Tag Archives: History

Summer Road Trip

Posted on June 22, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Summer Road Trip 2023by Michael DoyleAs my youngest approaches high schoolIt seemed a good time, as a general ruleTo take my daughters on an adventureIt might be seen as a matter of debentureOr the paying of my familial debtTo somewhere … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adventure, Cherry Pie, Chicago, Death's Door, Debt, Destination, Door County, Esker, Explore, Family Home, Fish Boil, Glaciation, Green Bay, Heart, High School, History, Ice Age, Indiana, Iowa, Journey, Juniper Bushes, Kames, Kettles, Lead, Lighthouse, Lumbeau Field, Memories, Mission, Mississippi River, Peoria, Poetry and Poems, Road Trip, Rule, Sand Dunes, Sea Gulls, Silos and Smokers, Sky, Spanish Mines, Summer, Transition, Wind-Swept, Wisconsin | Leave a comment

Across Life’s Breeze

Posted on June 11, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Across Life’s Breezeby Michael DoyleIt takes a fightTo find the victoryIt takes the lightTo build historyOur hands liftedUpward and highBelief unshiftedOur eyes are toward the skyFrom the crossTo the empty tombVictory from seeming lossBegan in Mary’s wombUndefeated in every hourHoliness … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Across, Belief, Breeze, Cross, Destination, Empty Tomb, Fight, Hands, History, Holiness, Hour, igh, Knees, Life, Life's Breeze, Light, Mary's Womb, Nation, Poetry and Poems, Power, Seeming Loss, Sky, Sought, Toughest Battles, Truth, Undefeated, Victory, Whispered | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: The US Constitution Is the Strongest Guarantor of Freedoms In History

Posted on June 11, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“TRUTH. 1. God is real. 2. There are two genders. 3. Human flourishing requires fossil fuels. 4. Reverse racism is racism. 5. An open border is no border. 6. Parents determine the education of their children. 7. The nuclear family … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Capitalism, Children, Education, Feedoms, Fossil Fuels, God, Governance, Greatest Form, Guarantor, History, Human Flourishing, Lifts, Mankind, No Border, Not Four, Nuclear Family, Open Border, Parents, People, Poverty, Racism, Real, Reverse Racism, Thought For the Day, Three Branches, Truth, Two Genders, U.S. Constitution, US Government, Vivek Ramaswamy | Leave a comment

Sandhill Cranes Revisited

Posted on June 2, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Sandhill Cranes Revisitedby Michael DoyleEvery year Sometimes twice a yearWe would make our pilgrimage Off to Jasper PulaskiTens of thousands of cranes Filled the airZoning in on their nesting groundsZig-zag patterns as grouping Crossed by grouping Into what looks like … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Air, Better, Blessed, Bobbing and Weaving, Canada, Children, Cornfields, Could, Courtships, Cranes Mate Forever, Cycles, Dance, Danced, Dies, Different, Disregard, Drive, Every Moment, Every Year, Fail, Familial Groups, Feathered Paratroopers, Fledglings, Fleeting, Flight, Florida, Forget, Grouping, Guess, Happiness, Hardship, Harvested, Hearts, History, Hope, Humans, Ingrained, Inspired, Its Way, Jasper Pulaski, Keep, Landing, Last, Learn, Learning, Life, Loved, Marsh, Mate, Midwestern Flyway, Migrations, Migratory Routes, Minds, Momma and Poppa, Motion, Natural Wisdom, Nature, Nesting Grounds, Newly Planted, Next Generation, Nourishment, Observation Platform, Pilgrimage, Poetry and Poems, Point, Possible, Promises, Puzzle, Really So, Recognize, Remember, Rest, Revisited, Rituals of Dance, Romance, Romantic Couples, Sandhill Cranes, Scrabbles of Food, Should, Snow and Rain, Sorrow, Sounding Off, Spring, Survival, Taught, Think, Thousands, Times, Too Often, Trace, Tradition, Vain, Watch and Learn, Watching, Weariness, Wish, Wonder, Young, Zig-Zag Patterns | Leave a comment

Something Bleeding This Way Comes

Posted on May 31, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Something Bleeding This Way Comesby Michael DoyleWord slithered along the corporate groundWhere all is ancient, and nothing new is foundSecrets told through half-truths revealedRemind us all of the things better off concealedPregnant pauses signal latent twists in positioningAs corporate successions … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ancient, Birthright, Bleed, Children, Conceal, Corporate, Dinosaur, Endgame, Generation, Grave, Half-Truth, History, Inclination, Journey, Lament, Maturation, Motherhood, New, Pain and Misery, Pause, Poetry and Poems, Position, Recrimination, Reject, Save, Secrets, Something, Space-Age Messiah, Stoic, Sucession, Tragedy, Tranisition, Twist, Words, Wrench | Leave a comment

