Tag Archives: America

Rose Parade 2026

Posted on January 1, 2026 by alohapromisesforever

Rose Parade 2026by Michael DoyleEvery new year, we gather around the nationTo enjoy the Rose Parade celebration.The thought that I’ve done this nearly 63 yearsBrings a slight trickle of champion’s tears.I’m just a little bit missing my daughters,I suppose that’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2026, All-American Dream, America, Anheuser-Busch Clydesdales, Audio, Bands, Beaat, Better, Bloom, Celebration, Cheer, Court, Creativity, Crowd, Daughters, Depth and Structure, Design, Disney, Dream, Empower, Family, Feels Good, Float, Floral, Flower, Food, Gather, Given, Happy New Year, History, Horses, Kindness and Love, Levvity, Long Ago, Magic Johnson, Magical, Modern Father, Nation, New Year's Day, Parade, Pasadena, Poetry and Poems, Prevailing Message, Quee, Rain Gear, Rain-Kissed, Rose Parade, San Francisco, Scenery, Street, Team, The Marines, Thereapy, Thrill, Tower, Travel, Working Together, Writing | Leave a comment

Steve Cropper (In Remembrance of…)

Posted on December 13, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Steve Cropper (In Remembrance of…)by Michael DoyleCropper laid the template for rock-n-roll.Green Onions made the Soul Man cry. Sitting on the Dock of the Bay consoled our soulsAs Otis crashed and the rest of America cried.He proved that sometimes more … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged America, Bare Necessities, Belong, Certainty, Chugging Patterns, Clutter, Complexity, Console, Cry, Dissonance, Essential Groove, Feel, Flashy Solo, Green Onions, Guess, Jump Up, Language, Less, Licks, Madness, More, Move, Note, Otis Redding, Play, Pocket, Poetry and Poems, Precious and Tight, Primal Puriity, Remembrance, Right Place, Rock-n-Roll, Say, Siimple, Simply Right, Sitting On the Dock of the Bay, Space, Steve Cropper, Style, Succinct, Swagger, Template, Timing | Leave a comment

Madami II

Posted on November 25, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Madami IIby Michael DoyleThere is a creeping conspiracy of making up liesTo make society’s driving forces into bad guys. Most of the rich in America worked to get there.To believe otherwise is a sad game of stoking fear.The Havana Model … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abortion, America, Arrogance, Babies, Bad Guys, Believe, Chameleon, City, Communism, Confusion, Country, Creeping Conspiracy, Criminals, Defund and Dismantle, Driving Force, Empty, Enemies, Entrepreneurial Class, False Promises, Fear, Fools, Free Condoms, Fund, Globalizing the Intifada, Good, Groceries, Gun, Havana Model, Hear, History, Illegal Immigration, Madami, Made Up Lies, Madman, Marxism, Middle Class, Nation, Observer, Pass, Path, Philosophy, Pity, Poetry and Poems, Police Departments, Politics, Posture, Protection, Red Rage, Rich, Roaches, Sex Change Operations, Sex Work, Shadows, Sheer Ignorance, Snake, Social Services, Society, Stake, Stoking Fear, Surge, The Socialists, Venezuela, Wise Governance, Work, Workers | Leave a comment

Mandami I:

Posted on November 24, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Mandami I: by Michael DoyleAmerica has become a victim in dangerStabbed by the seditious enemy within.Our predicament could not be any strangerThan to see the blue city endorse communist sin.Sanders wants this throughout our country,But it will only drive us … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged allah, America, American Trdition, Base, Blue City, Communism, Corruption, Country, Cuba, Danger, Dark, Democratic Socialists, Dignity, Ego, Hard Work, History, Impropriety, Israel, Klling, Lies, Mandami, Marxism, Nepostism, News, Poetry and Poems, Politics, Poverty, Predicament, Quirk, Red Face, Sanders, Seditious Enemy, Socialist, Strange, Surge, The Democrats, Victim, Within | Leave a comment

First Principles: America Will Never Be Destroyed From the Outside. If We Falter and Lose Our Freedoms, It Will Be Because We Destroyed Ourselves

Posted on November 18, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” – Abraham Lincoln (Look at the election results in NYC, Seattle, Portland, and elsewhere. We are voting in … Continue reading →

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Religious Liberty In America

Posted on September 17, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Religious Liberty In Americaby Michael DoyleThe Woke agenda is practically gone.Now is the time to pick up and move beyond.The protection of faith is fundamental to liberty.It is also elemental to America’s history.As long as our day has length,Belief in … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Allowed, America, Anti-Christian Bias, Anxieety, Belief In God, Disbelief, Element, Expressed Freely, Faith, First Amendment, Fundamental, History, Liberty, Love of God, Mind, Move Beyond, Poetry and Poems, Protection of Faith, Religious Bigotry, Religious Liberty, Society, Woke Agenda | Leave a comment

Making Early Connections

Posted on September 3, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Making Early Connectionsby Michael DoyleGrowing up, living in the shadow of war,There was hope, but little more.Utopian dreams grew from anxiety.There was no surrender to the complexity.America offered her roots, rock, and blues.Trains were rolling over blue suede shoes.Memphis electrified … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Affect, America, Beat, Blue Suede Shoes, Blues, British, Business, Classic Rock, Connection, Cutting Teeth, Drums, Efficiency, Electric Guitars, Freedom, Guitars, Harp, Jam, James BRown, John Bonham, Little Richard, Lonnie Donegan, Memphis, Music, Poetry and Poems, Records, Rock, rock-music, Shadow of War, Shaking All Over, Shuffle, Skiffle Beat, Song, Stars, Studio Session, The Street | Leave a comment

First Principles: A Strong Defense Is the Surest Way To Peace. Strength Makes Detente Attainable. Weakness Invites War

Posted on August 28, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“A strong defense is the surest way to peace. Strength makes detente attainable. Weakness invites war, as my generation – my generation – knows from four very bitter experiences. Just as America’s will for peace is second to none, so … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged America, Armed Forces, Bitter Experience, Detente, First Principles, Forbearnce, Gerald R. Ford, Nation, Peace, Power, Resolve, Security, Strength, Strong Defense, War, Weaknesss | Leave a comment

First Principles: We Cannot Learn From One Another Until We Stop Shouting At One Another, Until We Speak Quietly Enough So That Our Words Can Be Heard

Posted on August 27, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“In these difficult years, America has suffered from a fever of words; from inflated rhetoric that promises more than it can deliver; from angry rhetoric that fans discontents into hatreds; from bombastic rhetoric that postures instead of persuading. We cannot … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged America, Deliver, Difficult Years, Discontent, Fever, First Priinciples, Hatred, Heard, Lean, One Another, Posture, Promise, Rhetoric, Richard M. Nixon, Shout, Speak Quietly, Voice, Words | Leave a comment

Rebuilding America

Posted on July 28, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Rebuilding Americaby Michael DoyleOur defiant spirit makes America proud.We have more faith than we should be allowed.It wasn’t passing time that shaped us into being.Our visionaries forced us into always seeingThe shapes of things to come for our nationWere led … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged America, Civilization, Economy, Exploration, Faith, History, Industry, Nation, Persistence, Poetry and Poems, Politics, Rebuild, Shape, Spirit, The United States of America, Travel, Vision, Wilderness | Leave a comment