Tag Archives: Rise

Wedded To A Narrative

Posted on February 28, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Wedded To A Narrativeby Michael DoyleWedded to a narrativeWe forget the slavery of todayCivil rights racketeersDo little to nothingTo ease the world’s tearsThere are incentives to embraceTruths forgotten without traceCombatting the great reset takes voiceTo stand together, we are the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Battle, Boom, Civil Rights, Commonsense, Data, Done, Doom, Doomsayer's, Economic Liberty, Elsewhere, Embrace, Equality of Opportunity, Equity, Failed Marxism, False, False Narrative, Free Market Policies, Great Reset, Ignore, Incentives, Majority, Morning's Tide, Narrative, Optimism, Poetry and Poems, Prophets, Race-Based, Racketeers, Rise, Sham, Slavery, Social Policy, Socialism, Stand Together, Tears, Technocrats, Today, Truth, Vacuum, Voice, We, Wed, Wokeness, Won, Work, Working Class | Leave a comment

First Principles: There Is A Certain Enthusiasm In Liberty; That Makes Human Nature Rise Above Itself, In Acts of Bravery and Heroism

Posted on November 30, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.” – Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, 1775

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Acts, Alexander Hamilton, Brave, Enthusiasm, First Principles, Hero, Human Nature, Liberty, Rise | Leave a comment

Trusting God’s Plan

Posted on September 14, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Trusting God’s Planby Michael DoyleLiving Life in my recoveryEach day becomes a new discoveryPrivileged to take another breathI choose life over living deathI’ve had my share of heartachesMore than enough of the heartbreaksI’ve been let down by my mistakesAnd now … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, Breath, Cardboard, Chained, Darkness, Desire, Each Day, Finding Faith, Forgiven, Freeway, Get It Right, God's Rainbow, God's Plan, Grace, Hell's Fire, Into, Knowing, Let Down, Light, Living Death, Living Life, My Mistakes, New Discovery, One and All, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Privileged, Promises Made, Ready To Do, Recall, Recovery, Rise, Running, Save, Saved, Shadow, Share of Heartaches, Should Have Done, Takes, Trust, Won, Written | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: A Certain Amount of Opposition Is A Great Help To A Man. Kites Rise Against, Not With, the Wind

Posted on August 25, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.” – John Neal, author and critic (25 Aug 1793-1876)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Against, Certain Amount, Great Help, John Neal, Kites, Mankind, Not With, Opposition, Rise, Thought For the Day, Wind | Leave a comment

In Community

Posted on January 19, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

In Communityby Michael DoyleComing together in communityFulfills our need for familyAnxiousness brings rise to dangerAs to each other we have become strangersViolence takes away from us allDestruction only brings pride’s fallWhen we forget our relationsWe only bring sorrow to our … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Act, All of Our Days, Anxious, Arrogance, Become Strangers, Belief In God, Bring Sorrow, Challenging, Children of God, Coming Together, Cost, Danger, Destruction, Each Other, Embrace, Extraordinary, Family, Focus, Forget, God, Greatness, His Will, In Community, In Mind, Knees, Land, Living Our Lives, Lord's Loving Way, Need, Never Be Lost, Ordinary, Our Nation, Perseverance, Please, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Praying for Peace, Pride's Fall, Relations, Reverence, Righteous, Rise, Run Our Race, Stolen, Straight, Supplication, Takes Away All, Trusting God, Violence | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Early To Bed and Early To Rise Makes A Man Healthy, Wealthy and Wise

Posted on January 13, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.” – Benjamin Franklin

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The Chicago Seven and Liberty

Posted on October 17, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

The Chicago Seven and Libertyby Michael DoyleThe American soul was in desperate measurePoisoned and depleted of blood and lost treasureFor the sake of a war that people didn’t understandOur republic’s principles died for in a foreign landThe Vietnam draft and … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged America, American Pride, American Soul, Audience, Blood, Bobby Seale, Breakdown, Brew, Certainty, Chicago Seven, Chicken Foot, Content, Crossing the Line, Damage, Dead, Democratic Convention, Depleted, Desperate Measure, Determine, Die, Done, Draft, Dream, Enormously, Fateful Day, First Amendment, Foreign Land, Free Speech, Freedom of Speech and Thought, Grown Up Values, Heart, Ill Intent, Incite, Irate, Issue, Land of Liberty, Lawless, Liberty, Life, Little Doubt, Little To Be Won, Martin Luther King Jr., Matters, Minds, National Security, Non-Coformity, Overnight Bag, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Point, Poisoned, Police State, Pressure Cooker, Principles, Protest, Question, Rebels, Relent, Relevance, Restless Mind, Rise, Say, Serious, Significant, Society, Some Times, Stage, State Lines, Steeple, Storm, Strife, Stupor, Temperature, The American People, The Left, Threat, Treasure, Truth, Truth On Both Sides, Unambiguous, Understand, Vietnam, Violence, Voice, War, Watch, Wonder, World | Leave a comment

The Dragon Finds Flight

Posted on August 21, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

The Dragon Finds Flightby Michael DoylePower returns with the riseUp there in the sky; see the the blood moonHell awakens; beginning in her eyesThe dragon shall be freed soonThe truest knight knows his dutyHaving had seen her wrath and her … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Awaken, Beauty, Bells, Blood Moon, Call, Clerical, Conquer, Control, Dare, Dragon, Duty, Evil, Eyes, Find, Flight, Freed, Hell, Knight, Longer, Lord's Will, Persist, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Resist, Return, Reveal, Ring, Rise, Satan, Silver, Siren, Sky, Sleight of Hand, Soul, Stronger, Time, Trouble, True, Truth, Try, Village, Warning, Weaken, Wrath | Leave a comment

Planted Seed of Fear

Posted on July 3, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Poem 4 in a series retelling a classic werewolf tale: Planted Seed of Fear by Michael Doyle Plant the seed The seed of fear As the blood moon rises Evil comes in its disguises The village wills to celebrate While … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Blood Moon, Celebrate, Dance, Disguise, Drink, Evil, Fear, Firelight, Fools, Guard, Hunter, Invigorate, Know, Lurk, Moonlit, Night, Pageantry, Photograph, Plant, Poem, Poetry, Rise, Second Sight, Seed, Seek, Shadow, Sleight of Hand, Stand, Tapestry, Things Seen, Trick, Trick of the Light, True, Village, Warrior | Leave a comment

Blood Moon Rising

Posted on July 3, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Poem 3 in a continuing series of retelling of a classic werewolf tale: Blood Moon Rising by Michael Doyle Torchlight flows and leads the way As the full moon comes to claim the day Are you braver than me, my … Continue reading →

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