Tag Archives: Due

The Fight After the Fight

Posted on December 5, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

The Fight After the Fightby Michael DoyleThe first death you seeStrips away a layer of life’s dignity.It stays with you like an aura you wearWhile you fight the pangs of despair.The pain grips you by the heart.As you look into … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Aura, Battle, Bury, Christmas Season, Dead and Gone, Despair, Dignity, Due, Eyes, Family, Fight, First Death, Glory, Heart, Lack, Layer, Life, Love, mental-health, Misery, Move On, Mystery, Night, Pain, Pan, Pangs, Poetry and Poems, Rattle, Rucksack, Saber, Soul, Story, Treason, War, Writing | Leave a comment

God’s Will In Life

Posted on June 22, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

God’s Will In Lifeby Michael DoyleIn crisis, God’s people stand out,Voices raised in praise and given in shout.These moments require navigation;Honoring God is our motivation.Through scripture, we jump into our day,Meeting our Lord God in every way.We realize that every … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bible, Christianity, Crisis, Due, Faith, God, God's People, God's Will, Jesus, Jump, Laws and Principles, Mechanical, Mottivation, Mystical, Navigation, Path, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Scripture, The World, Voices | Leave a comment

To Be A Warrior

Posted on August 2, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

To Be A Warriorby Michael DoyleTo be a warriorThat is to say, a good warriorRequires more than the draw your bladeAnd being assured your prowess is displayedNo, it requires a reasonA reason that is good to find that seasonWhen the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Battle, Blade, Cause, Cherish, Days, Display, Due, Fights, Fine Steel, Fought, Good, Good Warrior, Greatest Kings, Heaven Above, Just, Know, Knowledge, Led, Love, Men, Poetry and Poems, Prowess, Reason, Repeat, Require, Said, Seaason, Sought, Soul, Strength, Thousand Lights, Time, True Warrior, Truth, Understood, Victory, Warrior, Win, Written, Youth | Leave a comment

Self-Stirred To Capability

Posted on April 23, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Self-Stirred To Capabilityby Michael DoyleStepping up to live and serveI walk in more blessings than I deserveIn this faith, I grow and growLiving more love than I might knowGuilt and innocence is our cultureLitigious in nature is what we nurtureCaught … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abundance, Accounability, Answer, Artistry of God, Authenticity, Awarness, Best, Best Answers, Better, Blame, Blessings, Breath, Capability, Casting Blame, Chaos, Choices, Coached and Nurtured, Conceive, Confide, Confidence, Connection, Core, Culture, Cure, Dare, Disease, Distrubring, Due, Dynamic, Earth, Ease, Endure, Every Setting, Expression, Faith, Fate, Father's Kingdom, Feedback, Fierce Listener, Final Destination, Flow, Forgive, Four-Letter Word, Frame, Freedom, God, God's Love, Healthy, Hearts, Help, Humble, Image of God, Integrity, Interpersonal, Iron, Justification, Learning to Live, Legacy, Life, Life's Game, Listen, Litigious, Live Up, Lived Gently, Love, Make, Man's Search For Meaning, Measure, Ownership, Part-By-Part, Particpation, Path, Patience, Pause, Perceive, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Predictable, Probabilities, Pushing Through, Rationalization, Real-Time, Reconcile, Redemptive View, Reflection, Relationship, Rescue, Respond, Responsibility, Roll, Rusted Triangle, Self-Stireed, Sense, Shades of Blame, Shame, Sharpen, Side-By-Side, Societal Cancer, Spent, Stepping Up, Substantive, Take, Time, Triggered by, Troubles, Trust, Truth, Victim, Villain, Violation, Voices, Weight | Leave a comment

First Principles: There Is A Rank Due To the United States, Among Nations, Which Will Be Withheld, If Not Absolutely Lost, By the Reputation of Weakness

Posted on March 15, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“There is a rank due to the United States, among nations, which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness.” – George Washington (1793)

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Due, First Principles, George Washington, Lost, Nations, Rank, Reputation, United States, Weakness, Withheld | Leave a comment

