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Thought For the Day: The Library Is An Arena of Possibility, Opening Both A Window Into the Soul and A Door Onto the World

Posted on August 31, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.” – Rita Dove

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In A Less Than Perfect World

Posted on August 10, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

In A Less Than Perfect Worldby Michael DoyleI look out into my living roomIt gives me hope instead of gloomTo see my daughters study by preferenceAnd not out of some required deferenceMaybe I did one or two things rightTo be … Continue reading →

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In Beginning To Chill Hostility

Posted on August 4, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

In Beginning To Chill Hostilityby Michael DoyleIn truth, Christ came to save us allBringing us peace, as we might recallChrist has already graced us as He’s doneIn the name of the Father, the Spirit, and the SonIn this world, hanging … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Align, Argument, Attention, Begin, Better Day, Bind, Blowback, Bread, Capture, Case Study, Chill, Christ, Christians, Civility, Confidence, Controversy, Conversation, Corruption, Critical Thinking, Derivations, Echo Chambers, Embrace, Eternal Liberty, Fall Short, Father, Golgotha, Good Repute, Grace, Guided By God, Hands of Providence, Holiness, Hostility, Humility, Impure, Incendiary, Insensibility, Intention, Know, Life's Purposes, Lip Service, Morality, Our Times, Passion, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Preach, Pretend, Public Square, Reach, Reasoned Dispute, Rules of Engagement, Seem, Son, Spirit, Spoken, Struggle, Study, Surface, True, Truly Woken, Truth, Understand, Words, World | Leave a comment

Intoxicatingly Lost

Posted on August 2, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Intoxicatingly Lostby Michael DoyleWe paraded all of our songsSinging on the trail to each otherStrumming our tunes to one anotherWondering where we might belongWe were tripping over the costFeeling intoxicatingly lostAs we fished for the starsInventing our stories on our … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 15 Minutes, Bamboo Flute, Believe, Belong, Best Friend, Blue Stone, Bows, Butterflies, Chances, Conspire, Cosmic Dances, Cost, Court, Darkness, Ends, Eventually, Explore, Fast, Fingers, Fire, Float, Focus and Emphasis, Fools, Full Moon, Gilded Screens, Glory, Gothic Cathedrals, Guitars, Gun Slingers, Intoxicatingly Lost, Life, Lived and Loved, Lonely Shadows, Lost Dreams, Metamorphosis, Moment, Moonbow, MTV, Night, Occur, Paraade, Poetry and Poems, Pyrotechnics, Ring, Rock, Seat, Sing, Songs, Sonic, Stars, Stories, Strum, Sun, Tell, Tides of the Moon, Too Soon, Trail, Trip, Troubadours, Tunes, Vampire, Wind, Wonder, World, You and I | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: We Cannot All Succeed When Half of Us Are Held Back

Posted on July 31, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.” – Malala Yousafzai

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The Painful Reality of Perfectionism

Posted on July 30, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

The Painful Reality of Perfectionismby Michael DoyleThere is a need to face eventuallyWhether painful or not, the realityThat however much we have optimismThere is no such thing as perfectionismAt least so much as actually be perfectThere is only really the … Continue reading →

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A Question of Dimension

Posted on July 26, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

A Question of Dimensionby Michael DoyleA question awaits every believerIs God or Is God not a deceiverFrom this point, we’ll need evidenceConclusions must be drawn based on relevanceIs the Earth young? Or Is It Old?Are we to believe our eyes … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2000 Years Ago, Adherents, Age, Answers, Appareance, Apprehension, Bats and Birds, Believer, Bible, Children, Clue, Complexity, Comprehension, Conclusions, Confuse, Deceiver, Demanding, Dimension, Disciples, Drawn, Earth, Evidence, Explain, Faith, Free, God, Good Enough, Jesus, Know, Life, Living, Love, Our Eyes, Page, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Point, Precious, Pretend, Pursue, Question, Relevance, Right, Seen, Sense, Simplicity, Today, Told, Truth, Understanding, World, Yesterday | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: The World Is Full of People Who Have Never, Since Childhood, Met an Open Doorway With an Open Mind

Posted on July 11, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.” – E.B. White

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A Reach and Twitch

Posted on July 9, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

A Reach and Twitchby Michael DoyleA hand reaches out and twitchesHeld out toward the unseen switchesAs a life comes and then is goneAs easy as a light turned off and onWe come into this life cryingScreaming out for more and … Continue reading →

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Standing In the Light

Posted on July 2, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Standing In the Lightby Michael DoyleLet me share a secretThat’s hard to forgetThey say to write what you knowThis blank page only goes to showMaybe how little that isAnd how much I missIn a life that’s full motionBut often empty … Continue reading →

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