Tag Archives: True

Moonkyst and the Twisted Fae

Posted on April 29, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Moonkyst and the Twisted Faeby Michael DoyleIn the early morning mistWe dream our dreams moonkystit’s a fantasy, some might sayBut it gets us through another daySome dance the dance of twisted faeWhile the music plays; they swayAs if it might … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Believe, Best, Better This Way, Childhood Days, Dance, Day, Dream, Early Morning, Eyes, Fantasy, Games To Play, Head, Hurt, Last Fantasy, Memories, Mist, Moments, Moonkyst, Music, Pillow, Play Out Life, Poetry and Poems, Reality, Rest, Reverie, Say, Silver Screen, Smile, Soul, Sway, True, Twisted Fae, View, Whimsical, Worth the While, Yesterday | Leave a comment

While They Break Our Hearts

Posted on April 8, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

While They Break Our Heartsby Michael DoyleLife is full of imprecisionsToo many mistakesAnd too many bad decisionsRomances gone wrongNever knowing where one belongsJust another round of heartbreak songsStaying up late to catch a breakSome things can’t be fakeWhile they break … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Another Kiss, Bad Decisions, Belong, Best Swing, Break Our Hearts, Burn, Burn Slow, California Sands, Catch A Break, Certain, Dance, Dream, Dreams, Every Night, Eyes Sparkle, Fake, False Start, Find Ourselves, Fire Pit Embers, Forgot, Full Moon Fever, Gone Wrong, Guitar, Hands, Heartbreak Songs, Holding You Tight, Huntington Beach Girl, Imprecisions, Keep You, Know, Life, Lose Ourselves, Love At First Sight, Magic, Miss, Mistakes, Never Let You Go, Night, Pardon, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Pretty Ballerina, Rarely Right, Romances, Sands, Senorita, Sight, Slipped Through Our Hands, Slow, Staying Up Late, Sure As We Are, Sure Chance, Times, True, Walk, Watch | Leave a comment

The Sphinx of Legacy

Posted on April 5, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

The Sphinx of Legacyby Michael DoyleIn the mystery of the sphinxIs the ancient mystery that linksTo secret rooms of love and wisdomIt brings release like keys to the kingdomSome are kept prisoner by this lureWhile others believe this is the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Aged, Alone, Another Tale, Arrive, Been, Better Off Dead, Buried, Burn, Cheat the Devil, Clever, Close To Home, Coded Memory, Core, Crumbs of Dreams, Cure, Death, Depths, Drifting Along, Easy As A Rhyme, Echoes, Face, Flames, Forever, Free Flow, Glory, Goldfish In A Bowl, Grace, Heads, Hope, Human Beings, In the End, Keys to the Kingdom, Last Person, Last Sunset, Lasting Legacy, Lasting Regret, Leave, Legacy, Level, Link, Long Goodbye, Love and Wisdom, Lure, Marking Time, Meet, Met, Mirror, More Is the Pity, Mystery, Play the Game, Play With Fire, Plumb, Poetry and Poems, Pray For Grace, Remembers You, Riding Hard, Rinse and Repeat, Room Enough, Secret Rooms, Shadows, Shivers, Sorrow, Sphinx, Stay Alive, Throne, To the Bone, Today, Tombstone, Tomorrow, True, Unscathed, Visitors, Wandered Far, Watches, We All Die, Where | Leave a comment

Lessons From Tristan and Isolde

Posted on March 30, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Lessons From Tristan and Isoldeby Michael DoyleLove has been the subject of great mysteryThroughout all of mankind’s fabled historySometimes life’s lessons have become legendaryFrom Shakespeare to the Athenian tragedyIt’s true what a thing it is, this fine messThat mortals confess … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Athenian Tragedy, Behind, Born To Die, Camelot, Chivalry, Confess, Cornwall, Courage, Courtly Love, Exception, Excess, Expectation, Fabled History, Higher Sense of Love, Honor, Ideal, Inetepretation, Justice, Knightly Code of Conduct, Legendary, Lessons, Love, Mess, Mind, Minstrelsy, Moon and Star, Mystery, Poetry and Poems, Reputation, Shakespeare, Tristan and Isolde, True, Victory | Leave a comment

