ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER

Until My Eyes Close

Posted on February 25, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

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Until My Eyes Close
by Michael Doyle

The other day, I was so tired
It seemed my life was a tear
And though the coffee kept me fired
My heart felt troubled and insincere

Like I wished that I could find an exit
From this highway, I keep driving
Hoping for a miracle to fix it
Instead of pushing on, barely surviving

With my head a mile high in the clouds
It seems I cannot get any higher
With my heart in music that enshrouds
The candle of my life burns with its fire

Trying so hard just to get some sleep
Pushing back memories that keep coming
In a death of promises, I cannot keep
The heaviness crumbles into something numbing

Until my eyes close as if on their own
In a tiredness melt down from my bones - 

(c) February 25, 2022  Michael Doyle
All Rights Reserved

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First Principles: It Is the Manners and Spirit of A People Which Preserve A Republic In Vigor

Posted on February 25, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution.” – Thomas Jefferson (1781)

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Thought For the Day: Toward No Crimes Have Men Shown Themselves So Cold-Bloodedly Cruel As In Punishing Differences of Opinion

Posted on February 25, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold-bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of opinion.” – James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)

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Sowell

Posted on February 24, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

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Sowell
by Michael Doyle

Constrained
Or unconstrained
The views of mankind
Are a spectrum
In which we find

Two paths
Of social theory
Knowledge of the decisions
That make up an economy
Factored in their controversy

The question 
Needed to be answered
Is what truly helps anyone?
What makes for improvement
Improves the world for everyone

It's not a question
Of either black or either white
It is the differences
Between what's wrong or right
That should be enough

What should matter for policy
Is does it work 
Not does it sound good
If it doesn't work for the economy
There is no color that matters but green

Socialism in its sounding good 
Is utopian ... and of no real use
Talking of past wrongs
In the middle of a globe of present wrongs
Is nothing but a plea for a return to reason

(c) February 24, 2022  Michael Doyle
All Rights Reserved

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First Principles: The Republican Is the Only Form of Government Which Is Not Eternally At Open or Secret War With the Rights of Mankind

Posted on February 24, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.” – Thomas Jefferson (1790)

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Thought For the Day: Raise Your Words, Not Your Voice. It Is Rain That Grows Flowers, Not Thunder

Posted on February 24, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” – Rumi

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We’ll Burn Our Memory

Posted on February 23, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

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We'll Burn Our Memory
by Michael Doyle

There is nothing more human
Then knowing that you are broken
As time slips by as it can
And words meander or are unspoken

Time is fleeting and not to squander
Let me entreat you to spend yours well
There are so many paths to wander
As if under life's last cast spell

Fire lights up the night's skies
While we wish things could be undone
The details dance in our eyes
Wishing for one more battle to be won

There are cracks in our armor
That are noticeable but ignored
A weakness exposed when we fall before amour
Though our better senses are left unexplored

Life has its limits, these keep us human
An inner voice calls on me to make it right
Giving my inner essence in all that I can
As I look at you one last time and love your inner light

From the ashes of our bitter defeat
We rise up in the shine of victory
We each have a difference to make on these streets
Calling fire from the sky, we'll burn our memory

With every tomorrow we carry our past
The selected choices come rushing up fast
In choosing yet to once again forget
We live for hope and promise not to regret

(c) February 23, 2022  Michael Doyle
All Rights Reserved

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Thought For the Day: The Way To Crush the Bourgeoisie Is To Grind Them Between the Millstones of Taxation and Inflation

Posted on February 23, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.” – Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924)

Make no mistake, this is what some of the Democrats including the Biden Administration are trying to do to the United States of America.

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First Principles: The Fundamental Source of All Your Errors, Sophisms, and False Reasonings Is A Total Ignorance of the Natural Rights of Mankind

Posted on February 23, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“The fundamental source of all your errors, sophisms and false reasonings is a total ignorance of the natural rights of mankind. Were you once to become acquainted with these, you could never entertain a thought, that all men are not, by nature, entitled to a parity of privileges.” – Alexander Hamilton, 1775

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Thought For the Day: And the Day Came When the Risk It Took To Remain Tight Inside the Bud Was More Painful Than the Risk It Took To Blossom

Posted on February 22, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” -Anais Nin, writer (21 Feb 1903-1977)

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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER

Until My Eyes Close

First Principles: It Is the Manners and Spirit of A People Which Preserve A Republic In Vigor

Thought For the Day: Toward No Crimes Have Men Shown Themselves So Cold-Bloodedly Cruel As In Punishing Differences of Opinion

First Principles: The Republican Is the Only Form of Government Which Is Not Eternally At Open or Secret War With the Rights of Mankind

Thought For the Day: Raise Your Words, Not Your Voice. It Is Rain That Grows Flowers, Not Thunder

We’ll Burn Our Memory

Thought For the Day: The Way To Crush the Bourgeoisie Is To Grind Them Between the Millstones of Taxation and Inflation

First Principles: The Fundamental Source of All Your Errors, Sophisms, and False Reasonings Is A Total Ignorance of the Natural Rights of Mankind

Thought For the Day: And the Day Came When the Risk It Took To Remain Tight Inside the Bud Was More Painful Than the Risk It Took To Blossom

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