Tag Archives: Veneration

This Is the Baseline

Posted on October 12, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

This Is the Baselineby Michael DoyleThis This is the baselineMissed The punchline that was a signThat That showed us the worldAs Every dream was found fetal and curledMost stages of consciousnessAre degrees of insanityMirrored images of pretentiousnessHeld to the light … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Baseline, Breath, Bullet, Clear, Control, Death, Decision, Definition, Degrees, Dream, Error, Extractions, Faithful Soul, Fidelity, Flesh, Generation, Half Truth, Hit the Bottom, Insanity, Light, Memory, Mistakes, Outrun, Poetry and Poems, Precision, Pretentiousness, Primary Drive, Punchline, Real, Recognition, Situated, Stages of Consciousness, Struggle, System, Think and Feel, Trigger, Underneath, Vanity, Veneration, World | Leave a comment

Installation

Posted on September 25, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Installationby Michael DoyleIn this race of recurrenceMay we run it with enduranceThe baton passes in every generationThere is a strategy in this venerationLaying hands to pass authorityThis is the way of the legendaryTime passes in legs of this raceMaking changes … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged After, Authority, Baton, Change of Power, Embrace, Endurance, Family, Future, Generation, God, Hope, Installation, Joined Together, Layer, Laying Hands, Legendary, Legs, Life, Poetry and Poems, Prayers, Race, Raise, Reflect, Strategy, Veneration | Leave a comment

Passing It Down

Posted on August 28, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Passing It Downby Michael DoylePassing it down to the next generationHoping it might be held in venerationSharing openly our ways of instructionIn hopes that they would avoid destructionFrom child to child this is taughtTo do as we should and not … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accountability, Accounts, Acrimony, All Lands, Beginning and Ending, Confession, Consequence, Destruction, Dwell, Encouragement, Glory, God, Grow, Guidance, Ignorance, Instruction, Kingdom, Layer, Lessons, Lifting Up, Love of God, Mouth-To-Mouth, Next Generation, Obey, Pages, Passing It Down, Patiently, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Pressed, Purest Hearts, Pursuing, Relevance, Responsibility, Sages, Sanctificaiton, Satan, Satisfaction, Set Us Free, Sip, Taught, Teach, Touch, Tripping Up, True Wisdom, Truth, Veneration, Victory's Cup, Wages, Walk, Word of God, Wrong Doing | Leave a comment

Nihilistic Stumble Grumble

Posted on April 16, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Nihilistic Stumble Grumbleby Michael DoyleLife in all its historiesIs filled with a million mysteriesThings that might have gone betterWritten and unwritten, letter by letterWe find ourselves filling up the holesTrying to bring comfort to our soulsStepping in an avalanche pulling … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Avalanche, Best, Better, Comfort, Conquer, Detail, Dull Surprises, Frowns, God, Heartbreaks, History, Holes, Inner Demons, Letter, Life, Lost, Mistakes, Mortal Man, Mystery, Nihilistic, Pain, Passing the Test, Peace, Puzzle, Rear View, Reveal, Secret Plan, Smiles, Souls, Stumble Grumble, Thrill By Thrill, Troubled, Veneration, Will, Wish the Best, World | Leave a comment

Denunciation (of Joseph Brodsky)

Posted on January 15, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Denunciation (Of Joseph Brodsky)by Michael DoyleNo longer the young poet, but grown olderHe remained the lyric voice of his generationA social parasite who lived ever bolderAs an involuntary exile held in venerationTold he was pornographic and destroyed by an anxietyNot … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anxiety, Best, Bold, Breadth, Clarity, Cold Night, Condemn, Contempt, Crime, Dare, Denunciation, Destroy, Disguise, Embrace, Endless Space, Generation, Gray Breakers, Guardians, Guiding Light, Highest Degree, Honest Guise, Imbued, Inappropriate, Intensity, Involuntary Exile, Joseph Brodsky, Languages, Life, Lonely and Weary, Lyric, Lyrics, Maturity, Metaphysical, Mother Russia, Older, Poet, Poetry and Poems, Pornographic, Praise, Reality, Recant, Reflective, Roots, Schizophrenic, Sense, Short-Sighted, Social Parasite, Society, Soviet, The Authorities, Time, Transmission, Treat, Troubling, Truth, Understood, Velveteen Pants, Veneration, Voice, Western Literary Tradition, Words, Writing, Young | Leave a comment

