Tag Archives: Easy

Thought For the Day: Take Away the Heritage of A People and They Are Easily Destroyed

Posted on October 26, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“Take away the heritage of a people and they are easily destroyed.” – Karl Marx Large protest at Jefferson High School; another group topples Washington statue on Sandy Blvd. | kgw.com

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The Importance of Keeping Our History

Posted on July 22, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

The Importance of Keeping Our Historyby Michael DoyleMoving back the veil of mysteryWe remember the truths of historyTelling the truth as truth is meantAnd so providing the roots of our governmentFramed within moments of vivid reflectionTo take us back to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged America, American Creed, Belong To Us All, Best, Connection, Creator's Hand, Easy, Facing the Compromises, Factions, Framed, Government, History, Importance, Kept Restrained, Learn, Legitimacy, Limited, Mindless, Mystery, Noble Experiment, Overstepped Bounds, Permanent, Poetry and Poems, Power, Principles, Reactions, Recall, Reflection, Regardless, Republic, Rights of Conscience, Riotous Madness, Roots, Sobriety, Staying Within One's Lane, Truths, Unscrupulous, Veil, Vigilance, Watchful Eye | Leave a comment

Na/GloPoWriMo #15: Played Cards

Posted on April 16, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Na/GloPoWriMo #15: Played Cardsby Michael DoyleMaybe it seems insistentTo be so persistentIn finding time an illusionWhile we all seek our absolutionOur veins beg for transfusionCued as it were by life’s confusionDespite being a fancy dancerAnd at moments, a romancerWe all … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Absolution, Agonized, Alarm, All of My Life, All That Is Left, Alone, Astride, Bring Any Good, Cancer, Cards, Charm, Chase Dreams, Cheap, Clearly, Confusion, Consigned, Cued, Days, Dime, Dirty Faces, Disarm, Easy, Endure, Fancy Dancer, Farms, Fate, Feeling, Find the Savior Last, Follow the Sun, Found the Cure, Future's Past, Grime, Hearts and Minds, Here We Are, Hold Tight, Illusion, In Our Heads, Inner Treason, Insistent, Its Confusion, Long Forgotten, Loved Or Love, Matter, Merciful, Moments, Mothers, Na/GloPoWriMo, Necromancer, Never Knowing, New, One More Time, Payphones, Persistent, Played Cards, Poetry and Poems, Proven Up, Quaint, Quietly, Reason, Remembered Sorrow, Rhyme, Rise Again, Romancer, Short, Silence, Sing, Somehow more, Something to Live For, Sound Out, Speak To Our Dead, Staring, Studied, Succumb, Talk, Them, Thoughts, Time, Tombstones, Tomorrow, Transfusion, Unpunished Crime, Utter, Veins, Verbal, We Might Find, What Have I done, What Would We Give, Wishes, Wishing, Worst Illusion, Yearly | Leave a comment

First Principles: The Second Office of This Government Is Honorable and Easy, the First Is But A Splendid Misery

Posted on November 23, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“The second office of this government is honorable & easy, the first is but a splendid misery.” – Thomas Jefferson (1797)

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Easy, First, First Principles, Government, Honorable, Misery, Second Office, Splendid, Thomas Jefferson | 1 Comment

The Twinkle In Your Eyes

Posted on October 16, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

The Twinkle In Your Eyesby Michael DoyleLooking into the twinkle in your eyesTruth is told simply without any alibisI love the way you hold me close at nightAnd even closer with the morning’s lightTwo hearts learning to beat as our … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Beat, Chance, Deeper Relationship, Easy, Eyes, God, Hear, Hold Me Close, Hypnotized, Lifetime Spent, Look, Love, Love Songs, Loving Example, Melt, Moments, Morning Light, Near, Night, One, Passing Sun, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Simple, Sing, Sweet, Tender, Trance, Truth, Twinkle, Two Hearts, You Laugh, Your Eyes, Your Heart | Leave a comment

