Tag Archives: Good

Together We Will Stand

Posted on September 29, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Together We Will Standby Michael DoyleThere is now in this time of historyA grain going against the orthodoxyThat states that the power rests in populismDespite the modern move against nationalismToday, a certain set wishes our knees to bowAs if to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Best Days, Biblical, Bow, Bows, Broken Dreams, Business of Our Nation, Capacity, Carry On, Champion, City on the Hill, Conservative Court, Constitution, Country, Course, Courts, Critical, Crucial, Cut, Darkness, Deep State, Deluge, Democracy, Determine, Devotion, Display, Disservice, Each Day, Elit, Empowerment, Encroachment, Fail, Family Tree, Fight For, Force, Founders, Founding Principle, God and Family, God's Wisdom, Good, Government, Guiding Light, Harshness, Hesitation, History, Honor, Hope, Keep Freedom, Kept Liberty, Knees, Land of the Brave and Free, Legacy, Liberty, Limbs, Lost, Midstream, Mobocracy, Modern, Nationalism, Need, Offer, Orthodoxy, Our Land, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Populism, Power, Pray, Pretend, Principle, Question, Reason, Regulation, Republic, Rule of Law, Safe, Sense, Sheet-Anchor, Shines, Shoulder to Shoulder, Stand, Stand Strong, Stand Together, Stay, Staying Strong, Struggle, Symbol, The People, This Fight, Throngs, Together, Treasured Country, Turning Point, Understand, Unique, Values, Victory, Wonder Aloud, World | Leave a comment

That Works For Me

Posted on September 23, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

That Works For Meby Michael DoyleShooting photos from a different perspectiveIs easy, fun and a bit magically reflectiveSeagulls flying around the statue’s baseAnd twilight falls giving its new embraceSo many things seen all of the timeNothing hard in finding the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Activitity, Adventure, All the Best, Base, Blunder, Blur, Connectivity, Easy, Embrace, Faces, Fun, Good, History, Iconic, Metaphysical Poetry, Moments, Mystery, New Angle, New Day, Night, Perspective, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Ready and Willing, Reflective, Seagulls, See, Shooting Photos, Sights, Soul, Speed of Life, Sublime, Sun, Tangle, That Works, Time, Twilight, Unusual, Wonder, Works | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Good Books Don’t Give Up All Their Secrets At Once

Posted on September 22, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“Good books don’t give up all their secrets at once.” -Stephen King, novelist (b. 21 Sep 1947)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged All, Books, Give Up, Good, Once, Secrets, Stephen King, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

First Principles: The Reading of All Good Books Is Like A Conversation With the Finest Minds of Past Centuries

Posted on September 4, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“The Reading of All Good Books Is Like A Conversation With the Finest Minds of Past Centuries.” – Rene Descartes

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Books, Centuries, Conversation, Fine, First Principles, Good, Minds, Past, Reading, Rene Descartes | Leave a comment

The Tales Told

Posted on August 25, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

The Tales Toldby Michael DoyleThe seventh son of the seventh sonKnows he has no choice but to be the oneWho in accord with ancient prophecyMust rise above to embrace his legacyThe tales told are things quite legendaryPressing him to greatness … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ancient, Beauty, Believer, Blood Moon, Call, Castle, Certainty, City, Confide, Courageous, Dangerous, Dark, Darkness, Dazed, Deep Inside, Destiny, Duty, Evil, Extraordinary, Eyes, Fortune, Fully Phase, Ghost, Good, Greatness, Heart, Holy, Journey, Knight, Learn, Legacy, Legendary, Lessons, Light, Met, Mistaken, Needs, No Choice, Offshore, Photograph, Phrases, Poem, Poetry, Press, Prophecy, Put, Return, Rise Above, Road, Safety, Seventh Son, Shadows, Summoner, Tales, Tales Told, The one, Told, Unleashed, Vanquish, Wall, Warmth of Love, Whisper, Wickedness, Wise, World, Wretched | Leave a comment

