Tag Archives: Served

Advent’s Adoration

Posted on December 1, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Advent’s Adorationby Michael DoyleOur eyes are open wide in adorationToday marks the start of the Advent seasonJoined hands pray for our blessingAssured as we are without need for guessingThe pancakes made and servedTasted better than we deservedWe find Jesus walking … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adoration, Advent, Advent Season, Assured, Aware, Blessing, Christmas, Dead, Deserved, Eyes, Faith, Guessing, Hope, Immanuel, Jesus, Know, Last Words, Loving One Another, Pancakes, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Served, Taste, Teach, Treach, Weight | Leave a comment

Echo Back

Posted on August 17, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Echo Backby Michael DoyleMy words echo back into tomorrowA half-life that’s full of sorrowI’m often sorry for what I sayThe demons inside won’t have it any other wayIf these were the last words I saidI wouldn’t want them rolling in … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Better Choice, Bones, Construction, Demons Inside, Destroy, Destruction, Echo Back, Family, Father, Feeling, Full of Sorrow, Generational Sinds, Grown, Half-Life, Head, Humbly, Hurt, Ideal, Immeasurable, Imprint, Intrude, Kill You, Last Words, My Brokenness, New Thoughts and Habits, Nobility, Own, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Point of View, Proof of Life, Raise, Rise Above, Rolling, Rude, Say, Served, Shown, Solitude, Sorry, Sticks and Stones, Strong Regret, The Bible, Thoughts, Tomorrow, Treasurable, Truth of Love, Voice, Wish, Won't Do, Words | Leave a comment

Happy Veterans Day 2021!

Posted on November 11, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

In honor of my brothers and sisters who have also served this country in time of war and peace and those who are active duty and continue to serve in the present, Aloha Promises Forever wishes you all a Happy … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Aloha Promises Forever, American We, Brothers, Country, Freedom, Gratitude, Happy Veterans Day 2021!, Honor, My Daughters, Poems, Serve, Served, Sisters, Thank you, The Art of War, Thought For the Day, Wish | Leave a comment

Happy 246th Birthday United States Marine Corps

Posted on November 10, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

However you look at it, this nation of ours owes a huge debt of gratitude to all who serve or have served. This is especially true when it comes to that special sort of person who dares to take the … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Dare, Debt, God Bless You, Gratitude, Happy 246th Birthday, Honor, Semper Fi, Serve, Served, Thought For the Day, United States Marine Corps | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: He Serves His Party Best Who Serves the Country Best

Posted on October 4, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“He serves his party best who serves the country best. “– Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th US president (4 Oct 1822-1893)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Best, Party, Rutherford B. Hayes, Serve, Served, The Country, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

Long Walk To Mercy

Posted on June 8, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

It’s been a long walk toward mercy and justice. To advocate on its behalf is completely and totally right. To protest in peaceful assembly is totally and completely right. It’s totally wrong to burn down cities and private property … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Advocate, All Life Is Sacred, All Lives Matter, AME, Bitter Fruit, Burn Down, Capital Punishment, Choir Boys, Conviction, Crossed Lines, Death Row, Defeated, Demarcation, Deserved, Elocution, Enough, Fancy Talk, God's Hand, Good Man, Hang Out, Hope, Indignity, Innocent Man, Justice, Lawyer, Legacy, Long Walk, Look, Mercy, Mistaken Identity, Obtain, Peaceful Assembly, Persevere, Photograph, Plain To See, Poem, Poetry, Pressing On, Protest, Sad, Served, Stay of Execution, Talk, Tears, Treat, Wrong | Leave a comment

Pinkerton Lawman

Posted on May 23, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

The Pinkertons became the crux of what became the Secret Service. Their storied history is often looked these days. Pinkerton Lawman by Michael Doyle A snake isn’t hard to find In the what that’s left behind When you flip over … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bad Man, Behind, Civil War, Death, Demise, Duty, Fatal, Fate, Fight, Find, Flip, God, History, Hung, Intensity, Justice, Lawman, Left, Light, Meet, Nation, Nature, Neck, Photograph, Pinkerton, Poem, Poetry, Preacher, Proclmation, Quick As A Wink, Quiet, Reaper, Rock, Seal, Secret Service, Served, Silver, Six Gun, Snake, Stand, Stoic, Sudden, Surprise, Talks, Tent City, Trigger Finger, Violent, War Criminal, Wrung | Leave a comment

Hunting Himmler – A Found Poem

Posted on February 13, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Milkwood’s Poem A Day #6 is the Found Poem form and has as its word prompt “gravity”. A found poem is quite literally that. Scanning through the written material of others a little snatch of verbiage here and there catch’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Allies, Chaos, Checkpoint, Collaborate, Conspiracy, Cruel, Cyanide, Defeat, Destruction, Devil, Disguise, Dr. Wells, Due, Elbe, Escape, Found Poem, German, Henrich Himmler, History, Hitler, Holocaust, Humanity, Identity, Industrial, Justice, Legacy, Mercedes Benz, Mistake, Nazi Germany, Newsreel, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prisoner of War, Prussic Acid, Refugees, Reich, Served, Sinister, Society, Villans | Leave a comment

A Young Girl Becoming

Posted on July 14, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

In thinking of my eldest daughter as she starts edging her way toward adolescence: A Young Girl Becoming by Michael Romani Sometimes her world is mind numbing As a young girl busily becoming Everything that she’s meant to be In … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Comes Off, Connection, Daughter, Distress, Emotions, Empathy, Excitement, Father, Gone, Helpless, Hoping, Hurt, Interaction, Life's Song, Limitlessness, Making Her Way, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pre-Adolescent, Senses, Served, Shimmer, Shy, Social Media, Sympathy, Wisdom, World, Young Girl | Leave a comment