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Some Eyes Blaze
Some Eyes Blazeby Michael DoyleIn some passing instances,There is a reach of circumstances.We let it pass amusedThat it’s customary to feel abused.There’s a sense of brutalityAnd it prevades our family.We laugh at ourselves and cruelty,Uncertain how these things become banality.Some … Continue reading
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Tagged Abused, Amused, Banality, Blaze, Brutality, Circumstance, Conversation, Customary, Eyes, Family, Immensity, Instance, Intensity, Laugh, Less Capable, Poetry and Poems, Uncertain
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Thought For the Day: If You Enjoy the Fragrance of A Rose, You Must Accept the Thorns Which It Bears
“If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.” – Isaac Hayes
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Tagged Enjoment, Fragrance, Isaac Hayes, Rose, Thorns, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: Economic Depression Cannot Be Cured By Legislative Action or Executive Pronouncement. Economic Wounds Must Be Healed By the…Producers and Consumers Themselves
“Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body – the producers and consumers themselves.” – Herbert Hoover Or as FDR discovered by … Continue reading
Jonah’s Whale of A Tale
Jonah’s Whale of A Taleby Michael DoyleJonah and the Whale tells the storyOf how even reluctance comes to glory.Jonah was a prophet that God spoke throughTo teach the Israelites what to do.Jonah’s life was an illustrationSpoken of for its simple … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible, Compression, Confrontation, Consequence, Escape, Faith, Glory, God, Hear, Heed, Humanity, Illustration, Israelites, Jesus, Jonah, Lesson One, Lessons, Poetry and Poem, Presence, Prophet, Reach, Reluctance, Sea, Storm, Tale, Teach, Toward, Truth, Vanity, Whale, Wisdom
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Thought For the Day: Adam Hid In the Garden of Eden. Moses Tried To Substitute His Brother. Jonah Jumped A Boat and Was Swallowed By A Whale…Man Likes To Run From God
Adam hid in the Garden of Eden. Moses tried to substitute his brother. Jonah jumped a boat and was swallowed by a whale…Man likes to run from God. It’s a tradition. – Mitch Albom
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Tagged Adam, Boat, Brother, Garden of Eden, God, Hid, Jonah, Mankind, Mitch Albom, Moses, Run, Subsitution, Thought For the Day, Whale
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First Principles: To the Roots of the Mountains I Sank Down; the Earth Beneath Barred Me In Forever. But You, Lord My God, Brought My Life Up From the Pit
“To the roots of the mountains I sank down; the earth beneath barred me in forever. But you, LORD my God, brought my life up from the pit.” – Jonah 2:6
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Tagged First Principles, Forever, Jonah 2:6, Life, Lord, Mountain, My God, Pit, Roots, Sank Down, The Earth
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Spinning Wheel Spun
Spinning Wheel Spunby Michael DoyleWhen the wheel is spunAnd you look at what you’ve wonYou find the truth in what has been doneAt the end of it, you’re number one.The crowd gets overly loud, But you know that it’s allowed.You … Continue reading
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Tagged "The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted." - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799), Allowed, Done, Dream, Game, Hustle, Lights, Loaded Dice, Number One, Poetry and Poems, Rock-n-Roll Circus, Scene, Show, Spinning Wheel, Spun, Street, Sympathy, Symphony, The Crowd, Twice, Wheel, Won
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Thought For the Day: It Is Strange How Often A Heart Must Be Broken Before the Years Can Make It Wise
“It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.” – Sarah Teasdale It is the anniversary of Sarah Teasdale’s birth.
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Tagged Broken, Heart, Sarah Teasdale, Strange, Thought For the Day, Wise, Years
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First Principles: Do Not Wait; the Time Will Never Be ‘Just Right.’ Start Where You Stand, and Work With Whatever Tools You May Have At Your Command, and Better Tools Will Be Found As You Go Along
“Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.” – George Herbert
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Tagged Command, First Principles, Found, George Herbert, Go Along, Just Right, Stand, Start, Time, Tools, Wait, Work
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Celebrity Wife (Celebrity Life)
Celebrity Wife (Celebrity Life)by Michael DoyleHe says he loves her modesty,But he won’t allow her the dignityOf choosing how she’ll dress.Her makeup is smeared into a mess.Going out in public on her own,Sitting on the grass and not her throne,Allows … Continue reading
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Tagged Allowance, Celebration, Celebrity Life, Celebrity Wife, Conception, Dance, Deception, Dignity, Dress, Fragility, Goddess, Human Being, Imagination, Lights, Little Lies, Makeup, Modesty, Nights, Personal Taste, Poetry and Poems, Public, Rock Star, Speak, Spoken, Throne, Waste
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