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Thought For the Day: When I Can Look Life In the Eyes, Grown Calm and Very Coldly Wise, Life Will Have Given Me the Truth, and Taken In Exchange, My Youth
“When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange – my youth.” – Sara Teasdale
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Tagged Calm, Exchange, Eyes, Life, Sara Teasdale, Thought For the Day, Truth, Wise, Youth
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Due North
Due Northby Michael DoyleIn these daysWhen everything has gone frothyIn a million waysWe need those around to be worthyThat’s who my friend had always beenThe one I knew was good for the winEver since back in high schoolI knew her … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Alright, Always Been, Answer, Beat It, Brave, Calm, Cancer, Challenge, Come Hell or High Water, Concentration, Connected, Crisis, Days, Degree of Fascination, Demeanor, Due North, Facebook, Feel, Focus, Friend, Frothy, Glide, Good For the Win, Hallway, High School, Is, Joyous Laughter, Keep Things Real, Kept Cool, Lie On My Lips, Lifetime Past, Look, Lord, Lost Track, Million Ways, Mindfulness, More Than Fair, My Friend, Nobody's Fool, Paddleboarder, Peace, Perspective, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Progress, Reconnected, Reflective, Same As the Last, Same Smile, Searching For An Answer, Sigh, Simple, Smile, Soul, Stalled, Stay Still, Stride, Style, Surreal, Tear, Test, Time, Traded Quips, True North Star, Water, Wherever, Words, Worthy, Yesterday
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Saltwater Traces
Saltwater Tracesby Michael DoyleLooking out from the edge of the ocean’s shoreThere is a vast expanse we’ve yet to exploreWe know so little about our Mother OceanAnd yet, fools like me are filled with devotionLimited as we are by human … Continue reading
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Tagged Baptized, Beginning, Begins, Blood, Board, Breadth, Brutality, Calm, Colors and Emotions, Dance, Devotion, Dip, Edge, Emotion, Ending, Eternity, Explore, Fascination, Feelings, Fools Like Me, Gaze, Graves, Hair, Human Contemplation, Human Perceptions, Humble, Immortality, Know, Length, Life, Limited, Majesty, Mankind, Measure, Moment, Mother Ocean, Ocean, Patches, Perspective, Poetry and Poems, Pounding Waves, Reflective, Reminder, Repeitition, Salt, Saltwater Traces, Sands, Scale, Sea, Shadow, Shallows, Shore, Strength, Sunlight, Sweat, Tears, Time and Space, Toes, Touch, Vast Expanse, Winds, Windswept, Years
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Life Without Light
Life Without Lightby Michael DoyleLife without lightIs the color they died inDarker than nightIs the least of their sinsI can’t say you’ll like thisBut we need to risk regretFor all the world cried amissAt the lost beauty, we must regretSabbath … Continue reading
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Tagged Amiss, Calm, Color, Crimes, Dark, Depravity, Die, Doubt, End, Ends of Our Ropes, Friends, Glow, Graves, Hatred, Hearts, Hell, Hide, History, Hope, Humane, Humanity, Inside, Least, Life, Light, Lost Beauty, Madness, Melt, Never Forget, Night, No Way Out, Pages, Poetry and Poems, Prisoners, Regret, Remember, Risk, Sabbath Candles, Shot, Sin, Someday, Taint, Tears, The Other, Undone, Unfelt, Unifnished, World
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In the Focus and Calm (Are Moments of Truth)
In the Focus and Calm (Are Moments of Truth)by Michael DoyleThere in the focus and calmIs a remembrance of who you areIt comes back like a twist of balmThat you reach for, no matter how farOnce this fortress has been … Continue reading
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Tagged Balm, Breach, Cage, Calm, Conspsiracy, Control, Courage, Crashing Down, Far, Focus, Fortitude, Grafitti, Help, Home, Jaded, Moments of Truth, Poetry and Poems, Pretend, Questions, Remebrance, Sand, Save
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First Principles: Judges…Should Not Be Dependent Upon Any Man, Or Body of Men
“Judges, therefore, should be always men of learning and experience in the laws, of exemplary morals, great patience, calmness, coolness, and attention. Their minds should not be distracted with jarring interests; they should not be dependent upon any man, or … Continue reading
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Tagged Attention, Body of Men, Calm, Dependent, Distracted, Experience, First Principles, Interests, John Adams, Judges, Law, Man, Moral, Patience
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Thought For the Day: Remember, Compassion Is Not A Sign of Weakness
“If someone behaves negatively towards you, it helps to remember that he or she is a human being like you and to distinguish between an action and the person who does it. If counter measures are needed to prevent someone … Continue reading
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Tagged Act, Action, Agitated Mind, Anger, Brain, Calm, Compassion, Counter Measures, Dalai Lama, Distinguish, Function, Harm, Human Being, Negative, Not, Person, Prevent, Remember, Sign, Someone, Thought For the Day, Weakness
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Thought For the Day: The Most Intense Conflicts…Are Needed To Produce Valuable and Lasting Results
“The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts, and their conflagration, which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.” – C. G. … Continue reading
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Tagged C.G. Jung, Calm, Conflagration, Conflict, Intense, Lasting Results, Overcome, Produce, Security, Sense, Thought For the Day, Value
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Ever Free
Ever Freeby Michael DoyleJoining in as the heavens and earth singsHoping a white Christmas will bringThis world’s resounding joyAs every good boy and girl unwrap their toysIn wonder of love, we gather and rejoiceGathered together to make a little noiseAll … Continue reading
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Tagged A Little Noise, Across, All, Bring, Calm, Cross, Earth, Emanuel, Eternal Life, Ever Free, Evil, Faith, Fear, Gather, Given, Glory, God, Godhead, Good Boy and Girl, Good Command, Heavens, His Wonderous Love, Holiness, Human Veil, Jesus, Join Hands, Joyful Proclamation, Land, Liberation, Lifee, Live, Looking Up, Love, Night Skies, Our Heart, Our Nation, Peace, Photograph, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Pray, Prayer, Rejoice, Renewed, Resounding Joy, Reverent, Rightesousness, Rule, Sing, Strife, Told, Toys, Victory, Wall, We, White Christmas, Wonder of Love, World, Worship of the Lord
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Leaning On His Promises
It’s interesting times we live in. Watched a church sermon via the internet. Leaning On His Promises by Michael Doyle The church’s electronic bulletin board read Much as the Good Book itself has said We need to remember each other … Continue reading
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Tagged Anxiety, Break, Break Down, Breakthrough, Calm, Church, Conquer, Control, Creation, Electronic Bulletin Board, Embrace, End, Faith, Fear, First Dawning, Forgiving, Friendly Reminder, Giants, Glory, God, Good Book, His Promises, Hope, Internet, Jesus, Lean, Living, Lord God, Love of God, Love One Another, Loving God, My Soul, New Day, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Praise, Prayer, Presensce, Pride, Promises, Remember, Said, Sermon, Silence, Sister and Brother, Society's, Storms, Sun, Take Fall, The Enemy, Unshakable, Wall, Walls, Weary Eyes
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 