Tag Archives: Lies

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

A Little Time To Kill

Posted on April 7, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

A Little Time To Killby Michael DoyleShe had a little time to killAmong other thingsHe had a need for a big game thrillAnd to find out what tomorrow bringsWith a single shot, she found whatShe was looking for and it … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Big Game, Black, Bought, Confess, Dreams, Fateful, Few, Found, Friend, Guilty, Head, Heart, Hunt, Led, Lies, Listen, Mess, Poetry and Poems, Protagonist, Pull of A Trigger, Screen, Single Shot, Slipping Away, Strike, Three Sheets To the Wind, Thrill, Time to Kill, Tomorrow, Trace of Blood, Truth, View To the Kill, War | Leave a comment

Parasitic Pathogens

Posted on March 3, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Parasitic Pathogensby Michael DoyleParasitic pathogensEffect our societyWhether it’s the lunacy Of the politically correctOr the social constructionThat derives from mass anxietyOf tribalistic social identityDiversity, identity, and equityEach seeks allegiance to its ideologyBad ideas escape the laboratoryWe should never surrender to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Allegiance, Anxiety, De Minimis, Diversity, Epistemology, Equity, Identity, Ideology, Lies, Lunacy, Noise, Nomological, Parasitic Pathogens, Poetry and Poems, Politically Correct, Post-Modernism, Reason, Satire, Social Construction, Social Identity, Society, Steady March, Surrender, Tabula Rasa, Tribal, Truth, Universal Truths, Woke | Leave a comment

First Principles: Falsehood of the Tongue Leads To That of the Heart, and In Time Depraves All Its Good Disposition

Posted on March 3, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“(F)alsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good disposition.” – Thomas Jefferson (1785)

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Believe, Depraves, Falsehood, First Principles, Good Dispositions, Habitual, Heart, Lie, Lies, Permit, Thomas Jefferson, Time, Tongue, Truths | Leave a comment

A Father’s Love

Posted on February 19, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

A Father’s Loveby Michael DoyleA young girl hurtsWith the soul of a womanWhy doesn’t anyone understandA father listens, alert -Doing the best that he canSilently, he offers his handShe dries her eyesWhile he simply listensTo the questions on her mindHe … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged A Father's Love, Beauty, Best, Bond, Challenges, Charm, Coming Up, Cruel, Curled, Deep, Defend, Explain, Eyes, Faithfulness, Folly, Forever, Fussed, Hard, Harm, Heart, His Hand, His Stories, Hold, Know, Laughing Eyes, Lies, Listen, Listening, Love, Mind, Must, Necessary, Once, Once His Little Girl, One Voice, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Promise, Protect, Questions, Said, Sanctuary, Say, Sever, She, Silent, Simple, Soul, Survive, Swerved, Sworn Duty, Teach, Trust, Understand, Undeserved, Withstand, Woman, World, Young Girl | Leave a comment

Beneficial Benediction

Posted on February 11, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Beneficial Benedictionby Michael DoyleIt should really come as no surpriseThat when all anyone ever tells is liesTo tell the truth is a revolutionBut it’s beneficial in our evolutionDon’t fear the monsters in your headMake them afraid of you insteadLike figments … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Afraid, Begun, Benediction, Beneficial, Break, Chains, Comfort, Dream, Evolution, Fear, Figments, Fool's Gold, Future, Glistens, Head, Hold Us Back, Journey, Lies, Listens, Machination, Mast, Monsters, Past, Poetry and Poems, Reason, Regain, Revolution, Rocks, Sail, Shadows, Ship, Sleep, Speaking Truth, Surprise, Tortured Imagination, Truth, Victory, Wall, Won | Leave a comment

A Republic To Be Kept

Posted on February 5, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

A Republic To Be Keptby Michael DoyleStart then as it were with a nameWhat we will call out as informationThen like chess parts to the gameWe provide definition in affirmationWhat does this take in its inflectionTo voice what it is … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Absolute, Achieve, Affirmation, Believe, Blemishes, Chess, Coal, Consequences, Conspiracy, Constitution, Convention, Deception, Definition, Deform, Diamond, Disputation, Divine Geometry, Explanation, Feemen, Forced Hands, Fuzzy, Generation After Generation, Gilded Cage, Glimpse, Inflection, Information, Justice, Kept, Knowledge, Law, Lies, Mercy, Name, Nation, Object, Page, Peace, Plato, Poetry and Poems, Power Corrupts, Price, Prosperity, Reality, Reflection, Republic, Reputation, Rule of Law, See, Signed Name, Slaves, Spirit, Start, Surprise, Tempered, Truth, Tyrant, Voice, Winter, Wisdom | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: None Are More Hopelessly Enslaved Than Those Who Falsely Believe They Are Free

Posted on January 16, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Believe, Depth, Enslaved, Eyes, Falsehoods, Feed, Free, Hopeless, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Lies, Master, Minds, None, Right, Rule, Thought For the Day, Truth, Wrong | Leave a comment

The Maze (Inside Our Minds)

Posted on January 14, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

The Maze (Inside Our Minds)by Michael DoyleConsciousness is who we areEqually near as it is farPast every bit of memoryRather in sadness or reveriePast the loops of improvisationThat edges us toward our creationTeetering there on the edges of madnessAre the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alive, Answer, Believe, Collect, Consciousness, Creation, Dedication, Deep Question, Destruction, Dignity, Edge, Essence, Far, Freedom, Gates, Ghosts, Gifts, Glimpse, Hesitation, Honor, Hour, Humanity, Improvisation, In the End, Liberation, Lies, Life, Loops, Love, Madness, Maze, Meditation, Memory, Mind, Myster, Near, Nothing Else, Open Door, Own, Poetry and Poems, Point, Pristine, Pure, Reconstruction, Reverie, Sadness, Step, Survive, Thought, Truth, View, Vital Key, Will Power, Zest | Leave a comment

Waking From Lies

Posted on January 11, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Waking From Liesby Michael DoyleThe life before usSeen as if waking from liesMaybe it never wasWe awake with opened eyesDanger stands on either sideWhile we choose our confessionWe can fake that it stops at wounded prideOr press forward despite our … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Books, Cast Off, Children, Choose, Confession, Content, Danger, Disappear, Either Side, End of the Story, Every Day, Every Heart, Feel, Feeling Alive, Forget, Hope, Human Beings, Hurt, Kiss, Learn, Lies, Life Before Us, Never Was, Opened Eyes, Poetry and Poems, Predilection, Press Forward, Pretend, Quest, Questioning, Real, Real Meaning, Reverie, Seek Happiness, Seeking Glory, Sermons, Shadows, Sorrow, Stay Near, Tears, Tomorrow, Travel, Vast Distances, Wake, Waking From Lies, Walk, Wounded Pride | Leave a comment