Benign Neglect

Posted on October 25, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Benign Neglectby Michael DoyleThere is a benign neglectBehind “with all due respect”That cannot be missedEven when sealed by a Judas kissPassions passed down by generationSkills kept in venerationThe wrong path with correct conclusionStill feels like it is mass confusionHalf-remembered, glanced … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Battle, Benign, Conclusion, Confusion, Cry, Dying, Face, Feel, Forward, Generation, Gone, Guarantee, Humanity, Judas Kiss, Life, Mass, Missed, Neglect, Passions, Poetry and Poems, Sealed, Shame, Skills, Strength, Trace, Uncertainty, Veneration, Wrong Path | Leave a comment

Sure Hand of the Devil Dealt

Posted on June 23, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

The surest hand the Devil’s ever dealt is the deceit blotted out into the dark of night… Sure Hand of the Devil Dealt by Michael Doyle The bell tolls out into the black of night So little is seen in … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ancestors, Awaken, Bad Dreams, Bell, Bell Tower, Black of Night, Bought, Candle, Cast, Child, Conceal, Cost, Crucifix, Danger, Darker Things, Deal, Dealt, Destiny, Devil, Diabolical, Dice, Door, Embrace, Face, Feeling, Felt, Flicker, Footsteps, Generation, Hand, History, Howl, Hurt, Inspection, Know, Less, Light, Locked, Locked Door, Lost, Lurk, Masque, Mind, Night, Nightmares, Old Village, Past, Persistence, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Present, Prison, Protection, Real, Reason, Reget, Reward, Saint, Search, Seen, Shadow, Shatter, Sins, Sky, Slam, Stab, Startle, Submerge, Sure, Surest Hand, Toll, Truth, Urge, Veneration, Vision, Wall, Ward, Whisper, Winds | Leave a comment

First Principles: A Love of Truth and A Veneration of Virtue Are the Latent Spark For People Capable of Understanding

Posted on April 23, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. These amiable passions, are the “latent spark”… If … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Advocate, Amiable Passions, Apply, Difference, Feel, First Principles, Friends of Mankind, Human Nature, Indignation, Injury, John Adams, Latent Spark, Liberty, Love, Novanglus, Prinicple, Resentment, Right and Wrong, See, Sense, The People, True and False, Truth, Understanding, Veneration, Virtue, Virtue and Vice, Wrong | Leave a comment

Turbo Charged

Posted on April 9, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

American History continues through the Kennedy presidency. Turbo Charged by Michael Doyle Nixon versus Kennedy; election 1960 Workhorse versus glamor; it hits me That the sleek athleticism of the New Frontier Was as distinctive as this election year The torch … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 1960, Affirmation, All Men Are Created Equal, American, American History, Assassination, Athlete, Bigotry, Calculation, Camelot, Charge, Chin, Christian, Civil Rights, Creed, Criticism, Cuban Missile Crisis, Dead, Death, Discipline, Duty, Election, Era, Essence, Expert, Fight, Flair, Founding Principles, Full Stop, Generation, Glamor, Hard Peace, Human Rights, John F Kennedy, Keynesian, Lead, Lee Harvey Oswald, Liberty, Lunar Landing, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr, Mean, Mellon, Message, Midnight, Missiles, Nation, Negotiate, New Frontier, Noble, Nuclear, Optimism, Paradox, Participation, Past, Peaceful Resistance, Persistence, Phototgraph, Piety, Poem, Poetry, Policy, Posterity, Presidency, Pressure, Price, Prosperity, Richad M Nixon, Sad, Segregation, Sobering Effect, Social Change, Soviets, Taxaation, Thought, Torch, Trouble Spots, Turbo, Two Minutes, Unity, USSR, Veneration, Workhorse, World | Leave a comment

Dead Letter

Posted on March 21, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Some folks like to call history a dead letter. I really don’t understand this. Dead Letter by Michael Romani The past is never a dead letter But something we should study together Every generation rewrites the past And from … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bank, Be, Carry On, Continue, Danger, Dead Letter, Draw, Erupt, Extraordinary, Feet, Future, Generation, Give, Glory, Heroism, History, Incongruity, Knowledge, Learn, Ledge, Lesson, Lifeline, Live, Moments, Offer, Past, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prove, Science, Silent, Story, Stranger, Study, Sustainability, Take, Teach, Think, Time, Trouble, Understand, Veneration | Leave a comment