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On the Tipping Point of Stupid
On the Tipping Point of Stupidby Michael DoyleOf all the thoughts on thought contributedThere it is on the tipping point of stupidThe calling of names that should bring shameYet, there it is in politics as if a gameSpeaking of trickle … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Against the Grain, Alinsky, Better, Dialogue, Election Points, Game, Media, Milieu, Names, Poetry and Poems, Politics, Reason, Rhetoric, Role, Season, Shame, Smart, Stategy, Stupid, Talking Heads, Talking Reason, The People, Think, Thought, Tipping Point, Together, Tragedy, Trickle Down Idoicy
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On A Friendship
On A Friendshipby Michael DoyleFriendship is like a storyA melody that catches and belongsThere in the ways of trustIs a love that grows as it mustChildren play at their gamesWe play our own, just the sameBelieving in things hard to … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Believe, Belongs, Better, Carry, Catches, Celebrated, Children, Conceive, Eludes, Eyes, Friendship, Games, Intrudes, Life, Lights, Load, Love, Lve, Melody, Must, Peace, Play, Poetry and Poems, Purgatory Road, Rudeness, Same, Search, Skies, Sparkle, Story, Together, Travel, Trials, Walk, Ways of Trust, World's Wonders
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Thought For the Day: Look Deep Into Nature, and Then You Will Understand Everything Better
“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” -Albert Einstein
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Tagged Albert Einstein, Better, Deep, Everything, Look, Nature, Thought For the Day, Understand
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First Principles: Perseverance In Almost Any Plan Is Better Than Fickleness and Fluctuation
“Perseverance in almost any plan is better than fickleness and fluctuation.” – Alexander Hamilton, July 1792
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Tagged Alexander Hamilton, Almost, Any Plan, Better, Fickleness, First Principles, Fluctuation, Perseverance
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Road Tripping
Road Trippingby Michael DoyleIn a long history of driving placesFilled with love and smiling facesWe took it up to a whole new levelWhere boredom was the only DevilIt’s all in about that sort of journeyOn our way to the edges … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged America, Better, Blame, Boredom, Broken Shame, Capability, Care of Broken Persons, Case, Choices, Comfort Zones, Concept Without Context, Conflcts, Containers, Deceive, Declarative, Destination, Detection, Devil, Drink, Driving Places, Earth, Edges of Eternity, Embrace, Endless Smile, Equal In Weight, Excitement, Experience, Faith of Promises, Flaws, Goodness, Goodness and Mercy, Grace, Hard Work, Harvest, Hearts, Heaven, History, Holiness, Hope, Incitement, Journey, Justice, Laws, Leaning In, Living Testimony, Living Waters, Loaded Conversation, Love, Managed Shame, Mission Field, Motivation, Narrative, Parsimony, Poetry and Poems, Preference, Receive, Reflected Contemplation, Road Tripping, Rrevealed, Samaria, Seder, Sending Capacity, Setting Example, Shared Grace, Shield, Smiling Faces, Soul, Standing Apart, Tools, Tread, Truth, Veil, Walk, Way In, Weigh In, Weight, Whole New Level, Worthwhile
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A Desecration
A Desecrationby Michael DoylePolitics take a backseat to the ConstitutionYet some do not like this resolutionBut that doesn’t make it a wrongIt’s the restoration of where law belongsThere is a value that matters to all of lifeWhere we save the … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged 62 Million Deaths, A Desecration, Agree, All Life Is Sacred, Altar, America, Bad Law, Better, Constitution, Decision, Deny, Ethical, Falter, Foundation, Guiding Light, House, Human Dignity, Law, Life, Life's Sanctity, Matters, Poetry and Poems, Politics, Protect, Reason, Recreational Choice, Republican Nation, Resolution, Respect, Restoration, Right, Right To Life, Sacrfice, Simply Put, Strife, Three Percent, Value, Whale, Wrong
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Room Read
Room Readby Michael DoyleIt’s hard to make a room readEspecially when I’m the hero no one needsBut there’s something to be saidFor all the nonsense that we’re fedNobody is that special anymoreI wonder if we ever were even beforeNo one … Continue reading
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Tagged Before, Better, Checkpoints, Connection, Dreams, Garbage, Gravity, Hero, Legendary, Levity, Mddle, Need, Nonsense, Ordinary, Plans, Poetry and Poems, Read, Reflection, Room, Said, Serious, Special, Together, Universe, Wrecked
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Dropping the Wrong Attitude
Dropping the Wrong Attitudeby Michael DoyleTaking a deep breath with communityA moment to bring this to realityEvery day lived in our true measureLiving dignified even under pressureCrossing the valley of well-renown despairApproaching Gethsemane, the place of whereBeauty and brokenness are … Continue reading
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Tagged Address, Attitude, Beauty and Brokenness, Believers, Better, Catalyst, Come, Community, Corruption, Cup, Deep Breath, Deity, Despair, Destiny, Dignified, Drop, Every Day, Face-To-Face, Fearless Moment, Fully God, Fully Man, Gethsemane, God, Grace, I Am, Jesus, Judas, Kingdom, Moment, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Pressure, Purity, Reality, Recognize, Reconcile, Sacred Journey, Sacrifice, Save, Sinners' Hands, Sleeping, Standards, Straight In the Eyes, Surrender, Test of Time, True Measure, Understand, Understood, Viability, Victory, Weeping
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Until the Sky Cracks
Until the Sky Cracksby Michael DoyleI get the factThat it’s not an actWhile the sun still glowsYour pessimism growsUntil the sky cracksAlong the back tracksThat play like yesterdayAnd its charades along the wayIt sounds like somethingWe had decided was nothingBrought … Continue reading
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Tagged Act, Back Track, Better, Bone, Can't Know, Charades, Cling, Cracks, Dog, Fact, Fear, Glows, Gone, Grows, Know, Left It Alone, Let It Go, Melancholy, Nothing, Passive Aggressive, Pessimism, Play, Poetry and Poems, Pretend, Sky, Something, Sun, There, Think, Yesterday
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