Tag Archives: History

History Dignifies the Presidents

Posted on February 17, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

History Dignifies the Presidentsby Michael DoyleOn this Presidents Day, a few comments are deservedAs we look back on nation as it is preservedTrue to the faith of our republic’s sovereignty Is the struggle to keep our nation’s dignityOur story is … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Absent, America, Analyze, Beacon of Light, Best Way, Brave Men, Bullets, Cause and Pride, Comments, Compromise, Conflict, Criticism, Death, Deep Regret, Dignity, Faith, Future, Giant Steps, Hats, Hearts, Hill, History, Ideals, Imperfect, Integrity, Last, Legacy, Mantle, Moon, Nation, Nurture, Past, Present Day, Preserved, Presidents, Presidents Day, Races and Thoughts, Republic, Residence, Respect, Solemn Oath, Sovereignty, Step Back, Strength, Struggle, Sunrise, Territory, Time, Well-Shaken Past, White House, Wise, Woman | Leave a comment

Slipstream of History

Posted on February 15, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Slipstream of Historyby Michael DoyleSeven cycles in a stream of errorsThe collaboration of history might be seenIn terms of a series of erasAs these are experienced by human beingsIt feels like a long time in the comingAs we waited in … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ages, Civilization, Collaboration of History, Cycles, Echo Chamber, Eras, Errors, Experience, Flaw, Frame, Game, History, Mourning of Yesterday, Nowhere, Pages, Pensive Mood, Poetry and Poems, Reason, Rise and Fall, Slipstream, Two Coins | Leave a comment

Balance of Power

Posted on February 7, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Balance of Powerby Michael DoyleYour people came to my peopleWith all of their demandsBefore we knew what coexistence meantWe had lost all our sacred landsWe were offered the peaceThat can only be called brutalityAs we were savagely rounded upBy your … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Arrival, Balance of Power, Bline, Brutality, Children of Legacy, Coexistence, Conquest, Dead, Dignity, Dimension, Dramedy, Family, Fight For Survival, Frederick Turner Jackson, Future, Glory, Great Spirit, History, Manifest Destiny, Message, My People, Native Amerca, Native Community, Necks, Oral Story, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Precision, Purposeful Action, Recovery, Relevant, Revitalization, Rounded Up, Sacred Lands, Shape, Sovereignty, Starve and Bleed, Steeple, Story, Teach and Read, Test, Tradition, Trauma, Wampum Belts, Wilderness, Winter, Your People | Leave a comment

A Call For the Nation’s Unity

Posted on January 28, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

A Call For the Nation’s Unityby Michael DoyleFor God’s good satisfactionPrayers must be followed by the right actionsThis is true in our way of governmentEspecially if we are seeking after our improvementWe know we care for our familyWe must, therefore, … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adversity, America, Call, Center, Common Ground, Cost, Debate, Dignity, Divinity, Family, Foundation, God, God's Help, Government, Heart, History, Honesty, Humility, Improvement, Lasting Peace, Mandate, Mercy, Nation, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Prayer, Right Action, Satisfaction, Shining Light, Speak, Stand, Start, Steady, Storm, Treat, Truth, Understand, Uniffier, Unity | Leave a comment

Inauguration (January 20, 2025)

Posted on January 20, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Inauguration (January 20, 2025)by Michael DoyleWatching the proceedings of the inaugurationI joined in my nation’s celebrationA nation led by a vision of principled humilityOne of the rights of the free, filled with majestyIn the stillness bestowed by God, we valiantly … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2025, Ability, Allegiance, Aspirations, Biden, Call, Celebration, Constitution, Country, Courageous, Crux, Donald Trump, Duty, Embrace, Execution, Face, Flaw, Fortitude, Free, Freedom, Glory, God, God's Glory, Guiding Light, Harris, History, Inauguration, Incidence, Instittion, J.D. Vance, Majesty, Malice, Mend, Nation, Nation's Story, New President, Philosophy, Poetry and Poems, Pomp and Circumstance, Power, Prayer, Principled Humility, Proceedings, Remember, Revive, Rights, Rule of Law, Silent Prayer, Splendid Moments, Steady, Stillness, Sunrise, Survive, Thrive, Transferred, Trust, Truth, Truths, Valiant, Vision, Wise | Leave a comment

