Tag Archives: Calamity

Curiously Isolated

Posted on May 8, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Curiously Isolatedby Michael DoyleThe Rockies abruptly pull upward.Away from drifting downward, Not toward the prairie grassSurprisingly, found in this mountain passAn insect flutters blade to blade,Sipping at flowered nectar to persuadeLife to go on as it rearrangesDespite all the inbreeding … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Calamity, Climate Changes, Coloration, Curiously Isolated Hairstreak, Downward, Drab, Evolutionary Trajectory, History, Insect, Math, Mountain Pass, Nectar, Poetry and Poems, Prairie Grass, River's Edge, Rivers Edge, Science, Splendid Isolation, The Rockies, Upward, Vulernable, Wildfire | Leave a comment

A Desire For Positive Impact

Posted on January 4, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

A Desire for Positive Impactby Michael DoyleThis an age that embraces the apocalypse constantlyIt is hard to find anyone left who feels empathyFor those who want to live a life to its fullest measureIt is as though we have forgotten … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Achievement, Age, Apocalypse, Beacon of Light, Calamity, Challenges, Connection, Demise, Desire, Doing, Empahty, Fulfillment, Goethe, Imagination, Kernels of Wisdom, Life, Measure, New Experences, Nurture, Poetry and Poems, Positive Impact, Potential, Rage Against the Night, Satisfication, Thinking, Treasure, True Action, Vanity | Leave a comment

Surrender and Devotion

Posted on November 10, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Surrender and Devotionby Michael DoyleEvery one of usMove from death to lifeWe know that it’s more than a fussAs we move toward peace from strifeOur values push us toward unityLiving in the free land of libertyThis is the struggle for … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Audience of One, Bible, Blind Spots, Calamity, Catalyic, Centerstage, Church, Circumstance, Community, Completion, Conversation, Courage, Dead, Death to Life, Deed, Dispute, Ears, Faith, False Glory, False Pride, False Teaching, Fear, Fuss, God, Going, Harmony, Hear, Heart, Hollow, Holy Spirit, Humanity, Indwelling, Jesus, Know, Liberty, Love, Outspoken, Overreaching, Peace From Strife, Poetry and Poems, Relationship, Repetition, Revelation, Scriptures, Seven Stars, Shallow, Social Reputation, Start, Struggle, Surrender and Devotion, Table, The Book, True Repentance, Unity, Values, Way Forward, World's Brokenness, Worship | Leave a comment

No News, Anxiety Blues

Posted on June 15, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

No News, Anxiety Bluesby Michael DoyleEven though they tell meThat I wear victory’s crownThey’ll never totally sell meThat I should not feel downYes, I survived and stand aliveI can’t say the same for friendsPatriotic to the point of deep diveNow, … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above My Paygrade, Anxiety, Assure, Beloved Sons, Blended Shade, Blues, Brightness, Calamity, Carrying On, Choices, Cold Sweat, Combat, Crown, Cure, Dancer, Daughters, Dead, Decision, Decisions, Deep Dive, Devil, Disappear, Done, Dread, End, Eyes, Face, Faith, Feel Down, Feel Love, Forgiveness, Friends, Fright, Full Control, God Above, God Is the Answer, Good Night, Grim Shade, Hard To Move, Hues, Joy, Jungian Analysis, Known, Look Right, Looking, Lose It, Love, Made, Memories, Metaphysical, Moment, Need, News, No Black and White, No Time For Fear, Offer, Patriotic, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Prayer, Prayers, Psychology, Question, Quiz, Recall, Recognize, Remember, Safe, Same, Second Guessing, Sell, Sleep, Sorrow, Soul, Stand Alive, Stare, Survive, Total Paralysis, Victory, Voice, Wak, Wake, Wall, Worst Fears, Years | Leave a comment

First Principles: Society In Every State Is A Blessing, But Government, Even In Its Best State, Is But A Necessary Evil

