Tag Archives: Existence

The Wonderous California Coast

Posted on May 24, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

The Wonderous California Coastby Michael DoyleWe are escorted by dolphin laughterComing from guardians who are afterThe company that they find in playAlong the bow of our boat, much like yesterdayWhen mighty Calypso sailed the coastal deepsAlong the coral reefs to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alto, Aquarium, Baja, Battle, Beauty, biodiversity, Blind, Blue Planet, Blue Skies, Cacti, California Coast, Calypso, Capacity, Chart, Coastal Deep, Company, Coral Reef, Distinction, Divers, Dolphin, Drops of Water, Efficient, Escort, Existence, Extinction, Fault, Feed, Find, Forest, George Waashington, Guardians, Heart Break, Imperil, Jouney, Kelp Bed, Knowledge, Laughter, Live, Love, Mankind, Mexico, Nature, Noses, Notion, Oblivious, Ocean World, One Water System, Play, Poetry and Poems, Point, Pretense, Protection, San Jose Island, Scarcity, Sea of Cortez, Sequoia, Squid, Sun, Survival, Sustainability, Time, Water, Wonderous, World Apart, Wounded Heart | Leave a comment

Happy Palm Sunday 2023

Posted on April 2, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

As we begin this Holy Week, I am blessed to have the presence of my two daughters that I love more than all the world. God blessed my ex-wife and I with their lives being shared with us and it … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Beauty, Blessed, Blossom, Compassion, Daughters, Deepest lesson, Different, Earthly Plane, Existence, God, Grace, Happy Palm Sunday 2023, Holy Week, Joy, Love, Moment, Reflect, Reflection, Share, Thought For the Day, Unique Attributes, Young Ladies | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: The State Represents Violence In A Concentrated and Organized Form

Posted on December 4, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“The state represents violence in a concentrated and organized form. The individual has a soul, but as the state is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.” – Mahatma Mohandas … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Concentrated, Existence, Form, Individual, Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandh, Organized, Soul, Soulless Machine, The State, Thought For the Day, Violence, Weaned | 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

Thought For the Day: Vocations Which We Wanted To Pursue, But Didn’t, Bleed, Like Colors, On the Whole of Our Existence

Posted on May 20, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn’t, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.” -Honore de Balzac, novelist (20 May 1799-1850)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Bleed, Colors, Existence, Honore de Balzac, Pursue, Thought For the Day, Vocations, Want, Whole | Leave a comment

In A Hermitage of Petrified Words

Posted on February 10, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

In A Hermitage of Petrified Wordsby Michael DoyleLike a forest well petrifiedBy minerals filling in for lifeA poet thinks in his hermitageDreaming about things to study onThere’s an abandonment of conjunctionWhen like Chomsky, language ceases to functionWe drift like lyrics … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abandonment, Attack, Bliss, Bygone Eras, Certainty, Chomsky, Discriminate, Dreaming, Emblems, Emptiness, Existence, Fate, Function, Gambit, Hermitage, History, Immutable Stillness, Krazy Glue, Language, Linguistic, Lyrics, Meaning, Minerals, Modern Times, Perfection, Perpretual, Petrified, Petrified Forests, Poet, Poetry and Poems, Politically Aggressive, Resistance, Sterile, Study, Survivor, Truth of Time, Understanding, Verbs, Webster, Words | Leave a comment

In Honor and Remembrance of Martin Luther King, Jr., Day

Posted on January 17, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“If peace means a willingness to be exploited economically, dominated politically, humiliated and segregated, I don’t want peace. If peace means being complacently adjusted to a deadening status quo, I don’t want peace. If peace means keeping my mouth shut … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Absence of Conflict, Adjust, All People, Complacent, Deaden, Dominated, Economic, Existence, Exploited, Honor, Humiliated, Justice, Martin Luther King Jr., Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Peace, Politically, Remembrance, Segregated, Status Quo, Thought For the Day, When Peace Becomes Obnoxious, Willingness | Leave a comment

First Principles: The General Principles On Which the Fathers Achieved Independence Were the General Principles of Christianity

Posted on December 27, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. I will avow that I then believed, and now believe, that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Ancient, Attributes of God, Avow, Believe, Christian Religion, Christianity, Equity, Eternal, Existence, First Principles, General Principles, Humanity, Immutable, Independence, John Adams, Modern, The Fathers, Times, Virtue, Wisdom | Leave a comment

Self Awareness Penned In Resurrection

Posted on December 23, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Self Awareness Penned In Resurrectionby Michael DoyleA dull cubicle’s existence jabsLeaving the feel of bruising hopelessnessPondering the future’s uncertaintyLife’s lemons squeezed with a twist of darknessIt’s an endlessly looped sense of stuckTrapped inside a mental simulationWith crushing inertia’s dominant luckSetting … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adoration, Backward, Bliss, Charm, Chemistry, Clickbait, Corporate World, Creativitiy, Cubicle, Cynicism, Darnkness, Disarm, Distraction, Emotional Hooks, Exhaustion, Existence, Foundation, Free Agency, Hoplessness, Inertia, Intense, Introspection, Legacy, Looped, Lore, Mental Simulation, Millennials, Pen, Philosophy, Poetry and Poems, Pretenses, Provocative, Reboot Culture, Resurrection, Savagery, Self Awareness, Sentimental, Slate, Stain, Stake, Torment, Treadmill, True Affection, Uncertainty, Unending Din | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: I Am Grateful For What I Am and Have. My Thanksgiving Is Perpetual.

Posted on November 25, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite – only a sense of existence. Well, anything for variety. I am ready to try this … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Am and Have, Bank, Breath, Content, Definite, Enjoyment, Existence, Grateful, Henry David Thoreau, Indefinite Riches, Laugh, Perpetual, Possession, Sweet, Thanksgiving, Think, Thought For the Day, Variety, Wealth | Leave a comment