Tag Archives: Observation

The Singularity of the Immersive

Posted on October 28, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

The Singularity of the Immersiveby Michael DoyleThe virtual offers its trailing breadcrumbsPushing forward into spaces where the mind numbsThrough the effort of examining its potential The path walked has become quite consequential This platform of mixed media is greater than … Continue reading →

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Searching For Signals

Posted on October 14, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Searching For Signalsby Michael DoyleTrying to save our soulsIn the messes we makeSpinning out of controlThough all of our mistakesPressing out from the undergroundTo be just who it is that we areA part of all that we have foundIn the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Better Living, Blind, Bluff, Caught, Chemicals, Circle, Class, Clever Thought, Dadaism, Despair, Destination, Devil, Dialog, Enough, Far, Feeling, Fog, Found, Hint, History, Identity, Life, Lyrical, Make, Meaning, Mess, Mind, Mistake, Mystery, Observation, Obsolescence, Optimism, Out of Control, Painting, Path, Poetry and Poems, Position, Possibility, Preconception, Reality, Saint, Save, Search, Self-Deception, Signals, Souls, Underground | Leave a comment

Happy Constitution and Citizenship Day!!

Posted on September 17, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Today is a day that memorializes our Constitution and has become also Citizenship Day. For the United States, this should perhaps be observed with more vigor as we have clowns like Gavin Newsome increasingly pushing to overthrow our nation’s Constitution. … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Amendment Process, Celebrate, Citizenship, Clown, Compromises, Constitution, Gavin Newsome, Happy Citizenship Day!, Happy Constitution Day, More Perfect Union, Nation, Observation, Observe, Overrhrow, Republican Form of Government, Resource, Response, Thought For the Day, United States, Vigorous | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: A Writer Needs Three Things, Experience, Observation, and Imagination, Any Two of Which, At Times Any One of Which, Can Supply the Lack of Others

Posted on September 25, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.” -William Faulkner, novelist (25 Sep 1897-1962)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Experrience, Imagination, Lack, Observation, One, Supply, Thought For the Day, Three Things, Two, William Faulkner, Writer | Leave a comment

Open Declaration

Posted on April 26, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Open Declarationby Michael DoyleThe cross is not a decorationIt is an open declarationOf how much love the Father bringsThese are the lessons of the hymns we singLooking carefully at all that we seeWhat brings happiness, what brings misery?Staring out bored … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Carefully, Contrary, Conversation, Cross, Cultivate, Decoration, Experiences, Finest Hours, God's Command, Happiness, Hit and Miss, Hymns, Learn, Lessons, Live Through, Living Life, Love, Misery, Nowhere to Live, Observation, Open Declaration, Plan, Poetry and Poems, Sanctuary, See, Shine, Sing, Stare, Strong, The Father, Timberline, Words of Power | Leave a comment

From Hosanna to Crucifixion

Posted on April 10, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

From Hosanna to Crucifixion (Palm Sunday 2022)by Michael DoyleIPassages in sermons find seed in our lifeSpeaking to us to create peace and take our strifeStilled hearts help us reach the truth to seePraying that we might commit to this way … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accord, Accountability, Afraid, Alienation, Anticipation, Beliefs, Bethlehem's Star, Betrayal, Blindman, Blood of Jesus, Book of Mark, Branches of Palm, Clemency, Collide, Come As You Are, Command, Commit, Conviction, Create Peace, Creation, Crucifixion, Death, Depiction, Destiny, Discipleship, Dying on the Cross, Easter, Expectation, Faith of a Believer, Family, Favor, Followers of Christ, Forgiven, Found, Friday, Full Blessings, Giving One's All, Glory, God's Love, Grace, Greet, Ground, Healing, Holy Week, Homily, Hosanna, Humble Dignity, Imputation, Incident of Circumstance, Indwell, Infliction, Jersusalem, Jesus's Suffering, Jewish Nation, Justice, Left to Chance, Lens of Heaven, Lesson, Lessons, Life, Light, Lord, Lordship, Love, Mansion, Merssiah, Messes Made of Life, Meticulous Witness, Motivaated, Observation, Paid for In Full, Pain, Palm Sunday 2022, Pass Us By, Passages, Passover, Path, Patient Smile, Pharisees, Plans, Poetry and Poems, Prasie, Pray, Preach, Prediction, Professions, Profound, Puzzled, Ransom, Recall, Reception, Redemption, Repentance, Respect, Resurrection, Reveal, Revelation, Right, Royalty, Rules, Sacrifice, Sanctified, Sermons, Shake, Sins, Sovereignty, Stilled Hearts, Story, Sunday, Take Our Strife, The Bible, Theology, Told, Triumphant Entry, Truth, Undersood, Undeserved Mercy, Unfold, Unknowing, Way of Mercy, Whole | Leave a comment

