Tag Archives: True

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

Once Too Many Times

Posted on May 12, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Once Too Many Timesby Michael DoyleYou there, who do so wrongIt’s me here, telling you that you don’t belongPointing at your mistake with my fingerThat is, until, I notice the smell lingersAnd it is myself who is wickedStinking in my … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accept, Acknowledging, Becomes Clear, Belong, Chafe, Christianity, Dare Not, Every Hour, Failed Possibility, Finger, Gap, Garb of Peasant, Gracious, Greatest Power, Keeping To Myself, Know, Lingers, Living My Life, Lord's Correction, Lord's Fire, Lord's True Presence, Mirror, Mistake, Mistakes, My Desires, My Own Heartbreaks, Myself, Once, Peasant Rhymes, Persevere, Poetry and Poems, Pointing, Profession, Pure Church, Purified, Quietly, Rebuke, Returning My Life, Right Direction, Robes of Royalty, Separating, Simple Look, Smell, Someone Else, Sticky Wicket, Stinking In My Own Skin, Tap, Too Many Times, True, Unrefined, Wheat, Wicked, Wish, Worship, Wrong | Leave a comment

First Principles: A Diffusion of Knowledge Is the Only Guardian of True Liberty

Posted on May 12, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

A diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.” -James Madison

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Diffusion, First Principles, Guardian, James Madison, Knowledge, Liberty, Only, True | Leave a comment

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

Thought For the Day: Debates About Differences of Opinion On How To Interpret Evidence Are Good and Healthy Because These Discussions Further Our Understanding of Complex Issues

Posted on March 3, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“Debates about differences of opinion on how to interpret evidence are good and healthy because these discussions further our understanding of complex issues. If we all agreed that something was true, then there would be no point in conducting research … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Complex Issues, Conducting Research, Debate, Differences of Opinion, Discussions, Further Our Understanding, Good and Healthy, If We All Agreed, Interpret Evidence, No Point, S. Krause, Thought For the Day, True, Writing | Leave a comment

Breath Walks Through The Back Door

Posted on February 19, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Breath Walks Through The Back Doorby Michael DoyleMusic is the magic of the tones we findIn leaving our troubled world far behindFeeding our core once and againCan be the breath of the violinAs breath walks through the back doorOpening the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Back Door, Best, Best of Life, Breath, Breathing, Chant, Chart, Course, Dark and Deep, Employ, Escape, Expediency, Familiarity, Far Behind, Feeding Our Core, Find, Humor, Internal connection, Leaving, Life Comes At us, Live, Love and Explore, Magic, Meditation, Moment to Moment, Multiverse Lines, Music, Opening the Heart, Poetry and Poems, Resiliency, Reveals Our Joy, Secret Spaces, Smiles and Torment, Substance, Technique, That We Keep, Tones, Troubled World, True, Violin, Vulgarities, Walk, Walking Our Path, We Make Connection, With Our Source | Leave a comment

First Principles: America’s Founding Principles Are True Not Because Any Generation – Including Our Own – Has Lived Them Perfectly, But Because They Are Based Upon the Eternal Truths of the Human Condition

Posted on January 23, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“America’s founding principles are true not because any generation — including our own — has lived them perfectly, but because they are based upon the eternal truths of the human condition. They are rooted in our capacity for evil and … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged America, Capacity, Created In the Image of God, Dignity, Equality, Eternal Truths, Every Man Woman and Child, Evil, First Principles, Founding Principles, Generation, Glory, Human Condition, Longing For Truth, Love of Freedom, Need For Order, Potential, Power For Good, Rooted, Striving For Justice, The 1776 Project, The Worth, True | Leave a comment

Life Worth Living

Posted on December 27, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Life Worth Livingby Michael DoyleI’ve never been one given to chanceDetermined to rise above my circumstancesAs a child of God driven by destinyTaking this challenge as my legacyHeaven holds all of my best treasureGod first, then family, is my measureA … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Acts, Adversity, Belief and Love, Blindness, Bliss, Brith, Challenge, Chance, Cherish, Child of God, Circrumstance, Clasped, Destiny, Dignity, Discerned, Done, Driven, Embrace, Faith, Fall, Family, Forgiving, Gaze, God, God Above, God First, God's, God's Favor, Grace, Grown In Faith, Guided, Hands, Happiness, Heaven, Heavenly Host, Holds, Humility, Integrity, Learned, Legacy, Lessons, Letter, Life, Life Worth Living, Live, Living, Living These Moments, Lord's Face, Love, Love and Kindness, Mad, Mean To Me, Most, My Best Treasure, My Measure, Our Battle, Our Legacy, Place, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Prayer, Purpose Filled Life, Rattle, Recall, Rise Above, Son, Steward, Thanks, Thanks Be To God, This World, To All, Treat Others, True, Waking Moments, Walk Our Walk, World, Worth | Leave a comment

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

Every Day Is A Gift

Posted on November 30, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Every Day Is A Giftby Michael DoyleUp in the sky, Santa is comingAcross the roofs, reindeer are runningThe gift of love is wrapped up in youDreamily finding your heart so trueA Christmas song comes to mindAs every day is a … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged A New Gift, Always Be Mine, Blessed, Christmas Song, Dream, Dreaming Of, Every Day, Every Way, Fairy Tale, Fill My Days, Find, Gift, Gift of Love, Given, Glow, Mind, Morning, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Precious Sight, Reindeer, Roofs, Santa, Shine, Sky, Soul Shift, Stars, To Be Your Man, True, Truth, Turning Out So Right, Wak, Wrapped In Love, Wrapped Up In You, You Can, Your Arms, Your Eyes, Your Heart | Leave a comment