Tag Archives: Modernity

In the Shadows of Cheerfulness

Posted on August 9, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

In the Shadows of Cheerfulnessby Michael DoyleOn the edge of zero There’s a shadowy historyIn land of anti-heroesIs there any real mysteryThat someone wants to stripThe aura of wonderfulnessIn a lustful cynical gripBringing a darkness to cheerfulnessA style of loving … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anti-Heroes, Building Lives, Cheerfulness, Cynical Grip, Darkness, Deception, Double, Edge, Falsity, Flimsy, Full Face, Hint of Grace, Knife Edge, Loving Kindness, Middle Ages, Moderate Upticks, Modernity, Modest Feelings, Mystery, Optimism, Pessimism, Poetry and Poems, Pressure, Protect and Serve, Shadows, Shadowy History, Strip, Substance, Surface, Times of Trouble, Trust, Twist, Willful Blindness, Wonderfulness, Zero | Leave a comment

Magical Realism

Posted on October 1, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Magical Realismby Michael DoyleArt and thought are productsOf their own serial momentsPop culture and serious artAre both expressions of the heartTugged down into the complex mazeOf primeval strugglesBetween those who naval gazeAnd those who merely bungleMagical realism shines its conceitAs … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abstract, Accepted Mystery, Art and Thought, Aspirations, At Home, Bungle, Conceit, Concrete Paths, Conspiracy Theorists, Deceit, Deduction, Devastation, Discarded History, Electric Salon, Ethics, Fantasy of Life, Fascination, Flaky, Flow, Geography, Habitual, Half Shaped, Heart, Housewives, Lack, Landscape, Lives, Magical Realism, Maze, Modernity, Narrative, Naval Gaze, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Pop Culture, Primeval, Products, Representation, Romantic, Seduction, Serial Moments, Serious Art, Ships, Show, Spiritual, Story Engine, Tugged Down, Universe | Leave a comment

Holding On to Legacy

Posted on September 23, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Holding On to Legacyby Michael DoyleThere are some things to be saidThat keep rolling around in my headOne of which must be said preciseThat extremism in defense of liberty is no viceModeration in pursuit of justice is not a virtueNor … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged American, Ancestral Institutions, Birth, Construe, Decide, Declaration, Defense of Liberty, Extremism, Face of Destruction, Freedom, Guard Against, Head, Hold On, Holding On, Legacy, Leveling, Moderation, Modernity, Nation, Negate This Past, No Vice, Oblivious, Obvious, Poetry and Poems, Precise, Pursuit of Justice, Realize, Relevance, Rolling Around, Seeds, Shirk Off, Strong, Te Deum, The Constitution, Things To Be Said, Virtue | Leave a comment

Truth of Soul In Our Voices

Posted on July 1, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Truth of Soul In Our Voicesby Michael DoyleThe soul brings access metaphysicallyTo animate our being into rationalityThe soul is the place philosophy can shineIn the light of the heart and the divineA spark of God comes to be understoodThough the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Actuality, Animate, Chemistry, Divine, Good, Gulag, Hard Sciences, Heart, Light, Metaphysical, Modernity, Mystery, Philosophy, Poetry and Poems, Rationality, Reconstruction, Scholastic, Shine, Soul, Spark of God, Stew, Substance, Tradition, Truth, Understood, Voice | Leave a comment

Na/GloPoWriMo #26: This Is Just To Play

Posted on April 26, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Na/GloPoWriMo #26: This Is Just To Playby Michael Doyle (in nod to William Carlos Williams)As a mirrorTo this modernityI look aroundAt the visual syntaxSeen as it connectsIn this living roomTo say whichPragmatically Beyond the messCoveringThe roominessAsking that you forgive meFor … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Beyond, Cold, Connects, Cover, Delicious, Forgive Me, Just To Play, Living Room, Look Around, Malicious, Mirror, Modernity, Na/GloPoWriMo, Poetry and Poems, Pragmatically, Revenge Served, Roominess, Say, Sweet, Visual Syntax | Leave a comment

