Tag Archives: Read

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 →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Affection, Agreed, Allowed, Angel, Baby, Baby Girl, Best Person, Birthday, Blessed By God, Bloom and Grow, Both, Bring, Broken, Comes Your Way, Continues, Create, Dad's Love, Daddy, Days, Deal, Deserve, Doctor, Eighteen, Eternity, Experiences, Father, Favorite Human Beings, First Time, Forever, Go Easy, Grown, Heart, Know, Life, Living Room, Love, Loved By Me, Make the Most, Making the Best, Means, Mother's Womb, No Strife, On Turning 17, One By One, One of Two, Pages, Peace, Pleasure, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Precious Daughter, Prematurely Born, Privilege, Promise Me, Promises Kept, Proud, Read, Remain, Remember, Seventeen, Show, Sing, Smiling Laugh, Spoken, Stage, Stages, Struggles, Survive, Thoughts, Thrive, Token, Turning Seventeen, Unafraid, Unbroken, Walk, Warn, Watch, Watched, Wish, Words, World's Way, Write Songs, Yesterday, Young Lady | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Advice, Apocalyptic Noise, Bliss, Bytes, Chocolate Cherry Coffee, City, Clever, Counterculture, Dark Star, Different, Distraction, Door, Dreamers, Dreams, Eden, Ending, Falling In Love, Fear and Greed, Fires of Hell, Focus, Forever, Future, Glimpse, Happiness, Harsh, Hillbilly, Irreverent, Know, Knowing All, Lack, Life, Miss, Narcissistic Ego, Nurture, Pages, Paradise, Poetry and Poems, Presumptions, Read, Reality, Reborn, Sacred Cow, See, Serenity, Strife, The Enlightened, Torches, Veil, Vision, Waking, Words | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Age, AI, AI's Capability, Answers, Asunder, Aware, Better Path, Beware, Binary, Blunder, Burden, Button, Children, Complexity, Conception, Cosmic Hijinks, Decision, Dream, Emperor's New Clothes, Faith, Farewell, Fever Pitch, Forced Bind, Forgotten, Formation, Freedom, Glory, Hail, Humanity, Ideology, Impartial Information, Itch, Kingdom, Know, Launch Date, Life's Serendipity, Mankind, Matter, Miracles, Need, Nerds and Geeks, Ones and Zero, Perfection, Philosophy, Poetry and Poems, Power, Read, Real, Reject, Satisfied, Scratch, Shadows, Shape Shifting, Shatter, Simplest Machine, Simplicity, Source, Surface, System, The End, Thinking, Told, Tossed, Trust, Undefined Concepts, Vaporware, Wall, Yet To Come | Leave a comment

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)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged End, Exhausted, Experiences, Great Book, Read, Several Lives, Thought For the Day, William Styron | Leave a comment

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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Thought For the Day: Don’t Ask Me Who’s Influenced Me. A Lion Is Made Up of the Lambs He’s Digested, and I’ve Been Reading All My Life

Posted on March 13, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Don’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life”. – Giorgos Seferis, writer, diplomat, Nobel laureate (13 Mar 1900-1971)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged All My Life, Ask, Digest, Giorgos Seferis, Influence, Lion, Lions, Made Up, Read, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

Surrendered To the Knife

Posted on February 21, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Surrendered To the Knifeby Michael DoyleOnce you’ve surrendered to the knifeYour silent pleas won’t save your lifeThis, then, is the solemn price paidFor the best-laid plans never madeThis is what it is to be done with mankindTo take the bitter … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Afraid, All, Approved, Best Laid Plans, Bitter, Blade, Blind, Books, Brave, Choice, Cold, Dairies, Dead, Destiny, Devil, Done, Faithful, False Courage, Faustian Bargain, Fear, Friend, Grace, Hand, Hate, Heaven, Hell, Judgment, Justice, Knife, Letter, Life, Love, Loved Ones, Made, Mankind, Mercy, Miracles, Moment, Mutiny, Neck, Nowhere, Page One, Played, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Prayer, Pretend, Protect, Read, Recall, Red Pills, Rising Sun, Sake of Love, Save, Savior, Silent Pleas, Solemn Price, Surrender, Twist, Wait, Whimpering, Will, Won, Words | Leave a comment

First Principles: Science Has Liberated the Ideas of Those Who Read and Reflect, and the American Example Has Kindled Feelings of Right In the People

Posted on February 12, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect, and the American example has kindled feelings of right in the people.” – Thomas Jefferson

Posted in First Principles | Tagged American Example, Feelings, First Princniples, Ideas, Kindle, Liberate, Read, Reflect, Right, Science, The People, Thomas Jefferson | Leave a comment

Like the Only Bible Read

Posted on January 28, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Like the Only Bible Readby Michael DoyleLet’s live lives like the only Bible readWalking witnesses of Jesus raised from the deadEaster and Christmas hold nothing over immersionOur faithful testimony given in baptismIt symbolizes our public proclamationAnd is not a simple … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Act, Baptism, Bible, Christianity, Christmas, Core, Denunciation, Easter, Faith, Faithful Testimony, Foundation, God, God's Love, Immersion, Individual Choice, Jesus, Losing Hand, New, Old Self, Only, Poetry and Poems, Promise, Public Proclamation, Purge, Raised From the Dead, Read, Sinful Ways, Speak, Symbolize, True Living, Truth, Voice, Walk, Witnesses | Leave a comment