Tag Archives: Won

Truth of War

Posted on November 27, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Truth of Warby Michael DoyleMost of the world’s problems start with warIt’s a noteworthy thing that it takes moreThen dreamy words offering a shallow victoryTo come out on the winning side of historyMany a fool has believed themselves betterWhen cooler … Continue reading →

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If the Truth…

Posted on November 15, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

If the Truth…by Michael DoyleIf the truth is to be unpleasant Let it be spoken in a bold voiceKeeping focused on the presentNot a stumbled mumble as if not a choiceIt is better that the disagreeableBe out there and quickly … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Avoid, Avoidance, Bad, Better, Bit By Bit, Bold Voice, Choice, Conceivable, Cycle, Dear, Deception, Disaagreeable, Done, Ear, End of Nature, Fear, Focus, Happy, If, Laws and Statutes, Life, Love, Malice, Moment, Mumble, Nibble, Pacify, Poetry and Poems, Present, Quick, Quick Usee, Reason, Reception, Sad, Seasonal, Seek, Spoken, The Cause, Think, Time, Torment, Truth, Unpleasant, Victory, Well Used, Wisdom, Won | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: No Battle Is Ever Won He Said…The Field Only Reveals To A Man His Own Folly and Despair, and Victory Is An Illusion of Philosophers and Fools

Posted on October 3, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“No battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.” – William Faulkner, novelist (25 Sep 1897-1962)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Despair, Field, Folly, Fools, Fought, Illusion, Philosophers, Reveal, Thought For the Day, Victory, William Faulkner, Won | Leave a comment

Gentleman George

Posted on August 31, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Gentleman Georgeby Michael DoyleIt took a lifetime to forgeThe humility of Gentleman GeorgeWith his best fights fought on his kneesHe is God’s child and aims to pleaseOnce a lion, then a lamb, in doing all thingsHe only gave his second … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Aim, American Flag, Best Fight, Born Again, Bout, Boxer, Bring, Brutality, Comeback, Dedicate, Dignity, Forge, Frazier, Friend, Friends, Fumble, Gentleman George, George Foreman, God, God's Child, Gold Medal, Humility, Jamaica, Jesus, Jungle, Knees, Lamb, Last Breath, Legendary, Lifetime, Lion, Locker Room, Mercy, Mike Tyson, Morer, Muhammed Ali, Near Death, Nervous Tension, Olympics, Pack A Punch, Please, Poetry and Poems, Punch, Recall, Record, Rope-A-Dope, Sunshine Showdown, Tall, Teach, Tenacity, The Ring, True Man, Very Best, Won, Zaire | Leave a comment

Wonderland Needed

Posted on March 1, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Wonderland Needed (the Mad Hatter)by Michael DoyleWhen you clear your mindOf all the clatter and voicesWhat’s left behind, are the choicesIn our unwilling to be left behindAs we find in this hide and seekMuch of the world is mass confusionUntil, … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abvoe, Because, Benign, Celebration, Choices, Clatter, Clear, Clues, Conversations of the Heart, Cup of Tea, Dare, Dignity, Done, Dragons, Dreams, Earned, Envy, Fascination, Fear, Feeling, Final Card, Fireworks, Freed, Hide and Seek, Hope, Illusion, Learned, Left Behind, Love, Loving Dose, Mad Hatter, Mass Confusion, Matter, Mind, Nighttime, Outcome, Peek, Played, Playing Games, Poetry and Poems, Remembrance, Secret, See, Share Life, Shatter, Sips, Sky, Slayed, Sordid Matters, Sympathy, The Game, True Hearts, Veils, Voices, Won, Wonder Why, Wonderland Needed | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: It Is By Character and Not By Intellect the World Is Won

Posted on September 28, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“It is by character and not by intellect the world is won.” – Evelyn Beatrice Hall, biographer (28 Sep 1868-1956)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Character, Evelyn Beatrice Hall, Not Intellect, Thought For the Day, Won, World | Leave a comment

River Rain

Posted on August 27, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

River Rainby Michael DoyleAs a gift from the CreatorThe rain fills into the riverBringing new life just begunWith a toss of dice, it’s wonLike a raindrop fills the creekWords become love we dare to speakSpilling out like a timeless riverInto … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Aniticipation, Begun, Best of Lives, Book of Life, Child's Voice, Creator, Creek, Delivered, Dice, Dreamer's Head, Dreams, Father, Gift, Handheld, Life, Listen Close, Love, Love Will Call, Lovers, Mother, Ocean's Depths, Oceans, Past, Poetry and Poems, Query, Questions, Rain, Rain River, Raindrop, Read, Rising Sun, River, Shake and Shiver, Smiles, Speak, Streams, Tested, Theory, Timeless, Won, Words | Leave a comment

Wedded To A Narrative

Posted on February 28, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Wedded To A Narrativeby Michael DoyleWedded to a narrativeWe forget the slavery of todayCivil rights racketeersDo little to nothingTo ease the world’s tearsThere are incentives to embraceTruths forgotten without traceCombatting the great reset takes voiceTo stand together, we are the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Battle, Boom, Civil Rights, Commonsense, Data, Done, Doom, Doomsayer's, Economic Liberty, Elsewhere, Embrace, Equality of Opportunity, Equity, Failed Marxism, False, False Narrative, Free Market Policies, Great Reset, Ignore, Incentives, Majority, Morning's Tide, Narrative, Optimism, Poetry and Poems, Prophets, Race-Based, Racketeers, Rise, Sham, Slavery, Social Policy, Socialism, Stand Together, Tears, Technocrats, Today, Truth, Vacuum, Voice, We, Wed, Wokeness, Won, Work, Working Class | Leave a comment

We’ll Burn Our Memory

Posted on February 23, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

We’ll Burn Our Memoryby Michael DoyleThere is nothing more humanThen knowing that you are brokenAs time slips by as it canAnd words meander or are unspokenTime is fleeting and not to squanderLet me entreat you to spend yours wellThere are … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Armor, Ashes, Battle, Better Senses, Broken, Burn, Carry, Choices, Cracks, Dance, Defeat, Difference, Eyes, Fast, Fire, Fleeting, Forget, Hope, Human, Inner Essence, Inner Light, Inner Voice, Know, Life, Limits, Love, Memory, Nothing, One Last Time, Past, Paths, Poetry and Poems, Promise, Regret, Right, Shine, Skies, Spell, Squander, Streets, Time Slips By, Tomorrow, Unexplored, Unspoken, Victory, Wish, Won, Words Meander | Leave a comment

Beneficial Benediction

Posted on February 11, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Beneficial Benedictionby Michael DoyleIt should really come as no surpriseThat when all anyone ever tells is liesTo tell the truth is a revolutionBut it’s beneficial in our evolutionDon’t fear the monsters in your headMake them afraid of you insteadLike figments … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Afraid, Begun, Benediction, Beneficial, Break, Chains, Comfort, Dream, Evolution, Fear, Figments, Fool's Gold, Future, Glistens, Head, Hold Us Back, Journey, Lies, Listens, Machination, Mast, Monsters, Past, Poetry and Poems, Reason, Regain, Revolution, Rocks, Sail, Shadows, Ship, Sleep, Speaking Truth, Surprise, Tortured Imagination, Truth, Victory, Wall, Won | Leave a comment