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Thought For the Day: Taught From Their Infancy That Beauty Is Woman’s Sceptre, the Mind Shapes Itself To the Body, and Roaming Round Its Gilt Cage, Only Seeks To Adorn Its Prison

Posted on April 29, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.” – Mary Wollstonecraft, reformer and writer (27 Apr 1759-1797)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Adorn, Beauty, Body, Gilt Cage, Infancy, Mary Woolstonecraft, Mind, Prison, Roam, Scepter, Seek, Shape, Taught, Thought For the Day, Woman | Leave a comment

Unvanquished

Posted on April 21, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Unvanquishedby Michael Doyle Crescent moons signify deathNight births the heavens with her last breathThe realm of darkness buries the sunUntil once again a new day is begun Digging the way through disparagementNeeds perseverance when there is no encouragementThe seeds of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Arrival, Blind Seer, Cast, Claustrophobia, Convince, Creation, Crescent Moon, Death, Disparagement, Embrace, Fear, Glissando, Heavens, Hope, Last Breath, Logic, Man's Survival, Myth, Night, Organic Emotion, Permeate, Perpetual Motion, Poetry and Poems, Primeval Struggle, Psyche, Reappear, Repress, Ridley, Seeds, Sensation, Shape, Suspense, Synthesis, Tears, Tether, The Necronomicon, Unspoken Voice, Unvanquished, Vission, Wheel | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: All I Ask of Myself Is To Live A Good Christian Life, and Toward that Objective, I Bend Every Effort

Posted on April 6, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“All I ask of myself is to live a good Christian life, and toward that objective I bend every effort in shaping my personal, domestic and professional activities and growth. I have watched constantly that in my work the highest … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Activities and Growrth, Ask, Constant, Domestic, Effot, Good Christian Life, Highest Moral, Objective, Personal, Professional, Self, Shape, Spiritual Standards, Thought For the Day, Upheld, Walt Disney, Watch | Leave a comment

Thoughts On Palm Sunday 2023

Posted on April 2, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Thoughts On Palm Sunday 2023by Michael DoyleEvery man’s life is a conversationIt’s in the soul, not the presentationPalm Sunday is it’s own celebrationThat turned from hosanna to devastationOr so perception blinded, yet it gave goodOne day at a time, as … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All In Good Time, Bad Over the Good, Belong, Below, Benefit, Body of Christ, Celebration, Changes, Close, Composure, Cpnversation, Cross, Crowd, Debt, Devastation, Die, Difference, Dignity, Doubt, Each Moment, End, Eternity, Experience, Exposure, Fate, Gates of Hell, Given, Goal, God's Love, God's Plan, Grace, History, Holy Connection, Homily, Hosanna, Jesus Above, Judas, Last Supper, Life, Loss, Mystery, Open Handed, Paid In Full, Palm Sunday 2023, Path, Perception, Pesssures, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Praying For Judas, Preach, Present, Presentation, Revealed, Right, Roll, Rule, Salvation, School, See, Service, Shape, Shifting Tides, Silence of God, Sin, Soul, Tame, The Body, Time, Understood, Veneration, Victory, Wait, Washed Feet, World, Wrong, You and Me | Leave a comment

A Quiet Reflection On This November Day

Posted on November 1, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

A Quiet Reflection On This November Day by Michael Doyle What is a poem really but to say That love, joy and sorrow come to play In the heart and then inside the mind Until the words burst out … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Attention, Cared, Confidence, Deserve, Discern, Ease, Eureka, Find, Fit, Harvest, Heart, Heed, Human Beings, Intention, Joy, Light of Day, Lives, Loud, Love, Mind, November, Past, Peek, Play, Please, Poem, Poetry and Poems, Present, Proud, Quiet Reflection, Recall, Say, Seen, Shape, Shared, Smile, Sorrow, Truths, Week, Words | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Fauci’s Claim That He Himself ‘Represents the Science’ and His Admitted Deceptions of the Public Are Incompatible With Each Other and…Insolent

Posted on January 19, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Fauci’s political dispositions shape his alarmism and discredited him with a large swath of the country that any viable public-health strategy has to be able to reach. He denounced people for attending college-football games in a region of the country … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Admitted Deceptions, Alarmism, American Self-Government, Claim, College-Football Games, Country, Covid, Discredit, Fauci, Hot Mic, Incompatible, Intolerably Insolent, Moron, National Reivew, Outbreak, Political Dispositions, Public-Health Stategy, Represents the Science, Seasonal Decline, Senate Hearing, Senator Roger Marshall, Shape, Subvert, The Public, Thought For the Day, Undermine | Leave a comment

