Glisten, Guesstimation, Heart, Hurt, Illusion, In and Out, Information, Inside, Inspiration, Interoception, Interpretation, Joy, Less, Listen, Mental, Mind, Mutual Destruction, Neurons, Nothing, Nothing More, Nuts and Bolts, Oneness, Outside, Path, Perception, Persistence, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Predict, Real, Reality, Reception, Regulation, Reined, Sensory Impulse, Sequence, Shared Hallucination, Signal, Signals, Sparkle, Staying Alive, Subject, Survive, Synapses, Think, Touchy, Transformation, True Life, Two Way Flow, Uncontrolled, Unified, Variables, Virtual Reality, Who Am I | Leave a comment

Sacred Questions

Posted on June 11, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

How do we have the courage to ask the questions that must be asked? We just do.. maybe? Sacred Questions by Michael Doyle Searching for the courage needed Listening to the inner voices, I’ve pleaded To the one that asks … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Amidst, Answers, Approach, Ask, Battered, Begun, Clear, Complicate, Courage, Deference, Demand, Dent, Destiny, Dream, Experience, Eyes, Glorious, Guitar, Hesitation, Holy Kingdom, Identify, Inner Voice, Intention, Journey, Life, Listen, Lost, Meaning, Mind, Outrun, Patience, Philosophy, Photograph, Plain, Plead, Poem, Poetry, Pretend, Quality, Quantum Field, Question, Questions, Rectify, Room, Sacred, Secret, Seek, Seem, Seldom, Shatter, Task, They, Time, Transformation, Transmission, Truth, Unknown, Wise, Youth | Leave a comment

The Reagan Renewal

Posted on April 12, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

American History continues through the Reagan presidency: The Reagan Renewal by Michael Doyle By the late 70s, the Conservative movement formed a coalition Not all were of the same mind, but it combined of its own volition Seeking smaller government … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 1984, American History, Berlin, Brandenberg Gate, Budget, Bureaucratic, Coalition, Cold War, Compel, Conservative Movement, Deficit Spending, Dignity, Electorate, Empathy, Establishment, George H Bush, Gift, Glasnost, Government, Great Communicator, Greater Revenue, History, Hope, Increase, Inflation, Kennedy, Landslide, Liberal Democrat, Long Coat Tails, Lose, Lower Taxes, Mellon, Message, Mikhail Gorbachev, Military, Military Might, Nation, Opportunity, Orwell, Perestroika, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Precision, Public Confidence, Qualification, Question, Questions, Reagan, Reagan/Bush, Recession, Reformation, Regulation, Renewal, SDI, Shining Moment, Small Government, Soviet Union, Spending, Strength, Technocratic, Television, The People, Time, Transformation, Unemployment, Vision, Voice, Win, Youth | Leave a comment