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Moments Like John Muir
Moments Like John Muirby Michael DoyleSometimes, the city’s too many facesIt makes me dream of faraway placesWhere my heart can fade into the nightTraces of beauty replace blinding lightTimes in the wilderness are best for meSometimes, it’s a matter of … Continue reading
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Tagged Beauty, Best Moments, Blinding Light, Body and Soul, Bouquet, Build, City, Clarity, Cool Streams, Country, Dirt Paths, Doorway, Dream, Face, Faraway Places, Forest, Glens, Good, Good Tidings, Heal, Heart, Hidden Country, Jagged Edge, John Muir, Moments, Mountain Peaks, Mountains, Necessity, Night, Passing Days, Peace, Pines, Play, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Restore, Return, Sanctuary, Scent, Seek, Shaken, Sincerity, Stay, Strife, Stroll, Times, Trace, Unmistaken, Wilderness, Wildflowers, Wilds, Woods
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Light And Darkness
Light and Darknessby Michael DoyleI approach my inner self with intimationLooking for deeper thoughts of originationSo much of who I am comes from ancestral careThen living life as bold as I might dareWheels spin inside on subjects of light and … Continue reading
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Tagged Accept, Ancestral Care, Approach, Beauty, Best, Boundless Feelings, Dare, Deeper Thoughts, Express, Eyes, Failure, Imagination, Impractical Hopes, Indulging, Inner Self, Intimation, Lashing Out, Light and Darkness, Light and Sight, Living Inside, Living Life, Mastery, Origination, Pen to Paper, Perfection, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Right, Self-Examined, Stretch, Struggle, Subject, Success, Surprise, Thoughts, Truth, Vitality, Wheels, World's Harshness
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Thought For the Day: The Best People Possess A Feeling For Beauty, the Courage To Take Risks, the Discipline To Tell the Truth, the Capacity for Sacrifice
“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.” – Ernest Hemingway, author and … Continue reading
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Tagged Beauty, Best People, Capacity, Courage, Destroyed, Discipline, Ernest Hemingway, Feeling, Ironic, Possess, Risks, Sacrifice, Thought For the Day, Truth, Virtues, Vulnerable, Wounded
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Thought For the Day: We Are Not To Reflect On the Wickedness of Men But To Look To the Image of God In Them
“We are not to reflect on the wickedness of men but to look to the image of God in them, an image which, covering and obliterating their faults, an image which, by its beauty and dignity, should allure us to … Continue reading
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Tagged Allure, Beauty, Cover, Dignity, Embrace, Fault, Image of God, Institutes of the Christian Religion, John Calvin, Love, Men, Obliterate, Reflect, Thought For the Day, Wickedness
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Through the Years
Through the Yearsby Michael DoyleAlive somewhere in all my ADHDI sometimes walk right into meWhen I do, in times like thisI find there isn’t much to missI have always tried to be my bestStretching myself to meet my testsHead-on collisions … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Adapt, ADHD, Alive, Assurance, Beauty, Belong, Best, Blessing, Box of Cookies, Degrees, Drum, Gloom, God We Know, Godly, Gratitude, Guessing, Head On Collision, Hotel Room, Imagination, Indignation, Known, Learning, Lessons, Life Passes On, Love, Miss, Moonage Daydream, Movie Screen, Myself and Daughters, Overcome, Path of Life, Patience, Patient, Pensive, Please, Poetry and Poems, Princsses, Sensitive, Sharing Moments, Small Town, Smile, Sorrow and Silence, Stretch, Strive, Strong, Struggle, Suffering, Survive, Test, Think, Through the Years, Trapped, Turn Out Right, Walk, World, Wrong
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Thought For the Day: The Future Belongs To Those Who Believe In the Beauty of Their Dreams
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
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Tagged Beauty, Believe, Belong, Dreams, Eleanor Roosevelt, Future, Thought For the Day
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Nature and Dignity Earned
Nature and Dignity Earnedby Michael DoyleThere’s a quiet in natureThat you won’t find in the cityIt helps you to think and matureLearning what is and isn’t prettyThis is especially true of the soulAs you learn the value of self-controlBeing where … Continue reading
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Tagged Beauty, Born To Be, Chance, Circumstance, City, Critical Moments, Danger, Decide, Deserve, Dignity Earned, Discern, Experience, Eyes, Face-To-Face, Felt, Give, Grace, Heart, Humility, Imprint, Known, Learn, Live, Lives, Master Ourselves, Mature, Meant, Nature, Observe, Outcome, Paths, Places, Poetry and Poems, Pretty, Quiet, See, Self-Control, Shown, Soul, Stars, Start, Step, Teach, Think, Traces, True, Value, Wish
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Newport Aquarium
Newport Aquariumby Michael DoyleAs though a knight eager on his questI, as a father, find little need to restInstead, I eagerly undertake a two-hour driveGlad to teach my daughters and feel aliveThough I wish I could take them to the … Continue reading
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Tagged Accidentally Learn, Aquarium, Beauty, Care, Cared, Challenges, Class, Daughters, Dimming, Diversity, Dreams, Drive, Endless Miles, Expereince, Father, Gentle Traces, Glass, History, Imagination, Knight, Learn, Lessons, Miles, Minds, Museums, newport, Newport Aquarium, Ocean, Poetry and Poems, Preference, Princess Smiles, Quest, Remember, Revealed, rhode-island, Served Their Love Well, Share, Shared, Shore, Smiles, Swimming, Tale, Taught Them Well, Together, Travel
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A Sultry Obsession
A Sultry Obsessionby Michael DoyleSince an early age, I have had a sultry obsessionWith a kind of magic that cannot be held in possessionCleaning up after others was maybe not so wonderfulBut it was doing my bit to keep our … Continue reading
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Tagged Acknowledge, Appreciation, Balance, Beauty, Camera, Camera's Eye, Capture, Cleaner, Cleaning Up, College, Country Roads, Crisp Morning Air, Days, Doing My Bit, Early Age, Effot, Feeling, First Touch, Forever, Gaze, God's Creation, Humanity's Ability, Keep Our American Beautiful, Kind of Magic, Knowledge, Lifetime Later, Meaner, Mountains, Nature, Never Truly Alone, Once Again, Please, Pledge, Poetry and Poems, Possession, Prairies, Real Home, Return the Care, Science, Share, Sultry Obsession, Sunny Days, Sunshine, Trash Bags, Trees, Walk, Water Ways, Wonderful, World, World Kin
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