Tag Archives: Voyage

Happy Is Man’s Unknown Door

Posted on August 8, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Happy Is Man’s Unknown Doorby Michael DoyleI see it thereIn your eyes.How life has taught,Making you more wise.Much of life Comes to us by surprise.Happy are those Who live past probable demise.Happy is the man who lives,Rising up from life’s … Continue reading →

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Questioning the Process

Posted on May 29, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Questioning the Processby Michael DoyleIn and out of our lives, we hearThose thoughts around us that persevere.Pushing and prodding us with possibility,And we gravitate toward what has plausibility.There are no promises, only process.We take our nibbles here and there to … Continue reading →

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A Void of Emptiness

Posted on March 9, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

A Void of Emptinessby Michael DoyleApproaching the study of the edges of space Has only begun as technology sets the paceFor the time, it must be studied in deferenceAs it is a humbling, character-building experienceThe stars we watch are like … Continue reading →

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To London, Across the Sea

Posted on June 15, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

A further retelling of Dracula in poetic form: To London, Across the Sea by Michael Doyle In a tested game of chess A knight is menacing a queen The losing side will confess What this really means A voyage has … Continue reading →

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Sailing An Impersonal Apocalypse

Posted on May 14, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

I heard an interesting global reading of Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. From this contrasted with the pandemic lockdown came: Sailing An Impersonal Apocalypse by Michael Doyle As is the way of many a hero’s journey Enduring the … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: Every Day Is a New Beginning and Every Sunset Is Merely the Latest Milestone On A Voyage That Never Ends

Posted on March 23, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“Every day is a new beginning and every sunset is merely the latest milestone on a voyage that never ends.” – Ronald Reagan

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Begin, Day, End, Every, Milestone, Never, New, Ronald Reagan, Sunset, Thought For the Day, Voyage | Leave a comment

A Vancouverite Current

Posted on April 15, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

The Na/GloPoWriM0 Day 15 challenge is to provide a Robert Brown or Shakespearian styled monologue sort of a poem. I opted for a redo on Hamlet’s “To Be or Not To Be” monologue. Kind of.. I opted for happy thoughts not … Continue reading →

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First Reasons Lost

Posted on March 25, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

What becomes of our individual worlds when our first reasons are lost? First Reasons Lost by Michael Romani First reasons have been lost And with that loss comes a cost The giving up when it becomes Too much to be … Continue reading →

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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: 1001 Nights – Second Voyage of Sinbad

Posted on February 6, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

We have previously discussed both 1001 Nights as well the tale of Sinbad. This part tells the story of how he came to the land of the rocs and how Sinbad found a way to make a fortune in diamonds. … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged 1001 Nights, Diamond, Harvard Classics, Roc, Sailor, Sinbad, The Arabian Nights, Voyage | Leave a comment

Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: Virgil’s The Aeneid, Book 5

Posted on October 11, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

Due pressing time to get to other events that are necessities tonight such as visiting with my eldest daughter after her first canoe trip, let me suffice this to say we have discussed Virgil and The Aeneid previously. The Aendeid, … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Epic, Harvard Classics, Rome, The Aeneid, Troy, Virgil, Voyage | Leave a comment