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Tag Archives: Chance
Scaling the New Heights of the Dawn Wall
(Scaling the New Heights of the) Dawn Wallby Michael DoyleIn the dawn of winterWe scaled the face of the wallLearning to never pause in winterWe rose above Yosemite’s fallCapturing the dreams of our own storyFinding the way through until the … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Ability, Achievement, Ambition, Baby Steps, Burning, Capability, Chance, Climb, Dawn Wall, Dead, Deliverance, Depressurized, Destination, Destiny, Doubt, Dreams, Extent, Fail, Fake, Fall, Flow State, Fortitude, Glory, Hardships, Heads, Learning, Moments, Mutuality, New Heights, Patches, Poetry and Poems, Pride, Rationality, Reason, Right Attitude, Right Intent, Scale, Season, Second Rate, Shaken, Silence, Story, Stride, Successes, Taken, Tectonic Shift, Thoughts, Transformation, Winter, Wonder, Yosemite
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A Dance of Fate
A Dance of Fateby Michael DoyleLife is more than merely fateIt is never really too lateTo realize that we have choicesLifted up in our true voicesIf only we might chooseNo longer allowing life to abuseExamining what we might refuseAnd refusing … Continue reading
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Tagged Abuse, Blame, Blindness, Chance, Choices, Choose, Choosing, Churn, Circumstance, Collide, Confuse, Dance, Decisions, Depth, Destinies, Discern, Examine, Fate, Fault, Frame, Glance, Happenstance, Hard To Realize, Late, Life, Make, Mere, Ocean, Paths, Poetry and Poems, Possible, Refuse, Ride, Rush, Shoulder, Subtle, Take, The Past, Troubled, True Voices
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Bumping Into Jesus
Bumping Into Jesusby Michael DoyleDivine encounters along the wayIt doesn’t necessarily happen on SundayLittle moments that teach usPut on as these are to reach usBumps on the road have their distractionThe way through gives the best tractionEach moment is given … Continue reading
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Tagged Bumping, Certain, Chance, Circumstance, Clarity, Conclusion, Confusing, Cross, Depart, Distraction, Divine, Divine Encounter, Experience, Faithfulness, Fragment, Glory, God's Hand, Goodness, Heart, Horrify, Hour, Insecurity, Invasion, Invitation, Jesus, Light, Little Moments, Ordinary, Perceptions, Poetry and Poems, Preference, Promised Land, Purity, Reach, Story, Sunday, Teach, Teaching Moment, Throne, Trace, Traction, Trust, Understand, Victory, View, Water, Wine
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Radically Reversed
Radically Reversedby Michael DoyleReversing the brokenness of circumstanceTo give sacred life to its every chanceKnowing that those who have less are not lessHowever much life’s moments might be a messThe most hurting present are our familyBlessed be this truth in … Continue reading
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Tagged Affirmed, Affirmed Dignity, Appreciation, Atone, Be Not Afraid, Blessed, Blown Away, Brokenness, Brother, Chance, Choice, Circumstance, Climb, Decision, Deserve, Destination, Dignity, Dread and Danger, Drink, Each Child, Each Step, Encourage, Faith, Father, God, God's Blessing, Hopeful Reminder, Humble Supplication, Hurting, Isolation, Kingdom, Legacy, Less, Life's Moments, Lift, Mercy, Mess, Nation, Needs, Not Alone, One Family, Opportunity, Our Family, Poetry and Poems, Radical, Raise, Ready, Real Time, Release, Restore, Reverse, Rhyme, Roads, Sacred Life, Seismic Shift, Service, Sin Confessed, Sister, Stranger, Swirled, Take A Moment, Troubles, Truth, Vision, Walk, Water, Words
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May It Come Easy (The Promise of Turkey)
May It Come Easy (The Promise of Turkey)by Michael DoyleIn affection and camaraderieWe wish in sincere empathyAnd with just a trace of sympathyThat with life, may it come easyChange is the constant in all of lifeSometimes there is peace; sometimes … Continue reading
