Tag Archives: Mind

Love Is A Choice

Posted on September 10, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Love Is A Choiceby Michael DoyleSometimes I silently look at youIn awe and wonder at all you doAnd I know, it’s true what some sayI fall deeper for you with each dayFor the good and bad of this voiceI know … Continue reading →

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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

Out of A Writer’s Head

Posted on August 9, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Out of A Writer’s Headby Michael DoyleSome who writeHave fumbled for wordsAs though words aren’t rightEven as they’ve occurredWhether poetry or proseIt’s the words that passIt’s less what one knowsBut what has amassedWords flow best in experienceThen become arranged by … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Amassed, Arrange, Collage, Collates, Enough, Experience, Fits, Flow, Fumble, Head, Knows, Left Behind, Little Bits, Mind, Occurred, Pass, Poetry, Poetry and Prose, Preference, Prose, Right, Right Stuff, Said, Spill Out, Test, Words, Writer, Writer's Head, Wwrite | Leave a comment

Tough Prayers Silently Spoken

Posted on July 14, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Tough Prayers Silently Spokenby Michael DoyleWe need to keep ourselves humbleHowever, the world may tumbleWe need to be on our knees and prayOur hearts are in gratitude and will stayThis is our best good answerAs we live life’s flow like … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Angels, Better, Bible, Big Meaning, Broken, Climate, Dancer, Devil, Differnce, Dignity, Divine Catalyst, Ebb, Eternity, Every Season, Faith, First Response, Flow, Future, God, God's Will, Good Answer, Good Book, Gratitude, Greatest Relatonship, Hearts, His Will, Humble, Jesus, Keep, Knees, Last Resort, Life's Flow, Life's Rain, Live and Know, Mature, Mind, Miracle, Name of the Son, Need To Be, Not Ours, Opened Eyes, Pain, Parables and Prayers, Pass, Peace, Pick God's Side, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Prayer, Presence of the Lord, Retort, Righteous Opportunity, Righteous Reasons, Satan's Snare, Silently Spoken, Small Stories, Stay, Tough Prayers, Tumble, Vision, Wold, Worship | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: The World Is Full of People Who Have Never, Since Childhood, Met an Open Doorway With an Open Mind

Posted on July 11, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.” – E.B. White

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Childhood, Doorway, E.B. White, Full, Mind, Open, People, Thought For the Day, World | Leave a comment

First Principles: Music Gives A Soul To the Universe, Wings To the Mind, Flight To the Imagination and Life To Everything

Posted on July 2, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.” – Plato

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Everything, First Principles, Flight, Imagination, Life, Mind, Music, Plato, Soul, Universe, Wings | Leave a comment

First Principles: You Will Never Do Anything In This World Without Courage. It Is the Greatest Quality of the Mind Next To Honor

Posted on June 29, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.” – Aristotle

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Anything, Aristotle, Courage, First Principles, Greatest Quality, Honor, Mind, Never, World | Leave a comment

Flip Flops and Cold Drinks

Posted on June 22, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Flip Flops and Cold Drinksby Michael DoyleFlip flops and cold drinksCan only be borne of summer daysThis season makes you thinkOf stolen pleasures in so many waysMy favorite flavor, cherry redWas kissable from her lipsSo went the thoughts in my … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Baseball, Borne, Cherry Red, Cold Brunch, Cold Drinks, Dock, Eyes, Fantatsy, Favorite Flavor, Flip Flops, Hands, Happen, Head, Hips, honeyed necatar, Keeps, Kiss, Kissable, Linger, Lips, Love, Magic, Metaphor, Microcosm, Mind, Miss, Mystery, Optimism, Personal History, Poetry and Poems, Season, Smile, Stay, Stolen Pleasures, Summer Days, Summer Girl, Summer Heat, Summer Months, Think, Thoughts, Time Thief, Today, Trace, Ways, Wise | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: The Well Taught Philosophic Mind To All Compassion Gives; Casts Round the World An Equal Eye, and Feels For All That Lives

Posted on June 20, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“The well taught philosophic mind / To all compassion gives; / Casts round the world an equal eye, / And feels for all that lives.” – Anna Laetitia Barbauld, poet, essayist, and editor (20 Jun 1743-1825)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged All That Lives, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Compaasion, Compassion, Equal Eye, Feel, Mind, Philosophic, Thought For the Day, Well Taught, World | Leave a comment

Tomorrow From Yesterday

Posted on May 20, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Tomorrow From Yesterdayby Michael DoyleI’m listening to the memoriesI’m studying all the melodiesI’m listening to a lifetime of soundsQuietly mesmerized by what I’ve foundGoing all the way back to 1965It’s almost before I was aliveHere on the sonic avenue of … Continue reading →

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