Tag Archives: France

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

In the Snows of France

Posted on January 11, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

In the Snows of Franceby Michael DoyleDoc was a medicRunning from hole to holeThere wasn’t a foxWho didn’t know his soulThe Germans kept comingWith machine guns drummingSounding off in the darkest nightThe 101st prayed for the morning lightA little drip … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 101st Airborne, Amaze, Battle, Brave, Company, Dead Men, Doc, Dreams, End, Falling Snow, Foxhole, France, Friends, Grace, Half-Alive, Hard Rain, Hold On, Hope, Kill and Die, Know, Lucky, Machine Guns, Man, Medic, Medics, Morning, Morphine, Mortar Rounds, Night, Numbered Days, On the Move, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Rememver, Secret, Shelling, Snow, Soul, Surgeon, Survive, The Boys, Virgin, Wounded, Young Man | Leave a comment

First Principles: America Has Taken Greatest Advantage of Association and Has Applied This Powerful Means of Action To the Greatest Variety of Objectives

Posted on May 15, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“Of all countries in the world, America has taken greatest advantage of association and has applied this powerful means of action to the greatest variety of objectives…Wherever, at the head of a new undertaking, you see in France the government, … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Advantage, Alexis du Tocqueville, All Countries, America, Association, England, First Principles, France, Means of Action, The Government, The Great Lord, The United States, United States, Variety of Objectives | Leave a comment

In Remembrance of Notre Dame

Posted on April 18, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

In memory of the burning of Notre Dame 04/2019 and as originally posted on my Flickr account: In Remembrance of Notre Dame by Michael Romani Standing there in the center of the ancient cityGloriously symbolic in its early beloved pietyThe … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ages, Ancient, Burn, Cathedral, Center, Century, Champagne, Dreams, Europe, Faith, Fire, Flickr, France, Humanity, Memory, Mystery, Notre Dame, Paris, Photograph, Piety, Poem, Poetry, Remebrance, Sorrow, Testament, Today, Tomorrow, Yesterday | Leave a comment

Memory Inspires the Future

Posted on March 30, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Slavery is wrong. It was wrong in the past. It is wrong in the present. It’s a wrong that will go into our future. That is until we stand together to vanquish this evil. I cannot stress enough that the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Apology, Atrocity, Better, Consequence, Crimes Against Humity, Cultural Amnesia, Dignity, Dwell, Equa;ity, Evade, Forgive, France, Fratenrity, Free, Freedom, Future, Grievance, Guadaloupe, History, Humanism, Inspire, Isle, Legacy, Les Colons, Memory, Moving Forward, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reconciliation, Sidestep, Slavery, Slight, Stain, Sugar Factory | Leave a comment

Talk Is Cheap Rondel

Posted on February 18, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

The Poem A Day form for Day#14 is the Rondel form. The word prompt is ‘sunspot’. Sorry to say. But, I am not going to use the word prompt. It’s only provided here in case there is a reader out … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Blues, Broody, Cheap, Dissonance, E, Everyday, France, Harmony, Jump Beat, Key, Life, Lost, Melody, Milkwood, Misery, Modern, Moody, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Quick Time, Rondel, Talk | Leave a comment

Kyrielle of Empowerment

Posted on February 15, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

The Milkwood Poem A Day #10 is the Kyrielle. The word prompt for day 10 is ‘element’. “Kyrielle is a French form inspired by a Christian devotional tradition, the Kyrie.” “Like that call-and-response liturgical form, the kyrielle poem has a … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Calamity, Coup, Desparation, Effort, Element, Empower, Famine, Finest Hour, Four Horsemen, France, God's Plan, God's Will, Grumble, Humanity, Hunger, Kyrie, Kyrielle, Liturgical, Malnourishment, New Life, Overcome, Photograph, Plague, Poem, Poetry, Quatrain, Rebuild, Rubble, Starve, Trouble, War | Leave a comment

Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: Molière – Tartuffe

Posted on February 17, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

Born on January 15, 1622, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, was best known by his stage name Moliere and became famed as a French playwright and actor prior to death on February 17, 1673. He is considered by man as one of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Comedy, France, Harvard Classics, Moliere, Playwright, Social Criticism, Tartuffe, The Imaginary Invalid, The Misanthrope | Leave a comment

Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: Voltaire – Letters On the English

Posted on February 10, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

We have previously looked at the life and legacy of Voltaire. Please review this information elsewhere on this blog. Letters on the English or Letters Concerning the English Nation is a series of essays written by Voltaire on his living in … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged England, Essay, France, Harvard Classics, Letters On the English, Philosophy, Voltaire | 2 Comments

WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Trill

Posted on January 25, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

He wasn’t Bojangles, but, he loved to dance This ragamuffin from the south of France When he lifted his voice with his subtle trill All the ladies said it said it did thrill There was nothing really much to say … Continue reading →

Posted in Photographs & Memories | Tagged Bojangles, Daily Prompt, France, Music, Ragamuffin, Romance, Thrill, Trill, Wordpress | Leave a comment