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Tagged Affection, Camaraderie, Chance, Change, Constant, Days, Element, Empathy, Escape, History, Hope, Inclement, Kept, Lesson, Life, Little, Lived, May It Come Easy, Middle, Nation, Neighbor, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Poured, Precious, Promise, Scenes, Seldom, Sense of Urgency, Sincere, Sipped, Strife, Strong Dark Coffee, STuck, Sweet As Love, Sympathy, Trace, Track, Turkey, Turn, Uncertainty, Wish
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Life Worth Living
Life Worth Livingby Michael DoyleI’ve never been one given to chanceDetermined to rise above my circumstancesAs a child of God driven by destinyTaking this challenge as my legacyHeaven holds all of my best treasureGod first, then family, is my measureA … Continue reading
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Tagged Acts, Adversity, Belief and Love, Blindness, Bliss, Brith, Challenge, Chance, Cherish, Child of God, Circrumstance, Clasped, Destiny, Dignity, Discerned, Done, Driven, Embrace, Faith, Fall, Family, Forgiving, Gaze, God, God Above, God First, God's, God's Favor, Grace, Grown In Faith, Guided, Hands, Happiness, Heaven, Heavenly Host, Holds, Humility, Integrity, Learned, Legacy, Lessons, Letter, Life, Life Worth Living, Live, Living, Living These Moments, Lord's Face, Love, Love and Kindness, Mad, Mean To Me, Most, My Best Treasure, My Measure, Our Battle, Our Legacy, Place, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Prayer, Purpose Filled Life, Rattle, Recall, Rise Above, Son, Steward, Thanks, Thanks Be To God, This World, To All, Treat Others, True, Waking Moments, Walk Our Walk, World, Worth
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Great Things Come Unexpected
Great Things Come Unexpectedby Michael DoyleI have found in lifeThat it’s not to be neglectedTo say only that sometimesGreat things come unexpectedOpportunity sometimes fallsRight into our lapsAnd when that chance callsWith its rings or its rapsIt’s the only answer that … Continue reading
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Tagged Accident, Better Days, Calls, Chance, Confide, Falls, Forget, Found, Give, Great Things, Heaven Sent, Hide, Into Our Laps, Let Heaven Guide Us, Life, Live To Learn, Lives Well Lived, Neglected, Only Answer, Opporutnity, Our Ways, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prove, Provident, Raps, Really Meant, Rings, Run, Sometimes, Teach, Tell, Time To Time, Truly Live, Unexpected, Won't Regret
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The Twinkle In Your Eyes
The Twinkle In Your Eyesby Michael DoyleLooking into the twinkle in your eyesTruth is told simply without any alibisI love the way you hold me close at nightAnd even closer with the morning’s lightTwo hearts learning to beat as our … Continue reading
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Tagged Beat, Chance, Deeper Relationship, Easy, Eyes, God, Hear, Hold Me Close, Hypnotized, Lifetime Spent, Look, Love, Love Songs, Loving Example, Melt, Moments, Morning Light, Near, Night, One, Passing Sun, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Simple, Sing, Sweet, Tender, Trance, Truth, Twinkle, Two Hearts, You Laugh, Your Eyes, Your Heart
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Not Even Death
Not Even Deathby Michael DoyleIf only the hand of loveCould ensnare the moonAnd if belief in the stars aboveBrought faith to the near and soonThere would be nothing to being handledNo complications to become rattledJust the courage needed to be … Continue reading
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Tagged Alone, Be Strong, Belief, Best of Life, Blush, Breath, Chance, Cheer, Concern, Courage, Dance, Danger, Death, Declarative, Faith, Fear, Flight, Go the Distance, Go Wrong, Gravity, Hand, Handle, Heroes, Home, Imperative, Inter-Stellar, Love, Mars, Moon, Moonlight, Onward, Photograph, Planet, Poem, Poetry, Pride, Rattle, Sacred, Sacred Duty, Sanctuary, Snare, Stars, Stay the Course, Stranger, Toward, Victory, Want the Shot
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