The History That I’m Still Living

Posted on May 12, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

The History That I’m Still Livingby Michael DoyleWhen the winds of change blew throughThe march of history became more trueThere really wasn’t much to sayBy those who outgrew their shackles of yesterdayThe Wild West became the Wild EastAs crime and … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Beast, Blind, Brave, Cages, Capitalist, Causes of Freedom, Cracked ideals, Crime and Corruption, Determined, Died For, Dignity, Dreams, Evidence, Fabians, False Alibis, Few, Fools, Forefathers, Freedom and Liberty, Good fight, History, Ignore, Invade, Liberty, Lies, Living, Mankind, March of History, Memories, Persist, Poetry and Poems, Resist, Restored Empire, Right and True, Say, Self-Chosen Slavery, Shackles, Socialists, Stubborn Facts, Success, Throw Away, True, Tyranny, Verdict, Watch, West, Wild East, Winds of Change, Yesterday | Leave a comment

Uthred of Bamburgh

Posted on April 17, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Uthred of Bamburghby Michael DoyleThe blood runs deepAs Saxon mothers weepSatan has crossed the landsUnder blood thirst’s craven commandVahalla’s gates open wideWatching as seven kings diedThe Valkyries accept the deathAs Uthred draws his last breathA hero though rarely namedIf England … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Betrayals, Blame, Blood, Breath, Burn, Burning Hearts, Cold, Craven, Death, Deep, England, Fall, Family Ties, Fiction, Flames, Flicker, Halls, Hero, History, Kings, Lands, Learn, Lost, Mytery, Oath, Poetry and Poems, Real Man, Sacred, Satan, Saxon, Seven, Sir Lancelot, Sky, Thirst, Uthred of Bamburgh, Vahalla, Valykyries, Weep, Wide, Winter, Word | Leave a comment

Thoughts On Palm Sunday 2023

Posted on April 2, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Thoughts On Palm Sunday 2023by Michael DoyleEvery man’s life is a conversationIt’s in the soul, not the presentationPalm Sunday is it’s own celebrationThat turned from hosanna to devastationOr so perception blinded, yet it gave goodOne day at a time, as … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All In Good Time, Bad Over the Good, Belong, Below, Benefit, Body of Christ, Celebration, Changes, Close, Composure, Cpnversation, Cross, Crowd, Debt, Devastation, Die, Difference, Dignity, Doubt, Each Moment, End, Eternity, Experience, Exposure, Fate, Gates of Hell, Given, Goal, God's Love, God's Plan, Grace, History, Holy Connection, Homily, Hosanna, Jesus Above, Judas, Last Supper, Life, Loss, Mystery, Open Handed, Paid In Full, Palm Sunday 2023, Path, Perception, Pesssures, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Praying For Judas, Preach, Present, Presentation, Revealed, Right, Roll, Rule, Salvation, School, See, Service, Shape, Shifting Tides, Silence of God, Sin, Soul, Tame, The Body, Time, Understood, Veneration, Victory, Wait, Washed Feet, World, Wrong, You and Me | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: The Liberty of Man To Search For Truth Ought Not To Be Fettered, No Matter What Orthodoxies He May Challenge

Posted on March 8, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“The history of civilization is in considerable measure the displacement of error which once held sway as official truth by beliefs which in turn have yielded to other truths. Therefore the liberty of man to search for truth ought not … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Belief, Challenge, Civilization, Error, Felix Frankfurter, Fettered, History, Liberty, Mankind, Measure, Official Truth, Orthodoxies, Other Truths, Search, Thought For the Day, Truth, Yield | Leave a comment

Points Taken From the Best Mimes

Posted on February 10, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Points Taken From the Best Mimesby Michael DoyleWe felt so clever copying the rhymesUnspoken from the silence of the mimesWho knew how much could be and was saidWithout a single word escaping the headThis is the way of the very … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Copy, Found, History, Humanity, Legends, Mimes, Mystery, Obscene, Pages, Poetry and Poems, Points, Questions, Rhymes, Riddle, Said, Scribble, Silence, Single Word, Vivid Colors, Yesterdays | Leave a comment