Tag Archives: Victory

In Ceremony

Posted on May 10, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

In Ceremonyby Michael DoyleBeyond money and fearThere is an underlying trustThis is the path of loyaltyAnd without that currency, it is bustOnce broken, there is a penaltyEven among the underground’s royaltyit is the price that must be paidOr all that … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abandon, Broken, Bust, Ceremony, Currency, Defects, Detachment, Ego, Embrace, Fade, Fear, Flow, Forms, Grace, Inner Life, Living, Money, Paid, Past, Path of Loyalty, Paths, Penalty, Permanent, Poetry and Poems, Practice, Present Moment, Price, Quiet Moment, Royalty, Shatter, Singularity, State of Harmony, Underground, Underlying Trust, Victory, Way of the Warrior | Leave a comment

Slightly Out of Tune

Posted on April 22, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Softly Out of Tuneby Michael DoyleThe piano plays slightly out of tuneThe preacher is drunk, crazy as a loonA voice whispers hello old friendThe bemused look hints at the endLife is one continuing negotiationIt seems a program of collaborationIt is … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ashes, Bemused, Brave Enough, Cards, Collaboration, Conceal, Dealer, Decisions, Door, Drunk, End, Free Will, Heresy, Illusions, Irony, Life, Loon, Masquerade, Matters, More, Negotiation, Old Friend, Played, Poetry and Poems, Preacher, Regrets, Scorched Earth, Secrets, Skeletons In Closets, Skill Sets, Slight, Tatters, Tune, Victory, Visions of Dreams, Whisper | Leave a comment

Lessons From Tristan and Isolde

Posted on March 30, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Lessons From Tristan and Isoldeby Michael DoyleLove has been the subject of great mysteryThroughout all of mankind’s fabled historySometimes life’s lessons have become legendaryFrom Shakespeare to the Athenian tragedyIt’s true what a thing it is, this fine messThat mortals confess … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Athenian Tragedy, Behind, Born To Die, Camelot, Chivalry, Confess, Cornwall, Courage, Courtly Love, Exception, Excess, Expectation, Fabled History, Higher Sense of Love, Honor, Ideal, Inetepretation, Justice, Knightly Code of Conduct, Legendary, Lessons, Love, Mess, Mind, Minstrelsy, Moon and Star, Mystery, Poetry and Poems, Reputation, Shakespeare, Tristan and Isolde, True, Victory | Leave a comment

We’ll Burn Our Memory

Posted on February 23, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

We’ll Burn Our Memoryby Michael DoyleThere is nothing more humanThen knowing that you are brokenAs time slips by as it canAnd words meander or are unspokenTime is fleeting and not to squanderLet me entreat you to spend yours wellThere are … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Armor, Ashes, Battle, Better Senses, Broken, Burn, Carry, Choices, Cracks, Dance, Defeat, Difference, Eyes, Fast, Fire, Fleeting, Forget, Hope, Human, Inner Essence, Inner Light, Inner Voice, Know, Life, Limits, Love, Memory, Nothing, One Last Time, Past, Paths, Poetry and Poems, Promise, Regret, Right, Shine, Skies, Spell, Squander, Streets, Time Slips By, Tomorrow, Unexplored, Unspoken, Victory, Wish, Won, Words Meander | Leave a comment

Beneficial Benediction

Posted on February 11, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Beneficial Benedictionby Michael DoyleIt should really come as no surpriseThat when all anyone ever tells is liesTo tell the truth is a revolutionBut it’s beneficial in our evolutionDon’t fear the monsters in your headMake them afraid of you insteadLike figments … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Afraid, Begun, Benediction, Beneficial, Break, Chains, Comfort, Dream, Evolution, Fear, Figments, Fool's Gold, Future, Glistens, Head, Hold Us Back, Journey, Lies, Listens, Machination, Mast, Monsters, Past, Poetry and Poems, Reason, Regain, Revolution, Rocks, Sail, Shadows, Ship, Sleep, Speaking Truth, Surprise, Tortured Imagination, Truth, Victory, Wall, Won | Leave a comment

She Says…

Posted on December 1, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

She Says…by Michael DoyleAll the ugly truthsThat have tried to push her backHave tripped her up, since her youthUntil grace gave her all she might lackThoughts of how abundance increasesGave her the hope to move on pastIn her story filled … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abudance, Admit, Back, Bad Choices, Brave, Broken Pieces, Claim, Confusion, Control, Faith, Glory, God, Gold, Good Man, Grace, Heart, Hell, Her Love, Honest Soul, Hope, Illusion, Life, Lights Up, Love, Need, Pain, Past, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Push, Rain, Sad, Scar, She Says, Shine, Smile, Sometimes, Soul, Stars, Still Small Voice, Story, Tale, Tears, Tell, Trick, Tripped, Trust, Ugly Truths, Unafraid, Victory, Voices, Walked, Youth | Leave a comment

The Legend of the Sword

Posted on November 19, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

The Legend of the Swordby Michael DoyleIn the centuries that came beforeMyth and legend became the ways of loreMan and mage coexisted in peaceUntil Mordred’s darkness slipped its leashA sorcerer turned to his dark ambitionAgainst mankind in a betrayal of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Before, Betrayal, Camelot, Century, Dark Ambition, England, Evil, Excalibur, King Uther, Legend, Man and Mage, Mordred, Mortal Hand, Myth and Legend, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Sorcerer, Sword, Victory, Ways of Lore | Leave a comment

First Principles: We Have Therefore To Resolve To Conquer or Die… Let Us Therefore Rely Upon the Goodness of the Cause, and the Aid of the Supreme Being, In Whose Hands Victory Is

Posted on November 18, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die. … Let us therefore rely upon the goodness of the Cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands Victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Actions, Aid, Conquer, Die, Encourage, First Principles, George Washington, Goodness, Great and Noble, Hands, Rely, Resolve, Supreme Being, The Cause, Victory, We | Leave a comment

Bumping Into Jesus

Posted on November 7, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Bumping Into Jesusby Michael DoyleDivine encounters along the wayIt doesn’t necessarily happen on SundayLittle moments that teach usPut on as these are to reach usBumps on the road have their distractionThe way through gives the best tractionEach moment is given … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bumping, Certain, Chance, Circumstance, Clarity, Conclusion, Confusing, Cross, Depart, Distraction, Divine, Divine Encounter, Experience, Faithfulness, Fragment, Glory, God's Hand, Goodness, Heart, Horrify, Hour, Insecurity, Invasion, Invitation, Jesus, Light, Little Moments, Ordinary, Perceptions, Poetry and Poems, Preference, Promised Land, Purity, Reach, Story, Sunday, Teach, Teaching Moment, Throne, Trace, Traction, Trust, Understand, Victory, View, Water, Wine | Leave a comment

Way Maker

Posted on October 18, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Way Makerby Michael DoyleDiscouraged as we sometimes areWe continue to follow the North StarKnowing the battle belongs to God’s victoryAs we look back on the mountains of historyWe have nothing really to fearWe have seen this, year after yearThe righteous … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Battle, Darkness, Discouraged, Fear, God, God's Laws, Guard, Heartbreakers, History, Holy, Knees, Maker, North Star, Peace Maker, Pledge, Poetry and Poems, Promises Kept, Righteous Battles, Sacred Cause, Soul Shaker, Souls, The Lord, Victory, Way, Ways, Year After Year | Leave a comment