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It’s Sublime
It’s Sublimeby Michael DoyleDisappearing moments spentIn all of my hours lentI walk along the wooded trailsThinking about all of life’s talesI watch with quiet fascinationAs all of the glory of creationPraise His holy nameAs he lifts up, even the lameWalking … Continue reading
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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Thought For the Day: The Kind of Beauty I Want Most Is the Hard-To-Get Kind That Comes From Within – Strength, Courage, Dignity
“The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within – strength, courage, dignity.” – Ruby Dee
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Tagged Beauty, Courage, Dignity, Hard-To-Get, Kind, Ruby Dee, Strength, Thought For the Day, Within
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Shifting Through the Ashes
Shifting Through the Ashesby Michael DoyleStanding here talking close togetherYou say it’s for worse or for betterShifting through the ashes of an argumentCan you tell me, baby, where the money’s spent?You laugh and concede it as a steady needWaiting for … Continue reading
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Tagged Above the Skies, Alone, Angels of Fortune, Ashes, Ashes of An Argument, Beauty, Better, Bitterness, Child, Child of the sun, Collide, Conceal, Concede, Connect, Constellations, Danger, Doom, Drink, Echo, Emptiness, Eyes, Falling Stars, False Idol, Fascination, Fire's Glow, Follow, Games, God of Wishful Thinking, Gorgeous, Guess, Hand, Held, Her Man, Hide, Ignore, In the End, Inside, Joy For Life, Laugh, Lies, Likes To Look Good, Lips, Long, Love, Money, Need, Nexus, Pleasd, Poetry and Poems, Pretend, Pride, Ramble, Shadow, Shift, Stand, Star Maps, Stranger's Room, Talk, Together, Too Late, Trick, Truth, Two, Woman, Worse
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I Thought Myself An Eagle
I Thought Myself An Eagleby Michael DoyleI thought myself an eagleAnd built me a nest in solitudeAbove where I could watch beautyAnd very few might intrudeThe disappointments I’ve knownHave dried up my springs of hopeI retreat to that comfort shownAnd … Continue reading
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Tagged Absence of Love, Atone, Beauty, Broken, Comfort, Complement, Connection, Cope, Decision, Defect, Disappointments, Discovery, Eagle, Heart, Hope, Hypertensive World, Imagination, Inside Myself, Intrude, Jouney, Known, Leap of Faith, Life, Moments, Music, My Love, Nest, Notes, Own, Poetry and Poems, Precision, Private Sins, Pulled Apart, Refuge, Retreat, Revea;, Right Direction, Rote, Search, Secrets, Shattered, Shelter, Shown, Solitude, Soul, Spoken, Springs of Hope, Steady Eyes, Surprise, Survive, Talk, Thought, Times, Walk, Watch, Wordless Words, Would-Be Travelers
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Thought For the Day: Yesterday We Obeyed Kings and Bent Our Necks Before Emperors. But Today We Kneel Only To Truth, Follow Only Beauty, and Obey Only Love
“Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.” – Kahlil Gibran, mystic, poet, and artist (6 Jan 1883-1931)
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Tagged Beauty, Emperor, Follow, Kahlil Gibran, Kings, Kneel, Love, Necks, Obey, Thought For the Day, Today, Truth, Yesterday
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A Road of Traveled Story
A Road of Traveled Storyby Michael DoyleThis universe isn’t made of cosmic dustThough we all depend on God as we mustThis universe is a road of traveled gloryEach of us has our own part in this storyGiven our roles, we … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Angel, Answer, Beautiful Mind, Beauty, Blind, Broken Arrow, Challenges, Choice, Choices, Cosmic Dust, Crash, Cure, Dark, Days, Decision, Devil's Train, Door, Duty, Fate, Friends, God, Gypsy Tears, Hate, Hope, Hurt, Imprisoned, Life, Light, Love, Mine, Morning, Narrow, Night, Opportunity, Own Part, Poetry and Poems, Power, Prism, Refrain, Road, Roles, Shine, Sighted, Sky, Still Live, Story, Time, Traveled Story, True Love, Ugly, Universe, Veil, Voice, Walls, Ways, Weight, Years
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Thought For the Day: Kindness Is Like Snow – It Beautifies Everything It Covers
“Kindness is like snow—it beautifies everything it covers.” – Kahlil Gibran
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Tagged Beauty, Cover, Kahlil Gibran, Kindness, Snow, Thought For the Day
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Like Flowers In A Vase
Like Flowers In A Vase (For Joni Mitchell)by Michael DoyleBlonde hair and a long silhouetteA beautiful voice, unforgotten yetLife’s so short and makes us numbBeauty like this is what we becomeA voice for her generationHeld by many with great venerationA … Continue reading
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Tagged Beautiful Voice, Beauty, Become, Blonde Hair, Circumspection, Clouds, Declarative, First-Person Narrative, Flowers, Generation, Hesitation, Introspection, Involved, Joni Mitchell, Known, Lady Blue, Life, Madmen and Badmen, Memory, Numb, Poetry and Poems, Point of View, Question, Short, Shown, Silhouette, Sus Chords, Taken For Granted, True, Truth, Unforgotten, Unresolved, Vase, Veneration, Voice, Words
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Moonbow Symphony
Moonbow Symphonyby Michael DoyleMy daughters and I are proneTo take all-day drivesPreferably together, not aloneTo feel the peace of being aliveLast weekend, early on SaturdayOur packed-up SUV got underwayThe goal was to see the MoonbowTo Cumberland Falls, we would goLexington … Continue reading
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Tagged Adventure, Alive, All-Day Drives, Beautiful Phenomenon, Beauty, Blaze, Bluegrass, Breeze, Colors, Crowd, Cumberland Falls, Cumberland Gap, Daniel Boone, Daughters, Days, Design, Expected, Forest Green, Goal, Gray, High, Horses, Ledgge, Lexington, Lifestyle, Light, Luck, Magic, Mist, Moon, Moonbow, Moonbow Symphony, Mystified, Nature, Night, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Presence, Rainbow, Rejected, River, Saturday, Second To None, Serene, Silver, Sky, Spectral Bridge, Sun, SUV, Toes, Together, Travel, Water's Edge, Waterfalls, White
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