Tag Archives: Words

To Know Love Actually

Posted on January 27, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

To Know Love Actuallyby Michael DoyleI was just saying helloWhen you started saying goodbyeI kept trying the best I know Being persistent in giving it my best tryLove can be and is so cruelAnd I am inevitably its foolStill, I … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Actual, Agony, Beginning To End, Best Friend, Christmas, Cruel, Dark Horses, Emotion, Factual, Flaw, Fool, Forgiving, Gift, Giving, Goodbey, Heartbreak, Hello, Know, Love, Million MIles, Mine, Mistake, Motion, Persistent, Poetry and Poems, Real Answers, Sorrow, Text Lines, This Day, Tomorrow, True Love, Truly Mine, Valentine, Wish, Words | Leave a comment

Pushback On A Throw Away Life

Posted on January 6, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Pushback On A Throw Away Lifeby Michael DoyleWords are frequently flungLike bells that can’t be un-rungThere remains work to be doneWe can’t turn away before it’s wonFor those with caring heartsThis is off to a rough startPeople who deserve next … Continue reading →

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Love Notes

Posted on December 27, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Love Notesby Michael DoyleIt’s a three lock boxIt is ours to remove these locksThere in the holy three-in-oneAre the Father, Spirit, and the SonI cry as I think of the things they’ve doneNow I am redeemed and the victory wonThe … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Church, Death, Done, Faith and Hope, Father, Found, Free, Fully Known, Glimmer, Great Love, Heart, Heaven, Holy, Hope, Hospital, Lacked, Last Breath, Locks, Looking Back, Love Notes, Old Guitar, Part, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Redemption, Remove, Salvation, Son, Spirit, The Lord, Three Lock Box, Three-In-One, Travel, Unknown God, Victory, Wait, Words | Leave a comment

The One Who Won’t Go Away

Posted on December 22, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

The One Who Won’t Go Awayby Michael DoyleIn the air is a feeling of anticipationAs we joyfully prepare our contributionChristmas is coming as if we’re dreamingSoul shine fills us as if it’s beamingGod is with us as we happily prepare … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Advent, Air, Angels, Anticipation, Baby In A Manger, Beam, Belief, Bell, Bible, Blessed, Blessing, Blessings, Born, Buden, Changing the World, Chase the World, Christ, Christmas, Christmas Morn, Church, Compare, Contentment, Contribution, Cope, Discourage, Dream, Eternity, Faith, Free, Glory To God Alone, Go Away, God, God's Holy Ways, Good News, Goodness, Great Comission, Grow, Heart, Hearts, Hope, Impact, Inspiration, Jesus, Joy, Know, Light, Living, Love, Loving Ways, Majesty, Mankind, Merry Christmas, Million Views, Mistaken, Odd, One, Outside World, Peace, Pleasing, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Prayers, Prepare, Read, Reason For This Season, Redefine, Regisgry, Relief, Savior, Second-Guessing, Shifting Sands, Shown, Sight, Simple Beginnings, Socials, Soul Shine, Strife, Stumble, Sunday, Taken For Granted, Time, Transformation, Trust, Understood, Walk, Wedding, Wings, Wonderful Life, Words, Worship, Worth, Yesterday | Leave a comment

Places Forms Voice

Posted on November 30, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Place Forms Voiceby Michael DoyleIt’s said that place forms voiceEven when it’s not of our choiceIn my life, I’ve traveled aroundAnd this is what I, too, have foundThis is especially true of poetryEach of us is formed by our countryIt’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Allow, Believe, Can, Changes, Choice, Circumstance, Clogged, Constant, Country, Desitny, Dreams, Fear, Feet, First Step, Found, Ground, Happiness, Impossible, Journey, Life, Life's Dance, Limited, Make, Master, Moonbeams, Need, Places, Plunge In, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Possible, Read, Space, Success, Sun, Thoughts, Time, Trace, Travel, Trrap, True, Understand, Voice, Words | Leave a comment

First Principles: As We Express Our Gratitude, We Must Never Forget That the Highest Appreciation Is Not To Utter Words, But To Live By Them

Posted on November 26, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” – John F. Kennedy

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Appreciation, Express, First Principles, Forget, Gratitude, John F. Kennedy, Live, Words | Leave a comment

Like Flowers In A Vase

Posted on November 23, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Like Flowers In A Vase (For Joni Mitchell)by Michael DoyleBlonde hair and a long silhouetteA beautiful voice, unforgotten yetLife’s so short and makes us numbBeauty like this is what we becomeA voice for her generationHeld by many with great venerationA … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Beautiful Voice, Beauty, Become, Blonde Hair, Circumspection, Clouds, Declarative, First-Person Narrative, Flowers, Generation, Hesitation, Introspection, Involved, Joni Mitchell, Known, Lady Blue, Life, Madmen and Badmen, Memory, Numb, Poetry and Poems, Point of View, Question, Short, Shown, Silhouette, Sus Chords, Taken For Granted, True, Truth, Unforgotten, Unresolved, Vase, Veneration, Voice, Words | Leave a comment

Rights of Passage

Posted on November 15, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Rights of Passageby Michael DoyleAs just another poet by designI would like to contest what’s mineYou see, it’s true that I’m not deadBut folks want to argue over words saidThe count is not final in the leastThough some would provoke … Continue reading →

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Rodin’s Artistry

Posted on November 12, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Rodin’s Artistryby Michael DoyleSome pursue the fine arts for immortalityThat makes a degree of sense thoroughlyAfter all, you start with a marble blockBut see what you will transform from rockLike water, the shape begins to conformThe chisel drips patiently to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alone, Appetite, Artist's Heart, Artistry, Atone, Behind, Better Days, Bronze, Chisel, Complication, Conform, Contemplation, Creativity, Depth, Deserved, Drip By Drip, Feeling Right, Fine Arts, Finish, Fool, Genuine Spark, God's Home, Guided Hand, Immortality, Just So, Knowledge, Marble Block, Movement Observed, Nature, Plaster, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Precision, Reality, Reflection, Rock, Rodin, Sculptor, See and Know, Sense, Shape, Start, Stone, Terra-Cotta, The Artist, Thinker's Mind, Tortured Heart, Transform, Truth, Vision, Water, Words | Leave a comment

Two-Way Street

Posted on November 5, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Two-Way Streetby Michael DoyleI don’t have the words to sayAll the things that I must sayI silently sit here, and I prayI will somehow make my wayTo my shepherd, I will singThe holiest of holies, He is my kingYou know … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Comfort, Congregation, Days of Life, Destination, Disappear, Faith, Faithfulness, Feeling Weak, Freed, Holiest of Holies, King, Lead, Life, Lost, Make My Way, Meet, Path, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Say, Shepherd, Silent, Sing, Sing and Shout, Tapestry, The Lord, Two-Way Street, Wait, Words, Words To Speak, Yoke | Leave a comment