Tag Archives: Rejected

Moonbow Symphony

Posted on November 19, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Moonbow Symphonyby Michael DoyleMy daughters and I are proneTo take all-day drivesPreferably together, not aloneTo feel the peace of being aliveLast weekend, early on SaturdayOur packed-up SUV got underwayThe goal was to see the MoonbowTo Cumberland Falls, we would goLexington … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adventure, Alive, All-Day Drives, Beautiful Phenomenon, Beauty, Blaze, Bluegrass, Breeze, Colors, Crowd, Cumberland Falls, Cumberland Gap, Daniel Boone, Daughters, Days, Design, Expected, Forest Green, Goal, Gray, High, Horses, Ledgge, Lexington, Lifestyle, Light, Luck, Magic, Mist, Moon, Moonbow, Moonbow Symphony, Mystified, Nature, Night, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Presence, Rainbow, Rejected, River, Saturday, Second To None, Serene, Silver, Sky, Spectral Bridge, Sun, SUV, Toes, Together, Travel, Water's Edge, Waterfalls, White | Leave a comment

Science Fiction and Frankenstein’s Creature

Posted on October 21, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Science Fiction and Frankenstein’s Creatureby Michael DoyleThough literary snobs can find it less than delectableScience Fiction has grown up as quiet respectableSnobbery has ever been fashionable even at HalloweenStill science fiction’s limitations certainly don’t meanThat there is nothing really scary … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Arrogance, Books, Children of Frankenstein, Cliche, Conscience, Creature, Cross-Current, Darkness, Distortion, Electrical Reanimaion, Electricity, Forget, Frankenstein, Future Society, Galvani, Ghost Story, Giordano Bruno, Gothic Horroe, Halloween, Headspace, Horror, Humanity's Hubris, Imagination, Irrational, John Milton, Late, Law of Unintended Consequence, Lesson, Literary Feature, Literary Snobs, Literature, Magnetism, Mankind, Mary Shelley, Mean, Mistake, Mistakes, Monster, Morality, Mount Tambora, Movie, Natural Philosophy, Nemesis, Nightmare, Nuclear War, Outcast, Overcome, Paradise Lost, Plausibility, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Rational Fate, Rationalism, Recompense, Rejected, Resemblance, Right and Privilege, Robots, Scary Stories, Science, Science Fiction, Seeds We Sow, Special Effects, Speculation, Spree, Summer, Supernatural, Technology, True Science, Unhallowed Ground, Universe, Victor Frankenstein | Leave a comment

How Much Law Is Enough Law?

Posted on August 5, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

How Much Law Is Enough Law?by Michael DoyleIt is no secret that laws weren’t to be numerousNor were our laws meant to be written as voluminous Every one of our Founding Fathers made that clearWhen they said as much and … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Aspiration, Average Man, Clear, Command, Complex, Complexity, Demand, Expected, Explode, Explore, Facts, Founding Fathers, Freedom and Liberty, Glory, Graze, Hand, Human Story, Law, Maze, Measure, Measures, Nation, National Goal, Needed, Numerous, Ordinary Americans, Our Republic, Our Soul, Outrages, Pages, Poetry and Poems, Qualitative, Quantitative, Rationale, Regulatory Law, Rejected, Seldom, Simplicity, Soul, The People, Tolerated, Tyrannical, Understand, Voluninous, Written | Leave a comment

Through Fevered Eyes

Posted on November 16, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Through Fevered Eyesby Michael DoyleHeard even from the criminally rejectedComes the kindness otherwise neglectedNeglected by those who have more than neededAll of the many lessons too seldom heededHelping the poor brings about true prosperityThe type of prosperity of an unknown … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Better Days, Child's Play, Chosen Friends, Circles, Comedy, Comfort, Criminally, Cycles, Darkness, Deliver, Discern, Eyes, Family, Fever, Glory, God, Heard, Heed, Help, Horro, Kindness, Learn, Lesson, Lessons, Life, Majesty, Miracles, Monstrosity, Need, Neglected, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Poor, Private Hell, Prosperity, Rejected, Riddles, Search, Shiver, Sights, Stories, Story, Strie, Truth, Unfold | Leave a comment

The Morning Only Brings Bad

Posted on October 26, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

The Morning Only Brings Badby Michael DoyleFor some, the morning only brings badThese are those who are persistently sadIndulging only those things that will kill themAs if they missed the call of life’s good hymnInstead, they hear nonstop voices in … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Another, Bad, Bring, Call, Coins, Deep, Dowry, Fail, Good, Haunted, Hymn, Indulge, Kill, Life's Test, Morning, Neglected, Nightmares, Nonstop, Other, Poetry and Poems, Rejected, Rest, Sad, Sleep, The Dead, Trouble, Voices, Warning, Wicked, Wonder, Words | Leave a comment

Elephants Mourn Their Dead (Happy the Elephant)

Posted on September 10, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Elephants Mourn Their Dead (Happy the Elephant)by Michael DoyleNo freedom, no libertyNo right to fundamental dignityHappy the Elephant pays the costAnd the decision it seems is lostThere will be no sanctuaryPersonhood has been denied capacityRegardless of intelligence, elephants are thingsSubstantially … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged "X", Ability, Aesthetic, Arbritary, Autonomy, Beauty, Capacity, Chattel, Complexity, Cost, Dead, Decision, Dissent, Dominant Tusked, Elephants, Empathy, Factors, Family, Forehead, Freedom, Full Recognition, Fundamental Dignity, Given Hand, Happy the Elephant, Human Beings, Humanity, Intelligence, Language, Legal Reasoning, Liberty, Love, Majestic Giants, Memory, Mirrors, Mourn, Nonverbal, Personhood, Picky Eaters, Poetry and Poems, Points of Similarity, Present, Recognize, Refinement, Rejected, Sanctuary, Science, Self, Sentient Beings, Solitary Confinement, Talking, Things, Things Unsaid, Understand, Unfeeling, Walking, Words, World, Zoo Enclosures | Leave a comment

Bad Data Rejected

Posted on March 2, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Bad Data Rejectedby Michael DoyleBad dataMay be big dataBut false is always untrueAnd should be rejectedWhen you call a strangerWho knows the dangerOf talking to a snooty pollsterOut to collect dataThat confirms opinions, not factsYou’re going to get skewThe results … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bad Data, Bias, Call, Collect, Danger, Elected, Facts, False, Injected, Opinions, Pluralistic, Poetry and Poems, Politicians, Pollster, Realistic, Rejected, Results, Skew, Stranger, Untrue | Leave a comment

Thought Of the Day: We Have Grasped the Mystery of the Atom and Rejected the Sermon On the Mount…the World Has Achieved Brilliance Without Conscience. Ours Is A World of Nuclear Giants and Ethical Infants

Posted on April 8, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount…The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.” – Five-Star General Omar Bradley (d. April, 8, 1981)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Achieved, Brilliance, Ethical Infants, General Omar Bradley, Grasp, Mystery of Atom, Nuclear Giants, Rejected, Sermon on the Mount, Thought of the Day, Without Conscience, World | Leave a comment