Tag Archives: California

Squandering A Golden Goose

Posted on December 11, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Squandering A Golden Gooseby Michael DoyleNewsome wants to lead our nation.What does he offer as inspiration?With the unwarranted swagger of new urbanism,His track record trends toward honest pessimism.Maybe he should reverse California’s ruinTo prove he has some idea of what … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged American Dream, Bible, California, Democratic Greed, Faith, Fire, Gavin Newsome, God, Golden Goose, Inspiration, Nation, New Urbanism, One-Party Scheme, Pessimism, Poetry and Poems, Politics, Public Squalor, Right Track, Ruin, Squander, Track Record, Writing | Leave a comment

On Abundance and Incompetence

Posted on June 20, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

On Abundance and Incompetenceby Michael DoyleAcross America, the Left rules with impotence.It’s a case of negligence and incompetence.Despite California’s being blessed by providence,Its governance provides more than ample evidence.It isn’t just an outbreak of vast stupidity.But more the case evidenced … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abundance, America, California, Dependence, Feet, Governance, Hand Out, Hand Up, High Speed Trains, Impotence, Incompetence, Outbreak, Poetry and Poems, Poverty, Providence, Street, Struggle, Stupidity, Teach To Fish, The Left, Truth, Wildfires | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: True Courage Is Being Afraid, and Going Ahead and Doing Your Job Anyhow, That’s What Courage Is

Posted on January 13, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.” – Norman Schwarzkopf (An attempt to honor the firefighters fighting the blazes in Los Angeles County, California)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Afraid, California, Doing Your Job, Firefighters, Los Angeles, Norman Schwarzkopf, Thought For the Day, True Courage | Leave a comment

Crossing Over From Greenpoint

Posted on December 16, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Crossing Over From Greenpointby Michael DoyleMy crossing over from Greenpoint into the cityEvery day was had via subway and was not prettyAnd it was different for a Californian manYet, there was no other way into ManhattanAt least, not that made … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bronx Zoo, brooklyn, Buzz, California, Central Park, Complexity, Coney Island, Crossing Over, Ferry, Food After Midnight, Friendliness, Getting Lost, Greenpoint, Horse-Drawn Cariage, Hospitable, Hospital, Hot Dogs, Little Oddessa, Manhattan, Memories, Morning Until Night, Neon Lights, New York City, Open Hearts, Photography, Poetry and Poems, Sights, St. John's, Sublime, Subway, Sunday, Transit System, Travel, Williamsburg | Leave a comment

Periodic Burn Offs

Posted on September 19, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Periodic Burn Offsby Michael DoyleIt is all about maintaining our true wealthWhen we cooperate with our natural healthKeeping the functions on which we dependIs absolutely necessary, or we will all surely endWith a world less desirable for all to liveAnd … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Benefit, California, Capability, Capable, Compete, Controversy, Cooperate, Depend, Desire, Development, Earth, End, Environment, Every Tool, Fire, Forgive, Function, Future, Good and Wise Government, Good Stewards, Greed, Human, Improvement, Land, Learning, Less, Less Desirable, Listening To Others, Livability, Live, Mesophication, Natural, Natural Health, Natural Spaces, Nature, Necessary, Necessity and Use, Needs, Observation, Out-Of-Control Wildfires, Periodic Burn Offs, Poetry and Poems, Progress, Progressive, Reap, Responsibility, Sustainable, True Wealth, Uncertainty, World | Leave a comment

A Nephilim Hypothesis

Posted on February 24, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

A Nephilim Hypothesisby Michael DoyleThere were legends of giants in those daysWho walked the earth living beside manThe Bible explains their different waysAs sons of God from the daughters of manJust who were the NephilimWho lived in a past that … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Aga of Kish, Americas, Amiss, California, Cannibalized, Channel Islands, Confront, Cousins, Cultural Test, Daughters of Man, Derive, Different Ways, Dim, Discoery, Disintergration, Display, Double Rows of Teeth, Earth, Embrace, Epic of Gilgimesh, Evidence, Excavation, Existence, Exists, Explain, Explanation, Found, Giant Sandal Prints, Giants, Glory, Grief, History, Hominids, Human Beings, Hypothesis, In Tact, Interest, Investigation, Land, Legends, Lincoln National Forest, Lovelock Cave, Marrow, Mass, Mysterious, Native Tales, Nephilim, Nevada, Paiute, Past, Persist, Persuasive Story, Poetry and Poems, Present, Proof, Question, Qumran Scroll, Rarity, Record, Reign, Related Race, Relative, Relevance, Remains, Resemble, Science, Si-Te-Cah, Skeletons, Slay, Sons of God, Supernumerary Teeth, The Bible, The Book of Giants, Understand Stand, Walk, Whisper, Worldwide | Leave a comment