In the Process of Confession

Posted on May 29, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

In the Process of Confessionby Michael DoyleKeeping reality and the Bible in contextIs a paradigm that constantly correctsTo keep truest meaning in its placeThroughout our lives, it’s a truth to embraceGod answers prayers in His timeTo do otherwise would be … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Answers, Best, Bible, Bleed, Bottom, Broken Glass, Certain, Cipher, Confession, Context, Corrects, Damage Done, Darkness, Due, Embrace, Ending In Prayer, Experience, Failing, Faith, Father, Final Test, Foot of the Cross, Forgiven, Forgiveness, Friend, Full Circle, Germinates, God, God's Promises, Good Book, Grace, Help Others, Helping Hand, Hope, Hurt, Immediate, It Is What It Is, Jesus, Keeping the Promise, Lessons, Life Plays Out, Light, Live This, Lives, Loss, Messy Process, One Another, Paradigm, Pardon, Place, Pleasant Surprise, Poetry and Poems, Prayers, Press, Process, Read, Reality, Redemption, Remediate, Right, Rise Again, Seeds, Son, Sorely Needed, Thought and Felling, Time, Truest Meaning, Truly Need, Truth, Victory, We Confess, Wise Up | Leave a comment

With Contented Sigh

Posted on December 17, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

With Contented Sighby Michael DoyleNo matter how muchOf this world, Atlas carriesOn his tired old backIt’s the writer’s touchThat moves or buriesThe feelings we too often lackTurning it on, page after pageConveying the feelings we want to sayHinted at or … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Amusement, Atlas, Back, Bemusement, Binge, Born, Brave, Buries, Clack, Click, Contented Sigh, Conttent, Convey, Crawling, Cringe, Devil, Die, Due, Everyday, Feelings, Hint, Leave This World, Life Comes, Matter, Meager, Meant To Say, Moments, Moves, Our Words, Page, Poetry and Poems, Pound of Flesh, Pressing Onward, Pushing Toward, Sage, Say, Scene by Scene, Sigh, Souls, Straight Forward, Turning It On, Wandering, Wondering, World, Writer's Day, Writer's Touch | Leave a comment

Happy Mother’s Day, Too

Posted on May 10, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

My ex-wife could never gracefully receive a present. Not just from me but from our daughters, they tell me. Still, despite all, there is one gift I would yet give her on this day particularly after the reminders received over … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Agree, Apples, Bad, Best, Better, Blessed, Bliss, Button, Christmas Songs, Click, Company, Conversation, Country Road, Damage, Daughters, Day, Destinations, Done, Drive, Due, Eve, Ex Wife, Family, Fascination, Forever, Forgive, Forgiveness, Forgotten, Friends, Girls, Go, God, Good, Grace, Gratitude, Happy Mother's Day, Highway, History, Homeward, I, Inter-State, Joke, Joyful, Laugh, Laughing, Listen, Made, Marvel, Mirror, Near, Pandemic, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poetry, Present, Radio, Realize, Return, Reveal, Road, Road Trip, Search, See, Seen, Shine, Short Hike, Sing, Slow Down, Song, Soul, State, Station, Sweet, Tales, Tell, The Girls, Think, Thinking, Together, Told, Tomorrow, Tree, Ugly, Vibrant, Watch, Way Back, Wrong, Youngest | Leave a comment

Smiled On A Blue Note

Posted on January 17, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Despite all the controversies surrounding the band, probably my all time favorite musical group is Led Zeppelin. I was reminded of this only just yesterday. Smiled On A Blue Note by Michael Romani Come to me so gently Floated on … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Audacity, Blue Note, Capacity, Clown, Complete, Controversy, Dance, Delight, Delta Blues, Drama, Due, Feel, Garden, Gentle, Karma, Know, Lawyer, Led Zeppelin, Levee, Line, Melody, Moonlight, Moss, Open Secret, Own, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Prince, Quiet, Rhapsody, Riff, Rock N Roll, Rote, Say, Sing, Smile, Song, Sonic, Soul, Stone, Story, Stroll, Voice, Yer Blues, Yesterday | Leave a comment

Hunting Himmler – A Found Poem

Posted on February 13, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Milkwood’s Poem A Day #6 is the Found Poem form and has as its word prompt “gravity”. A found poem is quite literally that. Scanning through the written material of others a little snatch of verbiage here and there catch’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Allies, Chaos, Checkpoint, Collaborate, Conspiracy, Cruel, Cyanide, Defeat, Destruction, Devil, Disguise, Dr. Wells, Due, Elbe, Escape, Found Poem, German, Henrich Himmler, History, Hitler, Holocaust, Humanity, Identity, Industrial, Justice, Legacy, Mercedes Benz, Mistake, Nazi Germany, Newsreel, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prisoner of War, Prussic Acid, Refugees, Reich, Served, Sinister, Society, Villans | Leave a comment