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Thought For the Day: It Takes A Lot of Time To Be A Genius, You Have To Sit Around So Much Doing Nothing, Really Doing Nothing

Posted on February 4, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.” – Gertrude Stein, novelist, poet, and playwright (3 Feb 1874-1946)

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Thought For the Day: Everybody, Soon Or Late, Sits Down To A Banquet of Consequences

Posted on November 13, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.” -Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist, essayist, and poet (13 Nov 1850-1894)

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Thought For the Day: Amateurs Sit and Wait For Inspiration, the Rest of Us Just Get Up and Go To Work

Posted on September 21, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” -Stephen King, novelist (b. 21 Sep 1947)

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Thought For the Day: One May Have A Blazing Hearth In One’s Soul, and Yet No One Ever Comes To Sit By It

Posted on March 30, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“One may have a blazing hearth in one’s soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.” – Vincent van Gogh, painter (30 Mar 1853-1890)

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Always Time For A Story

Posted on December 9, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Always Time For A Storyby Michael DoyleQuietly sitting on the pewThere in one sense, familyWearing our brother’s coatAnd in this, draped in povertyKeeping warm on Christmas nightAll for the sake of spirits brightKept a flicker in swaddling clothesAs only as … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Child, Child's Heart, Christmas Day, Christmas Night, Coat, Comfort, Compare, Distances, Doll, Dream, Dull Surprise, Empathy, Excite, Eyes, Family, Glory, Gold, Heart, Hole, Home, Hurt, Joyful, Kings, Know, Lonely Heart, Love, Love's Story, Loving Heart, Miss, Paupers, Pew, Place, Poetry and Poems, Poverty, Saddened Eyes, Second Hand Embarrassment, Secret, Seem, Sentiment, Shadow, Share, Sit, Soul, Spirits Bright, Story, Surprise, Swaddling Clothes, Sympathy, Time, Too Young, Unafraid, Voice, Warm, Window, Wishes | Leave a comment

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 →

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Books Read Throughout Life

Posted on May 20, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Books Read Throughout Lifeby Michael DoyleIn a repeated mantra of lifeIn all the things we have soughtThere is the truth reflectedIn lessons accidentally taughtIn this and all stages of lifeWe find it’s worth another lookTo sit and quietly curl upWith … Continue reading →

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Na/GloPoWriMo #13: Yesterday’s Tomorrow’s News

Posted on April 14, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Na/GloPoWriMo #13: Yesterday’s Tomorrow’s News by Michael DoyleSitting watching the evening news hourWatching the sun go down as night devoursI fell asleep to the bleat of the LED displayDisrupting a poem meant written yesterdayHaving missed my embossed invitationI make up … Continue reading →

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Born In the Dawn

Posted on July 17, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Tales of magic and the quests that invariably accompany these always tug at my soul. Born In the Dawn by Michael Doyle In the mists of time, there is a story Of the sword of power and it’s full glory … Continue reading →

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Full Asking Price

Posted on July 3, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Poem 2 in a series retelling a classic werewolf tale: Full Asking Price by Michael Doyle I know so little of what to believe As I sit here and quietly grieve We talk of counted blessings But most of these … Continue reading →

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