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Nature and Dignity Earned

Posted on June 4, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Nature and Dignity Earnedby Michael DoyleThere’s a quiet in natureThat you won’t find in the cityIt helps you to think and matureLearning what is and isn’t prettyThis is especially true of the soulAs you learn the value of self-controlBeing where … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Beauty, Born To Be, Chance, Circumstance, City, Critical Moments, Danger, Decide, Deserve, Dignity Earned, Discern, Experience, Eyes, Face-To-Face, Felt, Give, Grace, Heart, Humility, Imprint, Known, Learn, Live, Lives, Master Ourselves, Mature, Meant, Nature, Observe, Outcome, Paths, Places, Poetry and Poems, Pretty, Quiet, See, Self-Control, Shown, Soul, Stars, Start, Step, Teach, Think, Traces, True, Value, Wish | Leave a comment

In This Love’s Connection

Posted on May 1, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

In This Love’s Connectionby Michael DoyleWhat’s it going to be likeThe moment that we touchWhen the electricity reveals usWill it be too muchWhen you think of meWill I feel it in my soulWe know that it’s supposed to beAs my … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Believe, Bow, Box, Calling, Connection, Constellations, Decision, Desire, Direction, Down To the Wire, Dreams, Electricity, Falling, Feel, Feeling, Fire, Free, Froever, Give, God, God's Power, Grace, Hand, Heart, Hide, Higher, Hour, Imagine, Inside, Less Than Clever, Life, Live, Long, Love, Love's Connection, Meant, Meet, Moment, Poem, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Reach, Reveal, Rock, Roll, Shake, Shaking In My Boots, Soul, Strong, Supposed To Be, Surprised, Think, Touch, Truth | Leave a comment

First Principles: Knowledge Will Forever Govern Ignorance: And A People Who Mean To Be Their Own Governors, Must Arm Themselves With the Power Which Knowledge Gives

Posted on April 13, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.” – James Madison, Correspondence to W.T. Barry (August 4, 1822)

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Adequate Power, Arm, First Principles, Forever, Give, Govern, Ignorance, James Madison, Knowledge, Mean, Own Governors, People | Leave a comment

Spare Me the Homilies

Posted on April 3, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Spare Me the Homiliesby Michael DoyleWhen it happens thatSomeone needs to stay behindIt’s just a natural factThat it is usually my kindIt’s not thatWe are somehow not afraidIt’s just a natural factWe understand the plans madeOur aim is maybe a … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged A Bit Crazy, Aim, Consumed, Desire, Downtrodden, Dreams, Eyes, Families, Free, Give, Given All, Happens, Higher, Homilies, Live, Live To Fight Another DAy, Love, Natural Fact, Not Afraid, Not That, Pay, Payment, Plans Made, Poetry and Poems, Price, Rejoice, Return, Safety, Say, Sorrow, Spare Me, Stay Behind, Surpass, Those Who Yet Live, Thoughts, Tomorrow, Understand, Usually My Kind | Leave a comment

The Framing of Frida

Posted on March 29, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

The Framing of Fridaby Michael DoyleStains of colors come aliveThese help one to liveWe are happy as we arriveFinding life giving what it has to giveWe run as fast as the breezeThat whisper lessons under backyard treesSome are laughing at … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, Alive, Arrive, Art, Artistic Light, Backyard Trees, Brave Soul, Breath, Breeze, Bringing Life, Colors, Conflict, Crash, Crying, Cycles of Grief, Decipher, Definititions, Defy, Different Way, Dignity, Drab Grays, Drawn, Drying, Earhtly, Exceed, Exceeed, Find, Flights of Imagination, Frame, frida, Frida Kahlo, Give, Good, Green Light, Grow, Happy, Happy Game, Hesitation, History, Irreverent, Laugh, Laughter, Lesson, Lies, Life, Limits, Lived, Love, Magenta, Mangle, Mexico, Minds, Moments, Mystery, Oils, Old Mexico, Painting, Pass, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Question, Raw Scent, Rebellion, Red, Relief, Remain, Rosary, Run, Said, Same, Sheerest Sensuality, Sight, Stains, Suffered Wounds, Tears, The Bible, The Cachuchas, The World, Tragic Reality, Truth, Undderstood, Water Colors, Whisper, World of Colors, Years | Leave a comment

