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On Mother’s Day 2022
On Mother’s Day 2022by Michael DoyleWe’re here in celebration of no otherThan the holy names of our mothersAt this time of blessed worshipWe raise up this sacred relationshipLet’s bring it in intimate conversationShared love in its happy intimationGiven the power … Continue reading
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Tagged Anxiety, Blessed Worship, Celebration, Children, Complexity, Contentment, Delay, Full Attention, God, Grace, Gratification, Happy Intimation, Hesitate, Holy Names, Imperfect, Instruction, Intimate Conversation, Learned, Love, Mother's Day 2022, Mothers, No Control, Parenting, Persist, Poetry and Poems, Power, Praise, Present, Raise, Resentment, Right Intention, Sacred Relationship, Season, Serving As Example, Shared Love, Simplicity, Stay, Sunrise, Surprises, Theology, Uncertainty, Urgency
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Strike the Match
Strike the Matchby Michael DoyleLife broke our heartsAnd filled it with sorrowLife killed our hopeBy filling us with promised tomorrowsThere inside our broken smilesAre the tatters, we won’t leave behindEven for a sacred shot at sanityThat is, after all, naught … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexandria, Bad, Broken Smiles, Care, Children, Choose, Core, Darkness, Eyes, Fair, Flames, Good, Hard Price, Harshness, Heart, Hope, Immortality, Learn, Life, Live For Love, Match, New World, Nice to Win, Old World, Open, Poetry and Poems, Promise, Sanity, Secret Pain, Shame, Should, Sigh, Sleep, Sorrow, Stay Alive, Strike, Sunrise, Survive, Tatters, Vanity, Win
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Parenting As We Go
Parenting As We Goby Michael DoyleHolding on so tightAs life brings dark and lightParenting the children trusted to usAnd doing our best just becauseGod loves us and we should love one anotherAs we are either serving as father or motherIt’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Acknowldge, Adjust, Allow, Approach, As We Go, Aspired, Beacon of Light, Because, Believe, Best, Bound, Bring Harm, Charm, Children, Choose, Commandments, Community, Dark and Light, Deceive, Depart, Doing Right, Encouraging, Express, Faith, False Colors, Family, Father or Mother, Freedom, God, God Loves Us, God's Goodness, God's Path, God-Inspired, Goodness, Grow, Harvest, Heart, Holding On, Homily, Illuminated, Impress, Kingdom, Life, Lines, Live Each Moment, Live Free, Love and Truth, Love One Another, Parent, Parenting, Parenting As We Go, Poetry and Poems, Praised, Pretenses, Profess, Raised, Shining, Symbols, Teaching, Tight, Trusted, Upright, Us, Words Matter, World, Youth
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Blown Smoke
Blown Smokeby Michael DoyleBlown smoke seen through a windowThe feel of doubt, imprinted on her shadowThe detective watches the young widowLooking for clues, he might recognize and knowHe thinks back on days of reverieThat are no longer more than memoryShivering … Continue reading
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Tagged Arms, Blown Smoke, Borrow, Burn, Children, Clues, Contrite, Dark, Days, Detective, Empty, Feel of Doubt, Forgot, Keep Out, Know, Life, Love, Memory, Misery, Night, Not Divine, Numbers, Paganini, Poetry and Poems, Present, Recognize, Revenge, Reverie, Rocks, Rude, Run, Secret Moods, Shadow, Ship of Fools, Shiver, Sign, Silver Strings, Sorrow, Souls, Stargazer, System, Tomorrow, Troubles, Widow, Window, Wise, Yesterday
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In A Spoiler Alert
In A Spoiler Alertby Michael DoyleHere we are quite certain at the end of daysThat all around might want to change our waysIn a spoiler alert, there is a God of creationMeander across His words of sacred communicationIt’s no secret … Continue reading