First Principles: Foreign Influence Is Truly the Grecian Horse To A Republic. We Cannot Be Too Careful To Exclude Its Influence

Posted on March 17, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic. We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence.” – Alexander Hamilton (1793)

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Alexander Hamilton, Careful, Exclude, First Principles, Foreign, Grecian, Horse, Influence, Republic, True | Leave a comment

Into Something More

Posted on February 17, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Into Something Moreby Michael DoyleStrive and fight for a better lifeFinding believed in utopia was naughtBut disappointment with hints of strifeIdeals purchased with bloodied tears soughtOnly to find these too lacking in the endAnd while life goes on, we cannot … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Affliction, Ancient, Beauty, Better Life, Cancer, Change, Comic Opera, Connection, Correction, Darkness, Disappointment, Dripping Poison, End, Faith, Flittering By, Follies, Foreign Shore, Full Circle, Gain, Grasp, Happiness, Hear, Humor, Hypocrisy, Ideals, Jaded, Judgment, Lack, Life Goes On, Light, Lives, Mercy, Mirror, Passing By, Penitent, Plead, Poetry and Poems, Poor, Prayers, Prevail, Purity of Reason, Pursuits, Repent, Right, Season, Society, Something More, Sought, Storied Legacy, Strange, Strife, Suffering, Tale, Trend, True, Trust, Utopia, Views, Voices, Yesterday | Leave a comment

A Penitent’s Tale Begins

Posted on February 9, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

A Penitent’s Tale Beginsby Michael DoyleWhat do we do then when we awakeTo find our life has been a mistakeWhat then is life if we do not growExamined questions offer answers yet to knowThere is greatness in the sum of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Awake, Begin, Bible, Draw, Examined Questions, Exile, God, Grow, Jerusalem, Jewish Insurgency, Know, Legacy, Lessons, Lore, Mistake, Penitent, Poetry and Poems, Rabbis, Read, Righteous, Speak, Tale, True, Wailing Wall, World's Sin, Yiddish | Leave a comment

First Principles: The Best and Only Safe Road To Honor, Glory, and True Dignity Is Justice

Posted on January 31, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“The best and only safe road to honor, glory, and true dignity is justice.” – George Washington (1779)

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Best, Dignity, First Principles, George Washington, Glory, Honor, Justice, Only, Road, Safee, True | Leave a comment

The Sting of A Yellow Jacket

Posted on January 27, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

The Sting of A Yellow Jacketby Michael DoyleNaughty narrative braids togetherA story of coming of age but betterTwo tracks made into one storyNeither of them qualifying for gloryHigh school drama can be brutalityEven without its incessant fatalityAs childhood comes to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anarchy, Anxieties, Apart, Barbarity, Brewing, Brutality, Campfire, Childhood, Cling, Coming of Age, Complexity, Dreams, Embers, Emotional Undoing, Ends, Fatality, Fingers, Friend, Gore, Growing Pains, Hierarchy, High School Drama, Hormones, Iconic, Indolence, Instability, Intentions, Ironic, Lethal Stew, Lingers, Losing Touch, Narrative, Naughty, Negotiation, Poetry and Poems, Process, Qualify, Question, Remembers, Scars, Simplicity, Smothered, Stars, Sting, Swore, Threads, Toxicity, Transforms, True, Two Tracks, Woods, Yellow Jacket | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Science Is More Than A Body of Knowledge; It is a Way of Thinking…When the People Have Lost the Ability to Knowledgably Question Those In Authority….

Posted on January 26, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Ability, Agendas, America, Authority, Body of Knowledge, Carl Sagan, Countries, Critical Faculties, Crystals, Darkness, Decline, Distinguish, Feels Good, Hands of A Very Few, Horoscopes, Issues, Key Manufacturing Services, Notice, Public Interest, Question, Science, Service and Information Economy, Slide, Superstition, Technological Powers, Thinking, Thought For the Day, Time, True, United States | Leave a comment