Tag Archives: Plunder

Thought For the Day: When Plunder Becomes A Way of Life For A Group of Men In A Society, Over the Course of Time They Create For Themselves A Legal System That Authorizes It and A Moral Code That Glorifies It

Posted on June 30, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.” -Frédéric Bastiat, economist … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Authoirze, Frederic Bastiat, Glory, Group, Legal System, Moral Code, Plunder, Society, Thought For the Day, Way of Life | Leave a comment

Into A Pirate’s Tomorrow

Posted on June 25, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Into A Pirate’s Tomorrowby Michael DoyleIt’s a rough pirate’s world out thereWhen words spoken spill into loose fearMobs, it seems, are as easily turnedAs pirate shanty towns are easily burnedJust as melancholy on the azure wavesAre the boarding plans that … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adventure, Allow, Allure, Azure Waves, Battle, Boarding Plans, Burn, Consternation, Desire, Fade, Fantasy, Fear, Fire, First Thrust, Forgot, Grave, Half-Broken, Heart, History, Improvisation, Into, Melancholy, Mobs, Pirate, Pirate King, Pirate's Lot, Pirates, Pistol, Plans Made, Plunder, Poetry and Poems, Power, Ragtag World, Shanty Towns, Tattle, Timeless Hour, Tomorrow, Travel, Treasure, Turn, Understood, Winced, Wonder, Words, World, Zig and Zag | Leave a comment

The Secret Woes of Regret

Posted on May 17, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

The Secret Woes of Regretby Michael DoyleKept silence about better daysAre still remembered for the better waysWe once so happily lived inBefore the days of blood and drunken sinsWe clean the ship’s hull on the beachTo gain that extra knot … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Attention, Beach, Better Days, Better Way, Better Ways, Blind, Blood, Breach, Dead Men, Died, Dread, Dreams, Drunken Sins, Fair Weather, Faith, False Promises, Forget, Friends, Gamble, Gold, Happy, Honor, Integrity, Intention, Knot, Legendary, Lied, Life, Loss, Men, Misdeed, Mystic Power, November's Rain, Pain, Pirate, Pirates, Plunder, Poetry and Poems, Prevails, Ramble, Regret, Remember, Require, Secret, Ship's Hull, Silence, Strong Wind, Suffering, Tales, Tears, Truth, Woe, Yesterday | Leave a comment

Under A Caribbean Moon

Posted on May 8, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Under A Caribbean Moonby Michael DoylePirates pursue without pauseEvery sort that passes for lost causeTheir future holds an appointmentWith the vagrancies of disappointmentChasing their run by constellationThey follow a black flag with consternationEach pirate dreaming of making his scoreAnd to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Appointment, Argument, Black Flag, Brigands, Broadside, Caribbean, Chase, Consort, Constellation, Consternation, Crew, Defend, Dignity, Disappointment, Dogs of the Sea, Doubloons, Fallen Souls, Fantasy, Find, Forgot, Free, Friends, Future, Lost Cause, Misjudge, Moon, Mutiny, Noose, Path, Pirates, Plan, Plot, Plunder, Poetry and Poems, Poor, Quartermaster, Resentment, Rich, Run, Score, Scoundrels, Scratch, Sea, Spanish Galleons, Spanish Main, Treasure Ships, Treasures, Trouble, Twelve-Pounders, Under, Vagrancies, Wait | Leave a comment

First Principle: Agriculture, the Only Honest Way, Wherein A Man Receives A Real Increase of the Seed Thrown Into the Ground, In A Kind of Continual Miracle

Posted on February 6, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Agriculture, Benjamin Franklin, Cheat, Commerce, Continual Miracle, First Principles, Ground, Hand of God, Honest, Increase, Innocent Life, Nation, Plunder, Reward, Robbery, Roman, Seed, Three Ways, Virtuous Industry, War, Wealth | Leave a comment

