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A Purity of Feeling

Posted on June 7, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

A Purity of Feelingby Michael DoyleSailing along the sea Guided by a northern lightBecomes a willing collaborationTo reach our destinationSomewhere between the purityAnd the places of sheer beautyIs the presence utterly revealingConcealed inside the naked feelingProfound as it is somewhat … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: A Writer Needs Three Things, Experience, Observation, and Imagination, Any Two of Which, At Times Any One of Which, Can Supply the Lack of Others

Posted on September 25, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.” -William Faulkner, novelist (25 Sep 1897-1962)

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Thought For the Day: A Writer Is, After All, Only Half His Book. The Other Half Is the Reader and From the Reader the Writer Learns

Posted on August 9, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.” -P.L. Travers, author (9 Aug 1899-1996)

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Darkness Shapes the Hearts

Posted on October 21, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Darkness Shapes the Heartsby Michael DoylePutin sits as another dictator in a lineCertain his autocratic rule is blessed as divineThis has been the slavery of Russia’s serfdomWith brutality reigning supreme in this kingdomFor five thousand years, we’ve known epilepsy As … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Affliction, Ashen, Autocratic Rule, Believe, Betrayer, Blessed, Brothers Karamazov, Canker, Chained, Christianity, Civil Liberty, Cloak, Coincidence, Creativity, Cruelty, Dark Place, Darkness, Death, Definition, Demons, Dictator, Disease, Divine, Dostoevsky, Dubious Reputatin, Enigma, Epilepsy, Exceed, Father Zosima, Fight, Fool's Game, Freedoms, God Above, Good and Evil, Grasp, Greatest Miracle, Heart, Heresy, Holy, Initiation, Light, Line, Love, Masses, Mismatch, Mystery, Mysticism, Opiate, Photograph, Poem, Poietry, Preach, Protagonist, Pure, Putin, Questions, Quiet, Reason, Religion, Revolutionary, Riot, Russia, Russian Nation, Russian Soul, Serfdom, Shadow, Shape, Slavery, Super-Impose, Trappings, Treason, Unsure, Violence, Wastrel, Western Civilization, Wicked, Writer | Leave a comment

The Wolf Knows Its Howl

Posted on April 23, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Enforced surveillance and censorship of the creative mind, particularly by oppressive government is nothing short of a crime against humanity. The Wolf Knows Its Howl by Michael Doyle When a writer must be brave To memorize just to save The … Continue reading →

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Catch & Release

Posted on April 9, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Am I alone in seeing that the world has its moments of understated brilliance? Catch and Release by Michael Romani Writing to write, so it seems Is often the child of unknown dreams Miscast, recanted or fully embraced The soul … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Air, Annoucement, Ashes, Blink, Blossom, Brilliance, Catch, Child, Contrast, Crowd, Days, Deadpan, Deoor, Desire, Discipline, Disgrace, Dwell, Element, Embrace, Fire, Fisherman, Freeze Frame, Glory, Human Being, Impossible, Inhumanity, Lessons, Light, Limbo, Loop, Loud, Many, Miscast, Nights, One, Phase, Photograph, Phrase, Physics, Pieces, Poem, Poetry, Pronounce, Reality, Recant, Reflect, Release, Resemble, Resiliance, Scripture, Shaolin Fighter, Shatter, Silence, Singular, Skies, Soul, Stoop, Story, Super Power, Survivor, Teach, Truth, Typewriter, Unknown Dreams, War, Whisper, Write, Writer | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: A Writer Must Feel To Make the Reader Feel

Posted on March 26, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.” – Robert Frost, poet (26 Mar 1874-1963)

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Thought For the Day: To Be A Good Writer Be Direct, Clear and Simple First

Posted on March 12, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Anyone who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities, to be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid.” – H.W. Fowler, lexicographer (10 Mar 1858-1933)

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Thought For the Day: A Writer Who States There Is No Truth or That Truth Is Relative Should Not Be Believed

Posted on January 12, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is ‘merely relative,’ is asking you not to believe him. So don’t.” – Roger Scruton, Modern Philosophy: An Introduction and Survey

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Thought of the Day: To Write Well, Live Well

Posted on June 21, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.” – Francoise Sagan, playwright and novelist (21 Jun 1935-2004)

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