Walking With the Giants

Posted on January 9, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Walking With the Giantsby Michael DoyleWalking with the giantsWe stand in our defianceCalling out the holy namesKnown with the mark of God’s fameWalking in the faith that’s knownConfidence that has grownThough the future remains unseenIn this assurance, we find new … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anger, Assurance, Base, Belief, Believe, Clouds, Commendation, Conception, Concern, Confidence, Control, Deception, Defiance, Depth, Difficult Seasons, Entangles, Evidence, Faith, Foundation, Frover, Future, Generation, Giants, God, God's Glory, Goodness, Heart, History, Holy Names, Improbable, In God, Jealousy, Joseph, Juggle, Keep True, Light, Living Love, Mangels, Mystery, New Meaning, Night, Passing, Path, Perserverance, Poetry and Poems, Protect, Shape, Sin, Soul, Spiritual Connection, Start, Story, Struggle, Told, Truth, Two Pillars, Unfold, Unseen, Walking | Leave a comment

In Getting To Good Days

Posted on November 1, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

In Getting To Good Daysby Michael DoyleTaken then in the reflectiveLife is seen in its proper perspectiveWe Find many reasons for gratitudeAnd rightly live with that attitudeNo longer wearing that intended greedBut in realization that God gives what we needIt’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Attitude, Beautiful, Beauty of Life, Blessing, Blessings, Brave, Change, Cultivated, Day, Departs, Drinks of Water, Each Day, Each Step, Estrange, Ever Changing, Experienced, Flow, Getting, Gifts, Glad, God, God Gives, Good Days, Good Things, Gratefulness, Gratitude, Greed, He Lives, Heaven, Holy Communion, Inside, Instant, Journal, Lesson, Life, Made, Materialize, Memory, Need, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Proper Perspective, Realization, Realize, Reasons, Reflective, Remember, Reunion, Right Living, Second Guessing, Setting Sights, Shape, Taken Then, Tapestry, Teach, Thankfulness, Think, Unafraid, Watch, Wear | Leave a comment

Darkness Shapes the Hearts

Posted on October 21, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Darkness Shapes the Heartsby Michael DoylePutin sits as another dictator in a lineCertain his autocratic rule is blessed as divineThis has been the slavery of Russia’s serfdomWith brutality reigning supreme in this kingdomFor five thousand years, we’ve known epilepsy As … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Affliction, Ashen, Autocratic Rule, Believe, Betrayer, Blessed, Brothers Karamazov, Canker, Chained, Christianity, Civil Liberty, Cloak, Coincidence, Creativity, Cruelty, Dark Place, Darkness, Death, Definition, Demons, Dictator, Disease, Divine, Dostoevsky, Dubious Reputatin, Enigma, Epilepsy, Exceed, Father Zosima, Fight, Fool's Game, Freedoms, God Above, Good and Evil, Grasp, Greatest Miracle, Heart, Heresy, Holy, Initiation, Light, Line, Love, Masses, Mismatch, Mystery, Mysticism, Opiate, Photograph, Poem, Poietry, Preach, Protagonist, Pure, Putin, Questions, Quiet, Reason, Religion, Revolutionary, Riot, Russia, Russian Nation, Russian Soul, Serfdom, Shadow, Shape, Slavery, Super-Impose, Trappings, Treason, Unsure, Violence, Wastrel, Western Civilization, Wicked, Writer | Leave a comment

Shorebreak Blues

Posted on September 9, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Shorebreak Bluesby Michael DoyleOut there on my hideaway, ride the bayI spend my moments in my casual wayHere to surf not to observe or talkI watch the waves crash on Jackpot RockI feel Autumn come creeping in Dreaming in my … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Autumn, Bay, Big Waves, Blues, Casual, Clouds, Crash, Creep In, Doubt, Dreams, Drizzle, Early Morning, Easy Enough, Everyday, Experience, Fake, Feeling, Gone, Hideaway, Island Girl, Jackpot Rock, Love, Make My Way, Moments, Observe, Oceant, Old Timers, Paddle, Paddle Out Again, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Preference, Reverence, Ride, Roll In, Shape, Shorebreak, Sizzle, Slipping On, Souls, Stay, Sun, Surf, Swimming With Iguanas, Take, Talk, Talk Story, Tides, Time Spent, Waiemea, Waves, Waves Meet Shore | Leave a comment