Tag Archives: Will

Disinfected Press Briefing

Posted on April 27, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

The 27th day of NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo 2020, has the optional prompt of writing a poetic review of something not often reviewed. Disinfected Press Briefing by Michael Doyle Even though there by sincere invitation Very few of them had whatsoever any … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2020, Aytu, Best, Bone, Bring, Catch, Conference, Confidence, Connect, COVID-19, Dead, Dice, Disinfect, Disinterested, Dissected, Disservice, Economy, Elective, Embrace, Error, Experiment, Expert, Eyes, Face, Fail, Fair, False, Fetch, Fight, Game, Gnaw, Gotcha, Hole, Hours, Inclination, Injection, Instill, Intention, Intubation, Invitation, Lie, Listen, Lysol, Meant, Mischaracterization, Misspeak, Mock, Moles, NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo, Nation, Nervous, Number, Objective, Option, Petulant, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poetry, President, President Trump, Press, Press Briefing, Press Corps, Recognize, Report, Revive, Risk, Sarcasm, Save, Survive, Swing, The People, Truth, Try, Twist, Ultraviolet, Ventilation, Will, Word | Leave a comment

To Become A Knight

Posted on April 19, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

To be a knight is to be a servant for the country and its people. To Become A Knight by Michael Doyle The darkness is coming There’s no use in running Ruthlessly conquering as it comes It brings us to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All, Awaken, Become, Blame, Boy, Brave, Burn, Call, Can, Come, Conquer, Consign, Country, Crush, Cunning, Darkness, Day, Destruction, Devour, Do, Eyes, Far, Fate, Fight, Fire, Flame, Found, Ground, Heart, Heed, Hero, Hold, Hour, Instincts, Knees, Knight, Knighthood, Knock, Learn, Lesson, Lust, Martial Styles, Mind, Need, Noble, Numb, Pass, People, Photograph, Please, Poem, Poetry, Power, Prepare, Prophecy, Protector, Rider, Role, Run, Savage, See, Servant, Servant of God, Sign, Soul, Spread, Start, Straight, Surplus, Survive, Take, Trial, True, Unholy, Warrior, Way, Weak, Will, Word, World, Zero | Leave a comment

Our Finest Hour

Posted on April 7, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

At this stage of American history, we advanced onto the world stage having no real choice but to fight a war on multiple fronts in World War II and rather self consciously becoming a, if not the, world leader in … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 1930s, 1940, Accommodation, Admiral Nimitz, Admiral Yamamoto, Air Craft Carrier, All-American, Allied Commander, Allies, America, American History, American Pride, Appeasement, Atom Bomb, Back, Battle, Battle of Britain, Battle of Midway, Beast, Berlin, Blitzkrieg, Break, Brunt, Capacity, China, Christian Civilization, City, Conflagration, Consideration, Converge, Countries, D-Day, Dead, Death Camps, Decision, Decisive, Decisively, Defeaat, Demoralize, Destructive, Devour, Dictator, Die, Direction, Domination, Drums, Dwight Eisenhower, Dynamics, Emperor, Endure, Engage, Expansion, FDR, Finest, Finest Hour, Fire Side Chat, Fourth, Free World, Freedom, General MacArthur, Germany, Halt, Hard Fought, Harry S Truman, Heart, Hiroshima, History, Hitler, Horror, Hour, Impossible, Industrial Ability, Infamy, Institution, Internal, International, Internationalist, Isolationist, Italy, Japan, Japanese, Jewish, June, Knockout Blow, Know, Last, Lend Lease Act, Luftwaffe, Manhattan Project, Mantle of Leadership, Materials, Merge, Might, Nagasaki, Nation, Navy, Nazi, Neutrality, Non-Aggression Pact, Normandy, North Atlantic, Obligations, Occupy, Okinawa, Opinion Poll, Organic, Pacific, Pacific Fleet, Paris, Past, Pearl Harbor, Permanent Sense, Philippines, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Precedent, Predictability, Prinicples, Priority, Productivity, Reality, Revelation, Royal Air Force, Ruins, Russians, Secret, Secure, Self Conscious, Shadow, Shoulders, Shudder, Siege, Skies, Smoulder, Soviet Union, Stalin, Standing, Standing Army, Strategic, Stubborn, Supplies, Surrender, Sustain, Symbolic, Territorial Aggression, Thug, Treaty of Versailles, Turning Point, Two Prong, Typhoon of Steel, Unstoppable, Vain, VE Day, Victory, War, Will, Win, Winston Churchill, World, World Affairs, World Leader, World War II, Wrong | Leave a comment

Death and A Desert God

Posted on March 26, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

A further adventure in Egyptian myth. Death and A Desert God by Michael Doyle Without ambition, Horus would quietly assert That to kill a desert god, you must kill the desert To kill a desert, requires Ra, God of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Air, Ambition, Appetite, Bay, Breath, Chaos, Conceal, Creation, Creator, Cruel, Dark, Death, Decay, Desert, Destiny, Destruction, Dreams, Drown, Edict, Egypt, Embrace, Equal, Fight, Flight, Glory, God, Height, Hell Hounds, Hopes, Horus, Journey, Kill, Light, Lord, Might, Mortal, Night, Path, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Quest, Ra, Rot, Scarabs, Set, Shine, Stray, Sun, Uncertain, Water, Will | Leave a comment

