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If It Wasn’t For Courage

Posted on August 16, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

If It Wasn’t For Courageby Michael DoyleOn the other side lies paradiseThe captain offers his best adviceAs his pirate crew readies for the fightWho knows how many will live until the morning lightReady the muskets and say your last prayerAs … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Advice, Battle, Captain, Courage, Destiny, Eternity, Fight, Flight, Grave Insult, Ground, Hangman's Noose, Heart, Journey, Judgment Day, Last Prayer, Live, Morning Light, Muskets, Other Side, Paradise, Pirate Crew, Poetry and Poems, Power, Primal Urge, Result, Stare, Start, Steps, Struggle, Survival, Timing, Trial | Leave a comment

First Principles: We Start With First Principles. The Constitution Creates A Federal Government of Enumerate Powers

Posted on August 6, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“We Start With First Principles. The Constitution Creates A Federal Government of Enumerate Powers.” – William Rehnquist, in United States v. Lopez (1995) Biden’s recent proposals to change the law, specifically the United States Supreme Court, encroach on longstanding legal … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Article 1, Create, Enumerate Powers, Federal Government, First Principles, Section 8, Start, The Constitution, United States v. Lopez (1995), US Supreme Court, William Rehnquist | Leave a comment

Standing In the Light

Posted on July 2, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Standing In the Lightby Michael DoyleLet me share a secretThat’s hard to forgetThey say to write what you knowThis blank page only goes to showMaybe how little that isAnd how much I missIn a life that’s full motionBut often empty … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged About, Anyone, Blank Page, Box, Broken Heart, Crying, Days, Done, Empty of Emotions, Experience, Forget, Found, Good Lord, Great, Heartbreaks, Keeping On Keeping on, Kicked, Know, Know So Little, Lean, Lending A Hand, Life, Light, Middle, Miss, Mistakes, Motion, Open Eyes, Pages, Painting By Numbers, Poetry and Poems, Poor Soul, Realize, Secret, Share, Someone, Songs, Standing, Standing In the Light, Start, Stubbed Toes, They, Trying, Understand, Unwise, Won, World, Write, Write What You Know, Writing Crisis | Leave a comment

About Trees

Posted on June 18, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

About Treesby Michael DoyleDriving through the forestIt can be a bit like a testTo know that they pleaseAs you examine all the treesFrom saplings up to the heightsA million reasons offer delightSome live through the centuriesAll offer their sweet legaciesBranched … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged About Trees, All of Life, Biology, Branched Out, Breath, Call Us Out, Centuries, Define, Delight, Drive, Dvinity, Ecology, Embrace, Examine, Forest, Generations, God's Creations, Grace, Hearts, Heights, Illusion, Indiana, Infinity, Kentucky, Legacies, Life, Live, Living Memory, Living Spaces, Love, Lucky, Mankind, Million Reasons, Niche, Numberless, Offer, Old Growth Patches, Please, Poetry and Poems, Realign, Relationship, Restorative, Root Systems, Saplings, Space, Spirituality, Stars, Start, Test, Timeless Regeneration, Travelers, Trees, Woodlands, Worship | Leave a comment

Nature and Dignity Earned

Posted on June 4, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Nature and Dignity Earnedby Michael DoyleThere’s a quiet in natureThat you won’t find in the cityIt helps you to think and matureLearning what is and isn’t prettyThis is especially true of the soulAs you learn the value of self-controlBeing where … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Beauty, Born To Be, Chance, Circumstance, City, Critical Moments, Danger, Decide, Deserve, Dignity Earned, Discern, Experience, Eyes, Face-To-Face, Felt, Give, Grace, Heart, Humility, Imprint, Known, Learn, Live, Lives, Master Ourselves, Mature, Meant, Nature, Observe, Outcome, Paths, Places, Poetry and Poems, Pretty, Quiet, See, Self-Control, Shown, Soul, Stars, Start, Step, Teach, Think, Traces, True, Value, Wish | Leave a comment

