Tag Archives: Cost

Until Humanity is Gone

Posted on October 4, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Until Humanity Is Goneby Michael DoyleThese parasites came to bring decayDestroying the vestiges of yesterdayThey prey on the last of our humanityKilling in waves depleting our societyMaking it impossible to be withstoodSetting fire to our planet and its woodsRats, insects … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adapt or Die, Anger, Apocalyptic, Appetite, Arrival, Bluff, Children, Confusion, Cost, Crush, Darkness, Dead, Decay, Desire, Destruction, Enemy, Exist, Fight, Fire, Flame, Forward, Gone, Hope, Humanity, Illusion, Impossible, Jester, Kill, Line, Night, Onward, Pain, Parasite, Path, Pestilence, Planet, Poetry and Poem, Possible, Prey, Reprive, Resilience, Right, Salvation, Scavage, Sear, Siege, Sight, Sky, Society, Sorrow, Soul, Struggle, Survival, Survive, Thread, Tide, Tomorrow, Vestiges, Yesterday | Leave a comment

First Principles: For My Part, Whatever Anguish of Spirit It Might Cost, I Am Willing To Know the Whole of Truth; To Know the Worst, and To Provide for It

Posted on September 3, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth — and listen to the song of that syren, till she transforms us into beasts. Is this … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Anguish, Cost, First Principles, Know, My Part, Patrick Henry, Provide For It, Spirit, The Worst, Whole of Truth, Willing | Leave a comment

It Took My Savior To Atone

Posted on August 29, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

It Took My Savior To Atoneby Michael DoyleEveryone wants a familyTo be part of that possibilityAwakening to being found out lostHaving worked hard to pay the costRisen as I am, a new creationLiving the joy with fascinationI know I couldn’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Atone, Awakening, Cost, Couldn't Do This On My Own, Dismiss, Embrace, Face, Family, Found, God, Grace, Joy, Lost, New Creation, One of His Own, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Risen, Sadness, Saved As I Am, Savior, Suspect Everyone, The Lord, Told, Took My Savior, Truth, Ways | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Since September 11, An Entire Generation of Young Americans Has Gained New Understanding of the Value of Freedom and Its Cost and Duty and Its Sacrifice

Posted on June 17, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“Since September 11, an entire generation of young Americans has gained new understanding of the value of freedom and its cost and duty and its sacrifice. The battle is now joined on many fronts. We will not waver, we will … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Cost, Duty, Entire Generation, First Principles, Freedom, Gained, George W. Bush, New Understanding, Sacrifice, September 11, Value, Young Americans | Leave a comment

In Remembrance of Memorial Day

Posted on May 31, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“I am well aware of the toil and blood and treasure that it will cost to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States.” -John Adams

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Aware, Blood, Cost, Declaration, Defend, In Remembrance of Memorial Day, John Adams, Maintain, Support, These States, Thought For the Day, Toil, Treasure | Leave a comment

First Principles: I Am Willing To Know the Whole Truth; To Know the Worst and To Provide For It

Posted on February 4, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“Are we disposed to be of the number of those, who having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it might cost, I … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Anguish of Spirit, Cost, First Principles, Having Ears, Having Eyes, Illusions of Hope, Indulge, Know the Worst, Listen, Natural To Man, Painful Truth, Patrick Henry, Provide For It, See Not, Shut Our Eyes, Siren, Song, Struggle for Liberty, Temporal Salvation, Whole Truth, Willing To Know | Leave a comment

In Community

Posted on January 19, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

In Communityby Michael DoyleComing together in communityFulfills our need for familyAnxiousness brings rise to dangerAs to each other we have become strangersViolence takes away from us allDestruction only brings pride’s fallWhen we forget our relationsWe only bring sorrow to our … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Act, All of Our Days, Anxious, Arrogance, Become Strangers, Belief In God, Bring Sorrow, Challenging, Children of God, Coming Together, Cost, Danger, Destruction, Each Other, Embrace, Extraordinary, Family, Focus, Forget, God, Greatness, His Will, In Community, In Mind, Knees, Land, Living Our Lives, Lord's Loving Way, Need, Never Be Lost, Ordinary, Our Nation, Perseverance, Please, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Praying for Peace, Pride's Fall, Relations, Reverence, Righteous, Rise, Run Our Race, Stolen, Straight, Supplication, Takes Away All, Trusting God, Violence | Leave a comment

The Death Head of Night

Posted on November 3, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

The Death Head of Nightby Michael DoyleThere in the darkest of the 20th CenturyWere pages to learn from in our historySuch evil as was darker than the nightWhere our traditions still bring us lightNo matter what the king tells usTruth … Continue reading →

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Climbing the Relationship Ladder

Posted on October 2, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Climbing the Relationship Ladderby Michael DoyleWe say hello to initiateHoping that we might appreciateEnough at this first impressionThat it might lead to accessionPressing on simply to exploreCrossing that boundary to something moreWe work at reducing the uncertaintyThough certainly there is … Continue reading →

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Sure Hand of the Devil Dealt

Posted on June 23, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

The surest hand the Devil’s ever dealt is the deceit blotted out into the dark of night… Sure Hand of the Devil Dealt by Michael Doyle The bell tolls out into the black of night So little is seen in … Continue reading →

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