Tag Archives: Words

The Best of We

Posted on July 10, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

The Best of Weby Michael DoyleThere are things sometimes saidThat could be put a better wayEmotions ricochet off the tapes in our headsBetter-chosen words keep the ball in playThe fights fought are a step forwardOn the path that moves us … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ball In Play, Best, Best of We, Better Way, Buckle Up, Constructively, Emotions, Eternity, Feelings, Fight, Fights, Hide, Hurt, Legacy, Limits, Little Crazy, Love Is Blind, Path, Poetry and Poems, Pop Psychology, Ricochet, Ride, Said, Step Foward, Strategy, Tapes, Together, Toward, Two of A Kind, We, Words | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Where Words Fail, Music Speaks

Posted on July 2, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Where words fail, music speaks.” – Hans Christian Andersen

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Fail, Hans Christian Andersen, Music, Speak, Thought For the Day, Where, Words | Leave a comment

Into A Pirate’s Tomorrow

Posted on June 25, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Into A Pirate’s Tomorrowby Michael DoyleIt’s a rough pirate’s world out thereWhen words spoken spill into loose fearMobs, it seems, are as easily turnedAs pirate shanty towns are easily burnedJust as melancholy on the azure wavesAre the boarding plans that … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adventure, Allow, Allure, Azure Waves, Battle, Boarding Plans, Burn, Consternation, Desire, Fade, Fantasy, Fear, Fire, First Thrust, Forgot, Grave, Half-Broken, Heart, History, Improvisation, Into, Melancholy, Mobs, Pirate, Pirate King, Pirate's Lot, Pirates, Pistol, Plans Made, Plunder, Poetry and Poems, Power, Ragtag World, Shanty Towns, Tattle, Timeless Hour, Tomorrow, Travel, Treasure, Turn, Understood, Winced, Wonder, Words, World, Zig and Zag | Leave a comment

Cheap Candles Finding Gold

Posted on June 8, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Cheap Candles Finding Goldby Michael DoyleAsk any Rabbi, and you’re sure to findA story or two to give sight to the blindIt’s a whispered rumor illustrating the taleOf how those with pride are sure to fallEven cheap candles can illuminate … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Absence, Alone, Bad Mood, Blind, Cheap Candles, Creation, Dream, Eyes, Fact Pattern, Fall, Find, Find the Point, God, Gold, Hear, Hope, Humanity, Illuminate, Illustrate, Illustrating, Incomprehensible, Intrude, Lessons, Mind's Window, Moments, Mystery, Never Comprehending, Never Know, No Friend, Nothing, Orchestrate, Ordinary Stone, Path, Poetry and Poems, Presence, Present, Pride, Rabbi, Receive, Resent, Rumor, Sages, See, Sight, Solid Rock, Something, Stories, Tablets, Truths, Universe, Unnatural Fact, Vague Talk, Wind, Words | Leave a comment

Harbor Minds

Posted on May 23, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Harbor Mindsby Michael DoyleLike dolphins on an Aegean journeyBegan the seeds of ancient Greek philosophySome germinating into full-bloomed thoughtOthers leave more room, yet to be soughtOne notion after another brought sight to the blindOne motion after another for the good … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Aegean Journey, Aegean Sea, Answer, Believe, Best, Blind, Complexity, Curious Monkeys, Dancers, Dolphins, Express, Foundation, Germinate, Greek Philosophy, Harbor Minds, Hearth, Ideas, Initiation, Interaction, Joined Together, Knowledge, Luagh, Mankind, Mirth, Motion, Notion, Optimism, Pessimism, Phoenicians, Poetry and Poems, Quest, Question, Reliability, Room, Seeds, Sight, Simplicity, Sought, Spirit of Transaction, Systematic Thought, Thirst, Thought, Travel, Unafraid, Waves, Whisper, Words, World of Thoughts, Worms With Wings | Leave a comment

Our Living Hope

Posted on May 22, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Our Living Hopeby Michael DoyleOur living hope is pureMaking our souls sureOf the Lord’s living graceAs we gaze on His holy faceWe know this by the tracesIn all we do as we embraceIn this living God we knowWho brings light … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Aware, Become, Been, Bible, Celebration, Christianity, Commit, Communion, Darkness, Dedication, Embrace, Family, Focus, Forever, Forward, Freed, Gaze, God, God's Community, Grace, Gratitude, Hallelujah, Hands, Heaven, Holy Face, Humble, Humbled Hearts, Individual, Jesus, Join, Know, Light, Living God, Living Hope, Living Right, Lord, Need, Offering, One-By-One, Partake, Poetry and Poems, Pride, Pure, Raise, Rendering, Repent, Right Attitude, Sacred Praise, Satan, Satan's Snare, Shadow, Sin, Soul, Soul Shake, Start, Sure, The Lord, Trace, Transform, Voices, Words | Leave a comment

Life Lived Artfully (Without Deceit)

Posted on May 18, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Life Lived Artfully (Without Deceit)by Michael DoyleImagine, if you might, your life in a circumstanceHanded over to art, but only from a tragic distanceIt would be a malaise that knew its exceptionBecause your life is the art that doesn’t know … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Art, Artfully, Circumstance, Critique, Deceit, Deception, Evening Star, Every Moment, Exception, Familiar Life, Fascination, Forgiving, General Explanation, Heal, heartbeat, Hope, Imagine, Jagged Scar, Lamentation, Life Lived, Limitation, Long Time Living, Malaise, Masquerade, Poetry and Poem, Simple Life, Stories, Sunset, Tragic Distance, Translation, Truth, Understanding, Variation, Words | Leave a comment

In Pursuit of Great Expectations

Posted on May 9, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

In Pursuit of Great Expectationsby Michael DoyleI love the way you love meThe way that it makes me feelIt helps me find the abilityTo make it through and keep things realShining like a beacon of lightIt’s you that gets me … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ability, Bare, Beacon, Best, Devotion, Done, Dreams, Emotions, End, Explain, Feel, Fell Apart, Fly, Flying, Forever, Great Expectations, Head, Heartbroken, Hearts, Keep, Key, Landimines, Lost, Love, Love You, Meaning, Memories, Miracle, My Friend, My Love, Night, Paper Cuts, Poem, Poet, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Promises, Pursuit, Real, Recall, Share, Somehow, Someone, Soul, Stop, Struggle, Tears, The one, Too Close To the Sun, Truth, Undoing, Unsaid, Vain, Weep, Why, Wings, Words, Writing | Leave a comment

He Inspires

Posted on May 7, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

He Inspiresby Michael DoyleThough His body was brokenIn His words that were spokenHe revealed that we are forgivenEven in the times that we live inAs our living hope, He held out His handOffering grace that we might understandThe struggles we … Continue reading →

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Worthy Of Our Praise

Posted on April 30, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Worthy of Our Praiseby Michael DoyleAll of our best daysBegin by giving God praiseAs the blindest eyes seeThe blessings of the TrinityGiving our all is what we bringHere together as we singNot as moments of platitudeBut moved by righteous gratitudeTo … Continue reading →

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