Tag Archives: Happiness

First Principles: By Our Form of Government, the Christian Religion Is the Established Religion

Posted on January 30, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people. By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Christian Religion, Equal Footing, Established Religion, First Principles, Form of Government, Government, Happiness, Peace and Good Order, Protection, Public Concern, Religion, Religious Liberty, Runkel v. Winemiller (1799), Safety, Samuel Chase, Sects and Denominations of Christians, The People | Leave a comment

If You Should Let Go

Posted on January 16, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

If You Should Let Goby Michael DoyleBelieveJust believeA little bit longerHold OnJust hold onA little bit strongerTo that love in your soulWhen your passion gives up controlEven when you feel down and outThis is the only thing you can’t doubtYou … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Afraid, Alone, Alone and Afraid, Art, Believe, Best Fight, Bones, Cheek, Closing In, Cold and Dark, Control, Cry, Doubt, Down and Out, Echoes, Eyes, Eyes Wide Open, Feel, Happiness, Hide, Hold On, Image, Inside, Just This Side of Sane, Let Go, Life, Longer, Love, Love Again, Love Song, Miss, Moon Above, Moonlight, Morning, Pain, Passion, Photography, Plans Made, Poetry and Poems, Praying To God, Radio, Recount, Someone, Somewhere, Soul, Speak, Special Place, Stronger, Tears, Wake, Wonder, Yearn | Leave a comment

A Jingle Bell Sort of Love

Posted on December 10, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

A Jingle Bell Sort of Loveby Michael DoyleThe city lights shine so brightBringing a little Christmas to my nightThere’s joy in how the sleigh bells ringAnd I love the happy way the children singStill, life happens as it doesThere’s no … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alone, Blessed, Bright, Care, Carrying On, Children, Chords, Christmas, Christmas S;pirit, Christmas Tree, City Lights, Close, Does, Factually, Fall In Love, Family, Feel, Feeling Blue, Game, Gathered, Gone, Hand of God, Hanging On, Happiness, Happy Ending, Impossible Deadlines, Jangle, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bells, Joy, Kept, Life, Living, Love, Magic, Moving On, Music, Night, Poetry and Poems, Promises Made, Right Side, Rumor, Same, Sing, Sleigh Bells, Smile, Snowy Air, Tears, Time, True, Wept, Winning, Wish | Leave a comment

Places Forms Voice

Posted on November 30, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Place Forms Voiceby Michael DoyleIt’s said that place forms voiceEven when it’s not of our choiceIn my life, I’ve traveled aroundAnd this is what I, too, have foundThis is especially true of poetryEach of us is formed by our countryIt’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Allow, Believe, Can, Changes, Choice, Circumstance, Clogged, Constant, Country, Desitny, Dreams, Fear, Feet, First Step, Found, Ground, Happiness, Impossible, Journey, Life, Life's Dance, Limited, Make, Master, Moonbeams, Need, Places, Plunge In, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Possible, Read, Space, Success, Sun, Thoughts, Time, Trace, Travel, Trrap, True, Understand, Voice, Words | Leave a comment

On Hunt For the Moments

Posted on November 20, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

On Hunt For the Momentsby Michael DoyleIn my life’s recent historyI have written tons of poetryIn happiness and in tormentI find myself on the hunt for momentsWith x-ray eyes for what is rightI approach the world in second sightFor the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Atom, Attempt, Break, Comprehend, Constant Transformation, Contempt, Course Correction, Dreams, Fear, Feel, Formed Myself, Genuine, Godspell, Gospel, Happiness, Hatred, Heart, History, Hope, Hunt, Judas, Little Pictures, Meant, Moments, Mumble, My Life, Negotiated Life, Peace and Strife, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Redemption, Rise Above, Second Sight, Shocker, Start, Street Prophet, Stumble, Tainted Soul, The Hurt Locker, Torment, Translation, Unmasked, Vain, Waterfall, Whole, World's Pain, X-Ray Eyes | Leave a comment

Just In Case

Posted on September 13, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Just In Caseby Michael DoyleI wake up feeling wonderfulAt the thought that you’re beautifulI lay there and slowly traceYour skin and the smile on your faceThinking to myself that all I knowIs the satisfaction of your glowAs I watch our … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All, Awake, Bare, Base, Beautiful, Behind, Case, Communication, Dream, Embrace, Enter, Face, Feeling, Flame, Follow, Glow, Happiness, I Will Always Love You, Invitation, Just In Case, Know, Look, Love, Memoreis, Mind, Myself, Poetry and Poems, Quiet, Said, Satisfaction, Shadows, Share, Skin, Sleep, Smile, Tall, Tell, Think, Thought, Thoughts, Time, Today, Tomorrow, Trace, Wake, Watch, Whisper, Wonderful, Yesterday | Leave a comment

First Principles: Neither the Wisest Constitution Nor the Wisest Laws Will Secure the Liberty and Happiness of A People Whose Manners Are Universally Corrupt

Posted on September 6, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.” – Samuel Adams (1749)

Posted in First Principles | Tagged First Principles, Happiness, Laws, Liberty, manners, Neither, Samuel Adams, Secure, Universally Corrupt, Wisest Constitution | 1 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

Returned To the Sea

Posted on August 15, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Returned To the Seaby Michael DoyleAt the ends of bargains madeStormy seas leave reason to be afraidWondering where it is that one standsAnd if a day is as profitable as it demandsProfits are calculated as life’s rewardAs a new bay … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Afraid, Bargain, Bitterness, Care, Dead, Death, Demands, Ends of Bargains, Fake, False Moves, Given, Great Truths, Happiness, Honest Man, Hope, Legacies, Manufactured, Mermaids, Monuments, Pirate, Pirate's Life, Poetry and Poems, Profitable, Razor's Edge, Regret, Return, Sea, Sorrow, Step, Stormy Seas, Swallo, Tales, Taste, Tenderness, The Ocean, The Sea, Toll, Tomorrow, Treasure, Wonder | Leave a comment

Reality Bytes On An Earlier Hillbilly Sandwich

Posted on July 22, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Reality Bytes On An Earlier Hillbilly Sandwichby Michael DoyleCounterculture shined through the city’s veilGiving a glimpse of Eden through the fires of HellHarsh in its repressive bits of curdled adviceDreamers managed to paint their fleeting paradiseThe torches of an artistic … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Advice, Apocalyptic Noise, Bliss, Bytes, Chocolate Cherry Coffee, City, Clever, Counterculture, Dark Star, Different, Distraction, Door, Dreamers, Dreams, Eden, Ending, Falling In Love, Fear and Greed, Fires of Hell, Focus, Forever, Future, Glimpse, Happiness, Harsh, Hillbilly, Irreverent, Know, Knowing All, Lack, Life, Miss, Narcissistic Ego, Nurture, Pages, Paradise, Poetry and Poems, Presumptions, Read, Reality, Reborn, Sacred Cow, See, Serenity, Strife, The Enlightened, Torches, Veil, Vision, Waking, Words | Leave a comment