Tag Archives: Arms

A Vancouverite Current

Posted on April 15, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

The Na/GloPoWriM0 Day 15 challenge is to provide a Robert Brown or Shakespearian styled monologue sort of a poem. I opted for a redo on Hamlet’s “To Be or Not To Be” monologue. Kind of.. I opted for happy thoughts not … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Arms, Beaten, Border, Caution, Conscience, Country, Coward, Current, Decision, Deep, Delay, Devote, Dream, Flesh, Folly, Fortune, Friend, Gloom, Good, Gray, Happiness, Happy, Heartache, Heir, Hope, Infatuation, Insolence, Jammies, Know, Life, Love, Me, Merit, Moment, Monologue, Mortal Coil, Motivation, Na/GloPoWriMo, Naked, Native Resolution, Noise, Patience, Pause, Photograph, Pleasure, Poem, Poetry, Pride, Purn, Puzzle, Question, Quiet, Regret, Respect, Return, Reward, Robert Brown, Sake, Shock, Sky, Sleep, Song, Thought, Time, To Be Or Not To Be, Traveler, Trouble, Turn Back, Vancouver, Voyage, Warmth, Weary, Will, William Shakespeare, Wisdom, Wish, Worth | Leave a comment

Chinook of the North

Posted on April 11, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

My apologies for falling asleep before writing the poem for yesterday’s challenge. The challenge for Na/GloPoWriMo Day 10 is to write a poem that references a local weather term. After some thought and discussion, I have chose a type … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged American, Arms, Beach, Canada, Canadian Rockies, Canuck, Chinook, City, Cloud, Coastie, Cold, Cold Spell, Color, Companion, Company, Conversation, Dawn, Devotion, Fraser Canyon, Friend, Funny, Gray, Her, Human, Indulgence, Lady, Laughs, Love, Lovely, Lover, Magic, Midnight, Monkey, Moon, Mountain, Na/GloPoWriMo, Need, North, Ocean Child, Orographic, Pacific Ocean, Peace, Photograph, Pineapple Breeze, Playful, Poem, Poetry, Rain Shadow, Rainbow, Ramparts, Safe, Shine, Smile, Snow Eater, Snowbird, Snowfall, Spawn, Star, Story, Sweet, Teasure, Term, Tim Horton, Two Nations, United States, Weather, Whisper, Wind, Witness, Worry | Leave a comment

First Principles: The Right To Bear Arms Is Based On Their Deterrence Against Attack and Infringement

Posted on March 21, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms … disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes… Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Arms, Assailant, Carrying, Ceasare Beccaria, Confidence, Crime, Criminal, Disarm, Encourage, First Principles, Homocides, Innocents, Law, Man, Thomas Jefferson, Unarmed | Leave a comment

First Principles: It Is Essential To Preserve Liberty That All People Possess Arms and Be Taught How To Use Them

Posted on January 24, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Whereas, to preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them; nor does it follow from this, that all promiscuously must go into … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Anti-Republican Principle, Arms, Federal Farmer, First Principles, Guard, Liberty, Possess, Preserve, Richard Henry Lee, Select Milita, Taught, The People, Use | Leave a comment

First Principles: To Preserve Liberty, It Is Necessary That People Keep Arms and Are Trained In Using These

Posted on January 9, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Anti-republican, Arms, Essential, Federal Farmer, First Principles, Guard, Liberty, Possess, Preserve, Richard Henry Lee, Select Militia, The People, Trained | Leave a comment

Scraps of Poetry

Posted on December 13, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

Memories are made as such as these. Scraps of Poetry by Michael Romani You ask me what is about you That makes this feel so true You smile knowing That I wish for a way of showing Heartbeat is slowing … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Arms, Charm, Connection, Dance, Eyes, Feel, First Kiss, Full Moon, heartbeat, Learn, Page, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Safe, Show, Smile, Soul, Spell, True, Walk, Words | Leave a comment

First Principles: States and Their Militias Serve A Powerful Check To the Ambition and Power of the Federal Government

Posted on October 28, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Advantage, Ambition, Americans, Arms, Barrier, Federal Government, First Principles, James Madison, Militia, States, Subordinate Governments | Leave a comment

First Principles: We Should Trust In God Not Political Manipulation

Posted on September 8, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“Their arts may be more dangerous than their arms. Let us then renounce all treaty with them upon any score but that of total separation, and under God trust our cause to our swords.” – Samuel Adams (1776)

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Arms, First Priniciples, God, Live Free Or Die, Manipulation, Politics, Reliance, Renounce, Samuel Adams, Separation, Trust | Leave a comment

First Principles: To Believe That the Militia Isn’t The Entirety of the People Is Against the Principles of Our Republic

Posted on July 14, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“Whereas, to preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them… The mind that aims at a select militia, must be influenced by … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Anti-Republican Principles, Arms, Federal Farmer, First Principles, Instruction, Liberty, Milita, Perservation, Select Militia, The People, Vigilance | 1 Comment

Thought For the Day: Arms Are For Hugs, Not Killing

Posted on May 22, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“I like to say that arms are not for killing. They are for hugging.” – Betty Williams, peace activist, Nobel laureate (b. 22 May 1943)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Arms, Betty Williams, Hugs, Killing, Peace, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment