Tag Archives: Glory

In the Church of the Open Field

Posted on August 30, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

In the Church of the Open Fieldby Michael DoyleIn the church of the open fieldThe glory of truth is revealedIn fellowship of God’s good companyIn the exclusive claims of divinityDarkness hates the shine of lightPreferring as it does, the things … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Blinding Fear, Brave, Children, Chruch, Comforts, Company, Contribution, Crime, Darkness, Divinity, Exclusive Claims, Fellowship, Gather, Gather Now, Glory, God, Hate, Lifetime, Light, Living Dead, Living Love, Night, Offer Up Love, Open Field, Persecution, Persevere, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Putting Away, Revealed, Shine, Shun, Soul, Steadfast, The World, Truth, Weigh | Leave a comment

Skandalon

Posted on July 11, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Skandalonby Michael DoyleI won’t take the baitOf living this fateFalling for the offenseOf people speaking through pretenseTriggered into living this trapThinking and feeling the rapHit after hit comes my wayI see it happening day after dayThe pains that are feltIn … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bad, Bait, Being Bitter, Best Life, Better, Bitterness, Breath, Choice, Day After Day, Dealt, Dey, Drip, Escape the Fate, Ever Had, Falling, Fangs of Despair, Fatal Test, Fear and Doubt, Felt, Finger Trap, Flow, Glory, God's Best Truth, God's Plans, Great Signifiance, Happening, Heart, Hit After hit, How I live, Injustices, Kingdom, Learn, Legendary, Lesson To Heed, Let Go, Listening, Living, Living This Fate, Magnificence, My Days, Need, Not Stand Alone, Offense, Offenses, Offenses of the Past, Overlooking, Pains, Patience, People, Poetry and Poems, Pretense, Rap, Rip Me Apart, Sad, Satan, Skandalon, Slights, Small Still Voice, Stands Alone, The Story, Trap, Trap of Offense, Triggered, Try As I might, Turn the Page, Ugly, Venom, Way, Wisdom, Yields | Leave a comment

First Principles: America’s Glory Is Not Dominion, But Liberty. Her March Is the March of the Mind.

Posted on May 3, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“[America’s] glory is not dominion, but liberty. Her march is the march of the mind. She has a spear and a shield: but the motto upon her shield is Freedom, Independence, Peace. This has been her declaration: this has been, … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged America, Declaration, First Principles, Freedom, Glory, Her Practice, Independence, John Quincy Adams, Liberrty, March of the Mind, Motto, Necessary Intercourse, Not Dominion, Peace, Permit, Rest of Mankind, Spear and A Shield | Leave a comment

First Principles: I Am A Friend To Righteous Government, To A Government Founded Upon the Principles of Reason and Justice. But I Glory In Publicly Avowing My Eternal Enmity To Tyranny

Posted on April 3, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“I am a friend to righteous government, to a government founded upon the principles of reason and justice. But I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.” – John Hancock

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Eternal Enmity, First Principles, Founded, Friend, Glory, John Hancock, Justice, Principles, Publicly Avow, Reason, Righteous Government, Tyranny | Leave a comment

First Principles: America’s Founding Principles Are True Not Because Any Generation – Including Our Own – Has Lived Them Perfectly, But Because They Are Based Upon the Eternal Truths of the Human Condition

Posted on January 23, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“America’s founding principles are true not because any generation — including our own — has lived them perfectly, but because they are based upon the eternal truths of the human condition. They are rooted in our capacity for evil and … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged America, Capacity, Created In the Image of God, Dignity, Equality, Eternal Truths, Every Man Woman and Child, Evil, First Principles, Founding Principles, Generation, Glory, Human Condition, Longing For Truth, Love of Freedom, Need For Order, Potential, Power For Good, Rooted, Striving For Justice, The 1776 Project, The Worth, True | Leave a comment

Ever Free

Posted on December 21, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Ever Freeby Michael DoyleJoining in as the heavens and earth singsHoping a white Christmas will bringThis world’s resounding joyAs every good boy and girl unwrap their toysIn wonder of love, we gather and rejoiceGathered together to make a little noiseAll … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged A Little Noise, Across, All, Bring, Calm, Cross, Earth, Emanuel, Eternal Life, Ever Free, Evil, Faith, Fear, Gather, Given, Glory, God, Godhead, Good Boy and Girl, Good Command, Heavens, His Wonderous Love, Holiness, Human Veil, Jesus, Join Hands, Joyful Proclamation, Land, Liberation, Lifee, Live, Looking Up, Love, Night Skies, Our Heart, Our Nation, Peace, Photograph, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Pray, Prayer, Rejoice, Renewed, Resounding Joy, Reverent, Rightesousness, Rule, Sing, Strife, Told, Toys, Victory, Wall, We, White Christmas, Wonder of Love, World, Worship of the Lord | 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

Knowing of the Why

Posted on October 15, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Knowing of the Whyby Michael DoyleI believe I know the whyOf why a weeping willow criesWhen there was no time for goodbyeAnd that’s the case for each of us who diesEven in the best case of stabilityThere lies the uncanny … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accept, Air, Ambiguity, Believe, Best, Best Case, Beverage, Case, Caught, Chill, Choice, Choose, Clue, Cold, Country, Cry, Death, Defusion, Dies, Drink, Ease, End, Flourish, Gather Around, Ghost, Ghost Stories, Give Time, Glory, Good, Goodbye, Hesitation, Hide, Home, Illuminate, Illusion, Imagination, Imperfection, Inner, Just Beyond the Bend, Knowing, Live, Love, Most, Mystery, Night, No Time, One, One More Story, People Die, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Probability, Question, Reach, Risk of Losing, Run On, Serves, Situation, Some, Spurt, Stability, Storied Voice, Superstition, Tales, Think, Tragic, Truth, Two, Uncanny, Warm the Heart, Weeping Willow, Why, Wonder, Worth While | Leave a comment

Around Every Corner

Posted on August 13, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

As I was driving down the eastern terminus of the Old National Road, it occurred to me… Around Every Corner by Michael Doyle Around every corner There is a story Down every street Hiding from its glory Just a bit … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Around, Around Every Corner, Bit, Built, Careless, Down Every Street, Drive, Driven By, Eastern Terminus, Every Corner, Flown Over, Gain, Garden, Gates, Getting Through, Glory, Hand That's Dealt, Hidden, Hide, In Every Loss, Lost and Found, Moment, Mumble, Nothing, Old National Road, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pout, Pride, Quarry, Revealing, Road Side, See, Story, Stumble, Telling, Toss, Twist of Fate, Untold Story, Voice, Wait, Word | Leave a comment

Theatrical Dawg Bones Thrown

Posted on August 8, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

However much the director whines that he’s only got 2 1/2 hours to present his hip hop distortions of American history and however much he manages to make his errors rhyme and dance match the music’s time, I don’t appreciate … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 1619 Project, All Life Is Sacred, All Lives Matter, America, American History, Anyone, Believe, Blackfaced, BLM, Cancel Culture, Catching Lightning In A Bottle, Come A Time, Complex, Contribution, Create, Cull, Debate, Disguise, Distortion, Elevate, Equality, Errors, Evangelists, Fallacious, Falsehoods, Falsity, Feet, Fight, Flip Side, Founders, Frederick Douglass, From the Beginning, Fundamentals, Glory, Great Story, Hamilton, Heart and Soul, Heritage, Hip Hop, History, Holding True, Image, Immigrants, Immigration, Joy, Justice, Land of Mine, Less of a History, Lies, Martin Luther King Jr, Marxism, Marxist, Mediocrity, Misconceived, Miscreant, Musical, Narrative, Nation, Norm, Notions, NPR, Opposed, Outright Mockery, Path, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pop Culture, Presupposed, Principles, Racist Pride, Rap, Realize, Recall, Reflective, Repercussions, Reserve Racism, Revolution, Rhyme and Dance, Rock the Streets, Ruin, Seen As, Set Loose, Shame, Shine, Society, Speaking In Terms, Spotlight, Study, Stupdendous, Theater, Transform, Trap, Travesty, Truth, Well Rehearsed, Youth | Leave a comment