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Speaking In Tongues

Posted on September 23, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Speaking In Tonguesby Michael DoyleI’ve been speaking in tonguesSeems like ever since I was youngSaying things that make you thinkStraight up to the edge of a blinkThinking those things we shouldn’t sayThat’s how I roll in my day-to-dayIf you can … Continue reading →

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A Memory of Losses

Posted on September 11, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

A Memory of Lossesby Michael DoyleEven a cursory read of the Hadith findsIt is enjoined to treat others kindTo never kill unless it is necessaryThe death of even one requires a necessityTo save even one is to save all of … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: The Only Advice Anybody Can Give Is, If You Wanna Be A Writer, Keep Writing. And Read All You Can, Read Everything

Posted on August 30, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“The only advice anybody can give is, if you wanna be a writer, keep writing. And read all you can, read everything.” – Stan Lee

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First Principles: Every Child In America Should Be Acquainted With His Own Country. He Should Read Books That Furnish Him With Ideas That Will Be Useful To Him In Life and Practice

Posted on August 17, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Every child in America should be acquainted with his own country. He should read books that furnish him with ideas that will be useful to him in life and practice. As soon as he opens his lips, he should rehearse … Continue reading →

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In A Less Than Perfect World

Posted on August 10, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

In A Less Than Perfect Worldby Michael DoyleI look out into my living roomIt gives me hope instead of gloomTo see my daughters study by preferenceAnd not out of some required deferenceMaybe I did one or two things rightTo be … Continue reading →

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On Turning 17

Posted on August 8, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

On Turning 17by Michael DoyleThe days crawl slowly on one by oneAnd your birthday is past and doneI am still thinking on what it meansThat my baby girl has turned seventeenWasn’t it only just yesterdayThat you entered this world’s wayLaying … Continue reading →

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Reality Bytes On An Earlier Hillbilly Sandwich

Posted on July 22, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Reality Bytes On An Earlier Hillbilly Sandwichby Michael DoyleCounterculture shined through the city’s veilGiving a glimpse of Eden through the fires of HellHarsh in its repressive bits of curdled adviceDreamers managed to paint their fleeting paradiseThe torches of an artistic … Continue reading →

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Shape Shifting Ideologies

Posted on July 13, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Shape Shifting Ideologiesby Michael DoyleIn this age of putrid and flaccid philosophy We have turned our faith away from mankindSome feel AI is a better path than ideologiesIn which undefined concepts are a forced bindWe bid the surface farewell and … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: A Great Book Should Leave You With Many Experiences, and Slightly Exhausted At the End. You Live Several Lives While Reading It

Posted on June 11, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.” – William Styron, novelist (11 Jun 1925-2006)

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Thought For the Day: Every Man Is A Volume If You Know How To Read Him

Posted on April 7, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.” -William Ellery Channing, clergyman and writer (7 Apr 1780-1842)

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