Tag Archives: Capacity

Elephants Mourn Their Dead (Happy the Elephant)

Posted on September 10, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Elephants Mourn Their Dead (Happy the Elephant)by Michael DoyleNo freedom, no libertyNo right to fundamental dignityHappy the Elephant pays the costAnd the decision it seems is lostThere will be no sanctuaryPersonhood has been denied capacityRegardless of intelligence, elephants are thingsSubstantially … Continue reading →

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Galatian Credibility

Posted on June 19, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Galatian Credibilityby Michael DoyleIn our leadership and our abilityTo lead is limited to our credibilityThis is something important to knowIf we are are to keep our ability to growCalled to lead in our capacityCalled to display this sensibilityIntegrity is the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ability, Capacity, Competent, Credibility, Galatians, Grow, Integrity, Know, Leadership, Poetry and Poems, Sensibility | Leave a comment

First Principles: Let the American Youth Never Forget, That They Possess A Noble Inheritance, Bought By the Toils, and Sufferings, and the Blood of Their Ancestors

Posted on May 6, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their ancestors; and capacity, if wisely improved, and faithfully guarded, of transmitting to their latest posterity all the substantial … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged American Youth, Ancestors, Blessings of Life, Blood, Capacity, Commentaries on the Constitution, Faithful, First Principles, Guarded, Improve, Independence, Joseph Story, Liberty, Never Forget, Noble Inheritance, Peaceful Enjoyment, Possess, Posterity, Property, Religion, Suffering, Toils, Transmit, Wise | Leave a comment

Living Scripture

Posted on February 27, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Living Scriptureby Michael DoyleWe started church with a prayer for UkraineI can only further pray it is not in vainThe horrors that they are going throughCan only be endured by the strength of how God is trueTurning next in our … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Best, Capacity, Church, Dignity, Disciples, Done, Endure, Faithful, Father, First, First Born, Fullness, Glory, God Is True, Holiness, Horrors, Image, Invisible God, Jesus, Living, Living Water, Majesty, Message, Mystery, Nations, Obligated, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Priority, Providence, Rejoice, Responsibility, Sacrifices, Salvation, Sanctity, Scripture, Shown, Son, Stewardship, Suffer, Sunday, Test, Trust, Ukraine, Vain, Word of God, World's View, Worship | Leave a comment

In the Tragedy of Wisdom

Posted on December 3, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

In the Tragedy of Wisdomby Michael DoyleAs we sit writing for an audienceAimed as it is to somehow pleaseThe words of Shakespeare and SophoclesShine in all of their brillianceOne wrote for the strong, just kingThe other in the promise of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Action, Aim, Annals, Aristotle, Athenian, Audience, Brilliance, Capacity, Cathartic, Central Issue, Citizenry, Confide, Consequence, Decision, Dedication, Democracy, Depths of Sorrow, Disposition, Educate, Education, Every Century, Fallen, Fear, Good, History, Human Pride, Humanity, Initiation, King, Madness, Mistake, Morality, Night, Nobility, Persuasion, Philosophy, Pity, Playwright, Please, Poetry and Poems, Pure, Recompense, Sadness, Shakespeare, Sophocles, Sovereignity, Tragedy, Truth, Unafraid, Wisdom, Works, Write | Leave a comment

Forgiveness Is…

Posted on November 26, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Forgiveness Is…by Michael DoyleForgiveness is…Giving up on the thoughtOf some mythical better pastForgiveness is…Where reduction of negativity is soughtBecoming free from the pain that shouldn’t lastForgiveness is…Giving up on all the rageFor a return to a more moral communityForgiveness is…The … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Becoming Free, Better Past, Capacity, Ego, Emotion, Finding Peace, Forgiveness, Free, Healing, Heart, Injury, Last, Let Go, Long Run, Moral Community, Moving Past, Myth, Need, Needed, Negativity, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Rage, Reduction, Return, Reveal, Rise Above, Soul, The Light, Thought, To Find, To Live, To Love, Turning of the Page, Wrongs Done | Leave a comment

Comfort Zone Christianity

Posted on November 2, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Comfort Zone Christianityby Michael DoyleIt’s always seemed to lightlyHow we fail to take things rightlyIn our comfort zone ChristianityFailing to take on things needed by you and meTo the best of our capacityWe take up baptism in accountabilityRepentance to the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accountability, Angels, Awaken, Baptism, Beginning, Born, Capacity, Chaff, Christianity, Comfort, Comfort Zone, Conversion, Fail, God, Holy Devotion, Immersion, Light, Morn, Never Endind, Poetry and Poems, Repentance, Reverent, Right, Robes, Sacrament, Sacred, Service, Sing, Spoke, The Lord, Walks Among Us, Ways of the World, Weeding Away, Words, Yoke | Leave a comment

First Principles: America’s Founding Principles Are True Not Because Any Generation – Including Our Own – Has Lived Them Perfectly, But Because They Are Based Upon the Eternal Truths of the Human Condition

Posted on January 23, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“America’s founding principles are true not because any generation — including our own — has lived them perfectly, but because they are based upon the eternal truths of the human condition. They are rooted in our capacity for evil and … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged America, Capacity, Created In the Image of God, Dignity, Equality, Eternal Truths, Every Man Woman and Child, Evil, First Principles, Founding Principles, Generation, Glory, Human Condition, Longing For Truth, Love of Freedom, Need For Order, Potential, Power For Good, Rooted, Striving For Justice, The 1776 Project, The Worth, True | Leave a comment

First Principles: It Should Be Your Care, Therefore, and Mine, To Elevate the Minds of Our Children and Exalt Their Courage

Posted on October 17, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Capacity, Care, Children, Courage, Elevate, Exalt, Excel, First Principles, Grovel and Creep, Infancy, John Adams, Lives, Minds | Leave a comment

Getting To the Photographer’s Prize

Posted on October 14, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Getting To the Photographer’s Prizeby Michael DoyleIf you don’t want to be left in the lurchIt is always best to start with researchTrying to find the photo with something to sayCannot best be left to an improvised dayThere is not … Continue reading →

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