Tag Archives: Wrong

First Principles: A Love of Truth and A Veneration of Virtue Are the Latent Spark For People Capable of Understanding

Posted on April 23, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. These amiable passions, are the “latent spark”… If … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Advocate, Amiable Passions, Apply, Difference, Feel, First Principles, Friends of Mankind, Human Nature, Indignation, Injury, John Adams, Latent Spark, Liberty, Love, Novanglus, Prinicple, Resentment, Right and Wrong, See, Sense, The People, True and False, Truth, Understanding, Veneration, Virtue, Virtue and Vice, Wrong | 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

Right Standing

Posted on March 26, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on 1 Peter 12: Right Standing by Michael Doyle Father, God in Jesus’ name I have been made without blame Though your crucifixion Rising above my afflictions Thanks to your grace I am held in your loving … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Affliction, Angel, Blame, Bolder, Bone, Broken, Cross, Crucifixion, Cure, Days, Demand, Direction, Discern, Earn, Embrace, Example, Faith, Father, Fix, Follow, Foward, God, Good, Grace, Heaven, His, Holy, Holy Spirit, Home, Jesus, Keep, Learn, Live, Lord, Loving, Name, Onward, Peter, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pure, Restore, Right, Righteousness, Rise, Seek, Shadow, Shame, Sin, Smolder, Speak, Standing, Strong, Talk, Trace, Walk, Watch, Weeks, Weep, World, Wrong, Yoke | Leave a comment

A Federation Begins

Posted on March 25, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

In the formation of the American Constitution, the world’s political republican theory took a leap into reality despite some downsides. A Federation Begins by Michael Doyle The extending of institutionalized slavery Remains a bleak mark in American history Kicking the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 19th Century, Abolition, Abomination, Accident, Ambition, American History, American Nation, Anarchy, Angels, Bad, Begin, Bill of Rights, Checks and Balances, Clause, Constituion, Contradiction, Deception, Disappear, Economy, Edict, Enslavement, Evidence, Exemplary, Federation, Foul, Founding Fathers, Freedom, Fugitive Slave, George Washington, God, Good, Government, Gratitude, Hamilton, Immaculate Conception, Incomprehensible, Indentured Servitude, Inhibition, Inhuman, Instituion, Institution, Interpretation, Issue, Jay, Kick, Knight, Language, Lesson, Liberty, Madison, Mankind, Necessary, Neglect, Offense, Oilver Ellery, Opposing View, Patrick Henry, Perfection, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Possible, Power, Protection, Ratification, Republican, Right, Roger Sherman, Slavery, Speck, Stain, The People, Thomas Jefferson, Trans-Atlantic Slavery, Transition, Unity, Wreck, Wrong | 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

As Sinners Saved By Grace

Posted on March 2, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on the Book of Matthew: As Sinners Saved By Grace by Michael Romani Let there be no kind of mistake We must move beyond heartbreak For the good of God’s and our sake To give as much … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ability, Above, Bent, Candle, Choice, Conclusion, Cross, Daily, Discern, Distortion, Earn, Embrace, Example, Experience, Extend, Eyes, False, Father, Fault, Filter, Finished Work, Forgiveness, Give, God, Grace, Hand In Hand, Harvest, Heal, Heartbreak, Heaven, Humble, Hurt, Impress, Inspire, Interpretation, Jesus, Judge, Judgment Day, Kind, Life, Light, Little, Loss, Love, Manipulation, Matthew, Meant, Mend, Mindful, Mistake, Mistakes, Night, Objective, Offer, Path, Perception, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Point, Point of Fact, Prayer, Presentation, Pretension, Repeat, Right Action, Sake, Salt of the Earth, Sample, Satisfaction, Seed, Shine, Sin, Sin No More, Snap Judgment, Sobriety, Son, Spark, Subjective, Take, Thought, Truth, Understand, Walk, World, Wrong | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: My Country, Right Or Wrong; If Right, To Be Kept Right; and If Wrong, To Be Set Right

Posted on March 2, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.” – Carl Schurz In popular culture we only hear that part, “(M)y country, right or wrong”. This is incorrect. If our … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Carl Schurz, Country, Kept, Right, Set, Thought For the Day, Wrong | Leave a comment

Kid Lost In Story

Posted on January 22, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

What’s the difference between a kid at play and an artist lost in art? Give up? Maybe me too…. Kid Lost In Story by Michael Romani Hand sketched And mentally stretched The artist knows her caper Put down as it … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Art, Artist, Awkward, Belogn, Better, Blocks, Burn, Caper, Children, Construct, Energy, Escstacy, Fantasy, Flow, Glory, Grow, Instruct, Kid, Learn, Lost, Meant, Paper, Percussion, Photograph, Pieces, Playground, Poem, Poetry, Rocks, Sculpture, Sketch, Smile, Story, Stretch, Understood, World, Wrong | Leave a comment

First Principles: Only Aim To Do Your Duty And Mankind Will Give You Credit Where You Fail

Posted on January 20, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“It behooves you, therefore, to think and act for yourself and your people. The great principles of right and wrong are legible to every reader; to pursue them requires not the aid of many counselors. The whole art of government … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Act, Aim, Art of Government, Counsel, Credit, Duty, First Principles, Honest, Legible, Manking, People, Principle, Right, Think, Thomas Jefferson, Wrong, Yourself | Leave a comment

Scorecard

Posted on January 16, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Ever wonder how your life is tallying up? Scorecard by Michael Romani Sometimes like an idiot savant I do my best to be your servant Lord, to put things a little oddly I recognize that on earth, I am your … Continue reading →

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