Tag Archives: Rest

Firefighter 54 (In Memoriam for the Death of My Sister)

Posted on August 5, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

For those who remember Michele, I offer in her memory on this anniversary of her death: Firefighter 54 by Michael Doyle ..Firefighter 54, firefighter 54 This is Ashland Fire Department Firefighter 54, Firefighter 54 This is Ashland Fire … Continue reading →

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Let’s Rest Here A Little While

Posted on June 24, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Let’s Rest Here A Little Whileby Michael DoyleLet’s rest here a little whileYour hands in mineYou give me reasons to smileAs my thoughts refineWhat it is I feel deep insideAs I look into those eyesTalking soft as we confideThe love … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Beside You, Done, Feel Deep Inside, Hands In Mine, Hardest Part, I know, Imparts, In All the Miles, Just Begun, Lightness, Little While, Love, Love Is, Our Hearts, Our Journey, Poetry and Poems, Realized, Reasons, Refine, Rest, Sit, Smile, Sweetest Expressions, Those Eyes, Thoughts, True, Walk, We Talk | Leave a comment

Perspective Revisited

Posted on May 17, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Perspective Revisited by Michael Doyle Float to the top Or sink to the bottom The rest is just churn This is a lesson in life One that is usually earned It’s our decision in how we learn Everyone dreams, big … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bottom, Change, Churn, Cloud, Concern, Decision, Done, Dream, Earned, Float, Focus, Foot, Hide, Learn, Lesson, Life, Other's Hero, Poetry and Poems, Prespective, Pretend, Reflect, Rest, Revisited, Save, Secrets, Sink, Top of the Mountain, Top of the World, Zero | Leave a comment

I, Noelle

Posted on December 18, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

I, Noelleby Michael DoyleGrowing up there was nothing as pleasantAs waiting on Christmas Eve for presentsHe was like a lamb to metaphorical slaughterAs I snuck up on my Santa Claus fatherAs his daughter, there was much prideExcept for the part … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Big Year, Cheer, Children, Chimney, Choice, Christmas Day, Christmas Eve, Complete Perfection, Dasher, Daugther, Destiny, Detail, Doing Well, Father, Feeling, Getaway, God, Growing Up, Hope, Lamb, Look, Magic, Me, Merry Gentlemen, Metaphor, Morning Light, New Direction, Noelle, Phoenix, Photograph, Pleasat, Poetry and Poems, Presents, Pride, Promise, Pushed Aside, Rest, Santa Claus, Shining, Silent Night, Sled, Snowy Night, Snuck Up, Spinning, Tale, Tragic, We, Without Presents, Words | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Come To Me, All Who Labor and Are Heavy Laden and I Will Give You Rest

Posted on December 7, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest” – Matthew 11:28

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged All, Come, Give, Heavy Laden, Labor, Matthew 11:28, Rest, Thought For the Day, To Me | Leave a comment

First Principles: Personal Security and Private Property Rest Entirely Upon the Wisdom, the stability and the Integrity of the Courts of Justice

Posted on September 21, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“Personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice.” – Joseph Story (1833)

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Courts, First Principles, Integrity, Joseph Story, Justice, Personal Security, Private Property, Rest, Stability, Wisdom | Leave a comment

First Principles: The Declaration of Independence Rests … On The Harmonizing Sentiments of the Day, Whether Expressed In Conversation, In Letters, Printed Essays, Or In the Elementary Books of Public Right, As Aristotle, Cicero, Locke, Sidney, Et al.

Posted on August 24, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“All [the] authority [of the Declaration of Independence] rests … on the harmonizing sentiments of the day, whether expressed in conversation, in letters, printed essays, or in the elementary books of public right, as Aristotle, Cicero, Locke, Sidney, &c.” – Thomas Jefferson, … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Aristotle, Authority, Books of Public Right, Cicero, Conversation, Declaration of Independence, Essays, Express, First Principles, Harmony, Henry Lee, Letters, Locke, Rest, Sentiments, Sidney, Thomas Jefferson | Leave a comment

Just Where You Belong

Posted on July 22, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Funny thing about life is we have a choice of going with the flow or pedaling as fast as our hamster wheel allows us to spin and often times regardless of effort or lack of effort, we end up just … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Around, Being Okay, Belong, Best, Capability, Certainty, Chasing, Choices, Circles, Comfort, Day After Day, Direction, Duking It Out, Each Day, Ease, Far, Felt Less, Find Yourself, Flexibility, Forward, Found, Gaining More, Going With the Flow, Hamster Wheel, Journey, Kind of Day, Least, Let Things Go, Life, Life's Road, Life's Test, Lost, Never Know, Off Script, On with the Show, Out of Control, Pass, Pedaling, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Precise, Reasons, Rest, Run, Running At Full Speed, Soul, Spin, Still Flow, Take You Along, Than Lost, Travel, Troubling, Turn Out, Unfold, Variables, Wheels, Where, You | Leave a comment

The Good Fairy Tale

Posted on June 19, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

What then is a fairy tale? What elements are necessary? And what are the purposes served in these? The Good Fairy Tale by Michael Doyle From deep within the wishing well Comes the invention of the fairy tale It’s hard … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Acting Well, Ancient Times, Beast, Beauties, Beauty, Begin, Book of Job, Children, Convergence, Courage, Crux, Deep, Deeply, Details, Disaappear, Elements, Emulation, Equal Share, Eucatastrophe, Evil, Face of Fear, Faded, Fairy Tale, Familiar, Forgiven, Fortitude, Freely Given, Generations, Good, Goodness, Hallowed Place, Happen, Happy Ending, Hard Times, Hear, Hero's Journey, Honest, Hope, Humanity, Inner Beauty, Instill, Invention, Listen, Lived Happily Ever After, Love, Love and Be Loved, Magic, Measure, Misfortune, Moments of Joy, Moon, Nations, Necessary, Once Upon A Time, Outside, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pretending, Prevail, Pride, Prince, Reality, Rely, Rest, Restoration, Reveal, Rich Fabric, Righteousness, Royalty, Set Out, Shadow, Source, Story, Sublime, Survive, Tell, Traces, Trail, Treasure, Vanquished, Variance, Will, Win, Wisdom, Wise, Wishing Well, Woven | Leave a comment

The Lateness of the Hour

Posted on June 1, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Returning back to a promised project that was set down for a time and based in part on The Twilight Zone, Season 2, Episode 8: The Lateness of the Hour by Michael Doyle In a labyrinth of the mind’s imprecision We … Continue reading →

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Let’s Rest Here A Little While

I, Noelle

Thought For the Day: Come To Me, All Who Labor and Are Heavy Laden and I Will Give You Rest

First Principles: Personal Security and Private Property Rest Entirely Upon the Wisdom, the stability and the Integrity of the Courts of Justice

First Principles: The Declaration of Independence Rests … On The Harmonizing Sentiments of the Day, Whether Expressed In Conversation, In Letters, Printed Essays, Or In the Elementary Books of Public Right, As Aristotle, Cicero, Locke, Sidney, Et al.

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