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The Struggle To Get It Right
The Struggle To Get It Rightby Michael DoyleGetting right with God in every wayIs an explanation made every dayTo see what we believe and understandAnd what it means to study what God commandsThe soundest study is done creativelyAs we openly … Continue reading
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Tagged Believe, Conform, Conformance, Depravity, Every Way, Explanation, Faith, Get It Right, God, God Commands, God's Embrace, God's Grace, Gospel, Humanity, Measure, Performance, Poetry and Poems, Reemption, Righteous, Sin, Struggle, Study, The Law, Treasure, Understand
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Slipstream of History
Slipstream of Historyby Michael DoyleSeven cycles in a stream of errorsThe collaboration of history might be seenIn terms of a series of erasAs these are experienced by human beingsIt feels like a long time in the comingAs we waited in … Continue reading
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Tagged Ages, Civilization, Collaboration of History, Cycles, Echo Chamber, Eras, Errors, Experience, Flaw, Frame, Game, History, Mourning of Yesterday, Nowhere, Pages, Pensive Mood, Poetry and Poems, Reason, Rise and Fall, Slipstream, Two Coins
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It’s There In A Song Somewhere
It’s There In A Song Somewhereby Michael DoyleYou can find it in the record-spinning roundThere in the melody is where it is foundListen carefully to the words of the songYou’ll find the truth of our love where it belongsWhere this … Continue reading
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Tagged Above, Beauty, Become One, Belongs, Below, Bended Knee, Beside, Best Friend, Best Life, Bliss, Complete, Connection, Cure, Dream, Dreams, Expressed, Eyes Meet, Face, Floating In the Air, Flowers, Found, Garden, Hair, Implore, Lasting Trace, Love, Matching Stride, Meet, Melody, More, Never Become Undone, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Record, Roses, Same Direction, Shine, Side-By-Side, Silvery Moon, Smile, Somehow, Somewhere, Song, Strife, Sweet, Sweet Fragance, The Together of Happiness, Think, Thought, Time, Truth of Our Love, Two Hearts, Two Souls, Walk Through, Walk Together, Words, World
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No Victim of My Circumstances
No Victim of My Circumstancesby Michael DoyleOn the mountains, in the sun raysIt’s your name that I praiseIn the green valley far belowIt is all your creation, and I knowSharing what I know of your graceThese are you living ways … Continue reading
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Tagged Blessings, Blood of Jesus Christ, Born, Cheer, Circumstances, Clear, Creation, Darkness, Days, Deeds, Embrace, Fear, Flow, Follow, Grace, Green Valley, Heart, Know, Lead, Light, Living Ways, Lord of My Life, Mountains, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Reins, Share, Source, Sun Rays, The God of Second Chances, Veins, Victim, Victory, World, Your Love, Your Name
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Something Behind the Small Talk
Something Behind the Small Talkby Michael DoyleThere is something raw behind the front linesThere, we hide behind the showoffs and mimesLost in the awkwardness that blocks our conversationsWe stand aloof, hiding our secret sense of fascinationWe wish we could shape … Continue reading
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Tagged Aawkwardness, Aloof, Balk, Body Language, Compulsion, Conversation, Darkness, Expert, Fascination, Feeling Dead, Feels, Fractured Hope, Front Lines, Gods and Iolds, Harshness, Lost, Poetry and Poems, Raw, Read, Real, Revulsion, Running In Place, Showoffs and Mimes, Silent Desperation, Small Talk, Something, Stream
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Love In America
Love In Americaby Michael DoyleAmerica’s love can seem a bit of fecklessnessFilled as it is with a bit of recklessnessTeenaged angst of not wishing to cry anymoreThe heartbreak is equitable among rich and poorSo many wish they could leave it … Continue reading
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Tagged All Ways, Angst, Bewilderment, Confrontation, Cry, Fantasy, Fecklessness, Fine Ideal, Heartbreak, Love In America, Movie Screen, Passing Days, Poetry and Poems, Recklessness, Rich and Poor, Romance, Stay, Strength, Superhuman Ecstacy, Valentine's Day, Wish
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Our Valentine’s Biggest Mistake
Our Valentine’s Biggest Mistakeby Michael DoyleAs we lay around our houses like cantankerous catsIn the cold winter months, it’s easy to gain fatEach of us finding refrigerated delicacies late nightEntertained as we snuggle by the television lightIn our January resolutions … Continue reading
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Tagged Allowed, Appetites, Bake, Brownies, Candy Hearts and Chocolates, Cantankerous Cats, Chocolate Chips, Cloud, Cookies and Treats, Delicacies, Discipline, Dour, Eat, Effort, Entertained, Fat, Gain Inches, Gains, Gluttony, Goodies, Healthy, House, January Resolutions, Late Night, Limit, Lose Ground, Make America Healthy Again, Middle of Winter, Mistake, More, Morning, Nibble, Night After Night, Poetry and Poems, Prevail, Pushing These Away, Scale, Score, Sedentary Ways, Sin, Skies, Snuggle, Somewhere, Summer, Television, Urge, Valentine's, Valentine's Day, Win, Winter, Wonder, Younger Days
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Avarice and Vice
Avarice and Viceby Michael DoyleIn this workaday world, we barely muddle throughWe worry about our own lives more than justice dueOur duty is more toward the good of our own familyThan to worry about every nuance of societyIf another man … Continue reading
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Tagged Avarice and Vice, Choice, Constructs, Define, Destruct, Duty, Family, Fate, Fathers Kingdom, Guilt and Innocence, Guilty Place, Hang, Hell On Earth, Justice, Lives, Love or Hate, Magnify, Mercy, Muddled Grace, Philosophy, Poetry and Poems, Price, Purpose, Refine, Reflect, Society, Surface, The Good, Truth, Veneer, Vise, Voice, Workaday World
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History Dignifies the Presidents
History Dignifies the Presidentsby Michael DoyleOn this Presidents Day, a few comments are deservedAs we look back on nation as it is preservedTrue to the faith of our republic’s sovereignty Is the struggle to keep our nation’s dignityOur story is … Continue reading →