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Monthly Archives: October 2024
In the Shadows
In the Shadowsby Michael DoyleThe beginning was an image of allA modern miracle held in mystified aweUntil life’s illusion lost its intensityAnd the desire for death grew in complexityThe face of horror pulls at mankindAs though in this darkness we … Continue reading
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Tagged All, Angst, Audience, Awe, Beginning, Big Bang, Blood, Book of Satan, Charmingly Perverse, Children of the Night, Claw, Complexity, Creation and Destruction, Damnation, Darkness, Death, Desires, Diabolical Forces, Eternal Punishment, Face of Horror, Fear, Gasp, Good and Evil, Halloween, Image, Imagination, Immorality, Intensity, Joined, Leaves, Life's Illusion, Mankind, Mephisto, Metropolis, Mirrored Twin, Modern Miracle, Need, Night, Persevere, Plays For Laughs, Poetry and Poems, Power of Light, Protection, Proximity, Read, Rise, Rotting Glory, Salvation, Shadow, Shadows, Spirit of Darkness, Story, Substance, Talisman, Tears, The Crucifix, Together, Tread, Universe
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Affirmation
Affirmationby Michael DoyleThere’s a sound of freedomThat celebrates the kingdomThere is one thing understoodOur God is faithful and goodAll the good that is done In the name of the SonEvery answered prayer is an affirmationA shout of joy giving confirmationIn … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Affirmation, Answered Prayer, Broken Soul, Capable, Confirmation, Control, Faith, Free, Freedom, God, Gratitude, Heal, Heart, Heaven, Hell, Hold, King, Kingdom, Life, Lonely Road, Not Alone, Poetry and Poems, Right Attitude, Sing, Son, The Lord, Understood
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First Principles: The Boisterous Sea of Liberty Is Never Without A Wave
“The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.” – Thomas Jefferson (1820)
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Tagged Boisterous, First Principles, Liberty, Sea, Thomas Jefferson, Wave
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Happy Halloween 2024!!
May you and each of you have the happiest and spookiest of Halloween this year! From my family to yours, Happy Halloween 2024!!
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged 2024, Family, Happy, Happy Halloween, Spooky, Thought For the Day, You and Each of You
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Thought For the Day: Where There Is No Imagination There Is No Horror
“Where there is no imagination there is no horror.” – Arthur Conan Doyle
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Tagged Arthur Conan Doyle, Horror, Imagination, Thought For the Day, Where
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Divination
Divinationby Michael DoyleIs it true that only foolsCast aside all the rules?And what kind of wreckDoes life become living by the deck?A spooky basement points the directionThat reveals the cloth of divinationHand painted arcana mixes with astrologyIt is needed to … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Arcana, Astrology, Basement, Candle, Clarity, Coincidence, Combination, Crazy, Dark Art, Dark Design, Death and Darkness, Deception, Demonic Tale, Design, Desire, Direction, Divination, Drunken Children, Equal Weight, Evil, False Track, Fate, Fear, Fire, Fools, Forecast, Forsaken, Friends, Gasoline, Grow, Harshness, High Priestess, Impulse, Investigate, Lack of Control, Magician's Bag, Must, No Turning Back, Painted Glory, Path Undone, Pity, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Prevail, Priestess, Reading, Readings, Risk, Rules, Runaway Train, Sincerity, Spirituality, Story, Sympathy, Taken, Tarot, Tarot Deck, Tear, Traces, Tricks, True, Trust, Wait, Wreck, Wrong Light, Zodiac
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Thought For the Day: Double, Double Toil and Trouble; Fire Burn, and Cauldron Bubble
“Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.” – William Shakespeare ,Act 4, Scene 1of MacBeth
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Tagged Cauldron Bubble, Double, Fire Burn, Macbeth, Thought For the Day, Toil, Trouble, William Shakespeare
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First Principles: The Only Maxim of A Free Government Ought To Trust No Man Living With Power To Endanger the Public Liberty
“The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.” – John Adams, 2nd US president (30 Oct 1735-1826)
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Tagged Endanger, First Principles, Free Govenrment, John Adams, Maxim, Power, Public Liberty, Trust
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A Pastor’s Sorrow
A Pastor’s Sorrowby Michael DoyleSitting in church bringing our last weeksTo hear the Lord as the pastor speaksEmotions felt can be good and badThe moments of life can be happy and sadMoments of sorrow rock us to our coreThese are … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Church, Conditions, Core, Cry, Door, Emotion, Enter, Fall Down, Good and Bad, Happy and Sad, Help Us Grow, Know, Know the Score, Let Life Fly, Life Presses On, Moments of Life, Need, Pastor, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Rock, Sorrow, Speak, The Lord, Times, Tomorrow, Uncertain, Ways of Life, We Can Handle More, Week
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Thought For the Day: Should You Shield the Canyons From the Windstorms You Would Never See the True Beauty of Their Carvings
“Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.”- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
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Tagged Beauty, Canyon, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, See, Shield, Thought For the Day, Windstorm
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