Tag Archives: Extinction

The Wonderous California Coast

Posted on May 24, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

The Wonderous California Coastby Michael DoyleWe are escorted by dolphin laughterComing from guardians who are afterThe company that they find in playAlong the bow of our boat, much like yesterdayWhen mighty Calypso sailed the coastal deepsAlong the coral reefs to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alto, Aquarium, Baja, Battle, Beauty, biodiversity, Blind, Blue Planet, Blue Skies, Cacti, California Coast, Calypso, Capacity, Chart, Coastal Deep, Company, Coral Reef, Distinction, Divers, Dolphin, Drops of Water, Efficient, Escort, Existence, Extinction, Fault, Feed, Find, Forest, George Waashington, Guardians, Heart Break, Imperil, Jouney, Kelp Bed, Knowledge, Laughter, Live, Love, Mankind, Mexico, Nature, Noses, Notion, Oblivious, Ocean World, One Water System, Play, Poetry and Poems, Point, Pretense, Protection, San Jose Island, Scarcity, Sea of Cortez, Sequoia, Squid, Sun, Survival, Sustainability, Time, Water, Wonderous, World Apart, Wounded Heart | Leave a comment

Imaginary Friend

Posted on October 30, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Imaginary Friendby Michael DoyleIn the eternal sense of voiceThat I believed was a choiceA deviance disguised as free willIs but an illusion and was never realI made up my imaginary friendThat one on whom I could dependTelling myself faith was … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Believe, Blurred Lines, Choice, Clever, Conspire, Depend, Desire, Distinction, Duality, Endeavor, Eternal, Extinction, Faith, Fighting Chance, Free Will, Happen, Illusion, Imaginary Friend, Keep, Passage, Place, Poetry and Poems, Regret, Second Glance, Shore, Sleep, Soul, Voice, Waves | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Freedom Is Never More Than One Generation Away From Extinction

Posted on July 4, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Bloodstream, Extinction, Free, Freedom, One Generation, Pass It On, Ronald Reagan, Thought For the Day, United States | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Freedom Is Never More Than One Generation Away From Extinction

Posted on July 4, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Bloodstream, Children, Children's Children, Extinction, Fought For, Free, Freedom, Handed On, Mankind, One Generation, Protected, Ronald Reagan, Sunset Years, Thought For the Day, United States | Leave a comment

NaNoWriMo Thoughts

Posted on November 14, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

NaNoWriMo Thoughtsby Michael DoyleSince the first cave paintingStories have been written and toldHere now in all of our waitingIs yet another story to be written and soldIt’s a path of thinking and imaginationIn a what if world of machinationAn another … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accountabiltiy, Acts, Apply, Arrive, Benefit, Best Choices, Best Friends, Brutality, Cave Painting, Conjugate, Connection, Courageously, Direction, Disappear, Distinction, Doom Scrolling, Dystopia, End, Explanation, Extinction, Fact, Fascination, Fear, Forage, Full, Future, Glory, Happiness, Heads, Hope, Illustration, Imagination, Indiscriminate, Inner Editors, Inner Peace, Let It Show, Life Moves On, Love, Machination, Meander, NaNoWriMo, Optimism, Path, Patterns, Pen, Pep, Photograph, Pieces of Shred, Plot Runs Thick, Poem, Poetry, Problematic, Push Ahead, Rage, Reach, Release, Respectability, Rolling, Sacred Flow, Sadness, Serenity, Set Out, Sold, Stop the Need, Stories, Story, Stroke, Taking the Time, Thinking, Thoughts, Time Confetti, Told, Trust, Turn of Page, Utopia, Voices, Wait, What If, Wonderful, World, Worry, Written | Leave a comment

