Tag Archives: Decisions

Thought For the Day: If You Do Not Take An Interest In the Affairs of Your Government, Then You Are Doomed To Live Under the Rule of Fools

Posted on November 2, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.” – Plato, there are several alternative translations of this passage taken from Republic, Book 1, 347c … Continue reading →

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For the Sake of Community

Posted on October 19, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

For the Sake of Communityby Michael DoyleDecisions are made for the sake of communityAs we join hands to rebuild a sickened societyWords and intonation create a transcendent headspaceWhere the weak fill their need for a sense of placeTrust in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abuse, Analysis, Clearer Eyes, Coercive, Cult, Cult Leaders, Cults, Decisions, Devour, Headspace, Loaded Language, Mental Paralysis, mental-health, Party Line, Poetry and Poems, Power, Religion, Sake of Community, Semantic Stop Signs, Sense of Place, Sickened Society, Terminating Cliches, Words and Intonations | Leave a comment

No News, Anxiety Blues

Posted on June 15, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

No News, Anxiety Bluesby Michael DoyleEven though they tell meThat I wear victory’s crownThey’ll never totally sell meThat I should not feel downYes, I survived and stand aliveI can’t say the same for friendsPatriotic to the point of deep diveNow, … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above My Paygrade, Anxiety, Assure, Beloved Sons, Blended Shade, Blues, Brightness, Calamity, Carrying On, Choices, Cold Sweat, Combat, Crown, Cure, Dancer, Daughters, Dead, Decision, Decisions, Deep Dive, Devil, Disappear, Done, Dread, End, Eyes, Face, Faith, Feel Down, Feel Love, Forgiveness, Friends, Fright, Full Control, God Above, God Is the Answer, Good Night, Grim Shade, Hard To Move, Hues, Joy, Jungian Analysis, Known, Look Right, Looking, Lose It, Love, Made, Memories, Metaphysical, Moment, Need, News, No Black and White, No Time For Fear, Offer, Patriotic, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Prayer, Prayers, Psychology, Question, Quiz, Recall, Recognize, Remember, Safe, Same, Second Guessing, Sell, Sleep, Sorrow, Soul, Stand Alive, Stare, Survive, Total Paralysis, Victory, Voice, Wak, Wake, Wall, Worst Fears, Years | Leave a comment

Anger Blocks the Way

Posted on August 11, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Anger Blocks the Wayby Michael DoyleAnger Seals away Steals away Keeps away Love Until the day We learn to say That which must be said Hope will be dead With disappointmentDanger Rules our decisions Without precision With the derision Keeping … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Again Right, Anger, Appointment, Arrow, Authenticity, Block, Build, Clarity, Darkness, Day, Dead, Decisions, Derision, Disappointment, Dnager, Faraway, Find, Flight, Forever More, Future, Guide, Hearts, Hold On Tight, Hope, Indecision, Integrity, Keeps Away, Learn, Life, Light, Lose, Love, Make Our Way, Morrow, Now, Past, Poetry and Poems, Precision, Put Away, Regain, Rules, Said, Say, Seal Away, See, Seek, Sincerity, Sorrow, Stay, Steal Away, Straight and Narrow, Tomorrow, True, Way | Leave a comment

A Parable of Treasure

Posted on January 15, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

A Parable of Treasureby Michael DoyleLife leads in a process of negotiationQuick as we are to assign our valuationThe problem lies in our lack of accuracyAnd that mistakes made become legendaryAssigned values can bring on heartacheLearning far too often from … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accuracy, Decisions, Heartache, Kingdom of Heaven, Legendary, Low, Mistakes, Negotiation, Paraable, Poetry and Poems, Treasure, Valuation | Leave a comment

Slightly Out of Tune

Posted on April 22, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Softly Out of Tuneby Michael DoyleThe piano plays slightly out of tuneThe preacher is drunk, crazy as a loonA voice whispers hello old friendThe bemused look hints at the endLife is one continuing negotiationIt seems a program of collaborationIt is … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ashes, Bemused, Brave Enough, Cards, Collaboration, Conceal, Dealer, Decisions, Door, Drunk, End, Free Will, Heresy, Illusions, Irony, Life, Loon, Masquerade, Matters, More, Negotiation, Old Friend, Played, Poetry and Poems, Preacher, Regrets, Scorched Earth, Secrets, Skeletons In Closets, Skill Sets, Slight, Tatters, Tune, Victory, Visions of Dreams, Whisper | Leave a comment

A Dance of Fate

Posted on March 16, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

A Dance of Fateby Michael DoyleLife is more than merely fateIt is never really too lateTo realize that we have choicesLifted up in our true voicesIf only we might chooseNo longer allowing life to abuseExamining what we might refuseAnd refusing … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abuse, Blame, Blindness, Chance, Choices, Choose, Choosing, Churn, Circumstance, Collide, Confuse, Dance, Decisions, Depth, Destinies, Discern, Examine, Fate, Fault, Frame, Glance, Happenstance, Hard To Realize, Late, Life, Make, Mere, Ocean, Paths, Poetry and Poems, Possible, Refuse, Ride, Rush, Shoulder, Subtle, Take, The Past, Troubled, True Voices | Leave a comment

Sowell

Posted on February 24, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Sowellby Michael DoyleConstrainedOr unconstrainedThe views of mankindAre a spectrumIn which we findTwo pathsOf social theoryKnowledge of the decisionsThat make up an economyFactored in their controversyThe question Needed to be answeredIs what truly helps anyone?What makes for improvementImproves the world for … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Answered, Color, Constrained, Controversy, Decisions, Differences, Economy, Everyone, Factored, Find, Globe, Green, Help, Improvement, Improves, Knowledge, Mankind, Past Wrongs, Plea, Poetry and Poems, Policy, Present Wrongs, Question, Return to Reason, Social Theory, Socialism, Sound Good, Sowell, Spectrum, Two Paths, Unconstrained, Utopian, Views, Work | Leave a comment

To Lean Out of Wandering

Posted on January 2, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

To Lean Out of Wanderingby Michael DoyleLiving out the days of my back fortyKnowing that the end may come shortlyLike Moses, I lift my hands in prayerLiving a moment of taking proper careHaving learned to number my precious daysI long … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Affirmation, Back Forty, Bases, Celebration, Confirmation, Days, Decisions, East, Embrace, Failsures, Focus, Forgiven, Future, Ghosts, God's Ways, Gone, Grain, Hands, Haste, Hourglass, Important Battles, Joy, Juggle, Lean, Live, Living Our Prayer, Manage, Moment, Moments, Moses, Need, New Morning, Nowhere, Number, Nurture, Pains, Past, Paths, Play, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Procrastination, Proper Care, Questions, Reason, Regret, Reset, Rhymes, Season, Seed, Self-Defeating, Shortly, Sins, Sow, Stock, Test, The End, Thief of Time, Time, Today, Traces, Wandering, Waste, West, Wheel, Wisdom | Leave a comment

Deepest Roots

Posted on February 4, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Deepest Rootsby Michael DoyleCast about with questioning looksThere’s much to be learned from great booksWhen we unlock our dulled hesitationsAnd dare to ask the great questionsAlthough the human spirit is quite flappableIt doesn’t take a lot to realize, we are … Continue reading →

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