Tag Archives: Fought

Facing Death Boldly

Posted on January 23, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Facing Death Boldlyby Michael DoyleFacing death is one thingWatching the death of your menThat hurts more than anythingIt burns like the second mortal sinCold and hungry in the nightA target was seen in every lightYou never forget the death seenIt … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Advance, Best Nights, Bold, Breaking Point, Breath, Burn, Cold and Hungry, Death, Dreamless, Emotional Landmines, Face, Forgot, Fought, France, Human Being, Hurt, Images, Inching, Light, Man, Memories, Nivht, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Seamless, Second Mortal Sin, Seen, Target, Tears, Traces, Useless, War, Watch, Your Men | Leave a comment

To Stay Alive In All Seasons

Posted on December 7, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

To Stay Alive In All Seasonsby Michael DoyleWe give up our courageTrying hard to discourageOurselves or any othersAmong those we call our brothersBut not a single John Wayne aspirationWould save Pearl Harbor or our nationThe men present mostly fought to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged A Thousand Images, All Seasons, Aspiration, Attack, Belly Crawling, Bitter Memories, Boys, Brave Men, Breath, Brothers, Burn, Competing Reasons, Courage, Courage and the Dead, Cry, Dark Stain, December 7th, Dire, Discourage, Earn, Expected, Fire, Fought, Ghosts, Great War, Heart, Hide, History, Infamy, Insane, John Wayne, Learn, Lessons, Make It Home Tonight, Memorial, Men, Modern-Day Cowboys, Nation, No Glory, Ourselves, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Real War, Reality, Remain, Return, Sadness, Scars, Seasons, Situation, Sleeping Giant Awoken, Smoke, Spoken, Start, Stay Alive, Story, Stumble, Survive, Survivors, Talk, Tears, The USS Arizona, Tragic Day, Turn Out Right, Unsuspected, Walk, World | Leave a comment

Owed To America 2024

Posted on July 4, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Owed To America 2024by Michael DoyleMy daughters ask me why is it you cryI think back on history and will not lieToo many brave souls have fought and diedFor us not to have mourned and criedThere was a time when … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ages, America, American Nation, Battle, Belief, Believe, Bend Their Knees, Bleed, Blue, Brave, Brave Souls, Cause, Ceaseless, Color, Courage, Cried, Cry, Danger, Daughters, Dedication, Defeat, Despotic Crown, Died, Fear, Fight, Fire, Fought, Freedom, Good, History, Hope, Ill, Imagination, Inspiration, Inspire, Internal Eney, Judgment Day, Justice, Kind, Land, Liberty, Lie, Love, Measure, More, Mourn, Nation, Owed To America 2024, Passing Years, People, Photography, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Red, Rights, Road, Save, Spark, Stand, Stand Tall, Street, Strength, Sweet Land, This Land, Time, Travel, Unbeatable, Values, White | Leave a comment

Truth of War

Posted on November 27, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Truth of Warby Michael DoyleMost of the world’s problems start with warIt’s a noteworthy thing that it takes moreThen dreamy words offering a shallow victoryTo come out on the winning side of historyMany a fool has believed themselves betterWhen cooler … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Arms, Begun, Breath, Brilliance, Choose, Cooler Head, Creep Up, Depths, Done, Dream, Equally Sad, Fight, Fight Hard, Fool, Fought, Hell, History, Journey, Legacy, Lesson, Lessons Learned, Lose, Luck, Mirror, No One Wins, Poetry and Poems, Price, Problem, Reflection, Reliance, Review, Roulette Wheel, Rush of Exuberance, Shallow Victory, Sin, Slow Drag of Death, Struggle, Tragic, Truth, Truth of War, Victory, Wages of War, War, Well-Earned, Winning Side, Won, World, Wounded | Leave a comment

First Principles: An Elective Despotism Was Not the Government We Fought For; But One In Which the Powers of Government Should Be Divided and Balanced

Posted on November 10, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“An elective despotism was not the government we fought for; but one in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among the several bodies of magistracy as that no one could transcend their legal limits without … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Balanced, Checked, Despotism, Divided, Effecually, Elective, First Principles, Fought, Government, James Madison, Legal Limits, Magistracy, Powers of Government, Restrained, Several Bodies, Transcend | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: No Battle Is Ever Won He Said…The Field Only Reveals To A Man His Own Folly and Despair, and Victory Is An Illusion of Philosophers and Fools

Posted on October 3, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“No battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.” – William Faulkner, novelist (25 Sep 1897-1962)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Despair, Field, Folly, Fools, Fought, Illusion, Philosophers, Reveal, Thought For the Day, Victory, William Faulkner, Won | 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

My Faithfulness

Posted on June 5, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

My Faithfulnessby Michael DoyleI have found my faithfulnessHas lead to a life of blissIn all the battles that I’ve foughtI’ve come out better than I oughtIn every step, God knows I need HimTo the core of my heart, not just … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Battles, Better Than I Ought, Core, Days Lived, Every Step, Fading Pages, Folly, Fought, Glory, God, Healer, Heard, His Story, Jesus, Life of Bliss, My Faithfulness, My Mistakes, Occur, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Rock of Ages, Same God, Saving Me, Sorry, Strife, Truth, Whim, Word of Prayer, Wounds | Leave a comment

In Processes Already Fought and Lost

Posted on May 15, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

In Processes Already Fought and Lostby Michael DoyleThere stuck in the muddle of successionWere hints of insight from past electionsInside stories to elections that were lostStolen as it were to the People’s costFury builds to crescendo spilling into riotWhere the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bluff, Capable, Care, Circumstance, Cost, Crescendo, Critical Moment, Destruction, Elit, Fabriacation, Facts, Fate, Fine Wine, Fought, Frame, Fury, Gate, Incendiary Stuff, Infomration, Inside Stories, Investigation, Limited Abilities, Lost, Mass Media, Natural, News Hour, Page, Past Elections, Poetry and Poems, Point of View, Power, Processes, Questions, Quiet, Rage, Riff Game, Riot, Shake, Slight, Stench, Sucession, Swag, Tak, Target, Temptations, Top This, True, Waltz, War, Wicked, Words | Leave a comment

Currents of the Riptide

Posted on October 31, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Currents of the Riptideby Michael DoyleOn the tip of the continent’s ledgeI stand and touch the water’s edgeIn the memory of those who came beforeAnd will never surf any moreThe rides that they once soughtAll of the battles that they … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adrenaline, Battles, Child, Confident, Content, Continent, Currency, Currents, Emotion, Face of Waves, Feet, Fought, Ledge, Legacy, Memories, Memory, Neptune, Ocean, Poetry and Poems, Powers, Reveries, Rides, Riptide, Sorrow, Sought, Surf, Tame, Tomorrow, Water's Edge, Wild | Leave a comment