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On Being the G.O.A.T….
On Being the G.O.A.T….by Michael DoyleHow to be the greatest of all timeIs to go beyond that easy rhymeAnd move past our selfish natureGrowing in the Lord and becoming matureStanding in life judging one anotherDebating who is best among all … Continue reading
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Tagged Acknowledge, Agree, Being the G.O.A.T., Best, Best Attitude, Beyond, Breath, Cause of the Cross, Contest, Cruxifixion, Debate, Easy Rhyme, Example, Faith, Fate, Feet, Finally Understand, First, Flow, Follow, Forget Yourself, Full Humiliation, Greatest of All Time, Greet, Grow, Healing Moment, His Word, His Works, Honor and Duty, Jesus, Journey, Judge, Last, Last Supper, Latitude, Leanring, Lend, Lord, Loss, Love, Mature, Mustard Seed, Needed Hand, Nobility, Obedient to Death, Passover, Poetry and Poems, Self-Adulation, Selfish Nature, Servant Leadership, Service, Suffocation, The Latest, Torment, True Humility, Truth, Understanding, Victory, Wash, Willingness
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In Our Pain
In Our Painby Michael DoyleIn that momentI saw beyond myselfThrough my tearsTo someone elseI had walkedBeyond the shadow of deathAs the spirits talkedWhispering under breathAlways so selfishAnd filled with needsFor things never mineTo find myself freedInto life’s stormTurned with a … Continue reading
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Tagged A Single Tear, Beyond, Beyond Myself, Bound, Damned, Death's Door, Deliverance, Each of Us, Enter, Eye, Forbidden Key, Forgiving, Freed, Goodbye, In Our Pain, Living, Meant, Mine, Moment, Moment of Life, Moments, Needs, Passing Year, Poetry and Poems, Price of Love, Promises, Recompense, Said, See, Seen, Selfish, Shadow of Death, Spirits Talk, Storm, Symbols, Tears, Together, Unexplained, Walk, Whisper
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A Silent Genesis
A Silent Genesisby Michael DoyleMy new obsessionHas a silent genesisIn the maelstromOf ghosts and typhoonsBeyond our bodiesWe rest in eupnea Pure reason’s revolutionFlies on the wings of a dead butterflyLost in the fathoms Between the hammer and anvilIs the dark … Continue reading
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Tagged Ambassadors, Apprentices, Believers, Between, Beyond, Bodies, Butterfly, Color, Dark Third, Eupnea, Fathoms, Genesis, Ghosts, Hammer and Anvil, Maelstrom, Magic, Morning, Obsession, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Pure Reason, Revolution, Silent, Stronger, Survive, Typhoons, Universe, Void, Willows, Wings, World
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Michelle’s Poem (A Poem for A Friend)
Michelle’s Poem (A Poem for A Friend)by Michael DoyleShe’s not beyond magicTo believe otherwiseWould be something tragicYou can see it in her eyesShe’s got a laughFor every seasonIn her way of knowingBeyond all reasonIn that sunshine wayShe holds the world … Continue reading
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Tagged Beyond, Every Day, Every Season, Eye, Eyes, Far, Forward, Friend, Goodbye, Head, Hello, Hold, Hope, Hunter's Moon, Justice, Knows, Laugh, Long, Look, Magic, Melody, Michelle, New Dream, Play, Poem, Poetry and Poems, Reason, Rock Star, Said, Seen, She, Smile, Song, Sunshine Way, They Say, Tragic, Tune, Whistle, World At Bay, Write
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First Principles: Nothing Is More Certain Than That A General Profligacy and Corruption of Manners Make A People Ripe For Destruction
“Nothing is more certain than that a general profligacy and corruption of manners make a people ripe for destruction. A good form of government may hold the rotten materials together for some time, but beyond a certain pitch, even the … Continue reading
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Tagged Best Constitution, Beyond, Certain Pitch, Corruption, Destruction, Ensue, First Principles, General Profligacy, Good Form of Government, Ineffectual, John Witherspoon, manners, More Certain, Nothing, Ripe, Rotten Materials, Slavery, The People, Together
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Na/GloPoWriMo #26: This Is Just To Play
Na/GloPoWriMo #26: This Is Just To Playby Michael Doyle (in nod to William Carlos Williams)As a mirrorTo this modernityI look aroundAt the visual syntaxSeen as it connectsIn this living roomTo say whichPragmatically Beyond the messCoveringThe roominessAsking that you forgive meFor … Continue reading
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Tagged Beyond, Cold, Connects, Cover, Delicious, Forgive Me, Just To Play, Living Room, Look Around, Malicious, Mirror, Modernity, Na/GloPoWriMo, Poetry and Poems, Pragmatically, Revenge Served, Roominess, Say, Sweet, Visual Syntax
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First Principles: An Unlimited Power To Tax Involves, Necessarily, A Power To Destroy; Because There Is A Limit Beyond Which No Institution and No Property Can Bear Taxation
“An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.” – Justice John Marshall, McCullough v. Maryland (1819)
First Principles: As For Me and My Household, We Will Serve the Lord
“But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your forefathers served beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. … Continue reading
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