Tag Archives: Fight

The Woke Wake Up

Posted on July 9, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

There are just ways to advocate against injustice. There are ways that make moving for justice anything but that. Now as these predators are being identified by their own online postings, they curl up into fetal position decrying how unfair … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Acquisitive, Act Just, Advocate, Afraid, All Life Is Sacred, Ambition, American Dream, Another, Arrogant, Avoid Seeing, Basic Right, Be Merciful, Beg Indulgence, Better Self, Better World, Black Hoodie, Broke, Bungle, Burn, Civil Rights, Contribution, Death Culture, Decry, Degreed, Discussion, Divestment, Eat Their Own, Evidence, Fetal, Fetal Position, Fight, Firebombs, Forbearance, Foresight, Fragility, Free Pass, Fruits of Labor, Ghosts, Godless, Ideal, Ignorance, Immortality, Injustice, Inquisitive, Jail, Just Revolution, Justice, Less, Life, Meaning, Media Jungle, Mirror, Morally Broken, Move Foward, No Man, Online, Online Posts, Our Times, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Poorly Educated, Predators, Prevail, Profanity, Protect, Quest, Radicals, Reason, Revolution, Riot, Rock, Rubbish, Ruin, Self Signified, Shock Troops, Society, Speak, Spray Paint, Stab, Stall, Streets, Strife, Think, Tick Tock, Trash Talkers, Truth, Undoing, Unfair, Unfairness, Wake Up, Weak, Woke, Worse Saint, Worthy Investment, Wrong | Leave a comment

Shrunken Jesus

Posted on June 23, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

It’s a paradox really… Shrunken Jesus by Michael Doyle We trust as we say with our might Believing as we will in truth and light That Jesus has the power to save our souls Then in whispers we wonder at … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Act, Actions, Actions Reveal, Allow, Balk, Believe, Believers, Bible, Blame, Bold, Conceal, Control, Cowardice, Dare, Disbelief, Dispel, Dispensation, Easier, Entirety, Examine, Excuses, Fail, Faith, Fear, Fetal Position, Fight, Fights, Fumble, God, Gospel, Gospel of Holes, Hand Out, Heal, History, Hollow, Hypocrisy, Injustice, Jesus, Know, Known, Light, Listen, Might, Mirror, Need, No Gospel, Not To Do It, One and the Same, Paper Cut, Paradox, Passion, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Poverty, Power, Prayer, Preach, Rehearse, Right, Rise, Save Our Souls, Seek, Self Denial, Shot Glass, Show, Shown, Shrunken, Shrunken Jesus, Sit, Solid, Speak Truth, Strong Desire, Swallow, Talk, This Moment, Told, True Gospel, Trust, Truth, Tumble, Uncurled, Variance, Verses, Walk, Whisper, Wise, Wonder, Words, Words Say, World, Worst | Leave a comment

All Life Is Sacred

Posted on June 16, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Perhaps I repeat myself in saying that elevating one skin tone or sex over another is as wrong as having the first offense kept in place. Love and respect for each other is what is needed. All lives are sacred. … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Aggrieved, All Belong, All Life Is Sacred, All Life Matters, Another, Appalling, Ask, Bad Decision, Before, Believe, Bend Knee, Better Way, Betterment, Black Lives Matter, Brother, Burn, Children, City, Confess, Construction, Created All Equal, Creed, Deceive, Deference, Derision, Destruction, Dr. King, Elevate, Emblazon, Engrave, Equal Before the Law, Equality, Fascism, Fight, Firmament, Fought, God, Hell, Him, Hurt, Ill Afford, Inclusion, Injustice Toward All, Injustice Toward Any, Late, Learn, Lesson, Love, Lucifer, Mean, Meaning, Name of Love, Need, Not Good, Not Hate, Not Made Better, Offend, One Over the Other, Outrageous, Past Wrongs, Path, Permanent, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Positive, Pretend, Repeat, Replace, Respect, Reverence, Sex, Sister, Skin Tone, Society, Sought, Story, Strive, Tear Down, The Father, Things, Understand, Understood, Us For Them, Vicious, Wall, Ways, Well Disguised, Will, Win, Window, Wrong | Leave a comment

The Fall of Constantinople

Posted on May 30, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Though largely symbolic, the fall of Constantinople brought ruin to a significant part of Europe by the hand of the Ottoman Empire on May 29, 1453, after siege of less than two months. The Fall of Constantinople by Michael Doyle … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alliance, Annals, Arrows, Black Day, Broken, Centuries, Christian Nations, Christians, Civilization, Confrontation, Conquer, Constantinople, Crush, Czech, Destiny, East, Enemy, Eternal, Europe, Fall, Fall of Constantinople, Fate, Fell, Ferdinand, Fight, Hapsburg, Hatred, Hungary, Infamy, Janissaries, May 29 1453, Mercenary, Millions, Ottoman Empire, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Pragmatism, Protestants, Reformation, Reign, Rome, Sacred, Siege, Subject, Subjugation, Suliman I, Sultan, Symbolic, Throne, Treaty, Unleashed | Leave a comment

