Tag Archives: History

Life Without Light

Posted on January 6, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Life Without Lightby Michael DoyleLife without lightIs the color they died inDarker than nightIs the least of their sinsI can’t say you’ll like thisBut we need to risk regretFor all the world cried amissAt the lost beauty, we must regretSabbath … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Amiss, Calm, Color, Crimes, Dark, Depravity, Die, Doubt, End, Ends of Our Ropes, Friends, Glow, Graves, Hatred, Hearts, Hell, Hide, History, Hope, Humane, Humanity, Inside, Least, Life, Light, Lost Beauty, Madness, Melt, Never Forget, Night, No Way Out, Pages, Poetry and Poems, Prisoners, Regret, Remember, Risk, Sabbath Candles, Shot, Sin, Someday, Taint, Tears, The Other, Undone, Unfelt, Unifnished, World | Leave a comment

Saturday At the Movies: Schindler’s List

Posted on January 6, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

In this age of growing antisemiticsm, it is fitting that Better Together Forever is holding a viewing of the award winning Schindler’s List. This film serves as a stark reminder of the Holocaust and those who attempted their best to … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Academy Awards, Antisemiticsm, Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, Better Together Forever, Blood of the Jewish People, Bookend, Color, Development, Film, Ghetto, Good and Evil, Historical Drama, History, Holocaust, Hop, Iconic, Innocence, Itzhak Perlman, John Williams, Library of Congress, Life Without Light, May We Never Forget, Morality, Oskar Schindler, Oyfn Pripetshik ((On the Cooking Stove), Red, Red Coat, Sabbath Candles, Saturday At the Movies, Schindler's Ark, Schindler's List, Shoah, Steven Spielberg, Symbolism, Thomas Keneally, Thought For the Day, United States National Film Registry, Violin | Leave a comment

Ghost Story

Posted on January 5, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Ghost Storyby Michael DoyleRemember Remember meMy death Was cold miseryThere is no record At least officiallyBut my lynching Is part of historyI’m cold and alone Without a name on the stonePlease talk to me I need a sort of legacyI … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Built, Care, Cold and Alone, Connection, Death, Desperation, Division, End, Fate, Forget, Forgotten, Ghost Story, Glory, Heal, Hiding Place, History, Imaginary Friend, Laugh, Legacy, Longing, Lynching, Misery, Official, Pain, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Promise, Reach Out, Record, Regret, Remember, Right, Sacred, Sane, Scare, Sedate, Space, Spirituality, Survival, Talk | Leave a comment

Sparked Distraction

Posted on December 23, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Sparked Distractionby Michael DoyleAll the world is extraordinaryThere is so much to seeIn every moment and all actionsThere is the spark of distractionHopefully and creativelyYour safety is found in beautyAs you go out into the world to seeAll there is … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 21st Century, Beauty, Belong, Best Light, Birthday Candle, Box, Breadcrumbs, Cancer, Candle Lights, Capturing Life, Clear, Comedy, Connection, Continue, Creative, Cry, Curiousity, Darkness, Death, Degree, Distance, Doubt, Dramedy, Eventuality, Every Moment, Existential, Extradordinary, Fallen Tear, Film, Final Answers, Fork, Fullest, Future, Generation, Gratitude, Grow, Heavens, Heavens Above, History, Hopeful, Imagination, Implausible, Impossible, Inspiration, Known, Last Breath, Learn, Left Behind, Letting Go, Little Smiles, Live Love, Living Gods, Lock, Look, Love, Majesty, Matters, Miarcles, Mournful Look, Nightmares, Nowhere, Once, Pain, Path of Life, Pay, Penance, Poetry and Poems, Real, Reality, Rebirthed, Records, Road, Safety, Scourge, Sensation, Shatter, Short or Long, Songs, Sorrow, Sparked Distraction, Stay, Stride, Struggles, Surreal, Take Care, Tears, Terror, There, Tomorrow, Torment, Touch, Travel, Whisper, Worthy | Leave a comment

Revisiting Truth In the Post-Modernist Age

Posted on December 10, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Revisiting Truth In the Post-Modernist Ageby Michael DoyleIt can be said with conviction of feelingThat the ways of God are revealingHere in this mid-DecemberIt seems timely to rememberAll of God’s loving tracesIn all the history of a life’s embracesAre like … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Atone, Balance, Brain, Broken, Chaos, Clarity, Confusion, Contrition, Conviction, Cost, Destruction, Dysfunction, Faithless, Feeling, Grace, Grace and Truth, Heartless, Heed, History, Human Race, Humanity, Ideology, Illusion, Imposition, Incarnation, Jordan, Law andTruth, Lean-In, Loving Traces, Meaning, Memorial, Mercy, Mid-December, Neighborhood, Nihilism, Optimism, Poetry and Poems, Poison, Post-Modernist Age, Preacher, Question, Reason, Rebellion, Relativism, Remember, Revealing, Revisit, Righteous Path, Seduce, Shadow, Stones, Struggle, Teach, Teacher, The Law, The lost, the Word, Truth, Ways of God | Leave a comment

The World Is Full of Dreamers

Posted on December 2, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

The World Is Full of Dreamersby Michael DoyleThe world’s history is played out on stagesSome of which have filled a thousand pagesBut these pages are the stuff of unequal dreamsThose who dream by daylight do so as it seemsNot with … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Capable, Clarity, Daylight, Dreamers, History, Lawrence of Arabia, Leadership, Pages, Poetry and Poems, Possible, Stage, T.E. Lawrence, Unequal Dreams, Vanity, Vision, World | 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

New Life Reborn

Posted on November 5, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

New Life Rebornby Michael DoyleThe new life rebornKnows its miseryCommon sense would mournThis loss of such historyAs a life lived in painThere are questions that strainA thousand cuts into our moralityAre the price of approaching immortalityLike pawns on chessboard gamesWe … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Common Sense, History, Immortality, Loss, Misery, Morality, Mourn, New Life, Pain, Poetry and Poem, Price, Reborn, Strain, Thousand Cuts | Leave a comment

First Principles: A Morsel of Genuine History Is A Thing So Rare As To Be Always Valuable

Posted on October 26, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable.” – Thomas Jefferson (1817)

Posted in First Principles | Tagged First Principles, Genuine, History, Morsel, Rare, Thomas Jefferson, Valuable | Leave a comment

Pain Enters the Building

Posted on October 19, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Pain Enters the Buildingby Michael DoylePain enters the buildingIt comes with the never-yieldingBut instead, putting your all into the gameWhether you lose or gain 15 minutes of fameSometimes conflict comes with painSometimes you ride the rails, barely saneYou give your … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 15 Minutes of Fame, All, Bright Lights, Building, Conflict, Contribution, Corner, Deserve, Down, Driven, End, Feed, Fight, Forever, Game, Gridiron, History, Home and Family, Intense, Last Nerve, Lose, Means, Mile, Million Dollar, Mystery, Nerves, NFL, Pain, Perspective, Poetry and Poems, Pushing Hard, Resolution, Ride the Rails, Sane, Sense, Smile, Snapped, Steel, Success, Underneath, Yield | Leave a comment