Tag Archives: Tranquility

Hoosier Rains

Posted on August 11, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Hoosier Rainsby Michael DoyleIt has been over twenty years nowAnd it’s on my mind still somehow.I was driving, approaching the state lineOf Indiana, determined to make it mine.Shortly before the sight of the dunes, I had plannedTo visit like some … Continue reading →

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To Be A Woman

Posted on May 31, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

To Be A Womanby Michael DoyleIt would be false to paint tranquility.A woman’s world is one of complexity.Phrased in its phases, it takes a distortionist.To be a woman is to be a contortionist.In the push-and-pull world of always there,It’s plain … Continue reading →

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First Principles: To Model Our Political Systems Upon Speculations of Lasting Tranquility Would Be To Calculate On the Weaker Springs of Human Character

Posted on April 30, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“To model our political systems upon speculations of lasting tranquillity would be to calculate on the weaker springs of human character.” – Alexander Hamilton (1788)

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First Principles: To Model Our Political Systems Upon Speculations of Lasting Tranquility Would Be to Calculate On the Weaker Springs of Human Character

Posted on December 27, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“To judge from the history of mankind, we shall be compelled to conclude that the fiery and destructive passions of war reign in the human breast with much more powerful sway than the mild and beneficent sentiments of peace; and … Continue reading →

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What Can Be Said of A Woman’s Touch?

Posted on December 18, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

What Can Be Said of A Woman’s Touch?by Michael DoyleWith a touch of her handHe finds happiness againWith her look, he understandsWhat he is meant to ascertainHer walking beside himMakes his sight less dimAs he opens his heart to seeHer … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alone, Arms, Ascertain, Beside, Bind, Bliss, Charms, Dim, Discover, Eyes, Fall, Falling Star, Fires, Hand, Happiness, Heart, Heart Unspoken, Lips, Look, Meant, No Longer Broken, Open, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Presence, Reach, Said, See, Shine, Sight, String, Surprise, Taste, Time, Togeher, Touch, Tranquility, Truth, Two Souls, Understand, Unwrap, Walk, Whisper, Wholeness, Woman's Touch | Leave a comment

To See the World Again

Posted on February 3, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

To See the World Againby Michael DoyleTo see the world through new eyesIt might help me to again realizeThe splendors too often taken for grantedBy those of us whose views are slantedLights like stars seem to aboundAs life loses its … Continue reading →

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First Principles: If Ye Love Wealth Better Than Liberty…Go Home From Us In Peace…May Posterity Forget That You Were Our Countrymen

Posted on August 31, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“If Ye Love Wealth Better Than Liberty, the Tranquility of Servitude Better Than the Animating Contest of Freedom, Go Home From Us In Peace. We Ask Not Your Counsels Or Your Arms. Crouch Down and Lick the Hands Which Feed … Continue reading →

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Fool’s Errand

Posted on May 2, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Arguing with those we love is maybe sometimes natural. But, it’s a fool’s errand. There can be very little good in having to be right just to make the person you love somehow wrong. Especially in the modern age, … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: The Ideal of Beauty Is Simplicity and Tranquility

Posted on March 31, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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As Jesus Was Walking (In My Life)

Posted on January 28, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on Matthew 4:18-20 and on other things as well.. 😉 As Jesus Was Walking (In My Life) by Michael Romani Coming home to Jesus, taking my love home There at the foot of the cross, not alone … Continue reading →

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