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Nat Turner’s Legacy

Posted on August 24, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Nat Turner’s Legacyby Michael DoyleExceptions seldom make the ruleFoolish thinkers need their schoolThose who dwell on the mysteryOf why so few rose against slaveryIt is a cowardice of cultureThat we cannot afford to nurtureLet’s recall a moment of historyLived by … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Action, American History, Asunder, Blood and Brutality, Civil War, Country, Cowardice of Culture, Criticism, Death, Destiny, Dignity, Easy Lesson, Education, Equal Opportunity, Exceptions, Experiment, Field, Fight, Foolish Thinkers, Freedom and Liberty, God and Science, Greatest Republic, Hard Road, History, Incendiary, Inspiration, Ironic, Legacy, Liberty, Luxury, Mystery, Nat Turner, Ntion, Nurture, Optimism, Path Forward, Pessimism, Poetry and Poems, Poverty, Promise, Prophecy, Rage, Re;public, Revelation, Revolution, Right, Satisfaction, School, Scourge, Sinners, Slavery, Soul, The Rule, Theology, Victory, Vision, Voice, Wickedness Revealed | Leave a comment

Sparked Distraction

Posted on December 23, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Sparked Distractionby Michael DoyleAll the world is extraordinaryThere is so much to seeIn every moment and all actionsThere is the spark of distractionHopefully and creativelyYour safety is found in beautyAs you go out into the world to seeAll there is … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 21st Century, Beauty, Belong, Best Light, Birthday Candle, Box, Breadcrumbs, Cancer, Candle Lights, Capturing Life, Clear, Comedy, Connection, Continue, Creative, Cry, Curiousity, Darkness, Death, Degree, Distance, Doubt, Dramedy, Eventuality, Every Moment, Existential, Extradordinary, Fallen Tear, Film, Final Answers, Fork, Fullest, Future, Generation, Gratitude, Grow, Heavens, Heavens Above, History, Hopeful, Imagination, Implausible, Impossible, Inspiration, Known, Last Breath, Learn, Left Behind, Letting Go, Little Smiles, Live Love, Living Gods, Lock, Look, Love, Majesty, Matters, Miarcles, Mournful Look, Nightmares, Nowhere, Once, Pain, Path of Life, Pay, Penance, Poetry and Poems, Real, Reality, Rebirthed, Records, Road, Safety, Scourge, Sensation, Shatter, Short or Long, Songs, Sorrow, Sparked Distraction, Stay, Stride, Struggles, Surreal, Take Care, Tears, Terror, There, Tomorrow, Torment, Touch, Travel, Whisper, Worthy | Leave a comment

…Of Hope

Posted on October 29, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

…Of Hopeby Michael DoyleOur nightmares become us in the nightStartling us with their unholy lightMankind has always struggled as we doBut it is only in this that we renewAs God has mercy on us sinners in our endIn our knowledge … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Barren Souls, Bite, Blood, Darkness, Days, Fall, Forget, Healing Rains, Hold On, Hope, Light, Mankind, Mercy, Mire and Mud, Nightmare, Peek, Plague, Poetry and Poems, Purity, Rats of Life, Renew, Rhymes, Scourge, Sinners, Speak, Struggle, Vein, Vices | Leave a comment

This Thanksgiving 2021

Posted on November 25, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

This Thanksgiving 2021by Michael DoyleLate last night I was thinking on..The furthest star’s even furthest moonUntil I was dreaming of a once uponFairytale feeling that was needed soonFor two years, the world has sufferedThrough the scourge of viral pestilenceWith reasons … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2021, Acknowledge, All of God's Children, Bass Rings, Blessed Dignity, Bounty, Buffer, Cantaloupe, Challenge, Complicity, Consistent, Content, Daugthers, Direction, Divine, Divine Purpose, Dream, Encourage, Example, Fairytale, Faith and Trust, Feeling, Felicity, Fight, Freedom, Giving Thanks, God's Good Will, Grace, Gratitude, Harmony, Heart, Holy Tradition, Hug, Iconic, Joy, Keeping True, Kiss, Last Night, Liberty, Lost, Love, Macy's Day Thanksgiving Day Parade, Mercy, Moon, Morning, Nation, Parade, Peace, Persistence, Pestilence, Platitude, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Priceless, Prosperity, Providence, Quiche, Real, Reasons, Recognize, Sacred, Science, Scourge, Security, Set Apart, Source, Star, Strength, Suffer, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Day, Think, Tradition, Tranquil, Traps, Trust, Two Years, Unity, Verse, Viral, Vouchsafe, World, Worse, Zealous | Leave a comment

The Clouds of Uncivil War Approach

Posted on March 29, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

If there’s any one single foremost predicator that led to the American Civil War more than others, it was beyond any doubt the Mexican-American War. The Clouds of Uncivil War Approach by Michael Doyle While careful in thinking too linearly … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 1845, Abraham Lincoln, Alamo, American Experiment, Annexation, Approach, Bleeding Kansas, Brotherhood, Calhoun, Civil War, Cloud, Coast to Coast, Compromise, Continent, Cultural Conquest, Democratic Party, Disposition, Division, Dredd Scott, Equality, Expand, Free States, Freedom, Fugitive Slave Law, Futurity, Gold Rush, Idependence, Immigration, James Polk, Jefferson Davis, John Brown, Journey, Liberty, Manifest Destiny, Mexican War, Mexican-American War, Migrant, Nation, Natural Rights, North, Opposition, Patriot, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Popular Sovereignty, Presidential Election, Republican Party, Sam Huston, Santa Anna, Scourge, Secession, Slavery, South, Southern, Stephen Douglas, Territory, Texas, Transcontinetal Railroad, Uncivil, War, Wilmont Proviso | Leave a comment

Daily Prompt – Breast Cancer Awareness

Posted on October 1, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. I, for one of too many, do not need to be reminded. I lost my sister and best friend after her nine year battle. There is at least one other person that I know … Continue reading →

Posted in Photographs & Memories | Tagged Absence, Angels, Barrenness, Best Friend, Bravado, Breast Cancer Awareness, Daily Prompt, Define, Fight, Fine, Fought, Heart, Heartache, Heaven, Hero, Keen, Last Call, Misbehaving, Modern Age, October, Pain, Prayer, Rage, Scourge, Survive, Tears, Understanding | Leave a comment

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