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Oblique Stare
Oblique Stareby Michael DoyleI looked up in an oblique stareUpward into that cold ceilingFighting with God in my prayerHoping that my wish would be prevailingTwo daughters stood near by my sideI was not ready to leave behindAnd to my Lord, … Continue reading
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Tagged Adore, Another Day, Behind, Brave, Cold Ceiling, Confide, Cry, Daily Meditation, Deserve, Die, Fight, Forgiven, Given, God, Hear Me, Love, Medication, Mercy, My God, My Life, My Lord, Oblique Stare, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Prevail, Question, Respect, Take My Life, Thankful, Time, Two Daughters, Understood, Wish, Year Later, Yours
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To Catch A Falling Star
To Catch A Falling Starby Michael DoyleSometimes I feelThis is not my worldI find myself searchingLooking for the doorThat will lead me awayFrom this wrong worldAnd to a place I belongFrom the ashes of yesterdayI feel as if I must … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Ashes, Behind, Belong, Blaze, Catch, Counting Stars, Damage Done, Determination, Door, Endless Blessing, Escape, Fade, Falling Star, Feel, Flee, Know, Lead, Night, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Rain Down, Remember, Run, Search, Skies, Suffering, Sunset, Trace, World, Wrong World, Yesterday
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A Cry for Uvalde
A Cry for Uvaldeby Michael DoyleSomewhere beyond a world of feelingIs the way of knowing healingThese are the times for being an exampleThe differences made will be ampleFighting not with fists but with prayerPeeling back the onion of life, layer … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Actions, Alone, Ample, Beautiful Souls, Behind, Belief, Best Fights, Blame, Bullied, Burnt to the Ground, Candlelight, Community, Cornerstone, Cruelly Dealt, Cry, Cuentas, Dead, Differences Made, Dificil, Disease, Dreams, Every Day, Every Single Day, Example, Faces, Faith, Families, Fault Is His, Favorite Songs, Feeling, Felt, Fight the Good Fight, Fighting, Grief, Gut Wrenching Torments, Hand of Lucifer, Healing, Humbled Cry, Hundreds, It Didn't Have To Be His Choice, Knees, Know, La Muerte de Los Ninos, Layer, Lifted A Hand, Lifting Our Voices, Lives, Loss, Love, Loved Ones, Matters, Memories, Mi Apoyo, Momento, Moments, Morning, Mourning, Nation, Night, Not With Fists, Noticia, Onion of Life, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Prayers, Question Why, Rebuild, Sabes, Safe, Salvador Ramos, School, Sense, Shakes and Shatters, Shamed, Silently Erected, Sin, So Be It, So It Will Be Done, Sorrow, Survive, Survivor's Guilt, Tears, Thursday, Times, Torture, Traces, Tragedy, Transcend, Trust Falling, Twenty-One Crosses, Used Their Voice, Uvalde, Vigils, Viviendo, Walk, Warnings, Wicked Ways, Wounds, Years
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Lessons From Tristan and Isolde
Lessons From Tristan and Isoldeby Michael DoyleLove has been the subject of great mysteryThroughout all of mankind’s fabled historySometimes life’s lessons have become legendaryFrom Shakespeare to the Athenian tragedyIt’s true what a thing it is, this fine messThat mortals confess … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Athenian Tragedy, Behind, Born To Die, Camelot, Chivalry, Confess, Cornwall, Courage, Courtly Love, Exception, Excess, Expectation, Fabled History, Higher Sense of Love, Honor, Ideal, Inetepretation, Justice, Knightly Code of Conduct, Legendary, Lessons, Love, Mess, Mind, Minstrelsy, Moon and Star, Mystery, Poetry and Poems, Reputation, Shakespeare, Tristan and Isolde, True, Victory
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Happy First Day of Spring
Welcome to Spring 2022! Today is Spring Equinox 2022 in a continuation of those traditional blessings each of us used to embrace by heading outdoors and starting to live large. With the Covid experience behind us now, maybe we can … Continue reading
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Anew, Behind, Blessing, Blessings, Bloom, Covid Experience, Days, Embrace, Emily Dickinson, Flowers and Trees, Happy First Day of Spring!, Heading Outdoors, Living Large Again, Renewal, Spring 2022, Spring Equinox, Thought For the Day, Tradition, Warm
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Have A Blessed and Merry Christmas One and All!
Though it isn’t a white one And it seems it’s all been done Today is Christmas Day May it be blessed in every way! Let us never forget the holy reason That stands behind the season And keep our blessings … Continue reading
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Tagged Before, Behind, Blessed, Blessings, Chase, Christmas Day, Done, Door, Embrace, Every Way, Familiar, Felt, Friends, Grace, Heart, Holy Reason, Merry Christmas, Mind, Never Forget, Relations, Remember, Season, Thought For the Day, Troubles, Welcome, White
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First Principles: Keep Your Face Always Toward the Sunshine – and Shadows Will Fall Behind You
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine — and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman (1819-1892) For something a little different in this month edging up on that day of Thanksgiving and gratitude…is a poetic thought that used … Continue reading
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Tagged Behind, Face, Fall, First Principles, Keep, Shadow, Sunshine, Toward, Walt Whitman
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Thought For the Day: The Real Rulers In Washington Are Invisible and Exercise Power From Behind the Scenes
“The real rulers in Washington are invisible and exercise power from behind the scenes.” – Justice Felix Frankfurter (1882-1965)
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Tagged Behind, Exercise, Invisible, Justice Felix Frankfurter, Power, Real, Rulers, Scenes, Thought For the Day, Washington
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All Those Secret Sins
All Those Secret Sinsby Michael DoyleOh my, the hypocrisyHave you no dignityWith all the secret sinsThat pops up now and thenHiding hate behind that smileMeaning yes in our denialIn a matter of time, it revealsItself in vivid detailsRight before the … Continue reading
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Tagged All Our Little Lies, Behind, Best To Change, Denial, Dignity, Does Not Accept, God Knows, Half Expected, Heed, Hiding Hate, Holds Us All Accountable, Hyprocrisy, Insurmountable, Living In Repentance, Matter of Time, Meaning Yes, Now and Then, Our Alibis, Our Own Good, Poetry and Poems, Pops Up, Read, Rest of Our Days, Reveal, Secret Sins, See the Signs, Smile, Surprise, The Lord, Understood, Vivid Details, Warnings, Ways, World's Eyes
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Na/GloPoWriMo #10: On Bended Knee
Na/GloPoWriMo #10: On Bended Kneeby Michael DoyleThere much stronger in its placeHidden behind such a pretty faceIs a heart that beats stronger yetAnd a love that I will never forgetThough my heart is oft a deceiverI am blessed that you … Continue reading
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Tagged All Honesty, Beats, Behind, Believer, Best of Me, Beyond What I See, Blessed, Books, Chain, Clear, Closer, Concession, Confession, Cross, Deceiver, End of My Life, Faithful, Give My Heart, Heart, Hidden, Know Myself, Look Into Your Eyes, Love, My Dear Wife, My Love, My Prayer, Na/GloPoWriMo, Neck, Never Forget, Night, Not In Vain, On Bended Knee, Place, Poetry and Poems, Pretty Face, Shelf, Sin, Speak This, Stronger, To Thee, Truth, Truth of You, Worse, You, You Are Truly
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 