Tag Archives: Fight

On the Importance of Free Speech On Campus

Posted on August 1, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

On the Importance of Free Speech On Campusby Michael DoyleOdd isn’t it? In a world seeking diversitySo many try to suppress free speech at the universityThis defeats the purpose of this being a nurseryFor the ideas and speech that are … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bill of Rights, Blind, Brothers, Campus, Civil Rights, Color, Color of Skin, Diversity, Established, Fight, Free Speech, Free Thought and Speech, Freedom, Hearts and Minds, Hosted Debates, Ideas and Speech, Importance, Left Behind, Life, Necessary, New Thoughts, Nursery, Poetry and Poems, Protected, Purpose, Recommended, Remind, Sacred, Seamless Garment, Serve, Sisters, Society, Suppress, University, What's Right | Leave a comment

Love Was There

Posted on July 11, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Love Was Thereby Michael DoyleAlong the country roads of my youthI learned a few jokes and a lot of truthSinging along with the radio showA lot joy there and it continues to flowSo many smiles built on memoryTimes spent with … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Art, Childhood, Choice, Country Roads, Coy, Crashing Down, Dad Joke, Daughters, Distractions, Doing My Best, Everything, Family, Fight, Follow Their Hearts, Give, Good Cheer, Grow Up, Hope, Jokes, Joy, Kind, Learn, Live, Love, Love Was There, Love Will Be There, Loving, Memories, Memory, Million Songs, Moment, Music, Patient, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Push Through, Radio Show, Roadside Attractions, Sing, Smiles, Stay, Their Way, Times, Tired, Truth, Voice, Wish, Youth | Leave a comment

Weren’t Those the Teenaged Years?

Posted on June 2, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Weren’t Those the Teenaged Years?by Michael DoyleThe teenaged yearsOf Saturday night solitudeWas a parade of smiles and tearsAnd many dramasWaiting to intrudeInto the happiness that cameAnd that provided the frameIn moments of ShakespeareThat kept us awakeMaking us braver than our … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Along the Way, Awake, Bless, Bolder, Brave, Broken Hearts, Choosing, Complexity, Confide, Contemplative, Dramas, Each Step, Edge, Edit, False Starts, Fear, Fight, Frame, Garden Variety, Good, Happiness, Hesitations, Hide, Human Beings, Inquisitive, Intrude, Issues, Losing, Million Ways, Moments, Negatives, Older, Passing By, Poetry and Poems, Positive, Questions, Saturday Night, Secrets, Seen, Shakespeare, Sigh, Smiles and Tears, Solittude, Souls, Take, Tears, Teenaged Years, Thinking, Thought, Tissues, Unseen, Walks, Wars of Love, Wobble, World, Younger Days | Leave a comment

Face To Face

Posted on May 30, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Face To Faceby Michael DoyleComing face to faceWith my mortalityI’ll be never beJust another fatalityLet there be no doubtingThat I’ll go out shoutingGrabbing on as hard as I canI live to be that kind of manGonna, gonna hit it!You know … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Animus, Bleeding Out, Blind, Blow My Lid, Clue, Doubting, Face to Face, Fatality, Fight, Find, Forget-Me-Not, Grabbing On Hard, History, Hit It, I'm Good, Kind of Man, Know, Learned, Living, Morning Light, Mortality, Mystery, Poetry and Poems, Quit, Raising the Devil, Reach, Right, Rocking Hard, Serious Fight, Shouting, Solid, Strarting, Think, Tight Shot, Top Again, Twisted and Turned, Within | Leave a comment

I’d Rather Be Ashes Than Dust

Posted on March 13, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

I’d Rather Be Ashes Than Dustby Michael DoyleI’d rather be ashes than dustI’d rather throw deep when I mustTaking the risks to succeedThis is the satisfaction of spiritual needFaithful in all that we doReady in capturing God in our viewUnafraid … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ashes, Blessed Story, Capture, Change, Connection, Direction, Drumming, Dust, End Days, Faithful, Fight, Get Ready, God, Godly Ways, Gospel, Jesus, Legacy, Lord's Glory, Poetry and Poems, Preacher, Priority, Regardless, Rejection, Risk, Satisfaction, Secure, Spiritual Need, Spread, Standing Strong, Step By Step, Succeed, Throw Deep, Tomorrow, Unafraid, View | Leave a comment

