Tag Archives: Wrong

Books Read Throughout Life

Posted on May 20, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Books Read Throughout Lifeby Michael DoyleIn a repeated mantra of lifeIn all the things we have soughtThere is the truth reflectedIn lessons accidentally taughtIn this and all stages of lifeWe find it’s worth another lookTo sit and quietly curl upWith … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accidentally Taught, Another, Books, Connectives, Curl Up, Excuse, Experience, Failed, Finding Hope, Genius, Golden Rule, Guess, Hamlet, Know Better, Lessons, Look for the Less, Mantra, Mediocre Minds, Nobility, Our Eyes, Philosophy, Playwright, Poetry and Poems, Read, Reflective, Shakespeare, Sit, Sought, Space, Stage, Stages of Life, Steep, Stumble, Tragic Comedy, Truth Reflected, Vengeance, Words, World, Worth Another Look, Wrong, Yet to Learn, Youth | Leave a comment

Once Too Many Times

Posted on May 12, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Once Too Many Timesby Michael DoyleYou there, who do so wrongIt’s me here, telling you that you don’t belongPointing at your mistake with my fingerThat is, until, I notice the smell lingersAnd it is myself who is wickedStinking in my … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accept, Acknowledging, Becomes Clear, Belong, Chafe, Christianity, Dare Not, Every Hour, Failed Possibility, Finger, Gap, Garb of Peasant, Gracious, Greatest Power, Keeping To Myself, Know, Lingers, Living My Life, Lord's Correction, Lord's Fire, Lord's True Presence, Mirror, Mistake, Mistakes, My Desires, My Own Heartbreaks, Myself, Once, Peasant Rhymes, Persevere, Poetry and Poems, Pointing, Profession, Pure Church, Purified, Quietly, Rebuke, Returning My Life, Right Direction, Robes of Royalty, Separating, Simple Look, Smell, Someone Else, Sticky Wicket, Stinking In My Own Skin, Tap, Too Many Times, True, Unrefined, Wheat, Wicked, Wish, Worship, Wrong | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: America Is Not A Racist Country. It’s Backwards To Fight Discrimination With Different Types of Discrimination

Posted on May 8, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“Hear me clearly. America is not a racist country. It’s backwards to fight discrimination with different types of discrimination, and it’s wrong to use our painful past to dishonestly shut down debates in the present.” – Senator Tim Scott (South … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged America, Clearly, Debates, Different Types of Discrimination, Dishonest, Fight Discrimination, Hear Me, Not A Racist Nation, Painful Past, Present, Senator Tim Scott, Shut Down, Thought For the Day, Use, Wrong | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: I Think He Has Been Wrong On Nearly Every Major Foreign Policy and National Security Issue Over the Past Four Decades

Posted on April 17, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“I think he has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.” – Robert Gates on Joe Biden’s track record

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Foreign Policy, Four Decades, Joe Biden, Major, National Security Issue, Nearly Every, Past, Robert Gates, Thought For the Day, Wrong | Leave a comment

In the Precedent of 2020

Posted on December 13, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

In the Precedent of 2020by Michael DoyleThere is something setQuietly there in the precedentAn unlikely principle we forgetThat we’d not be without accidentWho it is that we are todayI hope that’s not too flippant to sayThat despite our efforts to … Continue reading →

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Some Times We Can Wait No Longer

Posted on October 13, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Some Times We Can Wait No Longerby Michael DoyleSocrates and Jesus took their last breathsAs each of these were put to their deathsAccused and tried for treason and blasphemyAnd in corrupting the young by truth’s divinityThe noble search and allegiance … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, Allegiance, Allow Life, Appreciate, Beauty, Beyond Compare, Beyond Our Control, Blasphemy, Born, Burn, Call, Chain, Commiseration, Complication, Consolation, Corrupt, Curing, Dedication, Derive, Divine Comedy, Divinity, Document, Emperor, Enduring, Evil, Evil Intent, Explanation, Faithful, Fame and Fortune, Fate, Freed Thoughts, Freedoms, Gained Victory, Gifts, Gives and Takes, God's Instruments, Good, Happiness, Harsh, Hatred, Heaven, History, Holy and Good, Humanity, Imprisoned, Instrument, Jesus, Justice, Know, Last Breath, Laughter, Led, Library, Life, Literature, Live, Live On, Lose Charm, Loss, Love, Martin Luther King Jr, Mean, Mind, Misery, Must, No Longer, Noble, Nothing, Others, Outside Agitator, Overome, Philosophy, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power of Belief, Providence, Put to Death, Real Form, Respond, Returning Good for Evil, Reveal, Rhapsody, Search, Second Guess, Segregation, Sermons, Shackled Will, Slander, Socrates, Some Times We Wait No Longer, Sung, Tatter, Theta, Times, Treason, Trouble, Trust, Truth, Understood, Unwise, Venerate, Wait, Wicked Consolation, World, Wrong, Young | Leave a comment

Trying To Bottle Up

Posted on August 23, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Trying To Bottle Upby Michael DoyleTrying to bottle up all the troubleStraight talking never ever doubleIs something that is next to impossibleSomething of which I know I’m incapableBut, I would do almost anything To keep you safe from all that … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anything, Bottle Up, Correct, Cross, Crucify, Daughters, Dignify, Double, Everything, False Move, Father, Guilty, Imperfect, Impossible, Impress, Improve, Incapable, Know, Loss, Loved, Pardon Me, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pound of Flesh, Safe, Straight Talk, Strong, Trouble, Wait, Wrong | Leave a comment

Bloated Ramble

Posted on August 18, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Another sort of look at how monsters are just good challenged and not evil… 😉 Bloated Rambleby Michael DoyleHumans fear the hours of the nightAll the darkness and absence of lightAnd all of the sounds that bring human frightSimply because … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Absence, Among Us, Bloat, Bogeyman, Bright, Challenged, Crackle, Creatures, Dark, Darkness, Devil, Difference, Door, Explore, Fear, Fright, Frighten, Fungus, Hide, Horror Show, Human, Humans, Incivility, Joys, Light, Lights, Me and You, Monsters, Monstrosity, Mutual, Night, Not Evil, Overstatement, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Rainbow, Ramble, Rattle, Rubbing, Shake, Simple, Sound, Sounds, Spell, Squeak, Stone, Superstitious, Talk, Town, True, Truth, Well, Wish, Women, World, Wrong | Leave a comment

Righting My Wrong Direction

Posted on August 10, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

A little something from my notes taken during yesterday’s sermon: Righting My Wrong Direction by Michael Doyle No longer living in the wrong direction I’m seeking God’s love and true connection Returning the fullness of love that God has given … Continue reading →

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When Children Speak

Posted on July 25, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

When our children speak, we should listen. We never know what we might learn? If nothing else how they see the world. And I can think of no greater gift than understanding the world through the eyes and hearts of … Continue reading →

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