Tag Archives: Still

Thought For the Day: A Bookstore Is One of the Only Pieces of Evidence We Have That People Are Still Thinking

Posted on April 29, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.” – Jerry Seinfeld, comedian (b. 29 Apr 1954)

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Na/GloPoWriMo #15: In A Family’s Way

Posted on April 15, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Na/GloPoWriMo #15: In A Family’s Wayby Michael DoyleI really need to buy an easy chairIf I am to keep the family flairEating summer sausage on cheesed squareReading news and pontificating without a careThat is if I am to live my … Continue reading →

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Na/GloPoWriMo #7: Spanish Flower Shadorma

Posted on April 7, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Na/GloPoWriMo #7: Spanish Flower Shadorma by Michael DoyleTime stands stillAs I turn awaySlowing downTides are feltDeep inside my fragile soulInnocence betraysCastle sandsSlip through my fingersWashed awayAs alwaysI look into setting sunsWondering at whyBest of timesPass away too fastIn your eyesIn … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Always, Believe, Best of Times, Betray, Castle Sands, Deep Inside, Felt, Fingers, Fragile Soul, Hate, Innocence, Look, My Eyes, Na/GloPoWriMo, Pass Away, Poetry and Poems, Setting Sun, Shadorma, Slip, Slowing Down, Spanish Flower, Still, Tides, Time, Too Fast, True, Turn Away, Washed Away, When You Leave, Why, Wondering, Your Eyes | Leave a comment

First Principles: Had Every Athenian Citizen Been A Socrates, Every Athenian Assembly Would Still Have Been A Mob

Posted on February 5, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.” – James Madison (1788)

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In the Precedent of 2020

Posted on December 13, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

In the Precedent of 2020by Michael DoyleThere is something setQuietly there in the precedentAn unlikely principle we forgetThat we’d not be without accidentWho it is that we are todayI hope that’s not too flippant to sayThat despite our efforts to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2020, Acceptance, Accident, Afraid, Answers, Beautiful, Beyond Cure, Border, Cherry Pick, Come and Go, Conceal, Contagion, Contemporary, Contrary, Converse, Crumble, Dare Not, Deinfe, Detail, Doctors, Efforts, End, Enforced Isolation, Familiar, Family Tree, Fantastic, Fealty, Find Our Way To Right, Flippant, Forget, Heads In Books, Heal, Impure, Ingredients, Intimacy, Itch, Light, Madness, Minds, Necessary, Noise, Notes In Bottle, Obsessive Order, One Another, Out of Order, Pan Flute, Patience of A Saint, Photograph, Pledge, Poem, Poetry, Popping Pills, Precedent, Quiet, Reality, Reverse, Sanity, Scratch, Send, Set, Sheer Edge, Still, Storms, Straighten, Sympathy, Tea, Teach, Today, Tragedy, Tremble, True, Unlikely Principle, Unpredictability, Whisper, Wind, Window Shopping, Wish, World, Wrong | Leave a comment

Attached In Meaning

Posted on December 4, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Attached In Meaningby Michael DoyleWords are mainly symbolsSomething that vaguely resemblesAn agreement between we human beingsAs to what it is that we are meaningWe need a little less of the dictionaryAs we each act out our own PictionaryOf all that … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Actions, Actions Speak Louder, Actual, Agreement, Allow, Arguments, Attached, Blur the Lines, Burst Out, Co-Construction, Come and Go, Communicate, Communicated, Communication, Complicated, Conflict, Contemplation, Contrary, Conventionality, Deceived, Deception, Defy, Destruction, Development, Dictionary, Encoded, Factors, Factual, Foolish, Forged, Hit That Restart, Human Beings, Intended, Intent, Intentionality, Interpretation, Late, Learn, Life, Look On Your Face, Meaning, Message, Nonverbally, Optimism, Perception, Pessimism, Photograph, Pictionary, Poem, Poetry, Prouder, Reach, Reassurance, Received, Relation, Resembles, Rut, Satisfying, Say, Says It all, Simple, Sink, Splash, Still, Symbols, Tender, Think, Truth Perceived, Unnecessary, Vague, Wall, Weight, Words, Words of Trust, Wounded Hearts | Leave a comment

Finally Stilled

Posted on November 23, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Finally Stilledby Michael DoyleWe dance our danceWhispering our romanceUnder the Milky WayFinding tomorrow every dayIn every touch that we shareFinding truth revealed in careKnowing loneliness in our absenceFinding need for each other’s presenceSome say love is a form of weaknessThey … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Absence, Absurd Fools, All Doubt, Allow, Beginning, Belong, Beside me, Care, Certainty, Dance, Dreams, End, Every Day, Final, Finally, For Each Other, Guitar, Loneliness, Loud, Love, Milky Way, Need, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Presence, Quietness, Reveal, Romance, Share, Song, Speak This, Stars, Still, Strong, Tomorrow, Touch, Truth, We, Weakness, Whisper, Your Heart | Leave a comment

Shoreline Levee Abstraction

Posted on October 7, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Shoreline Levee Abstractionby Michael DoyleWithout the world’s imposed inhibitionsYou find life without so many limitationsWaiting for you below the surface, we keepThe sands of time as these start to seepPouring through our hands as these flowIs a new depth for … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abstraction, Appear, Below, Big Easy, Deam, Depth, Dreams, Each of Us, Flow, Great Deal, Hands, Hold Near, Hurrying, Impose, Inhibitions, Inner Depth, Keep, Keep Looking, Know, Levee, Levee Breaks, Life, Limitations, Little Need, Merge, Needed, New, Ocean, Ourselves, Peep Inside, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Point, Pouring, Pressing Onward, Reveal, Sands of Time, Secrets, Seep, Serene, Shoreline, Souls, Start, Still, Surface, Waiting, Wondering, World, Worrying | Leave a comment

Fly On A Photographer’s Wall

Posted on June 29, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Another peek into the photographs of persons and their relationships: Fly On A Photographer’s Wall by Michael Doyle Photographs so perfectly still Are a marvel that makes us feel All these candid moments captured well Soul numbing as they tell … Continue reading →

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Finding My Strength

Posted on April 9, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on 1st Samuel: Finding Strength by Michael Doyle Forever grateful for your serenity In times of fallen indignities That keeps my peace inside Keeping sure footed in my stride Finding strength in my belief In God and … Continue reading →

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