Tag Archives: Disorder

Thought For the Day: To Clasp the Hands In Prayer Is the Beginning of An Uprising Against the Disorder of the World

Posted on December 10, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.” – Karl Barth

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Happy Death Day!

Posted on March 30, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Happy Death Day!by Michael DoyleSplitting hangover starts the dayAgain and again in instant replayYou’re certain you have been here beforeFrom what’s seen, you don’t need thinking any moreDespite appearances, you won’t feel better tomorrowYour two choices are either fear or … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: Our Memories Are Card Indexes Consulted and Then Returned In Disorder By Authorities Whom We Do Not Control

Posted on September 10, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.” – Cyril Connolly, critic and editor (10 Sep 1903-1974)

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Making Moments Memories

Posted on January 19, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Making Moments Memoriesby Michael DoyleIt’s the momentsNot selfies that we needIn these times that aren’t contentBut from these, we can be freedLike mental orgasmsCrept up on with enthusiasmNot the dull day of egoThat add up to practically zeroOne photo after … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alone, Amuck, Banality, Beauty and Kindness, Center, Complete, Connection, Content, Criminalize, Days, Dies, Direction, Disorder, Dull Day, Ego, Endless, Endure, Enthusiasm, Equal, Ever After, Every Breath and Sigh, Every Life, Exterminate, Eyes, Family, Finality, Freed, Friends, Grab Us A Memory, Grasp, Holy, Humanity, Ignore, Intimacy, Joy Thieves, Laugh, Laughter, Less Is More, Life More Livable, Life Reveals, Lifeless, Living In Memory, Memories, Mental Orgasms, Moments, Music, Need, Onslaught, Opened, Poetry and Poems, Potential, Sacred, Scenes of Beauty, Self, Selfies, Smile, Steal, Tears, Timeless, Times, Times of Humor, Tiny Moments, True, Unforgettable, Vital, Wonder, Words, Zero | Leave a comment

An Indictment of the 20th Century

Posted on March 18, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

We have lived through the bloodiest and cruelest century of mankind’s history. God surely must be crying. An Indictment of the 20th Century by Michael Doyle Einstein insisted God did not play with dice While other insisted God needed no … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 20th Century, Advice, Blood, Breakdown, Breath, Calamity, Certainty, Change, Civility, Claim, Clash, Communism, Cruel, Cry, Culture, Destruction, Diametric, Dice, Dim, Disorder, Einstein, Face, Fascism, Function, Genocide, God, Good, History, Homocide, Humanity, Indictment, Legacy, Level, Litany, Lives, Mankind, Mayhem, Modernity, Morality, Need, New, Old, Opposition, Outrage, Pandemic, Pessimism, Photograph, Pillars, Poem, Poetry, Prospect, Revolutionaries, Sense, Sensibility, Socialism, Society, Souls, Tearful, Travesty, Twin, World War Two | Leave a comment

Annihilation of Meaning

Posted on April 24, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

Annihilation of Meaning by Michael Romani Woman seeks to question meaning itself As something organic and from a shelf An encroachment consuming some entirely And leaving others grieving, angry and lonely The fixity of womanhood has its own complexity But, … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Annihiliation, Bontany, Complex, Curious, Disorder, Earth, Fixity, Hearth, Humanity, Meaning, Organic, Original Sin, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Woman | Leave a comment

First Principles: Right Reason and Natural Law Lead to Perfect Freedom

Posted on January 9, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“The most perfect freedom consists in obeying the dictates of right reason, and submitting to natural law. When a man goes beyond or contrary to the law of nature and reason, he becomes the slave of base passions and vile … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Truest Civility Requires Following God’s Ways

Posted on October 3, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe.” —James Madison (1785) I won’t sugar coat this one. The lack of adherence to God’s … Continue reading →

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Mistress of Agony

Posted on July 12, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

Mistress of Agony by Michael Romani Death knows no finality At the hands of the mistress of agony Rising up from the primordial ooze A rite of passage you did not choose Here we have no distanced length Relying on … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems, Uncategorized | Tagged Agony, Concerns, Degradation, Disorder, Mistress, Personality, Poetry, Stength, Weakness | Leave a comment