Tag Archives: Beauty

Thought For the Day: You Must Protest. It Is Your Diamond Duty. Ah But In Such An Ugly Time, the True Protest Is Beauty

Posted on April 20, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“You must protest / It is your diamond duty / Ah but in such an ugly time / The true protest is beauty.”-Phil Ochs, folksinger (19 Dec 1940-1976)

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Too Jung For the Good Life

Posted on April 11, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Too Jung For the Good Lifeby Michael DoyleThe verbal coinage of modern-age complexityLays predominately bound to Jung’s dexterityIt’s something that happens in synchronicityOf the universe beaming out the need to be happyBut the journey of happiness, despite its fascinationCannot be … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, Aesthetic Experience, Appreciation, Approach, Artistic Mood, Beam, Beauty, Bliss, Brilliance, Broken, Closest, Complexity, Contend, Cultivation, Define, Desintation, Dexterity, Drop, Fascination, Five Pillars, Form Experiences, Foster, Full Stop, Goal, Good Life, Good Purpose, Happy, Human Being, Ignore, In the End, INstrude, Isolation, Journey, Jung, Live Intentionally, Lives, Living End, Living Standards, Love, Meaning, Melancholy, Modern Age, Mortal, Nature's Beauty, Others, Paradox, Perspective, Poetry and Poems, Position, Progress, Provide Service, Reasonable, Regress, Relationship, Resilience, Respective, Resplendence, Rest, Righteous Paths, Secret, Serve God, Soul, State, Substantial, Synchronicity, Test, Transscendence, Universe, Verbal Coinage, Ways, Whole | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: The Pursuit of Truth and Beauty Is A Sphere of Activity In Which We Are Permitted To Remain Children All Our Lives

Posted on March 16, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.” -Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (14 Mar 1879-1955)

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Thought For the Day: The Pain Passes But the Beauty Remains

Posted on February 26, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“The pain passes but the beauty remains.” -Pierre-Auguste Renoir, artist [responding to Matisse on why he painted in spite of his painful arthritis] (25 Feb 1841-1919)

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Turkey Run State Park

Posted on February 17, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Turkey Run State Parkby Michael DoyleIndiana is prone to having a second winter appearAfter it seems the real winter has disappearedThis was the circumstance in February 2024When a snowfall came, inviting my family to exploreMy daughters and I loaded up … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Allow, Beauty, Circumstance, Cold, Commentary, Creek, Daughter of Mine, Daughters, Disappear, Distance, Driftwood River Tributary, Duty, Enchant, Eroded, Etymology, Explore, Father, Forgot, Found, Good Company, Hit the Road, Indiana, Internet, Joy, Learn, Life Refines, Listen, Mansfield Formation, Meant To Be, Native American, New and Interesting, Photographs, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Preservation, Resin, Rocky Hollow Reserve, Runs, Sandstone, Second Winter, Slippery Rocks, Snow Melt, Sugar Creek, Sugar Pines, Suspension Bridge, SUV, Sweet, Sweet Tooth, Symbology, Tales, Talk, Turkey Run State Park, Unfold, Walking, Youngest | Leave a comment

Sea Fire

Posted on February 13, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Sea Fireby Michael DoyleI brush the strands of your long hairIt is as soft as the finest silkI can feel it as you stand thereAnd we talk about the seas white as milkAs our ship passes through deep blue waterStanding … Continue reading →

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Even By the Blind

Posted on February 7, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Even By the Blindby Michael DoyleWe lose ourselves in life’s false accusationsFalling into fear before the wicked prosecutionsThese are the lessons learned in life’s schoolLike pearls before swine in a misapplied golden ruleNo one loses purity at the and hands … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adore, Beauty, Birth, Blind, Courage, Cover, Even By, Even By the Blind, Eyes, False Accusation, Forlorn, Gain, Golden Rule, Hands of Others, Healing Hands, Heart, Hell, Humble, Kind, Lane, Lesson, Life's Path, Live Life, Lose, Love, Multitude, New Lifee, One Another, Paradise, Pearls, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Prosecution, Purity, Sacred, Sacrifice, School, Search, Seen, Separation, Sing, Sins, Swine, True Love, Wounded Hearts | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: The Absence of Flaw In Beauty Is Itself A Flaw

Posted on February 2, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.” – Havelock Ellis, physician, writer, and social reformer (2 Feb 1859-1939)

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Neon Eye Cage Conclusions

Posted on January 26, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Neon Eye Cage Conclusionsby Michael DoyleIn the heart of the neon eye cage of the cityThe glitz is overdone and isn’t really prettyBut despite the walk-in of unsteady delusionsIt is a happenstance that brings certain conclusionsOne of these is the … Continue reading →

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The Sabotage of Daily Life

Posted on January 18, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

The Sabotage of Daily Lifeby Michael DoyleIn the masquerades we playLost in ourselves, day after dayThe connecting dots bring our lossesRide the back of our carried crossesAll the unforeseen circumstancesThat come from life’s dancesAs we seek our first and second … Continue reading →

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