In A Million Days

Posted on May 24, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

In A Million Daysby Michael DoyleI find myself drowning in the ocean of youIn all of the good things I’ve learned to be trueThere, deep within your beautiful, dreamy eyesIs my future that I’ve come to recognizeIt’s said that looks … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged A Single Look, Beach, Beautiful, Begin, Best Happiness, Beyond the Feel, Blind, Breath, Bright, Carry, Champagne, Connection, Cupid's Arrow, Deepest Choice, Dreaming, Drown, Every Kiss, Every Moment, Everyday, Eyes, Fantastic, First Sight, Forever, Full Moon Walked, Future, Good Things, Handwritten Love Note, Heart's Kiss, Hearts, Holding You Tight, I Love You, Inside, Laughter, Learned, Looks, Love Is True, Loving Traces, Magical, Matter, Million Days, Million Special Ways, Ocean, Poetry and Poems, Promises, Reach, Recognize, Right, Romantical, Rose Petals, Rreal, Shatter, Shine, Sign, Spak, Start, Surreal, Touch Me, True, Voice, Wonder, You, Your Love | Leave a comment

Our Living Hope

Posted on May 22, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Our Living Hopeby Michael DoyleOur living hope is pureMaking our souls sureOf the Lord’s living graceAs we gaze on His holy faceWe know this by the tracesIn all we do as we embraceIn this living God we knowWho brings light … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Aware, Become, Been, Bible, Celebration, Christianity, Commit, Communion, Darkness, Dedication, Embrace, Family, Focus, Forever, Forward, Freed, Gaze, God, God's Community, Grace, Gratitude, Hallelujah, Hands, Heaven, Holy Face, Humble, Humbled Hearts, Individual, Jesus, Join, Know, Light, Living God, Living Hope, Living Right, Lord, Need, Offering, One-By-One, Partake, Poetry and Poems, Pride, Pure, Raise, Rendering, Repent, Right Attitude, Sacred Praise, Satan, Satan's Snare, Shadow, Sin, Soul, Soul Shake, Start, Sure, The Lord, Trace, Transform, Voices, Words | Leave a comment

First Principles: Start Children Off On the Way They Should Go, and Even When They Are Old They Will Not Turn From It

Posted on May 12, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.” – Proverbs 22:6

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Children, First Principles, Off, Old, Proverbs 22:6 (NIV), Should Go, Start, Turn, Way | 1 Comment

Tandy 100

Posted on April 25, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Tandy 100by Michael DoyleI watched a show the other dayThat reminded me of life lived another wayI smiled on this journey bringing me backTo the late 80s, and Radio ShackThe Tandy 1000 was the trend of the hourIt had an … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Affordabiity, Allure, Apologize, Argument, Attention, Back, Bicker, Biggest Catch, Bright Light, Budget, budgeting, Calculate, Capability, Computers, Confusion, Consumerism, Day, Devour, Dimes, Discover, Dollars, Drift, Earnest, Fall Apart, Family, Finance, First, Floor, Forced Ability, Fright, Future, Hand-In-Hand, Harmonious Relationships, Hearts, Helpful, Hope, Hour, Inanimate Objects, Intrusion, Journey, Just Enough, Know, Late 80s, Lawn, Life, Living Paycheck to Paycheck, Love, Modern World, Money, Nurture, Obsession, Path of Technology, People, personal-finance, Poetry and Poems, Possession, Radio Shack, Reconcile, Rejects, Rely, Remind, Salesmen, Saving, Sentiment, Show, Slumber Land, Smile, Society, Start, Startling, Street, Strife, Tandy 1000, Technological, Teenaged Boy, Time, Toy, Trend, Understand, Utility, Value, Watch, Way, Will, Wise, Worth, Wrong Questions, You and Me, Young Einsteins, Young Girls | Leave a comment

Mean Streaks and Misgivings

Posted on March 26, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Mean Streaks and Misgivingsby Michael DoyleWhen the Colt has turned to rustAnd all that’s left is to swallow the dustThe desert plays tricks on a man’s mindAs he looks over his shoulder at what’s left behindWar is war and won’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Amend, At Last, Blind, Blindness, Body, Bury, Carry, Catch Up, Cost, Cure, Desert, Dust, Ease, Eke Away, Endure, Eye For An Eye, Find, Forget, Gun Hand, Heart, Labyrinth, Left Behind, Living Days, Mean Streak, Memories, Mental Maze, Mind, Misgiving, More, Our Ways, Past, Persistence, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Price, Regret, Resistance, Revenge, Ripped Free, Rust, Settle, Shaken, Shoulder, Soul, Soul's Rot, Start, Sun, Taken, The Days, Things Done, Tricks, Tricks of Mind, Truce, Truth, Turns Out, War, Whiskey, Wounded, Wounds | Leave a comment