A Servant of His People

Posted on February 26, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

A Servant of His Peopleby Michael DoyleMy hat is off to Volodymyr ZelenskyAs with his courage, he steps into historyHe has consistently proven his fitnessAs the heroic man becomes a remarkable witnessOnce a comedian who commanded laughterHe has proven himself … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ambition, American Ride, Ammunition, Attachment, Blood and Soil, Bodies and Bicycles, Character, Courage, Deprivation, Diminutive Man, Elite, Embrace, Fall, Fate, Fight, Fire, Fitness, Fortitude, Gap, Grace, Historic Antecedent, Humble Everyman, Humility, Imminent, Life, Living Inspiration, Manipulation, One Ukraine, People, Persevere, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Preeminent, President, Pride, Proven, Russia, Russian Tanks, Seal, Servant, Single Statement, Soul, Step, Still Here, Street, Stress Test, Strife, Stumble, Suffering Fool, Suspicion, Ten Feet Tall, Terror, Thanks, Tomorrow, Tyranny of Corruption, Ukrainian Nation, Ukrainian People, Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, Willing To Die, Witness | Leave a comment

Inseparable

Posted on February 26, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Inseparableby Michael DoyleA black orphanGrown to be an honest intellectualChild of the Jim Crow SouthHe sought after what’s effectualEmancipation is what makes America uniqueThe 1619 ProjectIs one of breathtaking ignoranceSlavery does notAnd did not bring prosperityAnd the fight against this … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged America, Backward, Better, Black Orphan, Blame, Bravery, Breathtaking Ignorance, Child, Effectual, Emancipation, Fight, Fingers, First Step, Forward, Future, Honest Intellectual, Inseparable, Intellectual Honesty, Jim Crow South, Joint Legacy, Married, Outlier, Poetry and Poems, Popularity, Prosperity, Reality, Reconcile, Rhetoric, Slavery, Solutions, Sought, The 1619 Project, Together, Truth, Unique, Worse | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: By Dividing the Voters Through the Political Party System, We Can Get Them To Expend Their Energies In Fighting over Questions of No Importance

Posted on February 5, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“By dividing the voters through the political party system, we can get them to expend their energies in fighting over questions of no importance. Thus by discreet action we can secure for ourselves what has been so well planned and … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Accomplished, Action, Discrete, Dividing, Energy, Expend, Fight, No Importance, Political Party System, Questions, Secure, Sir Denison Miller, Thought For the Day, Voters, Well Planned | Leave a comment

Interiorly Designed

Posted on January 31, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Interiorly Designedby Michael DoyleThe things that come along to discern thisThat God places use where we can learn goodnessHow then can we make the most of it and embraceWhere God has put us in our time and spaceTo make the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abrasive, Accord, Adversary, Advocate, Appeal, Approach, Arguments, Authority, Basis, Bind, Blind, Blindness, Bridge, Brink, Captive, Challenges, Change, Changing Conversation, Choose, Christ, Circumspection, Contemplation, Convince, Damascus, Dark of Night, Design, Destination, Destruction, Discern, Embrace, Every Single Thought, Face-To-Face, Fight, Find, Gentleness, God, Good, Goodness, Grace, Heart, Holy, Hour, Humility, Inside, Interior Design, Kindness, Ledge, Legacy, Lessons, Life Stealing, Light, Linking, Lives, Love's Power, Magnification, Mind, Obedient, Oblvious, Obvious, Outward, Path, Pattern, Paul, Peace, Persausive, Persecution, Pivot, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Prcoess, Radical Difference, Resolution, Resolve, Reveal, Reverence, Right Intentions, Root, Saved, See, Share, Signification, Soul, Strongest Thoughts, Students, Tactful, Tension, The Bible, The Gospel, Think, Thrust, Time and Space, Traces, Truth, Wisdom, World | Leave a comment

This Thanksgiving 2021

Posted on November 25, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

This Thanksgiving 2021by Michael DoyleLate last night I was thinking on..The furthest star’s even furthest moonUntil I was dreaming of a once uponFairytale feeling that was needed soonFor two years, the world has sufferedThrough the scourge of viral pestilenceWith reasons … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2021, Acknowledge, All of God's Children, Bass Rings, Blessed Dignity, Bounty, Buffer, Cantaloupe, Challenge, Complicity, Consistent, Content, Daugthers, Direction, Divine, Divine Purpose, Dream, Encourage, Example, Fairytale, Faith and Trust, Feeling, Felicity, Fight, Freedom, Giving Thanks, God's Good Will, Grace, Gratitude, Harmony, Heart, Holy Tradition, Hug, Iconic, Joy, Keeping True, Kiss, Last Night, Liberty, Lost, Love, Macy's Day Thanksgiving Day Parade, Mercy, Moon, Morning, Nation, Parade, Peace, Persistence, Pestilence, Platitude, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Priceless, Prosperity, Providence, Quiche, Real, Reasons, Recognize, Sacred, Science, Scourge, Security, Set Apart, Source, Star, Strength, Suffer, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Day, Think, Tradition, Tranquil, Traps, Trust, Two Years, Unity, Verse, Viral, Vouchsafe, World, Worse, Zealous | Leave a comment