Tag Archives: Good and Evil

In the Shadows

Posted on October 31, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

In the Shadowsby Michael DoyleThe beginning was an image of allA modern miracle held in mystified aweUntil life’s illusion lost its intensityAnd the desire for death grew in complexityThe face of horror pulls at mankindAs though in this darkness we … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All, Angst, Audience, Awe, Beginning, Big Bang, Blood, Book of Satan, Charmingly Perverse, Children of the Night, Claw, Complexity, Creation and Destruction, Damnation, Darkness, Death, Desires, Diabolical Forces, Eternal Punishment, Face of Horror, Fear, Gasp, Good and Evil, Halloween, Image, Imagination, Immorality, Intensity, Joined, Leaves, Life's Illusion, Mankind, Mephisto, Metropolis, Mirrored Twin, Modern Miracle, Need, Night, Persevere, Plays For Laughs, Poetry and Poems, Power of Light, Protection, Proximity, Read, Rise, Rotting Glory, Salvation, Shadow, Shadows, Spirit of Darkness, Story, Substance, Talisman, Tears, The Crucifix, Together, Tread, Universe | Leave a comment

Saturday At the Movies: Schindler’s List

Posted on January 6, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

In this age of growing antisemiticsm, it is fitting that Better Together Forever is holding a viewing of the award winning Schindler’s List. This film serves as a stark reminder of the Holocaust and those who attempted their best to … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Academy Awards, Antisemiticsm, Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, Better Together Forever, Blood of the Jewish People, Bookend, Color, Development, Film, Ghetto, Good and Evil, Historical Drama, History, Holocaust, Hop, Iconic, Innocence, Itzhak Perlman, John Williams, Library of Congress, Life Without Light, May We Never Forget, Morality, Oskar Schindler, Oyfn Pripetshik ((On the Cooking Stove), Red, Red Coat, Sabbath Candles, Saturday At the Movies, Schindler's Ark, Schindler's List, Shoah, Steven Spielberg, Symbolism, Thomas Keneally, Thought For the Day, United States National Film Registry, Violin | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: The Line Dividing Good and Evil Cuts Through the Heart of Every Human Being

Posted on December 11, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Commit, Destroy, Evil Deeds, Evil People, Good and Evil, Heart, Human Being, Line Dividing, Necessary, Seaprate, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

Rituals

Posted on July 2, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Ritualsby Michael DoyleRitualsTaken in sequenceProtect us from harmVisuals Seemingly in coincidenceHave their illustrious charmsEvery step takenTo shake the forsakenTo hunt or to be huntedHead on the swivel; fear bluntedTo move beyond first baseA destiny to embraceCaught in a game of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ashes, Betray, Cemetaries, Charms, Coincidence, Commentaries, Death, Embrace, Fast, First Base, Flow, Forsaken, Good and Evil, Hunt, Kiss, Leading With A Smile, Lessons, Lies, Lost Religion, Miss, Overheard, Past, Poetry and Poems, Protect, Ready, Redemption, Rituals, Sequence, Step, Surprise, Swivel, Thoughts, Undertow, Visuals, Worth | Leave a comment

Schweitzer’s Legacy

Posted on January 26, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Schweitzer’s Legacyby Michael DoyleWhat if it wasThat we’re not meant for strifeBut rather, insteadTo live in reverence for life?Would we really needTo argue the unnecessary whyOf who decidedThe creation of the hippopotami?Or, is it quite enoughTo know that we’ve a … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Albert Schweitzer, Amoral Drive, Approached, Argue, As If We Have never Discerned, Awe, Biggest Lesson, Blown Free, Caging In, Cheap Attempts, Cherish Life, Considered, Creation, Creativity, Deny Humanity, Dicing Atoms, Divinity, Dug Out Canoe, Echo, Enfeebled Terror, Ethically Needed, Ever Outward, Failing, Forgotten, Forms, Free Spirits, Good and Evil, Goodness, Hatefilled, Hippopotami, Inattention, Innocents Die, Instruction, Inward, Its Own Debate, Keep, Last Remaining Tear, Late Great, Learn From History, Legacy, Lessons Unlearned, Life, Mediocrity, Mindless, Modern History, More Deliberate, Moving and Reaching, Need, Never Be Allowed, Not Be Mastered By Techno;logy, Not By Thoughtfulness, Not Meant For Strife, Our Destruction, Our Own Gods, Our Own Mass Destruction, Paint of Error, Persist, Perversity, Poetry and Poems, Pretending At Wisdom, Principled, Probably Someone Else, Quest To Become, Quite Enough, Reactivity, Recall, Remembering Reverence, Retain Our Control, Right To Exist, Schweitzer, Someone Say, Spawned, Splashed, Stand In the Way, Story Played, Strength, Taught, Technology, There's No Way Out of Here, Thought I Heard, Truth of All, Vacuous Chat, We, What If It was, Who Decided, Why, Wiped Away, Wiser | Leave a comment

Darkness Shapes the Hearts

Posted on October 21, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Darkness Shapes the Heartsby Michael DoylePutin sits as another dictator in a lineCertain his autocratic rule is blessed as divineThis has been the slavery of Russia’s serfdomWith brutality reigning supreme in this kingdomFor five thousand years, we’ve known epilepsy As … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Affliction, Ashen, Autocratic Rule, Believe, Betrayer, Blessed, Brothers Karamazov, Canker, Chained, Christianity, Civil Liberty, Cloak, Coincidence, Creativity, Cruelty, Dark Place, Darkness, Death, Definition, Demons, Dictator, Disease, Divine, Dostoevsky, Dubious Reputatin, Enigma, Epilepsy, Exceed, Father Zosima, Fight, Fool's Game, Freedoms, God Above, Good and Evil, Grasp, Greatest Miracle, Heart, Heresy, Holy, Initiation, Light, Line, Love, Masses, Mismatch, Mystery, Mysticism, Opiate, Photograph, Poem, Poietry, Preach, Protagonist, Pure, Putin, Questions, Quiet, Reason, Religion, Revolutionary, Riot, Russia, Russian Nation, Russian Soul, Serfdom, Shadow, Shape, Slavery, Super-Impose, Trappings, Treason, Unsure, Violence, Wastrel, Western Civilization, Wicked, Writer | Leave a comment

Fruit of Devine

Posted on April 24, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

There are many theories on what the forbidden fruit might have been. On the 24th day of NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo 2020, the optional prompt is to write about a particular fruit of our choice. Fruit of Devine by Michael Doyle Of every … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2020, Adam, Apple, Believe, Days, Define, Deity, Devine, Die, Drip, Eat, Fate, Fruit, Fruit of Grape, Good and Evil, Goodness, Grape Wine, Grieve, Holy Purposes, Immorality, Indulgence, Knowledge, Mallum, Man, Mortality, NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo, Noah, Path, Photograph, Pleasure, Poem, Poetry, Rectify, Sin, Sip, Splendor, Throat, Treasure, Trick, Unholy, Verity, Wine, Zohar | Leave a comment

Duality Revisited

Posted on March 19, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Imagine a conversation between Dr. Jeckyll and Dr. Frankenstein on their lifework… Duality Revisited by Michael Romani In the duality That we are There’s an active pull Never in equality Out of balance just so far Trampled by the running … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Balance, Believe, Dark and Light, Day and Night, Deceive, Dr. Jeckyll, Dual, Duality, Fear, Frankenstein, Good and Evil, Hatred and Love, Miss, Modern, Mutuality, Obscene, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Primeval, Pull, Pure, Trample, Truth | Leave a comment