Sailing An Impersonal Apocalypse

Posted on May 14, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

I heard an interesting global reading of Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. From this contrasted with the pandemic lockdown came: Sailing An Impersonal Apocalypse by Michael Doyle As is the way of many a hero’s journey Enduring the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adrift, Apocalypse, Atomized, Beach Comb, Better, Bit Players, Bottomless, Bound, Bravado, Case History, Coleridge, Compel, Condition, Contrast, Corrosive, Cue, Deathfire, Desolation, Digital, Doing, Dream, Edge, Edition, End, Endure, Epic, Evening, Existential, Eye, Find, Geyser, Global, Hanging, Harrowing, Hero's Journey, History, Hug, Idea, Idle, Impersonal, Important, Inexplicable, Isolation, Jung, Kissed, Lips, Lockdown, Loneliness, Man, Masterpiece, Meanness, Measure, Message, Miles, Mist, Modernity, Moment, Morning, Mystery, New, Nightmare, Noon, Old World, Our, Outsiders, Pandemic, Passage, Path, People, Photograph, Pleasure, Poem, Poetry, Pretense, Probable, Prophecy, Protagonist, Reach, Read, Response, Ruin, Sad, Sail, Sea, Sense, Senseless, Ship of Fools, Space, Speak, Split Up, Spurn, Storm, Story, Successive, Symbol, Terrible, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Threat, Time, Together, Tomorrow, Transform, Trial, Trials, Trouble, Tug, Undone, Unleash, Unmeant, Verses, Vibrant, Voyage, We, Winner's Cup, Wise, Word, Words, Worse, Zone | Leave a comment

An Indictment of the 20th Century

Posted on March 18, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

We have lived through the bloodiest and cruelest century of mankind’s history. God surely must be crying. An Indictment of the 20th Century by Michael Doyle Einstein insisted God did not play with dice While other insisted God needed no … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 20th Century, Advice, Blood, Breakdown, Breath, Calamity, Certainty, Change, Civility, Claim, Clash, Communism, Cruel, Cry, Culture, Destruction, Diametric, Dice, Dim, Disorder, Einstein, Face, Fascism, Function, Genocide, God, Good, History, Homocide, Humanity, Indictment, Legacy, Level, Litany, Lives, Mankind, Mayhem, Modernity, Morality, Need, New, Old, Opposition, Outrage, Pandemic, Pessimism, Photograph, Pillars, Poem, Poetry, Prospect, Revolutionaries, Sense, Sensibility, Socialism, Society, Souls, Tearful, Travesty, Twin, World War Two | Leave a comment

Mind Games Played

Posted on January 26, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Recent developments in science and in a virtual environment I spend some time on has led me to question a few things pertinent to ethical behavior or actually the lack thereof on the part of certain people I have come … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Artificial Intelligence, Audio, Behind, Best, Bilogy, Blood, Boundaries, Brain, Child's Play, Clear, Cognition, Cognitive, Common, Computer, Computers, Connect, Control, Cybernetics, Define, Different, Elite, End, Engage, Ethics, Evolution, Faith, Far, God, Good Man, Hallucination, Heart, Homo Sapiens, I, Interface, Interfere, Level, Limit, Loss, Mankind, Mark of the Beast, Mind Game, Minds, Modernity, More, Name, Outcome, Path Forward, Philosophy, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Precise, Process, Processing, Quantum, Quantum Connection, Question, React, Real, Reality, Restrain, Science, Soul, Spatial, Sure, Tears, Technology, Theology, Transcend, Transfer, Transparency, Unification, Virtual, Wonder | Leave a comment

Modernity

Posted on January 9, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

Modernity by Michael Romani Since the inception of the Meiji dynasty Japan has sought its sense of modernity Growth and development for several generations Has been the impact of this restoration Tradition pitted against modernity Has been the struggle in … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Identity, Integration, Japan, Modernity, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Tradition | Leave a comment

We, In This Post-Modern World

Posted on November 16, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

We, In This Post Modern World by Michael Romani Immersing ourselves in destruction We swim with unflinching gaze Indiscriminate in our ill defined function We act to demystify our unsettled days Penetrating the surface of reality No longer collaborating with … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Creative, Dysfunction, Harnessed, Ill Defined, Imaginary, Meaning, Modernity, Moral, Nightmare, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Post Modern, Real, Surreal, Urge | Leave a comment