Tag Archives: Perfection

Thought For the Day: We May Explain Success Mainly By One Word and that Word Is WORK!

Posted on October 8, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! Not transient and fitful effort, but patient, enduring, honest, unremitting, and indefatigable work, into which the whole heart is put.” – Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)

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The Chasm Between

Posted on August 10, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

The Chasm Betweenby Michael DoyleWhen man creates the perfect machineWill it be as some utopian dreamsOr will they find the chasm betweenWho we are and how we wish to seemIs one which it escapes all detectionThat mortals such as we … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: The Intellect of Man Is Forced To Choose, Perfection of the Life, Or of the Work

Posted on June 13, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“The intellect of man is forced to choose / Perfection of the life, or of the work, / And if it take the second must refuse / A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.” -William Butler Yeats, writer, Nobel laureate … Continue reading →

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Blessed, Broken, and Given

Posted on June 5, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Blessed, Broken, and Givenby Michael DoyleWe live in the era of the offendedWhile we’ve forgotten that we’re friendedBy a friend who teaches in His storyThe ways to move past offense into gloryHave a sharp mind in every interrogationFinding discernment in … Continue reading →

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Land Hold

Posted on April 20, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Land Holdby Michael DoyleThe land holds its historyThe heart has its mysteryHeld generations in a familyIt’s the passing of love steadilyFrom generation to generationThe way of society’s inclinationAs we simply pass it onResisting that it ever be tornBut kept instead … Continue reading →

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In A Hermitage of Petrified Words

Posted on February 10, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

In A Hermitage of Petrified Wordsby Michael DoyleLike a forest well petrifiedBy minerals filling in for lifeA poet thinks in his hermitageDreaming about things to study onThere’s an abandonment of conjunctionWhen like Chomsky, language ceases to functionWe drift like lyrics … Continue reading →

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New Beginning Off Of An Old Ending

Posted on December 29, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

There is a tradition at the Short Form Poetry Workshop to work a couple of new poems from the end of famous older poems. This is one of the two written last night: New Beginning Off of An Old Endingby … Continue reading →

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First Principles: We Must Take Human Nature As We Find It, Perfection Falls Not To the Share of Mortals

Posted on February 10, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“We must take human nature as we find it, perfection falls not to the share of mortals.” – George Washington (1786)

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Petra Reexamined

Posted on November 21, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Petra Reexaminedby Michael DoyleThere is an ancient city in which Nabataeans dweltThat is more carved than could be thought of as builtThis city of beauty and wonder is a World Heritage siteIt belongs to all of humanity by our noble … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: The True Work of Art Is But A Shadow of the Divine Perfection

Posted on September 10, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.” – Michelangelo on the unveiling of his iconic “David” statue in Florence, Italy, September 8, 1504

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