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Owed To America 2024

Posted on July 4, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Owed To America 2024by Michael DoyleMy daughters ask me why is it you cryI think back on history and will not lieToo many brave souls have fought and diedFor us not to have mourned and criedThere was a time when … Continue reading →

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Certainty Grows

Posted on June 7, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Certainty Growsby Michael DoyleThere is a certainty felt 100%I believe in the you this representsThese are the keys of responsibilityThat validate our sense of securityLetting the differences build our memoriesI know that you and I know no urgenciesAs we float … Continue reading →

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A Living Web

Posted on May 21, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

A Living Webby Michael DoyleOur minds have a superpowerIt’s the ability to project beyond the hourWe can be in the future or the pastTemporarily, though, it will not lastLanguage is the mystic secretIt can be soft or hard as concreteOur … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ability, Beyond, Change, Choices, Concrete, Conform, Continuum, Echo, Every Word, Experience, Eyes, Flow, Future, Hour, Inside, Know, Knows, Language, Last, Learn, Living Web, Magic, Minds, Moment, More, Muse, Mystic Secret, Our Words, Past, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Project, Reach, Rearrange, Revelation, See, Serve, Soft, Spectrum, Super Power, Teach, Temporarily, Time, Tradition, Transform, Truth, Understand, Voices, World | Leave a comment

Mean Streaks and Misgivings

Posted on March 26, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Mean Streaks and Misgivingsby Michael DoyleWhen the Colt has turned to rustAnd all that’s left is to swallow the dustThe desert plays tricks on a man’s mindAs he looks over his shoulder at what’s left behindWar is war and won’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Amend, At Last, Blind, Blindness, Body, Bury, Carry, Catch Up, Cost, Cure, Desert, Dust, Ease, Eke Away, Endure, Eye For An Eye, Find, Forget, Gun Hand, Heart, Labyrinth, Left Behind, Living Days, Mean Streak, Memories, Mental Maze, Mind, Misgiving, More, Our Ways, Past, Persistence, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Price, Regret, Resistance, Revenge, Ripped Free, Rust, Settle, Shaken, Shoulder, Soul, Soul's Rot, Start, Sun, Taken, The Days, Things Done, Tricks, Tricks of Mind, Truce, Truth, Turns Out, War, Whiskey, Wounded, Wounds | Leave a comment

The Something Better

Posted on March 13, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

The Something Betterby Michael DoyleWe all need our person we can go toIt’s the heart and soul of me and youSomeone to fit in with who we areThe seventh string on a six-string guitarWe share ourselves molded like clayTo find … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Acceptance, Art, Beautiful Smile, Become, Believe, Beyond, Clay, Common, Connections, Deceived, Different, Door, Equally Weighed, Fit, Focus, Forever Stay, Foward, Go To, Guitar, Heart, Heart and Soul, Hidden, Hold Tight, Laugh, Little Details, Love, Me and You, Mold, Moments, More, Multiple Choices, Need, Never Leave, Our Person, Poetry and Poems, Received, Repentance, Reverent, Right, Share, Silent Prayers, Small Voices, Something Better, Souls, Speak, Stars, Style, This Time, Tight, Together, What's Real, Wish | Leave a comment

First Principles: The More Man Meditates Upon Good Thoughts, the Better Will Be His World and the World At Large

Posted on February 23, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.” – Confucius

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A Push Too Far

Posted on February 3, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

A Push Too Farby Michael DoyleA push too farAnd it’s going to leave a scarWhat a move to makeYou didn’t even fakeYou just stole my moneyI suppose you think it’s funnyI know that I honestly doCause I would have given … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ask, Begun, Could, Done, Equivocation, Fake, Freeing, Funny, Given, Good, Honest, Money, More, Move, Natural Fact, New Chapter, No Good, Poetry and Poems, Protestation, Push, Scar, Sense, Task, Too Far, Would, Your Heart | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: One Father Is More Than A Hundred Schoolmasters

Posted on January 16, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.” – English Proverb

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First Principles: No Government, Any More Than An Individual, Will Long Be Respected Without Being Truly Respectable

Posted on October 4, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.” – James Madison (1788)

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First Principles: I Think the Best Way of Doing Good To the Poor, Is Not Making Them Easy In Poverty, But Leading or Driving them Out of It

Posted on August 23, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the … Continue reading →

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