In the Providence of Seneca

Posted on August 24, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

In the Providence of Senecaby Michael DoyleIn the age of ancient tyrannyWhen Rome had lost its libertyEven a good man might compromiseFor the partial good seen in his eyesThough at times, it took its tollTo hide his better angels in … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Absolute, Age, All That Happens, Ancient, Beg For Mercy, Belong, Better Angels, Bind, Blessing, Breath of Life, Code, Complexity, Compromise, Confronted, Correspondence, Creation, Cringe, Death, Destroy, Deviation, Divinity, Done, E, Epistles, Every, Evil, Evil For Evil, Eyes, Face to Face, Facing Adversity, Fast, Felt, Fiddle, Final Analysis, For Good, Full, Garment, God, God Works, Good, Good Man, Good Person, Greater, Grow, Hide, His Creation, Hold True, Just, Kill, Knowing, Liberty, Life, Lost, Mankind, Moral Relativists, Mortal, Name of God, Nation, Natural Law, Nero, No Choice, Nobility, Order, Partial Good, Path, Perfection, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Providence, Regardless, Return, Right and Wrong, Right Way, Righteousness, Role, Rom, Rule, Satisfaction, Seam, Self, Seneca, Sense, Setting Sun, Shade, Shadows, Showing, Situational Ethics, Slavery, Socrates, Sonorous, Soul, Strains, Subjugation, Test of Evil, Testimony, Thoughts, Time, Times, Toll, Traces, Tyranny, Understood, Universe | Leave a comment

Living As Ambassadors of Christ

Posted on July 30, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on 2 Cor 5: 20: Living As Ambassadors of Christ by Michael Doyle Are we out argued in our role As ambassadors who are to extol The virtues of our Christian life To be the peace and … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2nd Corinthians, Ambassadors, Ample, Case, Christ, Christian Life, Commission, Divinity, Embrace, Evidence, Example, Extol, Glory, God, Good, Gospel, Hell, His, Liberty, Living, Lord's Will, Love of God, Made Up Story, Out Argued, Path, Peace, Perish, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Preach, Present, Reach, Real, Role, Strife, Teach, Tell, True Born, Truth, Virtues, Yoke | Leave a comment

Faithful and Good

Posted on July 21, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

God’s words fill our souls like some sort of universal melody at times. Faithful and Good by Michael Doyle Faithful and good in what you do to me Filling my heart with your melody Every beat of my heart is … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Absolution, Atonement, Awaken, Beat, Believe, Blurred, Breaking, Calvary, Cast, Chosen, Clarity, Cling To Life, Conceive, Contemplation, Contribution, Darkness, Day, Defeated, Down, Embrace, End of Days, Faithful, Felt, Filling, Find, Focus, Forever, Gave, God's Words, Good, Goodness, Grave, Heart, In Need, Knees, Know, Malingering, Meant, Melody, Mercy, Moved Me, Obedience, One and All, Photograph, Place, Poem, Poetry, Praise, Price, Procrastination, Provide, Raise Up, Recall, Redemption, Sacrifice, Salvation, Save, Servant, Shaken, Shaking, Soul, Sould, Standing In Awe, Steadfast and True, Suffer, Take My Place, Taking the Beating, Tears, Tell, Three Days, True Worth, Understood, Us, Vision, Wear, Word, Words of Love, Worthy, Yoke, Your Love, Your Way, Yourself | Leave a comment

Prayer For Courage

Posted on July 6, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Poem Number Six in a series on a retelling of a classic werewolf tale: Prayer For Courage by Michael Doyle Look deep – is it a surprise? Do you see the beast in my eyes God knows that I wish … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alone, Beast, Bold, Cards, Courage, Desire, Divine, Eyes, Flaws, Forgiveness, Fortunes, God, God Knows, God's Law, Good, Greater Good, Home, Hope, I, Inside, Look Deep, Looking Hard, Mortal Heart, Moves, Pensive, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Prayer, Prove, Read, Real, Sadness, Savage Beast, Series, Signs, Stand, Start, Stumble, Surge, Surprise, Tale, Times, Told, Understood, Urge, Werewolf, Whisper, With, World | Leave a comment

Blood Moon Rising

Posted on July 3, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Poem 3 in a continuing series of retelling of a classic werewolf tale: Blood Moon Rising by Michael Doyle Torchlight flows and leads the way As the full moon comes to claim the day Are you braver than me, my … Continue reading →

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