Pinkerton Lawman

Posted on May 23, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

The Pinkertons became the crux of what became the Secret Service. Their storied history is often looked these days. Pinkerton Lawman by Michael Doyle A snake isn’t hard to find In the what that’s left behind When you flip over … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bad Man, Behind, Civil War, Death, Demise, Duty, Fatal, Fate, Fight, Find, Flip, God, History, Hung, Intensity, Justice, Lawman, Left, Light, Meet, Nation, Nature, Neck, Photograph, Pinkerton, Poem, Poetry, Preacher, Proclmation, Quick As A Wink, Quiet, Reaper, Rock, Seal, Secret Service, Served, Silver, Six Gun, Snake, Stand, Stoic, Sudden, Surprise, Talks, Tent City, Trigger Finger, Violent, War Criminal, Wrung | Leave a comment

In A Place of Longing

Posted on May 21, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on Augustine’s Enchiridion: In A Place of Longing by Michael Doyle I suppose there’s no sense in prolonging Stating that the gist of life is belonging The rumor has it that its in what we love And … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, Abudance, Ad Men, Attitude, Awe, Bad, Battle, Belong, Bible, Bittersweet, Blind, Bonfire, Breath, Christ, Cliimb, Confusion, Connection, Crave, Dangle, Daughter, Days, Death, Dedication, Deep, Deeper Relationship, Derision, Desire, Determine, Distraction, Divinity, Do, Do Right, Double Vision, Dust, Earth, Echo, Enchiridion, Entangle, Eyes, False, Father, Feel, Fight, Fire, Forgive, Fulfillment, Fumbles, Generosity, Gift, Gist, God, God's Word, Good, Grain of Salt, Gratitude, Heart, Heaven, Heavy, His Will, Hope, Illusion, Immediacy, Integrity, Intervention, Intrude, Joy, Know, Laugh, Learn, Lesser Things, Life, Light, Listen, Live, Lives, Longing, Lose Our Way, Love, Madison, Meaning, Meant, Mere Christianity, Mindful, Mood, Parents, Permanent Vacation, Photograph, Place, Pleasure, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Precious, Prolong, Promise, Promises, Reflection, Rest, Rumor, Rut, Satisfaction, Self, Self Focus, Selfish, Sense, Shape, Shelf, Sight, Slight, Son, Soul, Spark, St Augustine, Storm Chase, Stumble, Subconcious, Suffer, Surround, Taste, Teach, Test, Tools, Transfix, Treasure, Truth, Understood, Vanity, Verbosity, Ways, Weary, Yoke, You | Leave a comment

Rites of Passage

Posted on May 19, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

What might it be to see the rites of passage for a Viking daring to reach west not east and in so doing changes perceptions of possibility? Rites of Passage by Michael Doyle As odd as it may seem You … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Born, Confess, Dead Thigns, Depth, Die, Doorframe, Dragon Ships, Dreams, East, Edge, Eye, Family, Fight, Flavor, Give, Guard, Had, Knowledge, Life, Man, Mistress, Northern Lights, Odd, Odin, Passage, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Precious, Quest, Right, Rites, Sad, Satisfied, Sea, Seem, Seen, Seldom, Sight, Test, Tried, True, Viking, West, Worry, You | Leave a comment

Texas 1836

Posted on May 16, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

I have always found American history fascinating in all of our legends and tales, tall or not. Texas 1836 by Michael Doyle Texas, Eighteen Hundred Thirty Six Thousands of Americans invited in Finding their place in desert sand and sticks … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 1836, Alamo, American, American History, Americans, Ashes, Austin, Band, Blame, Bloody, Comanche, Death, Desert Sand, Die, Fight, Flame, Folly, Forgot, Free, Freedom, General Santa Anna, Hardcore, Houston, Intention, Intervention, Jackson, Karankawa, Land, Learn, Legend, Lesson, Lose, Manifest Destiny, Mexican, Nation, Outlaws, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prevail, Question, Reason, Right, Rise, Settlers, Slavery, Sticks, Stood, Struggle, Swept, Tale, Tejano, Tension, Tequila Sunrise, Texas, Tribal, Tribe, Why, Win, Wrong | Leave a comment

Handling A Bad Day

Posted on May 6, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on 2 Cor 1:8 : Handling A Bad Day by Michael Doyle Slewfoot raises to destroy Always out to kill your joy If you serve God, you endure The temptations for sure Brave hearts without fear Through … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2 Corinthians, Alone, Attitude, Bad Day, Blessed, Brave, Choices, Clarity, Clear, Climb, Courage, Daily, Desperation, Destroy, Endure, Faith, Fault, Fear, Fight, God, Gratitude, Handling, Heal, Hold On, Inclination, Integrity, Joy, Kill, Knees, Know, Light, Listen, Lives, Lord, Near, Peak, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Right, Serve, Sincere, Speak, Supplication, Sure, Temptation, Voice, Walk | Leave a comment

With the Turning of the Screw

Posted on May 3, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Legend is replete of those who live and die by the sword, all in the name of honor and glory. It is a noble story. With the Turning of the Screw by Michael Doyle Bitterness born of grief The warrior … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bitterness, Blood, Call, Command, Deep, Fate, Fight, Glory, Grief, Haste, Heritage, Home, Honor, Land, Late, Legend, Noble, Patronage, Penance, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Realm, Reclaim, Regain, Relief, Remain, Restoration, Revenge, Rule, Screw, Secret, Secure, Story, Sword, Taste, Tears, Turn, Veins, Warrior | Leave a comment