Tag Archives: Humanity

Lost Plot

Posted on August 6, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Lost Plotby Michael DoyleEverywhere I look, it seems forgotIs it just me, or have we lost the plotI feel it in the murderous laughterThe distant thunder is lost but chases afterSociety’s fracturing psyche is in traumaAs wordlessly we watch all … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alive, Architecture, Around, Atonal, Audience, Bursting Seams, Children, Cohesive Whole, Consideration, Cry, Debussy, Declarative, Drama, Dreams, Dreamscape Logic, Embrace, Ethereal, Everywhere, Fail, Fantasy, Forgot, Found, Freud, Future, Hallucination, Harmony, Hold Onto, Hope, Horror, Humanity, Impression, Laughter, Look, Look Around, Lost, Melody, Murderous, Narrative, Neglect, Nose Dive, Passing Days, Play, Plot, Poetry and Poems, Psyche, Quietly Spoken, Retrospect, Rhapsody, Share, Society, Soul, Structure, Summation, Surface, Surrealism, Swim, The Present, Thunder, Trauma, True, Vision, Watch, Weird, Wordless | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: It Is Easier To Love Humanity As A Whole Than To Love One’s Neighbor

Posted on July 25, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor. … Some of the worst tyrannies of our day genuinely are “vowed” to the service of mankind, yet can function only by pitting neighbor against neighbor. … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Easier, Eric Hoffer, Humanity, Love, Neighbor, Thought For the Day, Whole | Leave a comment

Shape Shifting Ideologies

Posted on July 13, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Shape Shifting Ideologiesby Michael DoyleIn this age of putrid and flaccid philosophy We have turned our faith away from mankindSome feel AI is a better path than ideologiesIn which undefined concepts are a forced bindWe bid the surface farewell and … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Age, AI, AI's Capability, Answers, Asunder, Aware, Better Path, Beware, Binary, Blunder, Burden, Button, Children, Complexity, Conception, Cosmic Hijinks, Decision, Dream, Emperor's New Clothes, Faith, Farewell, Fever Pitch, Forced Bind, Forgotten, Formation, Freedom, Glory, Hail, Humanity, Ideology, Impartial Information, Itch, Kingdom, Know, Launch Date, Life's Serendipity, Mankind, Matter, Miracles, Need, Nerds and Geeks, Ones and Zero, Perfection, Philosophy, Poetry and Poems, Power, Read, Real, Reject, Satisfied, Scratch, Shadows, Shape Shifting, Shatter, Simplest Machine, Simplicity, Source, Surface, System, The End, Thinking, Told, Tossed, Trust, Undefined Concepts, Vaporware, Wall, Yet To Come | Leave a comment

Tithemi

Posted on July 7, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Tithemiby Michael DoyleAs citizens of the kingdom and our nationWe live with tension and fascinationWalking tall in our communityWe live the love of God’s good familyBy doing this, we take our Christian cueAs we study and find God’s good cluesStarting … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adhere, Align, Anchored, Appeal, Bible, Christ's Ambassaodrs, Christian Cue, Christianity, Citzens, Community, Complexity, Debt, Devil's Schemes, Divine, Earth, Faith, Family, Fascination, Forgiveness, God, Good Conscience, Healing Grace, Hearts and Heads, Humanity, Immorality, Jesus, Kingdom, Love, Meaning, Mirror, Nation, Patient, Plan, Poetry and Poems, Presence, Rebellion, Seal, Shining Light, Study, Tension, Tithemi, Toxciity, Unafraid, Understood, Walking Tall | Leave a comment

Cheap Candles Finding Gold

Posted on June 8, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Cheap Candles Finding Goldby Michael DoyleAsk any Rabbi, and you’re sure to findA story or two to give sight to the blindIt’s a whispered rumor illustrating the taleOf how those with pride are sure to fallEven cheap candles can illuminate … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Absence, Alone, Bad Mood, Blind, Cheap Candles, Creation, Dream, Eyes, Fact Pattern, Fall, Find, Find the Point, God, Gold, Hear, Hope, Humanity, Illuminate, Illustrate, Illustrating, Incomprehensible, Intrude, Lessons, Mind's Window, Moments, Mystery, Never Comprehending, Never Know, No Friend, Nothing, Orchestrate, Ordinary Stone, Path, Poetry and Poems, Presence, Present, Pride, Rabbi, Receive, Resent, Rumor, Sages, See, Sight, Solid Rock, Something, Stories, Tablets, Truths, Universe, Unnatural Fact, Vague Talk, Wind, Words | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: What Sunshine Is To Flowers, Smiles Are To Humanity

