Tag Archives: Happiness

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 →

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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

Road Trips With My Daughters 2024

Posted on July 17, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Road Trips With My Daughters 2024by Michael DoyleThere’s a sort of magic I learned as I grewThat traveling with children reveals anewThe wonders and enchantments there are to findAlong with the souvenirs that serve to remindOne of the places gone … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2024, Adventure, Beach, Believe, Bliss, Children, Creativity, Daughters, Dinner, Families, Glory, Growth, Happiness, Hours, Imagination, Ingenuity, Innovation, Investment, Lake Erie, Mage, Memories, Michigan, Perfection, Place, Plan, Poetry and Poems, Possible, Road Trip, Souvenirs, Story, Summer's Sun, Sunset, The Henry Ford, Travel, Understand, Wonders | Leave a comment

Like A River Overflowing

Posted on June 23, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Like A River Overflowingby Michael DoyleLike a river overflowingMy soul is always growingListen carefully to the Holy SpiritIf you listen close, you will hear itProclaiming the Lord’s blessingThere’s no need for guessingGod is present in our blissIn our joy and … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bliss, Breath, Bring, Close, Comes My Way, Done, Every Breath, Every Day, Everything, God, Good Things, Goodness, Goodness of God, Grow, Guess, Happiness, Hear It, Holy Spirit, Joy, Laughter, Listen, Lord's Blessing, Love, Make, Overflow, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Proclaiming, Promises, Remain, River, Sing, Soul, Tak, The Father, The Son | Leave a comment

The Power In No

Posted on June 20, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

The Power In Noby Michael DoyleIn my life, I’ve been a sonHeld by a mother as second to noneTo my sister, I have been a brotherLoved by her like no otherI’ve been a doting sort of fatherOf my two beautiful, … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alone, Available, Believe, Bitter Fate, Brother, Call, Capability, Daughters, Deserve, Diligent, Do, Doting, Dreams, Dreams and Hopes, Empowerment, Father, Feelings, Find Themselves, Full Capacity, Getting Less, Greatest Power, Happiness, Healing, Home, Inconvenient Truths, Late, Life, Live Up, Love, Love Given, Medical Care, Mirrors, Mother, Neglect, No, Observe, Phone, Poetry and Poems, Power, Pretense, Rocks, Rope, Self-Respect, Shade, Single Sentence, Sister, Son, Wait, Weight, Women | Leave a comment