Tag Archives: Winning

A Jingle Bell Sort of Love

Posted on December 10, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

A Jingle Bell Sort of Loveby Michael DoyleThe city lights shine so brightBringing a little Christmas to my nightThere’s joy in how the sleigh bells ringAnd I love the happy way the children singStill, life happens as it doesThere’s no … Continue reading →

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I Bought You A Necklace

Posted on September 6, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

I Bought You A Necklaceby Michael DoyleIn love since the beginningI can’t help but feel I’m winningIt’s so surreal in what I findA love like this is my state of mindIt’s all about thinking that I canYour love makes me … Continue reading →

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Echo of Love

Posted on April 27, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Echo of Loveby Michael DoyleIn love, there’s no honorable mentionNor is it really a process of eliminationIt comes down to a concrete decisionAt least if you have the right intentionIf your head is really spinningIt might be that you’re finally … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bliss, Brought, Clear, Comes Around, Concrete Decision, Crown, Echo, Evermore, Eyes, Falling Down, Feel, For Rich Or For Poor, Forever, Found, Hand In A Glove, Head, Heart and Mind, Heart Shatters, Honorable Mention, In Love, Kiing, Kiss, Know, Lack, Late, London Bridge, Love, Mean, Nothing, Nothing To Fear, One True Being, Only One, Poetry and Poems, Process of Elimination, Queen, Recognize, Right Intention, Right One, Satisifed, Secret, Shine, Soon, Spinning, To the Moon and Back, Told, Truly In Love, Truly Matters, Walls, Weight, Winning, Without, Without A Doubt, World Spin | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Strength Does Not Come From Winning. Your Struggles Develop Your Strengths. When You Go Through Hardships and Decide Not To Surrender, That Is Strength

Posted on March 10, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Arnold Schwarzenegger, “Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, Come, Decide, Develop, Hardship, Strength, Struggles, Surrender, Thought For the Day, Winning | Leave a comment

Passing the Ball

Posted on August 18, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Passing the Ballby Michael DoylePassing the ball down the courtMake the basket or adjustThere is only win or not win on that courtMaking it like Muhammed Ali or bustThere are the top-of-the-line schemersTrue shooters and relaying daydreamersLike filthy McNastys claiming … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adjust, Aerial, Aspiration, B-Ball, Ball, Basket, Best Shot, Bust, Charm, Court, Dare, Daydreamers, Dream, Effort, Fame, Five-Alarm, Float, Game, Goal, GPA, Inspiration, Muhammed Ali, NBA, Not Win, Only Game, Pass, Poetry and Poems, Pulchritudinous, Schemers, Steps, True Shooters, Win, Winning | Leave a comment

Wholly Holistic

Posted on April 16, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Wholly Holisticby Michael DoyleLifting up the name of Jesus aboveLiving as we do, all His ways of loveIt’s apparent that we are blessedLiving as we do among the very bestFound in the notes and narrative of songAre the words that … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anticipation, Appreciation, Arena, Aspects, Belong, Best, Blame, Blessed, Broken, Celebrated, Challenge, Commandments, Compete, Concepts, Core Elements, Done, Faith, Father, Finish, Foolishness, Found, Glory, God's Holy Power, Grace, Grow, Hear, Heaven Knows, Hesitation, His Story, Holistic, Hour, Insight, Inspiration, Integrity, Jesus, Justified, Life Grows, Lifting Up, Light, Matters, Maturity, Meaningful, Measure, Opened Eyes, Opportunity, Overrated, Pain, Past, Poetry and Poems, Portrait, Pray, Pressence, Questions, Recognize, Resolution, Sermon, Shame, Shatters, Sin, Son, Song, Spirit, Stages, Storms, Through, Transformation, Treasure, Truth, Truth Needed, Understood, Vain, Ways of Love, Whole, Winning, Wisdom, Word Life, Written Pages | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Power Is Not A Matter of Domination of Others…But Rather of Coalition-Building To Persuade Others To Contribute What They Can To An Innovation

Posted on March 12, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Power is not a matter of domination of others, of winning over them and cutting them out, or of monopolization of resources, but rather of coalition-building to persuade others to contribute what they can to an innovation.” – Rosabeth Kantor, … Continue reading →

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Words To Think

Posted on January 9, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Words To Thinkby Michael DoylePraying for blessing and favorAll words linked, meant to savorIn a world changing fastSo many moments that do not lastIn this living age of accelerationWe find many moments of fascinationLiving moments of radical transformationPast a bygone … Continue reading →

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Once There Was A Beginning

Posted on June 3, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Once There Was A Beginningby Michael DoyleOnce there was a beginningWhere two could end up winningA smile shared on a sunny dayYou really shook my blues awayYour two lips were surely meant for kissingAnd now here we are caught in … Continue reading →

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To Truly Win

Posted on February 9, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

To Truly Winby Michael DoyleWhat does it mean to truly winAnd in explaining this, where we do beginIt is the servant king who in humilityGives to each follower and person their dignityGoing back to the basics of the crossWe find … Continue reading →

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