First Principles: There Is Not A Single Instance In History In Which Civil Liberty Was Lost, and Religious Liberty Preserved Entire

Posted on January 11, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“There is not a single instance in history in which civil liberty was lost, and religious liberty preserved entire. If therefore we yield up our temporal property, we at the same time deliver the conscience into bondage.” – John Witherspoon, … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Bondage, Civil Liberty, Conscience, First Principles, History, John Witherspoon, Religious Liberty, Temporal Property, The Dominion of Providence Over the Passions of Men | Leave a comment

Dark Sources

Posted on January 7, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Dark Sourcesby Michael DoyleThe optics make me cringe.Almost every newscast is on the fringeIt seems that we’re invited into the conspiracyWhile they really don’t care about historyEveryone vents and is set on blamingIt’s that PR game known as framingTruth, it … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged :Profound, Blame, Captains of America, Care, Complexity, Connective Tissue, Conspiracy, Constitution, Cringe, Dark Sources, Downed, Endangered, Every Night, Explanation, Fleshed Out, Foundation, Framing, Fringe, Gangrene, Groove, Hide, History, Honest Brokers, Huddle, Invitation, Life, Looking In, Media, My Side, Neighbors, Newscast, Nowhere, Objective, Optics, Optimism, Original Sin, Pessimism, Poetry and Poems, Poison, Polluted Air, Power, Public Relations, Quizzically Smile, Roots, Rumors, Runaway, Shots, Society, Souls, Stay, Strategic, Subjective, Systemic Racism, Team, Television, Texts, Truth, Vent, Walls, Your Side | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: History Is A Guide To Navigation In Perilous Times. History Is Who We Are and Why We Are the Way We Are

Posted on December 30, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.” – David McCullough

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged David McCullough, Guide, History, Navigation, Perilous Times, Thought For the Day, Who We Are, Why We Are | Leave a comment

A Broken Family Finds Healing

Posted on December 8, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

A Broken Family Finds Healingby Michael DoyleEmotions are relational in graceAs we love others in our embraceWe’re all dysfunctional as we striveIn God’s family, we will surviveEnriched by the joy that we shareIn every moment that we show we careLiturgical … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abraham, Advent, Belief, Bible, Broken Family, Broken Heart, Canaan, Care, Craziness, Deep Meaning, Descendants, Dysfuncational, Embrace, Emotions, Extraordinary, Faith, Family, Family Tree, Geneology, God, God's Call, God's Family, Grace, Greatest Story, Healing, History, Human Being, Importance, Impression, Intention, Jesus, Joy, Liturgical, Love, Nation, Ordinary, Pain, Passages, Path, Poetry and Poems, Proximity, Relational, Salvation, Set Apart, Strive, Survive, The Church, The Law, Theology, Times, Traces, Truth, Unfold, Vain, Wisdom, World's Breeze | Leave a comment

To Stay Alive In All Seasons

Posted on December 7, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

To Stay Alive In All Seasonsby Michael DoyleWe give up our courageTrying hard to discourageOurselves or any othersAmong those we call our brothersBut not a single John Wayne aspirationWould save Pearl Harbor or our nationThe men present mostly fought to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged A Thousand Images, All Seasons, Aspiration, Attack, Belly Crawling, Bitter Memories, Boys, Brave Men, Breath, Brothers, Burn, Competing Reasons, Courage, Courage and the Dead, Cry, Dark Stain, December 7th, Dire, Discourage, Earn, Expected, Fire, Fought, Ghosts, Great War, Heart, Hide, History, Infamy, Insane, John Wayne, Learn, Lessons, Make It Home Tonight, Memorial, Men, Modern-Day Cowboys, Nation, No Glory, Ourselves, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Real War, Reality, Remain, Return, Sadness, Scars, Seasons, Situation, Sleeping Giant Awoken, Smoke, Spoken, Start, Stay Alive, Story, Stumble, Survive, Survivors, Talk, Tears, The USS Arizona, Tragic Day, Turn Out Right, Unsuspected, Walk, World | Leave a comment