Hiking Indiana State Parks – Central Plain – Mounds State Park

Posted on February 13, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

PLEASE KNOW THERE IS A FORMATTING ERROR THAT PERTAINS TO THE PHOTOS FROM MY CELL CAMERA. I WILL CONTACT THE WP HELP DESK TOMORROW MORNING TO FIND OUT WHAT’S GOING ON. FIVE ATTEMPTED FIXES IS ENOUGH. THANK YOU FOR YOUR … Continue reading →

Posted in Photographs & Memories | Tagged 1819, Adena, Adults, Adventures, Archeological Digs, Awls, Bluff, Boardwalk, Borders, California, Canyons and Ravines, Central Plain, Ceremonial Mounds, Ceremonial Stone Pipe, Church, Civilization, Daughters, Eagle Creek Park, Earth Mother, Earthworks, Ecology, Embrace, Explore, Fall Creek, Farmland, Featureless, Fiddleback, Formalhault, Geology, Great Mound, Hike, hiking, Hills, History, Hoosier, Hopewell, Human Eyes, Human History, Impulse, Indiana, Indiana State Parks, Indianapolis, Indianapolis 500, John Muir, Lake Michigan, Lakes, Learn, Log Tomb, Loop Hike, Michigan River, Midwest and Southern Regions, Misconception, Mounds, Mounds State Park, Natural Treasures, Nature, Nature Preserve, Ohio River, Photographs & Memories, Pine Hills, Pottery Shards, Ramble, Region, Remnant, Rivers, Rolling Plains, Sandstone Despoits, Settler Home, Shades State Park, Steel Mills, Streams, Summer Solstice, Sun God, Sunday, Trails, Travel, Turkey Run State Park, VisitorCenter, Wabash River, White River, Widespread Culture, Woodland | Leave a comment

Big Sur

Posted on May 19, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Big Surby Michael DoyleThinking back under Indiana’s rainMemories of a life spent in refrainWhere too much was never quite enoughAnd jokers begged a thief to call his bluffI remember back to when weeks were doneWe’d pack the car to drive … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Away, Beach, Believe, Big Sur, Bixby Bridge, Bluff, California, Chapparal, Closed, Conceive, Condor, Current, Days, Driving, Earth, Enought, Footpaths, Freedom, Glide, Greenery, Happy Songs, Heaven, Highway One, Home, Indiana Rain, Jade Cove, Joy, Leave, Ledge, Life Spent, Life's Answers, McWay Falls, Mirth, Nature's Child, Oak, Poetry and Poems, Push and Pull, Reach, Redwood, Refrain, Scenery, Secrets, Smile, Soar, Soft Rain, Sunshine, Tear, Tide, Times, Topple, Trails, Unveiled, Ventana, Week, Wild, World's Edge | Leave a comment

Cinderella of the Pacific

Posted on May 4, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

A friend of mine invented a 5 line form of poetry in honor of Cinco de Mayo this year. At a short form poetry workshop tonight, I turned this into five verses of this and wrote the following in recollection … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Aquamarine, Baja, Banderas Monumentales, Blues, California, California Current, Children, Cinco de Mayo, Cinderella of the Pacific, Clothes, Contrast, Dance, Ensenada, Face, Future Dreams, Geyser, Hope, Joy, La Bufadora, Lagunita Pond, Love, Mediterranean, Memories, Mexico, Music, Noble Intentions, Ocean, Poetry and Poems, Purity, Rancho Coronitas, Seeded, Splash, Sun Shine, Toys, Vineyards, Visit, White, Winds | Leave a comment

Winchester I. The Arrival

Posted on July 31, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

There is a famous house in California built the widow of the same Winchester who invented the famous rifle of the same name. Winchester I. The Arrival by Michael Doyle The bell tolls in the dark of night While the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Always, Arrival, Awakes, Bell, Blood, Blow, Build, California, Cause, Chaos, Cheer, Confusion, Control, Creak and Groan, Cycles, Dark of Night, Death, Desperation, Doctor, Doubt, Drapes, Drip, Endless, Endless Rooms, Escape, Expansion, Falls Into Place, Fear, Fire, Fools, Gloom, Grief, Haunted, Hope, Horror, House, Hundred Rooms, Husband, Illusion, Journey, Last Breath, Life, Man, Mansion, Medium, Mind, Mirror, Mother, Move Past, Nearer, Need, Pain, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pointless, Reaches Out, Recall, Reclusive, Regain, Relief, Repeating, Respect, Reveal, Rifle, Rules, Self-Inflicted, Shadow, Son, Soul, Spiritualist, Stagger, Stairs, Suffer, Survey, Take Back Control, Tempest, Time, Tire, Tolls, Too Great A Price, Wall, Whisper, Widow, Winchester, Wind, Window, Wish, Wounded Heart | Leave a comment