Tag Archives: Children

Growing Up In the Tropics

Posted on June 4, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Growing Up in the Tropicsby Michael DoyleAcross the tropics, in early morning,We awaken sleepless, feeling the sunShining like a dreamBe it Cuba, Hawaii, or the PhilippinesThe breeze blows by coollyTurning the wind vanes slowly Dragonflies and butterflies floatOn mica wings … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All, Answer, Awake, Breeze, Butterflies, Children, Colored Skies, Cuba, Dragon Flies, Dream, Drowsy, Early Morning, Fields, Float, Glaze, Growing Up, Happiness Enough, Hawaii, Hit the Beach, Instinct, Island Time, Mica Wings, Names, New Day, Nourishment, Peaceful Bliss, Pineapple, Poetry and Poems, Rain, Reeds, Rice Paddies, Ride, See, Sleepless, Sleepy Day, Slow, Slow Heat, Sugar Cane, Summer All Year Long, Sun, Sunshine, The Philippines, Tropical Fish, Tropics, Waves, Wind Vanes, Yawn | Leave a comment

Sandhill Cranes Revisited

Posted on June 2, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Sandhill Cranes Revisitedby Michael DoyleEvery year Sometimes twice a yearWe would make our pilgrimage Off to Jasper PulaskiTens of thousands of cranes Filled the airZoning in on their nesting groundsZig-zag patterns as grouping Crossed by grouping Into what looks like … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Air, Better, Blessed, Bobbing and Weaving, Canada, Children, Cornfields, Could, Courtships, Cranes Mate Forever, Cycles, Dance, Danced, Dies, Different, Disregard, Drive, Every Moment, Every Year, Fail, Familial Groups, Feathered Paratroopers, Fledglings, Fleeting, Flight, Florida, Forget, Grouping, Guess, Happiness, Hardship, Harvested, Hearts, History, Hope, Humans, Ingrained, Inspired, Its Way, Jasper Pulaski, Keep, Landing, Last, Learn, Learning, Life, Loved, Marsh, Mate, Midwestern Flyway, Migrations, Migratory Routes, Minds, Momma and Poppa, Motion, Natural Wisdom, Nature, Nesting Grounds, Newly Planted, Next Generation, Nourishment, Observation Platform, Pilgrimage, Poetry and Poems, Point, Possible, Promises, Puzzle, Really So, Recognize, Remember, Rest, Revisited, Rituals of Dance, Romance, Romantic Couples, Sandhill Cranes, Scrabbles of Food, Should, Snow and Rain, Sorrow, Sounding Off, Spring, Survival, Taught, Think, Thousands, Times, Too Often, Trace, Tradition, Vain, Watch and Learn, Watching, Weariness, Wish, Wonder, Young, Zig-Zag Patterns | Leave a comment

Something Bleeding This Way Comes

Posted on May 31, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Something Bleeding This Way Comesby Michael DoyleWord slithered along the corporate groundWhere all is ancient, and nothing new is foundSecrets told through half-truths revealedRemind us all of the things better off concealedPregnant pauses signal latent twists in positioningAs corporate successions … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ancient, Birthright, Bleed, Children, Conceal, Corporate, Dinosaur, Endgame, Generation, Grave, Half-Truth, History, Inclination, Journey, Lament, Maturation, Motherhood, New, Pain and Misery, Pause, Poetry and Poems, Position, Recrimination, Reject, Save, Secrets, Something, Space-Age Messiah, Stoic, Sucession, Tragedy, Tranisition, Twist, Words, Wrench | Leave a comment

First Principles: Children Should Be Educated and Instructed In the Principles of Freedom

Posted on May 25, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.” – John Adams, Defense of Constitutions, 1787

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Children, Defense of Constitutions, Educate, First Principles, Freedom, Instruct, John Adams, Principles | Leave a comment

Thoughts On Godly Marriage

Posted on May 21, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Thoughts On Godly Marriageby Michael DoyleHealthy families serve as the best foundationBringing blessings to others and our nationIt is not to put the horse before the carriageTo say that we should focus on the ways of marriageWe need to put … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adjustment, Affirm, Alone, Assessment, Attention, Back, Ball and Chain, Best Interest, Best Interests, Best Practice, Blessings, Built, Carriage, Children, Christian, Commandment, Commitment, Consumption, Contention, Convenant, Define, Design, Divine Inspiration, Earn, Emgbracee, Faithful, Focus, Foot Down, Foundation, Fruitful, Full Measure, Genesis, God's Plan, Godly Marriage, Good, Good Love, Good Man, Grace, Heal, Healthy Families, Heaven, Helper, Horse, Humanity, Husband and Wife, Infusion, Intention, Island, Joy, Legacy, Live In Love, Love Steady, Love's Crown, Man, Master Plot, Missioin, Mistakes, Model, Motivation, Multiply, Nation, Needs, Never In Vain, One Another, Patience, Pck, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Potential, Preparation, Presumption, Pride, Priority, Pure, Purposeful Separation, Race, Radical Service, Ready, Resentment, Reverence, Righteous Life, Role, Sacrifice, Scripture, Serious, Serve, Share, Shift, Sincerity, Slipping By, Standards, Stone, Submission, Suffice, Teme, Tension, Thoughts, Together, True Love, Understood, Wedding, Wife, World History, Wrong person | Leave a comment

