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Thought For the Day: Whoever Controls the Volume of Money In Our Country Is Absolute Master of All Industry and Commerce

Posted on September 16, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce…when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Commerce, Control, Country, Depression, Entire System, Few Powerful Men, Industry, Inflation, James A. Garfield, Master, Money, Thought For the Day, Volume | Leave a comment

First Principles: Whoever Controls the Volume of Money In Our Country Is Absolute Master of All Industry and Commerce

Posted on August 7, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Absolute Master, Control, Country, Depression, Entire System, Few Powerful Men, First Principles, Industry and Commerce, Inflation, James A. Garfield, Origin, Period, Top, Volume of Money | Leave a comment

And Then Came the Final Fall (For Ozzy)

Posted on July 26, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

And Then Came the Final Fall (For Ozzy)by Michael DoyleFacing the music as it begins to playI, in my pulpit of one, begin to pray.Lost within my sense of inconsolable dreams,I take comfort in the prophet’s endless screams.Time went on, … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Black Sabbath, Blizzard of Oz, Call, Comfort, Crazy Train, Dark Night, Demons, Depression, Extremists, Final Fall, Hell, Hex, Hitching A Ride, Home, Homicidal, Inconsolable Dreams, Mature, Music, Nurture, Ozzy Osbourne, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Pouring Rain, Pray, Prince of Darkness, Prophet, Pulpit, Puzzle, Randy Rhoads, Regret, Shouting At the Devil, Singer, Song, Sreams, Urgency, Vain, Western Dessert | Leave a comment

Age of Anxiety

Posted on August 27, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Age of Anxietyby Michael DoyleLooking out for my daughters with empathyAs this modern age drips with anxietyThere are so many issues and concerns seenIt quickly overwhelms any human beingIt has become an epidemic across this nationWhere morbid complexity gives way … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, Age of Anxiety, Alienation, Angst, Anxiety, Community, Competence, Confidence, Connect, Corrected, Courses, Crisis and Challenge, Darkness and Blight, Daughters, Depression, Depth, Detection, Development, Earn, Empathy, Encouragement, Epidemic, Failure, Family, Fatherly Delight, Fear, Find Your Way, Focus, Friends, Growing, Heaven, High School, Human Being, Human Beings, Increasingly, Issues and Concerns, Knowing, Learn, Life, Life's Issues, Life's Lessons, Light, Listen, Love, Loving Family, Matters, Meaning, Middle School, Modern Age, Morbid Complexity, Nation, Overwhelm, Pandemic, Parent, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Right, Scared and Embarassed, Scatter, Screens, Scroll, Seen, Shadow, Sight, Smooth Roll, Social Media, Stranger's Love, Systematic, Therapy and Medication, Toll, Truly Know, Whisper, Wise | Leave a comment

Autarkeia

Posted on August 22, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Autarkeiaby Michael DoyleIn these days of enhanced pushes for creativityWe slip and slide in our moral relativityGetting dazed and pushed by sex and violenceWe confuse this with mistaken social turbulenceYesterday’s logic is puzzled by the push and pullOf opinions and … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abuse, Admiration, Autarkeia, Cancel, Check, Choice, Clique, Code, Confidence, Conformity, Conventions, Creaitivy, Depression, Displeasure, Fact, Fall In Line, Foolish Consistency, Free Will, Fulfillment, Happiness, Independency, Meaning, Measure, Mind, Moral Relativity, Nobility, Noise, Opinions, Personal Autonomy, Poetry and Poems, Privacy, Push, Push and Pull, Ralph Waldo Emerxon, Scoiety, Self, Self-Discipline, Self-Reliance, Self-Sufficiency, Sex and Violence, Slip and Slide, Social Turbulence, Spartan Fife, Success, Sufficient Grit, Thinking, Unsteady, Vice, Viftue, Voices, Wisdom, Wreck, Yesterday's Logic | Leave a comment

In the Quiet

Posted on July 18, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

In the Quiet by Michael DoyleIn the late hours, with others asleepI find my contemplation runs deepAnd I get my best moments quietly doneIt’s sometimes best without anyoneIt’s not to be impatient or rudeWhen I speak on how others intrudeOn … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Actions, Anxiety, Asleep, Best, Best Moments, Complex, Complexity, Connection, Contemplation, Depression, Deviation, Direction, Dissection, Gratitude, Impatient, In the Quiet, Interpret, Introvert, Intrude, Late Hours, Life, Poetry and Poems, Profound Isolation, Relief, Rude, Satisfaction, Social Interactions, Solitude, Subject, Thoughts, Uninterrupted Times | Leave a comment

