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First Principles: Where An Excess of Power Prevails, Property of No Sort Is Duly Respected

Posted on October 28, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.” – James Madison (1792)

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Excess, Faculties, First Principles, In Opinions, James Madison, No Person, Person, Possessions, Power, Prevail, Property, Respected, Safe | Leave a comment

Together We Will Stand

Posted on September 29, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Together We Will Standby Michael DoyleThere is now in this time of historyA grain going against the orthodoxyThat states that the power rests in populismDespite the modern move against nationalismToday, a certain set wishes our knees to bowAs if to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Best Days, Biblical, Bow, Bows, Broken Dreams, Business of Our Nation, Capacity, Carry On, Champion, City on the Hill, Conservative Court, Constitution, Country, Course, Courts, Critical, Crucial, Cut, Darkness, Deep State, Deluge, Democracy, Determine, Devotion, Display, Disservice, Each Day, Elit, Empowerment, Encroachment, Fail, Family Tree, Fight For, Force, Founders, Founding Principle, God and Family, God's Wisdom, Good, Government, Guiding Light, Harshness, Hesitation, History, Honor, Hope, Keep Freedom, Kept Liberty, Knees, Land of the Brave and Free, Legacy, Liberty, Limbs, Lost, Midstream, Mobocracy, Modern, Nationalism, Need, Offer, Orthodoxy, Our Land, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Populism, Power, Pray, Pretend, Principle, Question, Reason, Regulation, Republic, Rule of Law, Safe, Sense, Sheet-Anchor, Shines, Shoulder to Shoulder, Stand, Stand Strong, Stand Together, Stay, Staying Strong, Struggle, Symbol, The People, This Fight, Throngs, Together, Treasured Country, Turning Point, Understand, Unique, Values, Victory, Wonder Aloud, World | Leave a comment

A Wolf Keeps Watch

Posted on September 5, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

A Wolf Keeps Watchby Michael DoyleLike a wolf into a flock of sheepTheir troubled souls, he would keepFor he was a reformed wolf standing guard against the enemyAnd there were questions of one’s dignityPoints of contention still must be proved … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Age, Blur, Blush, Breath, Buriedd, Contention, Corruption, Craw, Defile, Determined, Devil, Dignity, Enemy, Evidence, Eyes, Fall, Flock of Sheep, Forgotten, Giving Ground, God, Guard, Guilty, Harder Than Death, Head of Doubt, Holy Man, Hostiles, Hustle, Innocent Child, Keep, Last, Love, Mumbles, Obedience, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poetry, Point of View, Pray, Providence, Questions, Random Thought, Recall, Reformed, Rotten, Safe, Shake, Shiver, Side Hustle, Silent, Sold, Solid, Soul, Street, Survivors, Suspicion, Tale, Tears, Told, Touch, Trace, Troubled Souls, True, Truth, Under, Understood, Watch, Wollf, Wounded Heart | Leave a comment

Thoughts On Our Partnership 09032020

Posted on September 3, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Thoughts On Our Partnership 09032020by Michael DoyleSmiles into your sleeping dreamWaking into our tomorrow’s sceneThe unseen director calls for actionAll moves and words lead to satisfactionKnowing that your heart holds mineWhile mine holds a bit of your sunshineIt’s a beautiful … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 09032020, Action, All You Truly Are, Beautitful Thing, Best of All, Bold, Breath, Bright, Bring, Day, Desire, Director, Dream, Fade, Goodness, Gratitude, Guitar, Hanging Star, Happy, Heart, Holds, Inspire, Keeping, Know, Mine, Moon, Moves, My Life, Night, Partnership, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poetry, Sacred, Safe, Satisfaction, Shining, Sing, Sleep, Sleeping, Smiles, Spark, Sparkling, Sunshine, Thoughts, To Have and To Hold, Tomorrow, Wake, Warm, Watch, Words, Yes, Your Heart | Leave a comment

Trying To Bottle Up

Posted on August 23, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Trying To Bottle Upby Michael DoyleTrying to bottle up all the troubleStraight talking never ever doubleIs something that is next to impossibleSomething of which I know I’m incapableBut, I would do almost anything To keep you safe from all that … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anything, Bottle Up, Correct, Cross, Crucify, Daughters, Dignify, Double, Everything, False Move, Father, Guilty, Imperfect, Impossible, Impress, Improve, Incapable, Know, Loss, Loved, Pardon Me, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pound of Flesh, Safe, Straight Talk, Strong, Trouble, Wait, Wrong | Leave a comment

Giving Love

Posted on August 17, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Love in our fallen world is the calling from our heavenly Father. Giving Love by Michael Doyle Giving love in a world of brokenness Willing and ready in our un-spokenness We would be His hands and feet Giving love patiently … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abounds, Battle, Brokenness, Commands, Community, Compassion, Divine Law, Dreamless, Ear, Fallen World, Fear, Fulfilled, Giving, God's Promise, God's Will, Gods, Hands and Feet, Hear, Heavenly Father, Heed, His, His Hands, Hope, Hurting, Impact, Kept, Life, Listen, Look Out, Love, Loving, Needs, Overflow, Patience, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Proclaim Victory, Safe, Seamless, Strive, Take Care, True, Trust, Unspoken, We, Willed, Willing, World | Leave a comment

