Tag Archives: Delusion

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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A Smile of Death

Posted on July 8, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

A Smile of Deathby Michael DoyleThe morning comes with a “how have you been”That comes a bit too brightly in world gone dimA smile unwelcomed can being its sense of dreadWith the ominous thought that we’ll all soon be deadThe … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anxiety, Breath, Control, Creativity, Creep, Dead, Death, Delusion, Depravity, Dim, Dread, Dreary, Morning, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Post-Traumatic, Real, Scream, Smile, Soul Weary, Tired, Uncertain, Zen | Leave a comment

Giving Up On Being Superman

Posted on June 30, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Giving Up On Being Supermanby Michael DoyleThose of us who wished to be a supermanHave mostly ended up seeming like Peter PanThere comes a time when it becomes bestTo put such delusions to their restHaving hit the wall without a … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Best, Best Start, Best Strength, CGI, Comic Book, Compassion, Cup, Dedication, Delusion, Giving up, Inspiration, Ladies, Legendary, Listen, Longer While, Longest Miles, Love, Noble, Ordinary Man, Peter Pan, Poetry and Poems, Reason, Rest, Sad, Satisfcation, Sky, Smile, Sore Muscles, Strength of Heart, Style, Suit, Superman, Thunderbolt, Time, Time Is Up, Wish | Leave a comment

A Future of Self Deceives

Posted on June 15, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

A Future of Self Deceivesby Michael DoyleIn a chipped future of self deceivesIt’s hard to say what a fool believesThere it is in a billion lines of codeSentient in being, created life unfoldsAs a computational theocracy brings its lightShining on … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Believe, Chatbot, Chip, Computational Theocracy, Data, Deceive, Delusion, Distinctions, Dreams, Engineer, Existence, Fantasy, Feelings, Future, Hesitation, Just-So Story, Leading Questions, Life Unfolds, Light, Lines of Code, Poetry and Poems, Revealing, Robot, Sentient, Shatter, Someday Soon, Tangoed Code, Technical Data, True Sentience, Tumbling Down | Leave a comment

Reflections On Dorian Gray, Pt VIII: Reality’s Seams

Posted on October 29, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Reflections On Dorian Gray, Pt VIII: Reality’s Seamsby Michael DoyleThere on that snow fallen black of nightIn an alley filled with guilt’s blightDorian fears the tell of tongue wagged taleThat pursues him to the gates of HellThere are dreadful things … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alley, Ancient Danger, Attic Door, Begin Again, Begun, Black of Night, Blight, Burning Fire, Chain, Change, Closeness, Confession, Conspire, Corruption, Creep, Daughter, Dead Rat, Death, Deceptive, Decrepit, Delusion, Demand, Desire, Done, Dorian Gray, Dreadful Things, Dream, Edge of Death, End, Evil, Father, Final Breath, Final Price, Final Say, Fire, Forlorn, Gates of Hell, Ghastly, Hope, Innocence, Innocent Man, Intoxication, Intrusion, Kiss Away Moment, Locked Away, London, Mortal Sin, Only Friend, Paid, Penny, Poetry and Poems, Priest, Purity, Putrify, Real, Reality's Seams, Reflections, Secret Key, See, Sin, Snow, Strange, Stranger, Subway, Tarnished History, Tongue Wag, Train, Traps, Truth, Tunnel, Wake, Whisper, Wind | 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

Thought For the Day: Do Not Hold the Delusion That Your Advancement Is Accomplished By Crushing Others

Posted on January 15, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Accomplished, Advancement, Crushing, Delusion, Do Not Hold, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Others, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

In Our Persistence

Posted on July 20, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

A fascinating presentation on cognition and how we’re all allegedly living in some sort of a shared hallucination that we call reality, led to this… In Our Persistence by Michael Doyle As I sit there listening My neurons sparkling and … Continue reading →

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Flaws of My Heart

Posted on July 1, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Sat in on an early morning sermon today. While listening in, this came to mind… Flaws of My Heart by Michael Doyle My flaws of the heart Directed by sin from the start My eyes closed to Godly fear I … Continue reading →

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A New Nation Born Pt I

Posted on March 24, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

In a continuing cycle on America, we look at the Revolutionary War through England’s defeat at Yorktown: A New Nation Born Pt I by Michael Doyle Let’s have no sense of delusion The united states were but illusion Or, perhaps … Continue reading →

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