Tag Archives: People

Six String Guillotine

Posted on August 25, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Six String Guillotineby Michael DoyleIt was a six stringGuillotineSummer sceneKind of a dreamRolling through the nightThe pompadourWho held the doorThat no one could ignoreSet the flames licking the TroubadorAnd said it would be alrightStruck by the thunderBeing pulled underBy a … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Air, Alright, Door, Dream, Everywhere, Fists, Flames, Guillotine, Ignore, Loud, Music, Night, People, Poetry and Poems, Pompadour, Proud, Pulled Under, Rocking, Rolling, Six String, Solid Wall, Sound, Stare, Struck, Summer, The Troubador, Thunder | Leave a comment

First Principles: A Constitution Is Not the Act of A Government, But of A People Constituting A Government, and A Government Without A Constitution Is A Power Without Right

Posted on August 20, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.” – Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1791

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Thought For the Day: The Taliban Is Not the…North Vietnamese Army. They’re Not…Remotely Comparable In Terms of Capability. There’s Going To Be No Circumstance Where You See People Being Lifted Off the Roof of an Embassy

Posted on August 17, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“The Taliban is not the … North Vietnamese army. They’re not … remotely comparable in terms of capability. There’s going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of a[n] embassy.” – President Joe Biden, July 8, … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Capability, Comparable, Embassy, Joe Biden, July 8 2021, Lifted, No Circumstance, North Vietnamese Army, People, Roof, Terms, The Taliban, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

Kaleidoscope

Posted on August 15, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Kaleidoscopeby Michael DoyleIndia offers her vast diversitySimply put, a wealth of complexityFilled with peace within her kaleidoscopeAs harmonious coexistence offers hopeSlumdog lords are opulent in a historyOf a people struggling with povertyPluralistic in a free market democracyAs a metaphor lived … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Age, Alignment, Aryan, Attachment, Belief, Bonfires, Brother, Built, Celebration, Charity, Choose, Colors, Complexity, Conduct, Creation, Cycle, Dance, Deep, Democracy, Devotion, Diversity, Emotion, Equal Weight, Festival, Fires, Forest, Free Market, Gaya, Give Peace A Chance, Greater, Grief, Harmony, Hate, Heart, Heritage, History, Holi, Holy, Hope, Impurity, India, Inspires, Kaleidoscope, Langauge, Learning, Lords, Love, Love of Mankind, Mankind, Metaphor, Multiethnicity, Nation, Neglect, Never Reaching End, Noble Truth, Peace, People, Picked Clean, Poerty, Poetry and Poems, Powder, Reborn, Reciprocity, Recognition, Reject, Release, Renew, Respect, Right Knowledge, Shiva, Siddartha, Sight, Silence, Sister, Slumdog, Soul, Sparks, Spiritual Integrity, Strong, Surrender, The World, Tolerance, Towers, Tradition, True Friend, Turning, Understanding, Vast, Wealth, Wish, Youth | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: If the Vaccines Work, Why Insist That Inoculated People Need To Be Masked?

Posted on August 11, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“If the vaccines work, why insist that inoculated people need to be masked?” – Anonymously Just About Every Rational Person Who Follows Real Science….

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Anonymous, Fauccism, Inoculated, Insist, Masked, Need, People, Thought For the Day, Work | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: There Are Basically Two Types of People. People Who Accomplish Things and People Who Claim To Have Accomplished Things. The First Group Is Less Crowded.

Posted on July 22, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.” – Mark Twain

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Accomplish, Basic, Claim To Have Accomplished, First Group, Less Crowded, Mark Twain, People, Thought For the Day, Two Types | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: People Hate As They Love, Unreasonably

Posted on July 18, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“People hate as they love, unreasonably.” – William Makepeace Thackeray, novelist (18 Jul 1811-1863)

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Skandalon

Posted on July 11, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Skandalonby Michael DoyleI won’t take the baitOf living this fateFalling for the offenseOf people speaking through pretenseTriggered into living this trapThinking and feeling the rapHit after hit comes my wayI see it happening day after dayThe pains that are feltIn … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bad, Bait, Being Bitter, Best Life, Better, Bitterness, Breath, Choice, Day After Day, Dealt, Dey, Drip, Escape the Fate, Ever Had, Falling, Fangs of Despair, Fatal Test, Fear and Doubt, Felt, Finger Trap, Flow, Glory, God's Best Truth, God's Plans, Great Signifiance, Happening, Heart, Hit After hit, How I live, Injustices, Kingdom, Learn, Legendary, Lesson To Heed, Let Go, Listening, Living, Living This Fate, Magnificence, My Days, Need, Not Stand Alone, Offense, Offenses, Offenses of the Past, Overlooking, Pains, Patience, People, Poetry and Poems, Pretense, Rap, Rip Me Apart, Sad, Satan, Skandalon, Slights, Small Still Voice, Stands Alone, The Story, Trap, Trap of Offense, Triggered, Try As I might, Turn the Page, Ugly, Venom, Way, Wisdom, Yields | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: People Are Like Stained Glass Windows

Posted on July 8, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.” -Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, psychiatrist and author (8 Jul … Continue reading →

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First Principles: If People Are Capable of Understanding, Seeing and Feeling the Differences Between True and False…To What Better Principle Can the Friends of Mankind Apply…?

Posted on June 27, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?” – … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Better Principle, Capable, Difference, Differences, First Principles, Friends of Mankind, John Adams, People, Right and Wrong, Sense, True and False, Understanding, Virtue and Vice | Leave a comment