Posted on December 12, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Blessing, Calamity, Country, First Principles, Government, Intolerable, Miseries, Necessary Evil, Society, State, Suffer, Thomas Paine | Leave a comment

First Principles: Society In Every State Is A Blessing, But Government, Even In Its Best State, Is But A Necessary Evil; In Its Worst State An Intolerable One

Posted on July 10, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Blessing, Calamity, Country Without Government, Every State, First Principles, Government, Heightened, Intolerable, Means, Miseries, Necessary Evil, Society, Suffer, Thomas Paine | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: I Can Scarcely Contemplate A Greater Calamity That Could Befall This Country, Than Be Loaded With A Debt Exceeding Their Ability Ever to Discharge

Posted on December 1, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“I can scarcely contemplate a greater calamity that could befall this country, than be loaded with a debt exceeding their ability ever to discharge. If this be a just remark, it is unwise and improvident to vest in the general … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Ability, Befall, Borrow, Calamity, Contemplate, Country, Debt, Discharge, Government, Improvident, Loaded, Power, Restriction, Robert Yates, Scarce, Thought For the Day, Unwise, Without Any Limitation | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: What’s Amazing Is President Biden Ran For Office As the Foreign Policy Expert

Posted on August 21, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“What’s amazing is President Biden ran for office as the foreign policy expert … and yet look at how poorly planned this seems to be right now. It is a calamity playing out.” – The Washington Post’s Philip Rucker This … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Amazing, Calamity, Foreign Policy Expert, Office, Philip Rucker, Poorly Planned, President Biden, The Washington Post, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

Wild Winds

Posted on August 1, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

As mentioned before, it is birthday weekend for a very sweet daughter whose gentle spirit and artistic ways make me a better man in every way. I am so proud to be her father. I thought it might be, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Arrive, Assured, Back and Forth, Banter, Birthday Weekend, Bison, Blessed, Brought Back From the Edge, Buffalo, Buffalo Dreams, Buffalos, Calamity, Charge, Conversation, Cows, Daughters, Distinction, Drive, Eldest Daughter, Embrace, Explain, Explore, Extinction, Faint Marks, Family, Fascination, Father, Few Remaining, Flicker, Forward, Fremont, Friends, Future, Future Trips, Great Beasts, Horns, Indiana, Journey, Kayaking, Learn, Less Dim, Liberty, Long Drive, Love, Mile by Mile, Moment, Move Along, Nation, No Complaining, Old, Once Was A Time, Open Door, Outside, Photograph, Playfully, Plentiful, Poem, Poetry, Present, Preserve, Proud, Quicker, Raining, Risks, Rivers, Rus, Safer, Salvation, Saturday, Song, Soul, Stormy, Strength, Talking, Teach, Tenacity, Thankful, The Girls, The Great Creator, Their, Time Spent, Torment, Toward, Trace, Tragedy, Treasure, Vulnerability, Wild Winds, Wilderness, Wonderful, World | Leave a comment

An Indictment of the 20th Century

Posted on March 18, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

We have lived through the bloodiest and cruelest century of mankind’s history. God surely must be crying. An Indictment of the 20th Century by Michael Doyle Einstein insisted God did not play with dice While other insisted God needed no … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 20th Century, Advice, Blood, Breakdown, Breath, Calamity, Certainty, Change, Civility, Claim, Clash, Communism, Cruel, Cry, Culture, Destruction, Diametric, Dice, Dim, Disorder, Einstein, Face, Fascism, Function, Genocide, God, Good, History, Homocide, Humanity, Indictment, Legacy, Level, Litany, Lives, Mankind, Mayhem, Modernity, Morality, Need, New, Old, Opposition, Outrage, Pandemic, Pessimism, Photograph, Pillars, Poem, Poetry, Prospect, Revolutionaries, Sense, Sensibility, Socialism, Society, Souls, Tearful, Travesty, Twin, World War Two | Leave a comment