Posted on May 1, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.” – Joseph Addison, essayist and poet (1 May 1672-1719)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Flowers, Good, Humanity, Inconceivable, Joseph Addison, Life, Pathway, Scattered, Smiles, Sunshine, Thought For the Day, Triffles | Leave a comment

Disciples By Grace

Posted on April 28, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Disciples By Graceby Michael DoyleJesus allows us to questionAccepting this without hesitationThough He was given all authorityHe charges His disciples authenticallyTo go and spread the good newsWhile allowing differing viewsThere was room for strategies and doubtWhile spreading the good news … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ability, Accept, Allow, Authentic, Authority, Charge, Community, Complxity, Disciples, Done, Doubt, Earth, Eternity, Eyes, Forget, God's Power, God's Family, Good News, Gospel, Grace, Great Commission, Gspel, Heart, Hesitation, Hope, Humanity, Hurting Places, Impact, Jesus, Omission, Poetry and Poems, Promise, Promises, Question, Real, Regret, Ripple, Seen, Share, Simplicity, Sorrow, Souls, Strategy, Supernatural Hour, Surrender, Testimony, Today, Tomorrow, Universal Paths, Vision, Witness, Word, Worth, Zeal | Leave a comment

A Rebellion Begins In Questions

Posted on April 6, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

A Rebellion Begins In Questionsby Michael DoyleSome seek truth with hesitationWhile others cannot form the questionsOften, answers arrive with simplicityUntangled as these are from the world’s complexityFaith belongs aside it’s sister, reasonComplementing each within its seasonEach tempers the other as … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Answer, Beckoning Question, Begin, Blend, Boundaries, Complement, Complexity, Control, Conversation, Cultivation, Day One, Define, Destination, Doubt, Earth, Education, Elements, Existence, Faith, First Questions, Flavor, Focus, Form, Garden of Eden, God's Good Purposes, Grand Design, Grow, Hesitation, Hint, Humanity, Journey, Know, Page One, Poetry and Poems, Protect, Question, Questions, Ragged Souls, Reality, Reason, Rebellion, Relationship, Room, Savor, Season, Seek, Serpent, Shape, Simplicity, Sky, Spiritual, Temper, Travel, Truth, Universe, Untangled, Why | Leave a comment

In A World of Thoughts and Other Misgivings

Posted on March 1, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

In A World of Thoughts and Other Misgivingsby Michael DoyleIn a world of thoughts and other misgivingsThere is a lot of hurt in need of forgivingNot just for you or for me, but all it seemsThere are just too many … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accept Less, Act, Artistic, Barbarians, Beholder, Bitter End, Burn, Camera, Certain End, Challenges, Complacency, Conundrum, Could, Deceiving, Decency, Declining Humanity, Disbelieving, Disruption, Do Less, Dreams, Empathy, Evidence, Eyes, Fear, Flame, Forgiving, Fragmented, Good, Harsh, Humanity, Hurt, Indifferent People, Logical, Majorrity, Matter, Media, Mind, Misgivings, Moth, Name, Narrative of Equilibrium, Necessity, Needed Solution, Normality, Poetry and Poems, Presupposed, Quietly, Recognition, Resolution, Scolder, Seems, Sense of Morality, Shadow, Should, Speak Up, Strengthen, Swan-Geese, Swept, Thoughts, True Friend, Verge, Void, World, Wrong | Leave a comment

Against All Hope

Posted on February 23, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Against All Hopeby Michael DoyleAll alone, by myselfI searched on the shelfFor the words to knowJust how I might growTo start over in this testTo come through with the restIn a crash of my identityI lived my life renewing sincerityThere … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Against, Alone, Attention, Burn, Come Through, Conspire, Corrupt, Crash, Crowd, Fake, Fire, Fools, Grow, Hope, Humanity, Humility, Identity, Know, Lie, Look Down, Lost, Madness, Mean, Meek, Mercy, Outcasts, Poetry and Poems, Pretension, Search, Self, Shelf, Sincerity, Test, Truth, Unaware, Vanity, Weakest Length, Weakness, Words | Leave a comment