Tag Archives: Waters

First Principles: Moses Lifting Up His Wand, and Dividing the Red Sea, and Pharaoh In His Chariot Overwhelmed With the Waters. This Motto: “Rebellion To Tyrants Is Obedience To God

Posted on January 13, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Moses lifting up his wand, and dividing the red sea, and pharaoh in his chariot overwhelmed with the waters. This motto: ‘Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.’” – Benjamin Franklin, on being appointed to a committee to draft a … Continue reading →

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Keeping Faith Through Storms

Posted on July 2, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Keeping Faith Through Stormsby Michael DoyleWalking righteous amidst life’s corruptionThe faithful holds true without disruptionLike Noah and his ark saving our humanityThe chaos of new frontiers heals with peace, not vanityToo often, we live in coffins of our own makingWhile … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ark, Buoyant, Coffins, Compare, Condemnation, Corruption, Dedication, Deluge, Demand, Desire, Disruption, Dominate, Drought, Faith, Faithful, Fault Finders, Frontier, God, God's Reasoning, Grumblers, Heart Breaking, Humanity, Keep, Make, New Day, Noah, Patient, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Prepare, Reasons, Rest, Righteous, Shining Light, Storm, Tears, Treasure, Understood, Unlikely, Vain, Vanity, Waters | Leave a comment

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

Posted on February 27, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Enrich, Fountain, Heart, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Rain, Refresh, Springs, Talk, Thought For the Day, Wasted Affection, Waters | Leave a comment

Waters of Life

Posted on August 25, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Waters of Lifeby Michael DoyleNavigating the waters of lifeFrom dreams of others comes lateThe sacrifices are not in vainFor the dreams and nightmares on the mainTo open one’s eyes and seeThe rebirth needed for eternityDreaming of the endless nightThe one … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abel, Answers, Avarice, Battle Flag, Blame, Blood, Cain, Days, Death, Dreams, Dreams and Nightmares, Endless Night, Eternal Quest, Eternity, Eyes, Fallen Glory, Fell, Found, Future, Go Wrong, Hell, Immortality, Know, Life, Light, Lucifer, Main, Morning, Murder, Murders, Navigate, Pride, Rain, Ravens, Rebirth, Sacrifice, See, Sight, Story, Tale, Talons, Tangled Web, Three, Vain, Victim, Waking World, Waters | Leave a comment

The Devil Tempts

Posted on March 21, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

The Devil Temptsby Michael DoyleThe Devil tempts an overplayed handSomething that even kings understandThere is merit in finding humiliationIt leads us to patience and tolerationEach a step toward our maturationAs we learn to live lives of moderationSomehow…between our grief and … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Afraid, Bargains, Betrayal, Clean Hearts, Dance, Devil, Elation, Error, Exhilaration, Force, Give, Grief, Hand, Humiliation, Inside, Kings, Live, Lives, Maturation, Melancholy, Merit, Mind, Moderation, Moments, Patience, Poetry and Poems, Pride, Puppets, Reason, Recourse, Resource, Step, Take, Tempt, Toleration, Understand, Waters | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Beware of the Stories You Read Or Tell; Subtly, At Night, Beneath the Waters of Consciousness, They Are Altering Your World

Posted on March 15, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.” -Ben Okri, poet and novelist (b. 15 Mar 1959

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Waters Felt As Wild

Posted on July 8, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Waters Felt As Wildby Michael DoyleLooking to the commons differentlyWe sip at the waters reverentlyWith willows and elms along the banksAs a praying man, I stop to give thanksNo matter how much we pollute the watersTheir resilience slips back dreamilyAs … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adolescent, Banks, Camelot, Days, Days Gone By, Differently, Dreamily, Dusk, Elms, Friends, Give Thanks, Guilty, I Let Go, Idles, Ignorant, Insanity, Lost Lore, Memory, Might Have Been More, Once Again, One Word, Past, Poetry and Poems, Policeman's Blotter, Pollute, Praying Man, Pristine, Rainforest, Resilience, Restorative, Reverently, Sins, Sip, Soul, Sunlight, The Commons, Think, Thinking, Today, Undertow, Unseemly, Vanity, Waters, Wild, Wished Against Hope, Yearn, Yesterday, You and I, Youth | Leave a comment

Sunrise Calling

Posted on July 18, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

This planet of ours exists in just the right pocket for the life giving waters to be present in all of its necessary forms. Odd how some don’t see the miracle in that… Sunrise Calling by Michael Romani Slippery as … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ascent, Call, Day, Divinity, Dream, Drink, Drip, Drop, Earth, Fall, Form, Frozen, Heat, Ice Face, Life Giving, Melt, Miracle, Newbprm, Nighttime, Ocean's Daughter, Paradise, Photograph, Pocket, Poem, Poetry, Rearrange, Shape Shift, Slip, Steam, Stream, Structure, Sunrise, Tomorrow, Waters, World | Leave a comment

WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Meander

Posted on March 11, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

It is the cool, clear waters of springtime The remind us of that warmer, safer clime All of those cherished places and faces That have left their many warm traces Helping to form just who we have become Treasured by … Continue reading →

Posted in Photographs & Memories | Tagged Account, Bend, Clime, Collection, Daily Prompt, Dream, Form, Lives, Meander, Ripple, Springtime, Stream, Sun, Traces, Treasure, Warmth, Waters, Wordpress | Leave a comment