A New Nation Born Pt I

Posted on March 24, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

In a continuing cycle on America, we look at the Revolutionary War through England’s defeat at Yorktown: A New Nation Born Pt I by Michael Doyle Let’s have no sense of delusion The united states were but illusion Or, perhaps … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Allusion, America, American Crisis, Army, Bolder, Brith, British Crown, Certainty, Change, Character, Christmas Eve, Colonial, Common Sense, Confusion, Continental Congress, Contribution, Credible, Cross, Dawn, Defense, Delaware, Delusion, Discontent, Dues, Encourage, England, Even, Exhaustion, Fabric, Family, Fragility, Fragmentation, French, General, George Washington, Glory, Hard Times, Hessians, Hope, Landing, Lead, Legacy, Length, Level, Lost, Loyalty, Nation, Navy, New, Odds, Offensive, Pay, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Position, Rag Tag, Revolutionary War, Saratoga, Society, Staten Island, Story, Strength, Summer Soldier, The World Turned Upside Down, Thirds, Thomas Paine, Thrust, Tilt, Triumph, Truth, United States, Valley Forge, Van Steuben, Victory, War, Weak, Will, Winter, Words, Yorktown | Leave a comment

Words To Feeling

Posted on March 9, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

These days with so many choices out there, it seems an endless spiral of restless hearts. Here’s to those whose hearts have found their home. I see it in a plethora of friends who have now been married a … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Admiration, Being, Believe, Best, Bliss, Choices, Cliche, Compel, Complexity, Dare, Defy, End, Fear, Feeling, Follow, Friends, Give, God, Happiness, Heartbond, Hearts, Home, Honest, Humans, Lovers, Marriage, Never, Path, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Push Away, Receive, Restless, Reveal, Rock, See, Seeing, Sensibility, Soul, Spin, Stability, Step, Truth, Understand, Walk, Will, Wonderland, Words | Leave a comment

Simply Do Unto Others

Posted on March 9, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on Matthew 7: 12: Simply Do Unto Others by Michael Doyle In Jesus’ name we give our gratitude Demonstrated in our loving attitude Thankful for His covering and His grace Looking at love given in His embrace … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Acceptance, Act, Action, Appreciation, Attitude, Avoid, Beautiful, Best, Bitter, Blessed, Blessing, Blind, Break, Brother, Call, Clarity, Commentary, Compassion, Competition, Consideration, Cycle, Daily, Dark, Day, Dignity, Divinity, Do, Done, Duty, Elevate, Embrace, Ethics, Expectation, Eye For An Eye, Father, Flame, Focus, Forgive, Give, God, Golden Rule, Grace, Gratitude, Hate, Heal, Help, Holy, Holy Spirit, Honor, Hope, Humility, Impact, Initiative, Inside, Intentional, Jesus, Judgment, Kind, Law, Less, Life, Light, Live, Lord, Love, Math, Matthew, Misconstrue, More, Morning, Mount Everest, Name, Need, Neighbor, Night, Oblivious, Obstacle, Others, Pain, Parise, Pass, Passion, Path, Peak, Photograph, Please, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Pride, Promise, Reciprocity, Rejection, Religion, Repent, Right, Score, Seek, Shame, Simple, Sincere, Sister, Son, Spark, STuck, Summit, Test, Thanks, Think, Thought, Treat, True, Understand, Want, Will, Wish | Leave a comment

Game of Hearts

Posted on March 5, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Some say the grass is always greener. I don’t. Game of Hearts by Michael Doyle Don’t make my heart Into another game of homes Or, you’ll soon see me depart I’d rather just be alone I’ve seen the trades made … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Actions, Alone, Better, Connection, Depart, Disappear, Don't, End, Fade, Fear, Game, Grass, Greener, Hearts, Homes, Know, Look, Make, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poetry, Pretend, Quick, Real Love, Together, Trades, Will, Won't, Words, Worth | Leave a comment

First Principles: A Universal Peace Only Exists In the Imagination of Visionary Philosophers and Breasts of Benevolent Enthusiasts

Posted on March 5, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“A universal peace … is in the catalogue of events, which will never exist but in the imaginations of visionary philosophers, or in the breasts of benevolent enthusiasts.” – James Madison (1792) Two seemingly contradictory statements. Yet, we find the … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Afghanistan, Airstrike, Akhundzada, Beacon, Benevolent, Blood and Treasure, Catalog, Clear and Present, Continual Warfare, Definition, Enthusiasts, Events, Exist, Extrication, Fight, First Principles, Freedom, Helmand Province, Hope, Imagination, Iraq, James Monroe, Liberty, Mission Creep, Natioin, Peace, Philosophers, Plowshares, Preparation, Preserve, President Donald Trump, Readiness, Swords, Taliban, Threat, United States, Universal Peace, Victory, Vigilance, Visionary, Will | Leave a comment

God From Machine

Posted on March 4, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

We live in interestingly troubled times. God From Machine by Michael Doyle In the spiraled stairs leading to the future Is a universal fate we must embrace and nurture Asking who is worthy to be given and receive The truth … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alive, Ambition, Answer, Blind, Born Again, Call, Choked Out, Cling, Coax, Connectivity, Cure, Deceive, Dismay, Dream, Drive, Elephant, Embrace, Eternity, Fall, False Hope, Fate, Future, Generation, Give, God, Gravity, Heal, Heed, Human, Humanity, Hurting, Infinite, Infinity, Last, Light, Lost, Machine, Master, Metaphor, Night, Nurture, Old, One Way Ticket, Pandora, Paradise Lost, Past, Photograph, Pi, Poem, Poetry, Poor, Post Modern, Pull, Pure, React, Recall, Receive, Regained, Reply, Risen, Spiral, Square Root, Step Back, Strong, Super Fluid, Times, Tragic, Treason, Trouble, Truth, Wealthy, Whore, Will, Worthy, Wrong | Leave a comment