Wild Winds

Posted on August 1, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

As mentioned before, it is birthday weekend for a very sweet daughter whose gentle spirit and artistic ways make me a better man in every way. I am so proud to be her father. I thought it might be, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Arrive, Assured, Back and Forth, Banter, Birthday Weekend, Bison, Blessed, Brought Back From the Edge, Buffalo, Buffalo Dreams, Buffalos, Calamity, Charge, Conversation, Cows, Daughters, Distinction, Drive, Eldest Daughter, Embrace, Explain, Explore, Extinction, Faint Marks, Family, Fascination, Father, Few Remaining, Flicker, Forward, Fremont, Friends, Future, Future Trips, Great Beasts, Horns, Indiana, Journey, Kayaking, Learn, Less Dim, Liberty, Long Drive, Love, Mile by Mile, Moment, Move Along, Nation, No Complaining, Old, Once Was A Time, Open Door, Outside, Photograph, Playfully, Plentiful, Poem, Poetry, Present, Preserve, Proud, Quicker, Raining, Risks, Rivers, Rus, Safer, Salvation, Saturday, Song, Soul, Stormy, Strength, Talking, Teach, Tenacity, Thankful, The Girls, The Great Creator, Their, Time Spent, Torment, Toward, Trace, Tragedy, Treasure, Vulnerability, Wild Winds, Wilderness, Wonderful, World | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Freedom Is Never More Than One Generation Away From Extinction

Posted on July 6, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Children, Children's Children, Extinction, Fought For, Freedom, Handed On, Mankind Was Free, Once Like, One Generation Away, Pass It On, Protected, Ronald Reagan, Sunset Years, Thought For the Day, United States | Leave a comment

What Color Is A Soul?

Posted on April 15, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

We’re half way through NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo 2020 and it’s April 15th. The stated optional objective is to write a poem reflective of the color of any particular brand of our choosing. This brought to mind an argument brewing since the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2020, Again, American Dream, Behind, Belief, Best, Black, Black Price, Blind, Bliss, Blow, Blues, Breakdown, Breath, Cats, Color, Color Barrier, Control, Creole, Crim, Crow Jim, Distinction, Down Side, Extinction, Feeling, Foster, Grief, Heartless, History, Hyphen, Idiom, Inexcusable, Integration, Jazz, Jazzy, Know, Legends, Living, Mistake, Musical, NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo, New Orleans, Notes, Objectionable, Optimism, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Political Correctness, Questionable, Race, Race Consciousness, Racial Preference, Racial Test, Racism, Razz-ma-Tazz, Reality, Reference, Satchmo, Segregation, Sight, Soul, Soulful, South, Stomp, Time, Truth, Uncouth, White, Word of Mouth | Leave a comment

Commit Freedom To Memory

Posted on December 16, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Yesterday, December 15, 2019, was Bill of Rights Day! I was semi-astonished when I didn’t find anyone making reference to this. I was busily recovering from a long walk without a coat taken on Saturday. By the way, … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged American, Bill of Rights Day, Birth Right, Breath, Confluence, December 15 1791, Die, Distinction, Extinction, Flag, Flickr, Freedom, Fundamental, God, Government, Guarantee, History, Hour, Influence, Light, Limit, Lord, Memory, Natural Law, Overseer, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Principles, Rule of Law, Rules, Sentiment, Steeple, The People, Truth, World, Worth | Leave a comment

First Principles: Public Liberty Will Not Long Survive the Total Extinction of Morals

Posted on November 26, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“The diminution of public virtue is usually attended with that of public happiness, and the public liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals.” – Samuel Adams

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Diminution, Extinction, First Principles, Moral, Public Happiness, Public Liberty, Public Virtue, Samuel Adams, Survive | Leave a comment

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The Wonderous California Coast

Imaginary Friend

Thought For the Day: Freedom Is Never More Than One Generation Away From Extinction

Thought For the Day: Freedom Is Never More Than One Generation Away From Extinction

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Wild Winds

Thought For the Day: Freedom Is Never More Than One Generation Away From Extinction

What Color Is A Soul?

Commit Freedom To Memory

First Principles: Public Liberty Will Not Long Survive the Total Extinction of Morals

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