There You Are, It’s Spoken

Posted on November 12, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

There You Are, It’s Spokenby Michael DoyleOh, it’s a messy messIf only the truthYou would confessA shake of a handUsed to be the bondSincerity, we could understandBut when you pretendSnaking aroundAs if it’s something you can defendWhy you stalk and … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Act, Anger, Because, Believe, Bond, Broken, Confess, Dance, Deception, Defend, Familiar, God, Hand, Harassment, Hellhounds, Hellish, Hope, Hunch, Kindness, Knew, Know, Learn, Leashes, Leave Alone, Let You Get Away, Madness, Manipulation, Mercy, Mess, Mistake, No Control, No Part of You, Not Strong, Once, Peace, Pick Up, Pieces, Plunder, Poetry and Poems, Pretend, Seem, Seen Through, Shake, Sincerity, Skilled, Snake Around, So Much, Spell, Spoken, Stalk, Stand Down, Stop, Stranger, Terrifying, There You Are, Thought, Thrilled, Truth, Understand, Walked Away, Weak, Weakness, Woman, Wrong, You'll Never Own | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: With the Exception Only of the Period of the Gold Standard, Practically All Governments of History Have Used Their Exclusive Power To Issue Money To Defraud and Plunder the People

Posted on March 6, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to issue money to defraud and plunder the people.” – Friedrich August von Hayek (1899-1992)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged All Governments of History, Defraud, Exception, Exclusive Power, Friedrich August von Hayek, Gold Standard, Issue Money, Period, Plunder, The People, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

Leaving Yesterdays Behind

Posted on March 5, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

What matters profit if it has cost your soul? Leaving Yesterdays Behind by Michael Doyle What it is that seems fit Is often enough a matter Devoted entirely to profit All other arguments shatter The implication is clear That neither … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Able, Argument, Behind, Blame, Call, Capable, Convince, Cost, Cut Quick, Depth, Devote, Empty, Fence, Fit, Full Pocket, Implication, Impossible, Indication, Inevitable, Insanity, Leave, Lost, Love of Money, Made, Matter, Mend, Mind, Mistake, Money, Morality, Mutual, Name, Near, Notoriety, Obstacle, Payment, Photograph, Pirate, Place At the Table, Plunder, Poem, Poetry, Profit, Purchase, Quality, Reason, Sail, Scratch, Secret Garden, Shade, Shame, Shatter, Soul, Surface, Tend, Vanity, Vindication, Yesterday | Leave a comment

Run of the Mill Hayride Halloween

Posted on October 31, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Halloween Poem #31: Run of the Mill Hayride Halloween by Michael Romani From the first snowflake that fell that day It was a near certainty that the tricks at play Would make every headless horseman see and know That this … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2019, All Hallow's Eve, Best, Brim, Candle, Candy, Candy Lovers, Child's Play, Chill, Day, Day of the Dead, Extraordinary, First Snow, Fun, Ghost, Glow, Goblin, Halloween, Handy, Hayride, Head, Headless Horseman, Hoodwink, Jack-O-Lanterns, Joy, Moment, November, Parents, Phototgraph, Play, Plunder, Poem, Poetry, Prankster, Pumpkin, Run of the Mill, Scare, Shake, Shiver, Show, Thrill, Trick, Trick or Treat, Tricks, Trickster, Way, Wink, Witch | Leave a comment

Samson II

Posted on January 13, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on the Book of Judges: Samson II by Michael Romani A time it was that had come When the Philistines of Gaza had plenty But, God’s children had next to none Save the for when the evil … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems, Uncategorized | Tagged Baal, Cry, Death, Desert, End, Fight, Fogot, Gaza, Gift, God, God's Children, God's Will, Heathen, Hebrew, Heresy, Holy Ways, Hour, Hunger, Mercy, Peace, Philistine, Photograph, Plunder, Poem, Poetry, Power, Pure, Raid, Samson, Scroll, Slave, Sun, Sword, The Book of Judges, Tyranny, Vault | Leave a comment