Always Worthy of Praise

Posted on March 4, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Always Worthy of Praiseby Michael DoyleThe faith of the Church savesUplifting us from our gravesLet those who see plainly singAbout God’s victory over everythingSatan has come to know his defeatGained, for us, as Jesus took His seatWe were given the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All Our Days, Always, Anxiety, Battle, Church, Defeat, Depression, Faith, Fight, Fill, Firm, Gain, Glad, God, Grave, Hallelujah, Happiness, Heart, Heaven, Hour, Infirmities, Intensity, Jesus, Joy, Keys, Knees, Poetry and Poems, Power, Praise, Satan, Save, Seat, See, Shield, Sing, Taught, Thankfulness, The Lord, Tortured, Uplift, Victory, Ways of Love, Won, Worthy, Yield | Leave a comment

Truth of Dust Roads Taken

Posted on January 27, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Truth of Dust Roads Takenby Michael DoyleSome of the deepest truths are told in fictionEspecially those of times of historical frictionPushed into competition over narrowed resourcesInherent conflicts rise as nature takes its coursesSome conflicts come with visible tags of shameWhere … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ages, Author, Back, Blame, Certainty, Competition, Conflict, Darkness, Dearth, Death, Deeper Thoughts, Deepest Truth, Depression, Deprive, Desperation, Disappear, Dust Bowl, Dust Road, Fiction, Forward, Hard Times, Harshness, Heavy Vintage, Historical Friction, Humanity, Ignorance and Greed, Lasting Impression, Learn, Nature, Pages, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Prophesy, Resources, Rot, Sin, Strength, Survive, Symbolized, Tags of Shame, Taint, Tears, Tenacity, Truth, Virtue, Wrath | Leave a comment

Sharp Edges

Posted on December 28, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Sharp Edgesby Michael DoyleThe last eight years have been like a thrown gauntletBetween the sadness and anger, it’s been a punch in the gutThat serves best to divide this nation and world’s mindsIt is as if we’ve left our optimism … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alcohol, Alientation, America, Anger, Beehind, Depression, Despair, Desperation, Detail, Devotion, Divide, Dream, Drugs, Gauntlet, Hate, Hell, Impression, Mean, Mother's Child, Murder, Murder In Slow Motion, Nation, Optimism, Poetry and Poems, Publicized, Punch, Repair, Sadness, Sharp Edges, Suicide, Thread, Venom Trail, Wonder, World | Leave a comment

Puer Aeternus

Posted on September 14, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Puer Aeternusby Michael DoyleIt seems that from out of nowhere subtleThere’s an argument that has no rebuttalThat all of my desire for the highest riskHas passed my logic by walking tall and briskMy life had always been fairly straight and … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Acceptability, Analytical, Archetypes, Argument, Avoid, Binds, Blocking Development, Bullying, Clearly See, Collective Dreams, Commitment, Complete, Complexity, Conditional, Cronus, Deep Desperation, Degree, Depression, Desire, Detection, Difficult Passages, Divine Child, Divine Comedy, Doomed Relationship, Drama, Eleuisinian Mysteries, Emotional Disintegration, Empty Shell, Europhic Experiences, Expression, Fairy Tales, Fleeting Affection, Forget, Freedom, Greek Mythology, Grip, Grown Up Things, Highest Risk, Hook, Hurt, Iacchus, Inner Child, Insufferable, Intolerable, Joy, Life, Logic, Lost Boy, Mature, Maturity, Metamorphoses, Mirror, Modern Lifee, Moral Reflection, Naivety, narcissistic, Neverland, Now, Nowhere, Nurture, Once Upon A Time, Parenthetical, Paths, Personal Hell, Personal History, Peter, Peter and Wendy, Peter Pan, Play, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Provisional, Psychology, Puer Aeternus, Rebuttal, Regret, Repeat, Restrictions, Seams, See, Shadow of the Puer, Shadows, Stability, Stagnate, Straight and Narrow, Subtle, Tales, Time Passages, Truama, Walking Tall, Wild, Wonder | Leave a comment

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Thought For the Day: Whoever Controls the Volume of Money In Our Country Is Absolute Master of All Industry and Commerce

First Principles: Whoever Controls the Volume of Money In Our Country Is Absolute Master of All Industry and Commerce

And Then Came the Final Fall (For Ozzy)

Always Worthy of Praise

Truth of Dust Roads Taken

Sharp Edges

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