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Tag Archives: Blossom
To Angie (At Age 15)
To Angie (At Age 15)by Michael DoyleSince the day you entered the worldWith longish locks and fists uncurledI have stood amazed and maybe dotedAs I looked into your heart devotedAs it was and still in angelic senseArmed with a smile … Continue reading
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Tagged Age 15, Amazed, Angelic, Angie, Beautiful, Birthday, Blossom, Daughter, Daugther, Devoted, Easy, Father, Independence, Kind, Love, Make the World Better, Poetry and Poems, Smile, Treasure Chest, Wonderful, World
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On Behalf of the Uyghurs
On Behalf of the Uyghursby Michael DoyleGive me the whole of your sentence And I will still my will and serveGive me the entirety of your pretenseTell me what it is that I deserveAnd I will still write my poetryNever … Continue reading
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Tagged Banner, Behalf, Blossom, Bosom, Committing Verses, Conscience, Courage, Cried, Culture, Defend, Deserve, Encoourage, Endless Grief, Everything, Fade Away, Familiar Voice, Family, Fire n Throat, Flowers, Freedoms, Genocide, Gulnisa Imin, Hope, Human Contact, Integrity, Joined In Voice, Language, Live Dead, Live Freely, Living Legacy, Make Us Friends, Manner, Memory, Moonless Nights, Patriotism, People's Rights, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Pretense, Reeducation, Regret, Said, Sentence, Separatism, Serve, Shared Thoughts, Sharing Freedom's Plea, Sing Freely, Stars, Strength, Strokes of Penmanship, Stubborn Pride, Supress, Tenderness, Thoughts, Thousand Nights, Tribe of Poets, Truth of Peace, Uyghurs, Vital, WeChat Snippets, Wilderness, Yearn
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Thought For the Day: And the Day Came When the Risk It Took To Remain Tight Inside the Bud Was More Painful Than the Risk It Took To Blossom
“And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” -Anais Nin, writer (21 Feb 1903-1977)
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Tagged Anais Nin, Blossom, Bud, Day, Painful, Remain, Risk, Thought For the Day, Tight
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Thought For the Day: Thought Is the Blossom; Language the Bud; Action the Fruit Behind It
“Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)
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Tagged Action, Blossom, Bud, Fruit, Language, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thought, Thought For the Day
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Happy Mother’s Day 2021!
With every mother a blossoming of blessings for their children and families, I want to wish all the mothers out there a very Happy Mother’s Day!
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Tagged 2021, Blessings, Blossom, Children, Family, Happy Mother's Day!, Mother, Thought For the Day, Wish
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Happy Valentine’s Day!
Happy Valentine’s Dayby Michael DoyleMy mind’s blownBy the love you’ve shownIn presenting meThings of love shown clearlyMy heart is thumping so dearlyHappy Valentine’s Day!Every day is the awesomeAs I watch our love blossomHanded to me as these bloomMy heart’s going … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged All Else, Awesome, Best Sort of Doom, Bloom, Blossom, Boom, Clearly, Dearly, Deeper, Don't Have A Notion, Every Day, Every Moment, First Sight, Fragrance, Fresh, Happy Valentine's Day, Heart, Leads To Another, Love, Love Is Like, Magic, Mind's Blown, Other, People Ask, Poetry and Poems, Poetry In Motion, Real Life, Rose Bouquet, Sacred Ocean, Set Blue, Shown, Snaps, Step By Step, Strife, Taking it Further, Thump, Tragic, What's the Commotion, Words of Devotion, You Told Me, You Would Stay
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Hymn To the 2020 Christmas Star
Hymn To the 2020 Christmas Starby Michael Doyle 2020 has been a year soul revealingCovid and larceny were ever stealingAny hope for semblance of hopefulnessDenying any hint of serenity and bliss We cried and wondered out of hopeTrying our best … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020, Abide, Above Us, Advent, Angels, Baby Child, Bad Day, Beacon, Bliss, Blossom, Bow, Bright, Broken Hearts, Burn, Cherish, Christmas Day, Christmas Star, Comfort, Cope, Covid, Cry, Darkness, Deny, Embrace, Faces, Faith, Fallen, Far, Form, Found, Function, Giving Love, Glory to God, Good Will, Grace of God, Great Conjunction, Heavens, Herald, Hint, Hints, Holy Light, Hope, Hopefulness, Hymn, Joy, Jupiter, Larceny, Lean, Loom, Manger, Memories, Moments In Time, Morning, Most of Us, Near, Never Second Best, News, Night, Our Test, Peace On Earth, Perish, Poetry and Poems, Prevail, Rearrange, Revealing, Right, Saturn, Semblance, Serenity, Shadows, Share, Shine, Sing, Skies, Sky, Soul, Spiral, Spirits, Star, Stealing, Strange, Subside, Sweet Sorrow, The Christmas Star, The Lord, Think, Tonight, Truth, Try Our Best, Virgin Birth, Whisper, Wish It Away, Wishing, Women and Men, Wonder, Wondrous, Year
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The Mystery of Crow
Another inspired by the blues I listened to on my road trip today. I have to say, while there are scenic road trip guides, this is the first time I’ve driven the beautiful country roads of Morgan and Monroe … Continue reading
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Tagged Allusion, Bangles, Begin, Blossom, Blues, Blues History, Carolinian, Change, Country Roads, Crow, Dance, Dark Delight, Divine, Everything, Fly, Friends, Groove, Heartbreak, High, Indiana, Life, Mastery, Meet, Memories, Mountain, Mystery, Night, Nothing, Oriole, Outshone, Pages, Pass, Passion, Path, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Purity, Rearrange, Remember, Rhythm, Road Trip, Self Assured, Shadow, Smokey Joe, Something, Songbird, Soul Shake, Sparkle, Sugar Cane, When, Whirlwind, Window
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Green Tea Haiku
From the prompt tea at the Fantasy Faire in Second Life: I love to visit Drinking my morning’s green tea Quiet morning’s blossoms fall
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Tagged Blossom, Drink, Fall, Green Tea, Haiku, Love, Morning, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Quiet, Tea, Visit
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Thought For the Day: Let Us Be Grateful To People Who Make Us Happy and Make Our Souls Blossom
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” – Marcel Proust
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Tagged Blossom, Charming Gardeners, Grateful, Happy, Make, Marcel Proust, People, Soul, Thought For the Day, Us
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