Tag Archives: Confusion

Ungrateful

Posted on November 3, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Ungratefulby Michael DoyleThere is in core functionalityAn awakened and new sense of realityIt’s another bit from our biologyThat we’re given over to our technologyWe all have our half-hidden flawsDecidedly difficult as nature’s lawsThat breaking our loops is difficultAnd when we … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Awakened, Biology, Broken Keys, Confusion, Core Functionality, Crooked Notes, Expore, Flaws, Free, God, Humanity, Illusion, Indiscretion, Law, Learn, Loop, Nature, Pain, Please, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Progression, Reality, Revolt, Selfishness, Stop, Suffer, System, Technology, Thankful, True, Twisted, Ungrateful, View, Vision | Leave a comment

First Principles: Liberty Is A Word Which, According As It Is Used, Comprehends The Most Good and the Most Evil of Any In the World. Justly Understood It Is Sacred

Posted on August 21, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world. Justly understood it is sacred next to those which we appropriate in divine adoration; but in the … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged A Landholder, Appropriate, Choice, Comprehend, Confusion, Divine Adoration, Evil, First Principles, Jealousy, Liberty, Mean, Necessary Government, Oliver Ellsworth, Power, Promote Good, Rulers, Sacred, Society, Understood | Leave a comment

Forge of Identity

Posted on July 2, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Forge of Identityby Michael DoyleAlexander’s naked tears were weptFor the one secret that could not be keptThat there was an unconquered infinityOf worlds to be experienced on his journeyThat would never be his in infinite refrainNone of which could know … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Advice, Alexander, All that's Left, Angle, Confusion, Control, Cradle, Darkness, Desperate Desire, Devil, Dream, Fatality, Flowing Stream, Forge, Game, Identity, Immortality, Jewelry Box, Journey, Kept, Late, Layer, Left Behind, Lines of Code, Madness, Memories, Mind, Mystic Door, Poetry and Poems, Price, Refain, Remnant, Secret, Self-Knowledge, Shame, Shards, Snare, Stain, Tears, Tools, Trap of Illusions, Unconquered Infinity, Wept, World Is Illusion, Worlds | Leave a comment

First Principles: Passion Never Fails to Wrest the Scepter From Reason

Posted on December 5, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever character composed, passion never fails to wrest the sceptre from reason.” – James Madison (1788)

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Assembly, Athenian, Avoid, Character, Citizen, Confusion, First Principles, Intemperance, James Madison, Legislative Assemblie, Limit, Mob, Multitude, Number, Passion, Reason, Scepter, Socrates, Wrest | Leave a comment

She Says…

Posted on December 1, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

She Says…by Michael DoyleAll the ugly truthsThat have tried to push her backHave tripped her up, since her youthUntil grace gave her all she might lackThoughts of how abundance increasesGave her the hope to move on pastIn her story filled … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abudance, Admit, Back, Bad Choices, Brave, Broken Pieces, Claim, Confusion, Control, Faith, Glory, God, Gold, Good Man, Grace, Heart, Hell, Her Love, Honest Soul, Hope, Illusion, Life, Lights Up, Love, Need, Pain, Past, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Push, Rain, Sad, Scar, She Says, Shine, Smile, Sometimes, Soul, Stars, Still Small Voice, Story, Tale, Tears, Tell, Trick, Tripped, Trust, Ugly Truths, Unafraid, Victory, Voices, Walked, Youth | Leave a comment

Benign Neglect

Posted on October 25, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Benign Neglectby Michael DoyleThere is a benign neglectBehind “with all due respect”That cannot be missedEven when sealed by a Judas kissPassions passed down by generationSkills kept in venerationThe wrong path with correct conclusionStill feels like it is mass confusionHalf-remembered, glanced … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Battle, Benign, Conclusion, Confusion, Cry, Dying, Face, Feel, Forward, Generation, Gone, Guarantee, Humanity, Judas Kiss, Life, Mass, Missed, Neglect, Passions, Poetry and Poems, Sealed, Shame, Skills, Strength, Trace, Uncertainty, Veneration, Wrong Path | Leave a comment

Dangers Lurk In the Seams

Posted on October 16, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Dangers Lurk In the Seamsby Michael DoyleIn the hidden crevices of your dreamsThere are dangers lurking in the seamsThree, four, better lock up that doorThe boogie man is coming back for moreFive, six, he has a bag of tricksWhere evil … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bag of Tricks, Balinese Dream, Belong, Blood, Body, Careful, Confusion, Crazy, Creep, Crucifix, Cut, Danger, Dead, Door, Dreams, Dreams Skills, Edge, Evil, Falling, Fate, Fear, Feel, Five, Four, Freddy Kruger, Hallucination, Head, Hidden Crevices, Innocent Hand, Kicks, Late, Ledge, Light, Lurk, Meet, Mud, Night, Nightmare, Noise, Poetry and Poems, Razor Sharp, Real, Run Away, Satan, Shadow, Shriek, Six, Suburban Street, Terror, The Boogie Man, Three, True, Wake Up, Whisper | Leave a comment

Until Humanity is Gone

Posted on October 4, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Until Humanity Is Goneby Michael DoyleThese parasites came to bring decayDestroying the vestiges of yesterdayThey prey on the last of our humanityKilling in waves depleting our societyMaking it impossible to be withstoodSetting fire to our planet and its woodsRats, insects … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adapt or Die, Anger, Apocalyptic, Appetite, Arrival, Bluff, Children, Confusion, Cost, Crush, Darkness, Dead, Decay, Desire, Destruction, Enemy, Exist, Fight, Fire, Flame, Forward, Gone, Hope, Humanity, Illusion, Impossible, Jester, Kill, Line, Night, Onward, Pain, Parasite, Path, Pestilence, Planet, Poetry and Poem, Possible, Prey, Reprive, Resilience, Right, Salvation, Scavage, Sear, Siege, Sight, Sky, Society, Sorrow, Soul, Struggle, Survival, Survive, Thread, Tide, Tomorrow, Vestiges, Yesterday | Leave a comment

Na/GloPoWriMo #23: In Response To That Other Fantasy

Posted on April 23, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Na/GloPoWriMo #23: In Response To That Other Fantasyby Michael DoyleKeep your head on straightInstead of rushing head longWe’re always a bit short and latePretending our weak as something strongPartying on in our faded delusionThat we want to live foreverDisrespected as … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Best, Bit Short, Clever, Come A Time, Confusion, Decay, Delusion, Disrespected, Fade, Fantasy, Foe, Freddie, Friend, Head On Straight, Immortality, Late, Live That Long, Na/GloPoWriMo, Nowhere, Other, Ourselves, Partying On, Poetry and Poems, Pointless, Pretend, Rebelling, Response, Right, Rushing Head Long, Slip, Something Missed, Something To Say, Strong, Thinking, To Belong, To End, Want, We'll Let Our Time, Weak | Leave a comment

Na/GloPoWriMo #15: Played Cards

Posted on April 16, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Na/GloPoWriMo #15: Played Cardsby Michael DoyleMaybe it seems insistentTo be so persistentIn finding time an illusionWhile we all seek our absolutionOur veins beg for transfusionCued as it were by life’s confusionDespite being a fancy dancerAnd at moments, a romancerWe all … Continue reading →

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