A Birthday Week

Posted on October 5, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

A Birthday Weekby Michael DoyleSolid as it is with just a look2020 was a hard one for the history booksBut, as those pages have turnedThere was one thing that I have learnedMy love was born a Libra on her scaleAnd … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 2020, Agreeable Enough, Birthday, Birthday Week, Celebrate, Celebration, Clarity, Complexity, Connection, Contemplation, Dare, Deny, Easy, Fun, Golden Heart, Great Gift, Hard One, History Books, Insistence, Justice, Learned, Libra, Look, Love, Love of Fashion, Mumble, Need, One, Pages, Passion, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prevail, Reflect, Relaxation, Request, Scale, Sense, Simplicity, Sincerity, Solid, Speak, Strong Desire, Thing, Turn, Unity, Week, Words | Leave a comment

That Works For Me

Posted on September 23, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

That Works For Meby Michael DoyleShooting photos from a different perspectiveIs easy, fun and a bit magically reflectiveSeagulls flying around the statue’s baseAnd twilight falls giving its new embraceSo many things seen all of the timeNothing hard in finding the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Activitity, Adventure, All the Best, Base, Blunder, Blur, Connectivity, Easy, Embrace, Faces, Fun, Good, History, Iconic, Metaphysical Poetry, Moments, Mystery, New Angle, New Day, Night, Perspective, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Ready and Willing, Reflective, Seagulls, See, Shooting Photos, Sights, Soul, Speed of Life, Sublime, Sun, Tangle, That Works, Time, Twilight, Unusual, Wonder, Works | Leave a comment

Hearing That Still Small Voice

Posted on June 22, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on 2 Samuel 7:18-19: Hearing That Still Small Voice by Michael Doyle First and foremost in questions of worship Is the supreme importance of your relationship To God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit It … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2 Samuel, All, Allow, Broken, Call, Careless, Circumstance, Clean Heart, Complexity, Contrive, Course, Daily Time, David, Day and Time, Decision, Determine, Devotion, Distinguish, Easy, Eternal Peace, Excuse, Fear It, Forgiven, God, God and Man, God's Word, He, Hear, Holy Communion, Holy Spirit, Illusion, Intentional, Listen, Lord, Love Unconditionally, Make Space, Meditate, Moving Beyond, Mutual, Neglect, Obey, Photograph, Pleasing, Poem, Poetry, Priority, Quiet Time, Quietude, Relationship, Respect, Scripture, Seclusion, Set, Set Aside, Simple, Solace, Son, Source, Speak to Heart, Spend Time, Spoken, Start, Still Small Voice, Strive, Supplication, Talk, The Father, True, Truly Living, Union, Value, We, Willingness, Worship | Leave a comment

In the Tears We’ve Cried

Posted on May 16, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Love, especially long distance love, can be so difficult. Funny how it feels so easy when two hearts that mesh well meet. Then things can get difficult. But, you know what? Bob Marley is right… was right.. whatever. Thing is … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Angel, Another, Balance, Become, Believe, Beyond, Blessed, Blind, Cheer, Close, Coincidence, Cried, Cry, Curtains, Dancing In the Rain, Deceive, Difficult, Each Other, Ease, Easy, Ever, Explain, Fear, Feel, Feeling, First Sight, Forever, Hand, Head On, Heaven, Kind, Know, Knowing, Lead, Learn, Lift, Living, Long Distance, Love, Love Is Blind, Luck, Message, Moving Past, Photograph, Pleasant, Please, Poem, Poetry, Ponder, Providence, Question, Real, Showing, Take, Tears, Think, Tried, Truth, Two Hearts, Us, Wander | Leave a comment

A Cowboy Slips Into Easy

Posted on May 13, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Some of my heroes have been cowboys. At least one of them was a cowgirl. My sister. She’s likely riding the North Back 40 in heaven now looking down on us all and encouraging us to ride through this storm … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Belong, Brave, Cast, Changes, Coffee, Cowboy, Cowboy Ways, Cowgirl, Cup, Dakota, Easy, Enough, Face, Going On, Half Remembered, Hero, Home, Human Beings, Intangibles, Jukebox, Known, Life, Light, Luck, Made, Name, One Day, Own, People, Photograph, Place, Poem, Poetry, Principles, Promises, Proof, Quarter, Ranges, Same, Seen, Sister, Slips, Smile, Splinter, Stand By, Stone, Storm, Taste, Thrown, Truth, Unafraid, When, While, Winter, Yester | Leave a comment