The Temptation of Wanting Another’s Share

Posted on June 17, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on Exodus 20:17: The Temptation of Wanting Another’s Share by Michael Doyle It’s hard to be content in comparison Always measuring yourself on what is done By others when your race is your own Only to be … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Action, All, Another's, Bait, Better, Brother, Comparison, Content, Contentment, Course, Covet, Desire, Discontentment, Do, Done, Door, Eve, Exodus, Fact, Faith, Fall, Far, Forbidden, Friends, God's Throne, Had, Hand, Happy, Hard, Have, Heart, Instead, Keep, Keep Your Eyes, Look, Measure, More, No Further, Offer, Others, Paul, Photograph, Pleasure, Poem, Poetry, Providence, Race, Reverence, Rich, Run, Safe, Satisfaction, Self, Serpent, Service, Set, Share, Sin, Sister, Snare, Soul, Star, Stem, Tempt, Temptation, Treasure, True, Truth, Want, Well, Wise, You, Your Own | Leave a comment

The Lateness of the Hour

Posted on June 1, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Returning back to a promised project that was set down for a time and based in part on The Twilight Zone, Season 2, Episode 8: The Lateness of the Hour by Michael Doyle In a labyrinth of the mind’s imprecision We … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alive, Anger, Artistic, Asylum, Automated, Automaton, Back Story, Belong, Bill, Chance, Chorus, Clock Hands, Comfort, Competition, Confront, Console, Constrain, Contempt, Control, Cost, Counter Argument, Craving, Creation, Creature, Daughter, Decay, Deliberation, Design, Difference, Dimension, Discontent, Distraught, Disturbing, Dream, Empty, Environment, Exposure, False, Family, Father, Feel, Felt, Fine, Free, Glide, Hand Dealt, Harshly, Heart, Hour, Humanity, Ill Afford, Imprecision, Infer, Insular, Intentional, Irritation, Labyrinth, Lateness, Lost, Love, Maid, Mausoleum, Measure, Mechanical, Memories, Memory Track, Menagerie, Mental, Mental Inventory, Museum, Neuroses, No Strings, Noise, One Dance, Outside, Own Mind, Passing Day, Perfect, Petulant, Photograph, Pleasant, Poem, Poetry, Pond, Poverty, Prattle, Prefection, Prejudice, Pride, Project, Quality, Ravages of Time, Reach, Real, Recitation, Recount, Recreated, Reference, Refine, Relative, Repetition, Rest, Right, Rigor, Robots, Safe, Sameness, Science, Second, Secret, Security, Sensation, Serenity, Share, Shrill, Speak, Speech, Stone Thrown, Stormy Night, Strive, Stumble, Superaltive, Survival, The Twilight Zone, Tick, Tick Tock, Toys, Travel, Twist, Twist of Fate, Understand, Unhappy, Unruffled, Vegetable, War, Will, Willful, Wish, World, Worn Out | Leave a comment

On Being Eleventeen

Posted on May 25, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

My youngest daughter turns 11 tomorrow. She’s brilliant, witty, charming in her own ways and has a bright future ahead of her. Yes. I am a very proud father of both of my princesses. The only kingdom I … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Always Know, Answer, Attention, Beautiful, Become, Best, Birthday, Blind, Books, Brave, Brilliant, Celebrate, Change, Changes, Charming, Child, Communication, Confidence, Consideration, Cooking, Counting, Cuddle, Curled, Do, Ear, Ears, Eleventeen, End of the World, Eye to Eye, Eyes, Fascination, Fear, Feelings, Find, Friends, Good, Grow, Growing, Hear, Heart, Here, Hesitation, Important, Independence, Interests, Investigation, Joke, Kind, Know, Knowing, Learn, Learning, Like, Listen, Love, Loving, Magazines, Magic, Missed, Must, My Heart, Night, Nuance, Online, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pursue, Questions, Retention, Revealing, Right, Riled, Safe, Saturday, Search, See, Seek, Shine, Sleep, Stars, Step, Stretch Out, Surprise, Talk, Thoughts, Thoughts and Feelings, Transcendence, Treat, True, Truly, Trust, Turn To me, Walk, Watch, Witty, Wonderful, You, Young Lady, Youngest Daughter, Yourself | Leave a comment

Dancing Cheek To Cheek

Posted on May 18, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Thinking on the Prohibition, flappers, gangsters and murder as she wrote… Dancing Cheek To Cheek by Michael Doyle Dancing cheek to cozy cheek Might bring us to ruin Libertine as it is It might lead to our undoing The habits … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alone, Begin, Brave, Breath, Cheek To Cheek, Confess, Control, Cozy, Crime, Daddy, Dance, Darkness, Death, Deceptive, Escalation, Explain, Fear, Fiction, First Light, First Warning, Flapper, Gangster, Habit, Him, Home, Implore, Inhalation, Lead, Libertine, Mess, Murder, Partnership, Perfect, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Point, Prohibition, Race, Real, Reveal, Roll, Ruin, Sad, Safe, See, She, Somewhere, Soul, Sublime, Time, Understand, Undoing, Volatile, Wrote | Leave a comment