A Trinity Moment Revealed

Posted on March 3, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

A Trinity Moment Revealedby Michael DoyleThe church’s smile has been metNever missing a generation yetIt’s okay to share the laughterAs we prepare for the here ever afterThe yoke we put on, we must recallGives us more than it takes after … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abraham, Approach, Baptized, Bible, Born From Women, Ceremonial Cleaning, Change of Mind, Character, Christ, Church, Deceit, Define, Devise, Dream Team, Elias, Elijah, Ending Game, Fire, Freed, Generation, Give, God, Here Ever After, Holy Spirit, Jesus, John the Baptist, Laughter, Main Street, Message, Messiah, Moment, Moses, Others, Poetry and Poems, Priestly Line, Prophesized, Prophetic, Rearrange, Recall, Repentance, Revealed, Rough Around the Edges, Scripture, Share, Smile, Testimonial, Torn, Trinity, Vipers, Worn, Yoke | Leave a comment

Minding God’s Own Business

Posted on February 26, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Minding God’s Own Businessby Michael DoyleIt’s how it is that we should liveWe find that God has work to giveIn an echo of principles, we need clarityOf what is necessary to enable us to seeTo lack in clarity is an … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ability, Approach, Ark, Bible, Biblical Verbs, Blessings, Blindness, Boundaries, Burden, Business, Carry, Christ, Christianity, Clarity, Complication, Creation, Dancer, Depth, Discern, Dysfunction, Earn, Easy Path, Echo of Principles, Egypt, Enable, Ethics, Exaggerate, Exhausted People, Faith, Fallen Humanity, Fate, Forgiven, Free, Function, Give, Given, Given By Grace, God, Godly Freedom, Godly Ways, Grave, Heart, Heavy Lifting, Hurt, Impulse, Jesus, Kingdom, Least Resistance, Lifetime, Live, Living Start, Love, Marathon, March, Margins, Mark, Meet and Exceed, Mind, Necessary, Need, Onset, Pace, Path, Persistence, Poetry and Poems, Reach Out, Relationship, Rely On, Rest, Rhythm, Righteous Worship, Rules, Safety, Salvation, See, Sight, Snail, Society, Solution, Sprint, Strife, Sustainable, Sustainable Path, Ten Commandments, Test, Toxicity, Trap, Unkind, Weight, Work, Yoke of Evil | Leave a comment

A Wood Dragon’s Cosmology

Posted on February 9, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

A Wood Dragon’s Cosmologyby Michael DoyleThe time spent quietly comes to its endIt’s been another year of pleasant enough livingHaving found my best habits and friendsAnd it has been another year of peacefully givingBut in truth it has been yet … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Balance, Bestiary, Center, Chinese Mythology, Confidence, Contain, Cosmology, Desire, Determination, Diffidence, Diplomacy, Divinity, Dreams, Elements, End, Eternity, Expansion, Eyes, Fifth Cardinal Direction, Flight, Friends, Future, Gentle Rain, Give, Green Dragon, Habits, Imagination, Infinite, Journey, Legacy, Mast, Mist, Nature Deity, Night, Pass, Peace, Perfect Harmony, Philosophy, Phoenix, Poetry and Poems, Power, Rebirth, Sail, Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, Self-Worth, Sky, Spring, Time, Tree, Truth, Weary World, Winds, Wood Dragon, Worry, Yang, Year, Year of the Wood Dragon, Yin | Leave a comment

Loving Enough For Two

Posted on January 23, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Loving Enough For Twoby Michael DoyleIt was easy enough to feel slightedAs off in the distance, he sightedEnough to evidence his dreams shatteringAs her coldness set his teeth chatteringHe hadn’t wanted to open up and hear itThat there was a … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Acknowledgment, Admiration, Adoration, Basket, Beyond Good and Evil, Birth of Love, Blessed, Blind, Character, Coldness, Contest, Count the Ways, Critical Eyes, Crystalize, Delight, Disparageer, Doubt, Easy Enough, Evidence, Fear, Give, Hear, Hope, Impluasibility, Impossibility, Lines, Love, Loving Enough, Merit, Mind, Mirror, Misstep, Monogamy, Obvious, Optimist, Permanent, Persevere, Poetry and Poems, Reasons, Restlessness, Shine, Sighted, Sights, Signs, Simple Plot, Slighted, Solitude, The Happy Few, Theory, Thought, Trapped, Twilight, Two, Well Spring, Whim, Wrong or Right | Leave a comment

One By One

Posted on January 3, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

One By Oneby Michael DoyleWe work the problemsOne by oneOne at a timeThat’s how it’s doneWe face the worldOne step at a timeRemaining undefeatedWe struggle for primeThe point of no returnComes fast as we learnThere’s no turning backFrom the life … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All We Got, Blood, Done, Down and Dirty, Earn, Face, Fast, Fight, Forgot, Give, Good, Hard, Hit, Hurt, Laugh, Learn, Life, Mud, Never Mind, No Turning Back, One By One, Poetry and Poems, Point of No Return, Prime, Problem, Right, Roll, Step, Struggle, Swing, Time, Undefeated, Understood, Win Or Lose, Work, World | Leave a comment