Cicero Speaks On Becoming Older

Posted on February 8, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Cicero Speaks On Becoming Olderby Michael DoyleLife passes through many a stageUntil calumniating in old ageIt’s a folly to hold this in despiseWe’d be better off to open our eyesCicero offers us his philosopher’s lookIn his writing of many a … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Assassination, Assert, Assumption, Body, Cherished, Cicero, Clarity, Collective Wisdom, Constitutional Hall, Counsel, Despise, Die, Different, Education, Effective, Elder, Elocution, Ends of History, Essay, Estate, Eternity, Experience, Eyes, Fail, Fair Prize, Farm, Folly, Franklin, Freedom, Good Book, Grandparent, Guide, Hands, Heed, History, Ides of March, Immortality, Indignation, Infirmity, Inner Beauty, Integrity, Justice, Kingdom, Law, Leadership, Life, Life's Lessons, Loss, Meditate, Mental Abilities, Mental Faculty, Moments, Moral Duty, Observation, Offer, Old Age, Older, Open, Opportunity, Oratory, Phaedo, Philosopher, Plato, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Profound, Quality of Life, Reason, Sacred Ground, Sage, Sensual Pleasures, Sharp, Stage, Sweet Surprise, Teach, Throat, Tides, Time and Again, Triumph, Truth, Tyranny, Use, Useless, Valuable, Versed, Why, Wiser, Wonder, Write, Young | Leave a comment

Na/GloPoWriMo #24: Perishable

Posted on April 24, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Na/GloPoWriMo #24: Perishableby Michael DoylePerishable as a live plantShe insists but just can’tThere a perfect consolation in leafIts in its hiding manifestations of griefIn the soft shame of being seenEach of us fails our push at being human beingsPotted plants … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Call To me, Conservation, Cross, Dishonestly, Domination, Each of Us, Earth's Future, End of Nature, Fails, Fear, Fickleness, Form, Frail Ecology, Grief, Helpless Loss, Here, Hiding Manifestations, Human Beings, Humbled Isloation, Leaf, Little Wonder, Live Plant, Mystery, Na/GloPoWriMo, Observation, Perfect Consolation, Perishable, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Potted Plants, Push, Rooted, Sake of Man, Seen, She Insists, Soft Shame, Tending, Watering of Our Plants, We Can | Leave a comment

Christ Meets the Grecian World

Posted on September 27, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Christ Meets the Grecian Worldby Michael DoyleThere are things that we’ve learned along the waySuch as that, evil will never truly win the dayAnd that while the devil deals in duplicity A truly good person will always withstand adversityIn the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adversity, Christ, Christianity, Death, Defeated, Devil, Divine, Duplicity, Evil, Foray, Good Person, Gospel of John, Gravity, Grecian World, Intellectual Investigation, Key, Kingdom, Learn, Mystery, Observation, Paradigm, Patterns, Philosophy, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Rebbe, Salvation, Testimony, Third Century, Tradition, Wisdom, Wisemen, Withstand | Leave a comment

Meditative Movement

Posted on May 24, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

In these last months, as if we haven’t been too sedentary in the first place, we have been almost nothing but stuck in and out of sorts with finding ways to keep moving. This is counter to what is best … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Angst, Best, Blood Flow, Bolder, Breath, Care, Center, Circle, Circulation, Close, Deep Breath, Deserve, Disease, Doubt, Dullness, Ease, Enter, Eyes, Feet, Found, Fullness, Gentle Openness, Good Care, Ground, Hands, Heart's Center, Heed, In, Know, Lengthen, Life, Life and Death, Lifestyle, Look, Meaning, Meditative, Meet, Mind and Body, Mindful, Move, Movement, Moving Meditation, Natural Stopping, Nature, Need, Neurological, Observation, Out, Photograph, Physiology, Poem, Poetry, Present Age, Pull, Round, Science, Sedentary, Self Massage, Shoulder, Spine, State, Strife, Twist | Leave a comment