Tag Archives: Vision

First Principles: Never Abandon Your Vision. Keep Reaching To Further Your Dreams

Posted on March 26, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Never abandon your vision. Keep reaching to further your dreams.” – Benjamin Banneker

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A Graduated Conflict of Morality

Posted on January 13, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

A Graduated Conflict of Moralityby Michael DoyleThe late 1960s were a time of generational conflictWith more moral questions than principles to inflictRestrictions on all the choices between the rightAnd wrong of what was needed to get through the nightTo some, … Continue reading →

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Modern Russian Violence

Posted on January 10, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Modern Russian Violenceby Michael DoyleAs time moves forward, leaving the 19th century behindOne still needs to understand a measure of the Russian mindThe war crimes in Ukraine will never be the finest hourThe Russian people have experienced as Putin growls … Continue reading →

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The World Is Full of Dreamers

Posted on December 2, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

The World Is Full of Dreamersby Michael DoyleThe world’s history is played out on stagesSome of which have filled a thousand pagesBut these pages are the stuff of unequal dreamsThose who dream by daylight do so as it seemsNot with … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Capable, Clarity, Daylight, Dreamers, History, Lawrence of Arabia, Leadership, Pages, Poetry and Poems, Possible, Stage, T.E. Lawrence, Unequal Dreams, Vanity, Vision, World | Leave a comment

The Singularity of the Immersive

Posted on October 28, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

The Singularity of the Immersiveby Michael DoyleThe virtual offers its trailing breadcrumbsPushing forward into spaces where the mind numbsThrough the effort of examining its potential The path walked has become quite consequential This platform of mixed media is greater than … Continue reading →

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The Freedom Agenda

Posted on September 16, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

The Freedom Agendaby Michael DoyleI read the headlines to my great consternationThat Newsome and others would change our constitutionThe thoughts of over my dead body come to mindIt’s time we leave such foolish thoughts behindIt’s not enough to simply win … Continue reading →

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In A Declaration of War

Posted on July 28, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

In A Declaration of Warby Michael DoyleTitans are unleashed in a visionDreamed without the requisite precisionTo dare to say what it really meansThis then is the way of such types of dreamsKing Hyperion seeks to rule over mankindBut as with … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: The United States and the Freedom For Which It Stands, the Freedom For Which They Died, Must Endure and Prosper

Posted on May 29, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“If words cannot repay the debt we owe these men, surely with our actions we must strive to keep faith with them and with the vision that led them to battle and final sacrifice.” “Our first obligation to them and … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: I Had A Terrible Vision: I Saw An Encyclopedia Walk Up To A Polymath and Open Him Up

Posted on April 30, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.” – Karl Kraus, writer (28 Apr 1874-1936)

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For Harry Belafonte (RIP: 3/1/27 – 4/25/23)

Posted on April 28, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

For Harry Belafonte (RIP: 3/1/27 – 4/25/23)by Michael DoyleUsing song as a tool for transformationHis soundtrack helped to change the nationNow Belafonte has died at the age of ninety-sixHis life having affirmed the need of too much to fixSo many, … Continue reading →

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