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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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I’ll Always Take Your Call
I’ll Always Take Your Callby Michael DoyleRipped apart deep inside my DNAFinding the scary part is the last biteWhen suddenly, I run short of what to sayAnd my wildest dreams hold me through the nightSomewhere in the geometry of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Abstract, Always, Apprehensive, Beeline, Behind, Bitter Respite, Boundaries, Breath In, Breath Out, Bridge, Catch Your Fall, Chase, Condescension, Conviction, Dark Tendency, Despair, Desperate, Different Tempos, Direction, DNA, Do It AGain, Dread, Edges, Elasticity, Facts, Feeling, Finish Stong, Geomtry, Hands In Mine, Heat of It, Holding On, Hollow Comfort, Hope, Implore, Infinite, Jester, Jump, King, Less Than Clever, Letting Go, Live and Learn, Lives Lessons, Melts Away, Moments, My Love Runs Deep, Never Leave You, Nighttime, Offer, Photograph, Place, Plasticity, Poem, Poetry, Prevail, Rare, Refuse To Drown, Remember, Return, Ripped Apart, Run Short, Say, Scary Part, See Beyond, Shadows Creep In, Shriek, Silent, Silver Lining, Society, Song, Spin, Superficiality, Take Your Call, Terror, Through the Night, Unruly Mind, Waiting Out, Wildest Dreams, Worse, Wrap, Zig Zag
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Pinkerton Lawman
The Pinkertons became the crux of what became the Secret Service. Their storied history is often looked these days. Pinkerton Lawman by Michael Doyle A snake isn’t hard to find In the what that’s left behind When you flip over … Continue reading
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Tagged Bad Man, Behind, Civil War, Death, Demise, Duty, Fatal, Fate, Fight, Find, Flip, God, History, Hung, Intensity, Justice, Lawman, Left, Light, Meet, Nation, Nature, Neck, Photograph, Pinkerton, Poem, Poetry, Preacher, Proclmation, Quick As A Wink, Quiet, Reaper, Rock, Seal, Secret Service, Served, Silver, Six Gun, Snake, Stand, Stoic, Sudden, Surprise, Talks, Tent City, Trigger Finger, Violent, War Criminal, Wrung
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Reading of Minds
The best and truest magic in the world remains love. Still all the same, there is even among even those wishing to become astute wizards, a strong desire to be able to read minds… Reading of Minds by Michael Doyle … Continue reading
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Tagged Are, Attention, Behind, Best, Book of Knowledge, Care, Chaos, Confidence, Control, Create, Depart, Desire, Diffidence, Earn, Everything, First, Flow, Fulfill, Grace, Heart, Hidden, Human Beings, Hyperborean Age, Illuminate, Information, Know, Known, Learn, Light, Little Things, Love, Magic, Mean, Mind, Minds, Mystery, Night, Notion, Passage, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Proposition, Quench, Read, Reading, Regard, Right Intention, Role, Secret, Show, Shown, Signs, Simple, Spells, Stars, Subtle, Sure, Tangle, Thirst, Thoughts, Trickery, True, We, Weary, Will, Wizard
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Leaving Yesterdays Behind
What matters profit if it has cost your soul? Leaving Yesterdays Behind by Michael Doyle What it is that seems fit Is often enough a matter Devoted entirely to profit All other arguments shatter The implication is clear That neither … Continue reading
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Tagged Able, Argument, Behind, Blame, Call, Capable, Convince, Cost, Cut Quick, Depth, Devote, Empty, Fence, Fit, Full Pocket, Implication, Impossible, Indication, Inevitable, Insanity, Leave, Lost, Love of Money, Made, Matter, Mend, Mind, Mistake, Money, Morality, Mutual, Name, Near, Notoriety, Obstacle, Payment, Photograph, Pirate, Place At the Table, Plunder, Poem, Poetry, Profit, Purchase, Quality, Reason, Sail, Scratch, Secret Garden, Shade, Shame, Shatter, Soul, Surface, Tend, Vanity, Vindication, Yesterday
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