Tag Archives: Questions

A Cosmogony of Fear

Posted on April 20, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

A Cosmogony of Fearby Michael DoyleIn a wide sweep of the Temple ApolloIs the beginning of what the Oracle knowsThe things of myth, from the the beginning growAs the memories of three sisters glowsImagined become the stories that resonateGlobal fears … Continue reading →

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Wholly Holistic

Posted on April 16, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Wholly Holisticby Michael DoyleLifting up the name of Jesus aboveLiving as we do, all His ways of loveIt’s apparent that we are blessedLiving as we do among the very bestFound in the notes and narrative of songAre the words that … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anticipation, Appreciation, Arena, Aspects, Belong, Best, Blame, Blessed, Broken, Celebrated, Challenge, Commandments, Compete, Concepts, Core Elements, Done, Faith, Father, Finish, Foolishness, Found, Glory, God's Holy Power, Grace, Grow, Hear, Heaven Knows, Hesitation, His Story, Holistic, Hour, Insight, Inspiration, Integrity, Jesus, Justified, Life Grows, Lifting Up, Light, Matters, Maturity, Meaningful, Measure, Opened Eyes, Opportunity, Overrated, Pain, Past, Poetry and Poems, Portrait, Pray, Pressence, Questions, Recognize, Resolution, Sermon, Shame, Shatters, Sin, Son, Song, Spirit, Stages, Storms, Through, Transformation, Treasure, Truth, Truth Needed, Understood, Vain, Ways of Love, Whole, Winning, Wisdom, Word Life, Written Pages | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Jokes of the Proper Kind, Properly Told, Can Do More To Enlighten Questions of Politics, Philosophy, and Literature Than Any Number of Dull Arguments

Posted on March 4, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.” – Isaac Asimov, scientist and writer (1920-1992)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Dull Arguments, Enlighten, Isaac Asimov, Jokes, Literature, Number, Philosophy, Politics, Proper Kind, Properly Told, Questions, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

First Principles: Nothing Is So Contagious As Opinion, Especially On Questions Which, Susceptible of Very Different Glosses, Begat In the Mind A Distrust of Itself

Posted on February 13, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“Nothing is so contagious as opinion, especially on questions which, being susceptible of very different glosses, beget in the mind a distrust of itself.” – James Madison (1790)

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Contagious, Different Glosses, Distrust, First Principles, James Madison, Mind, Nothing, Opinion, Questions | Leave a comment

Points Taken From the Best Mimes

Posted on February 10, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Points Taken From the Best Mimesby Michael DoyleWe felt so clever copying the rhymesUnspoken from the silence of the mimesWho knew how much could be and was saidWithout a single word escaping the headThis is the way of the very … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Copy, Found, History, Humanity, Legends, Mimes, Mystery, Obscene, Pages, Poetry and Poems, Points, Questions, Rhymes, Riddle, Said, Scribble, Silence, Single Word, Vivid Colors, Yesterdays | Leave a comment

Mountain Top Revelations

Posted on January 6, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Mountain Top Revelationsby Michael DoyleUnknown mountain tops to exploreIs an answer and a prayer for the moreThat comes from a world knowing lessIs actually more, the function search of a guessAs if there is still a peak yet to existIt … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Answer, Answers, Babble, BE Me, Clever, Corrupt, Disappear, Doubt, Duplicate, Exist, Explore, Forever, Forgiven, Freedom's Shout, Function, Guess, Hobbits, Laugh, Less, Mountain Tops, Outside World, Peak, Persist, Place, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Questions, Replcate, Revelations, Self-Control, Shire, Soul | Leave a comment

In the Focus and Calm (Are Moments of Truth)

Posted on December 15, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

In the Focus and Calm (Are Moments of Truth)by Michael DoyleThere in the focus and calmIs a remembrance of who you areIt comes back like a twist of balmThat you reach for, no matter how farOnce this fortress has been … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Balm, Breach, Cage, Calm, Conspsiracy, Control, Courage, Crashing Down, Far, Focus, Fortitude, Grafitti, Help, Home, Jaded, Moments of Truth, Poetry and Poems, Pretend, Questions, Remebrance, Sand, Save | Leave a comment

Ode To A Tipsy Fairy

Posted on December 10, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Ode To A Tipsy Fairyby Michael DoyleAfter 40 hours locked inside the slave mindIt will take three pints just to leave it behindAnswers needed can’t be found without right questionsThe urgency felt is constrained by life’s hesitationsFundamentally sought within my … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Answers, Bath, Behind, Birth, Boots, Bottle, Break of Day, Bright, Cobble Stone, Daughter, Edge, End of Night, Explanation, Fairy, Full Throttle, Glow, Hedges, Hesitation, Laugh, Mettalic Roots, Moive, Morning Light, Mystic Lakes, Ode, Pints, Poetry and Poems, Questions, Reality, Sailing Ships, Sip, Slave Mind, Smile, Splash, Tipsy, World | Leave a comment

River Rain

Posted on August 27, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

River Rainby Michael DoyleAs a gift from the CreatorThe rain fills into the riverBringing new life just begunWith a toss of dice, it’s wonLike a raindrop fills the creekWords become love we dare to speakSpilling out like a timeless riverInto … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Aniticipation, Begun, Best of Lives, Book of Life, Child's Voice, Creator, Creek, Delivered, Dice, Dreamer's Head, Dreams, Father, Gift, Handheld, Life, Listen Close, Love, Love Will Call, Lovers, Mother, Ocean's Depths, Oceans, Past, Poetry and Poems, Query, Questions, Rain, Rain River, Raindrop, Read, Rising Sun, River, Shake and Shiver, Smiles, Speak, Streams, Tested, Theory, Timeless, Won, Words | Leave a comment

Hiding From Sins

Posted on August 17, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Hiding From Sinsby Michael DoyleAcross a desert filled with mortalityA lonely creature seeks its immortalityAbove the canyon and ridden on the ridgeDeath itself holds its own bridgeQuestions run vast in seeking realityMonsters of a kind collide eventuallyIn an attempt to … Continue reading →

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