Tag Archives: Words

Na/GloPoWriMo #3: Words That Sound Good

Posted on April 3, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Words That Sound Goodby Michael DoyleThere is a bit of something That is eloquently rapped into nothingThat there are words that just sound goodAnd go together well like they shouldIt’s a bit of the simplicity That is found inside the … Continue reading →

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Na/GloPoWriMo Day 2: Scattered From A Hillside

Posted on April 2, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Na/GloPoWriMo Day 2: Scattered From A Hillsideby Michael DoyleTwo papers and a PowerPoint in a dayMakes me wonder about coming unraveledAs I go back to college again to find my wayPerhaps this can serve as my road less travelledA friend … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: Without Deviation, Without Exception, Without Any Ifs, Buts, or Whereases, Freedom of Speech Means That You Shall Not Do Something To People Either For Views They Express, Or the Words They Speak Or Write

Posted on April 1, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“Without deviation, without exception, without any ifs, buts, or whereases, freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they express, or the words they speak or write.” – Justice Hugo L. Black … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Here Comes the Orator! With His Flood of Words, and His Drop of Reason

Posted on March 12, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“Here comes the orator! With his flood of words, and his drop of reason.” – Benjamin Franklin (1735)

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First Principles: Without Continual Growth and Progress, Such Words As Improvement, Achievement and Success Have No Meaning

Posted on January 2, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.” – Benjamin Franklin

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An Incident of Oxford Compilation

Posted on December 25, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

An Incident of Oxford Compilationby Michael DoyleIn my mind gathered so silentlyI pray against evil so vigilantlyIn the darkness of a blind alleyLost among the madmen in the galleryThough words come at me namedLanguage itself will not be tamedIt grows … Continue reading →

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I, Noelle

Posted on December 18, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

I, Noelleby Michael DoyleGrowing up there was nothing as pleasantAs waiting on Christmas Eve for presentsHe was like a lamb to metaphorical slaughterAs I snuck up on my Santa Claus fatherAs his daughter, there was much prideExcept for the part … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Big Year, Cheer, Children, Chimney, Choice, Christmas Day, Christmas Eve, Complete Perfection, Dasher, Daugther, Destiny, Detail, Doing Well, Father, Feeling, Getaway, God, Growing Up, Hope, Lamb, Look, Magic, Me, Merry Gentlemen, Metaphor, Morning Light, New Direction, Noelle, Phoenix, Photograph, Pleasat, Poetry and Poems, Presents, Pride, Promise, Pushed Aside, Rest, Santa Claus, Shining, Silent Night, Sled, Snowy Night, Snuck Up, Spinning, Tale, Tragic, We, Without Presents, Words | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: For All Sad Words of Tongue and Pen, the Saddest Are These, “It Might Have Been”

Posted on December 17, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been’.” – John Greenleaf Whittier, poet (17 Dec 1807-1892)

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Attached In Meaning

Posted on December 4, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Attached In Meaningby Michael DoyleWords are mainly symbolsSomething that vaguely resemblesAn agreement between we human beingsAs to what it is that we are meaningWe need a little less of the dictionaryAs we each act out our own PictionaryOf all that … Continue reading →

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Two of A Pair

Posted on November 8, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Two of A Pairby Michael DoyleThat life would change and I’d be blessedWas something, I’d never have guessedUntil that day you looked my lonely wayLeaving me breathless and hoping to sayThat there might come some magical dayWhen I knew that … Continue reading →

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