First Principles: All the Children Are Trained Up To This Kind of Knowledge: They Are Accustomed From Their Earliest Years To Read the Holy Scriptures

Posted on May 17, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“Among the customs which are universal among the people, in all parts of the state, one that seems worthy of remark, is, the attention that is paid to the education of children. The aim of the parent, is not so … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged 1794, Aim, Arithmetic, Attention, Children, Common and Universal, Customs, Education, First Principles, Harvard College, Holy Scriptures, Knowledge, Law, Liberal Arts and Sciences, Newspapers, Occupations of Life, Parent, Periodical Publications, Political Pamphlets, Proceedings, Red, Samuel Adams, The Natural and Civil History of Vermont, The People, Write | Leave a comment

Stormfront Awakening

Posted on April 15, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Stormfront Awakeningby Michael DoyleLooking around with any sense of credibilityIt would be the rare bird that had the abilityTo credibly claim with any sense of the plausibleThat politically awakening was something avoidableAll around the stormfront threatens from all sidesThe turning … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ability, Affront, Ameica, American Liberty, Antilife, At the Ready, Avoidable, Awaken, Blame, Blind Eye, Catastrophe, Change, Children, Christian School, Claim, Condemn, Confront, Credibility, Criminals, Daily, Deathstyle, Editors, Enemy, Evil, Fabrication, Fade, False Equivlencies, Feelings, Flashpoint, Fools, Golden Rule, Good, Governing Class, Grow Up, Guise, Gutter Talking, Harm, Healthy, Holy Writ, Hucksters, Hypocrisy, Identity Politics, Illogical, Inconsistency, Kavanaugh, Legalities, Looking Around, Love, Manufactured, Mentally Ill, Misgendering, Missing, Misunderstood, Morality, Morality Play, Morally Vapid, Mostly Peaceful Riots, Nation, Needed Laws, No Choice, Plausible, Poetry and Poems, Polciies, Politically Awakening, Politically Connected, Pride, Protect, Protecting, Radical Propaganda, Rare Bird, Real Victims, Reality, Reasonable Persons, Reasonable Voice, Return, Rhetorical Tropes, Rivet the Attention, Sandmann, Shade, Shame, Sides, Slumber, Spin, Stormfront, Strategy, Summer 2020, Tempt, The Left's, Thinker, Tools, Tortured Renderings, Truth, Turning Point, Two-Tiered Justice System, Unarmed, Unite, Wake Up, Wise, World | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Ultimately, It Is the Responsibility of Individuals To Pull Themselves Up By Their Own Bootstraps, Make Responsible Financial Decisions, Pursue Eduction…and Fight To Break the Cycle of Poverty

Posted on March 28, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“Ultimately, it is the responsibility of individuals to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps, make responsible financial decisions, pursue education … and fight to break the cycle of poverty. Many poor remain poor because they do not know how … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged American, Apple Pie, Better Life, Better Opportunities, Bootstraps, Break, Children, Cycle of Poverty, Education, Emmy Griffin, Example, Financial Decisions, Hard Work, Individuals, Money, Perserverance, Poor, Poverty Line, Realize, Responsibility, Responsible, Successful Immigrant Story, Tenor, Thought For the Day, Ultimate | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: If We Had Paid No More Attention To Our Plants Than We Have Our Children, We Would Now Be Living In A Jungle of Weeds

Posted on March 7, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weeds.” – Luther Burbank, horticulturist (7 Mar 1849-1926)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Attention, Children, Jungle, Live, Luther Burbank, Paid, Plants, Thought For the Day, Weeds | Leave a comment

The Christmas That Was Tragic

Posted on December 25, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

The Christmas That Was Tragicby Michael Doyle This Sunday, Christmas, is a bit tragicWhen we’ve stopped believing in magicWe call it adulting but it’s really notIt’s just the goodness we’ve simply forgot Take a deep breath, and try to believeIn … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adulting, Believe, Cheer, Children, Christmas, Conceive, Cynics, Deep Breath, Disappear, Doubt, Elves, Forgot, Forgot It, Gnomes, Goodness, Got It, Homes, Joy, Lie, Light, Magic, Merry Christmas, Naughtiness, Night, PC World, Poetry and Poems, Problematic, Sunday, Tragic, World | Leave a comment