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Tagged Abdication, Abortion, Autistic Battlefield, Bell Curve Meme, Biology, Bittersweet Legacy, Brave New World, Breath, Change Our Ways, Chaos, Childhood's End, Children, Compulsion, Cool as the Uncool, Days of Lunacy, Death, Defense, Discrete, Drabness of Life, Dystopia, End of Days, Erase, Etermination, Faith and Belief, Final Words, Fire, Firm, Fogged Up Glasses, Forrest Gump, Free Will, Gender Activisits, God of Creation, Grown, Guardian Angels, Heaven, Hell, Homo Deus, Huxley, Ideals of Utopia, Image, Infancy, Intimacy, Jedi Masters, Joke, Judge, Known, Language, Leading Cause, Legitimacy, Light, Lord's Feet, Lost Control, Lucifer, Majority, Male and Female, Meaningless Encounters, Morphed, Motherless Materialism, Nature's Matter, Neutrality, Nightmare, No Secret, Paradise, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Premeditated, Progress, Quite Certain, Realkty, Rebel, Revulsion, Sacred Communication, Seen, Self-Medicated, Social Classes, Spoiler Alert, Subtle, Tautology, Termination, Towers of Babylon, Treasure, Truth, Twisted Desire, Wieghtless Moment, Wings, World Shatters
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The End of Everything
The End of Everythingby Michael DoyleBeware of a woman’s scornAnd the wrath that followsYou’ll find more than halo tornWhen descending into those hollowsCrippling revenge bring no justiceEuripides puts tragedy into practiceFinding that stronger than a lover’s loveThere are wounds incurable … Continue reading
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Tagged Avalanche, Begins, Betrayals of Life, Beware, Bitten, Blood, Bring, Cajole, Children, Crippling Revenge, Death, Embittered Women, End, End To Everything, Endure, Euripides, Everything, Evil Mind, Fatal Schism, Fits, Foolish, Fruitless, Gods, Greater, Grief, Halo, Hate's Bottomless Cup, Heaven, Hollow, Honeyed Words, Human, Incurable, Jason, Killed, Love, Lover's Hate, Lover's Love, Mortal, Mud, No Justice, Perverse, Poetry and Poems, Pour, Practice, Price, Quest, Roll, Sense, Shake, Soul, Thoughts, Torn, Tragedy, Twist of Fate, Universe, Wisdom, Woman's Scorn, Wounds, Wrath
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As If Nothing Else Matters
As If Nothing Else Mattersby Michael DoyleHow do you protect Russian speakersBy bombing them into oblivion?Mix up that experiment in your beakerYou say you’re doing this as a guardian?Returning to the homeland of the RusWhile treating the natives as if … Continue reading
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Tagged Armed, Attack, Beaker, Belarus, Beseda, Black, Blessed, Bodies, Bolster, Bomb, Bombed, Bring Down, Buried, Carry On, Children, Children Plea, City, Collectively Sighs, Courage, Cry, Defense Ministry, Empathetic, Encourage, Exceed, Experiment, Eyes Grown Older, False Flags, Firm, Forget, Forty Mile Long Russian Convoy, Fought, Fruited Jams, FSB, Grandmothers, Groan, Guardian, Historical Vision, Homeland of the Rus, Honey, Human Beings, Hyiv, Intelligence, Land, Landfill, Limited, Little Russians, Living, Lucrative, Maternity Wards, Natives, Nazis, Nothing Else Matters, Oblivion, Odessan, Patience, Plot, Poetry and Poems, Poets and Dreamers, Predicted, Protect, Pulled In, Putin's War, Real, Refuse, Refusing To Die, Riches, Russian Speakers, Scenes, Sheerest Tatters, Souls, Stall, Sticks and Stones, Street Urchins, Surreal, Things We Have Seen, Three Prong of Attack, Tractors, Trembles, Tyrant, Ukrainian Grandfathers, Unbearable, Valdimir, Wall, What Cannot Be Forgot, Wheat, Wicked Thrill, Win, World Watches, World's Money, Worn Down
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First Principles: It Is the Duty of Parents To Maintain Their Children Decently, and According To Their Circumstances; To Protect Them According To the Dictates of Prudence
“It is the duty of parents to maintain their children decently, and according to their circumstances; to protect them according to the dictates of prudence; and to educate them according to the suggestions of a judicious and zealous regard for … Continue reading
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Tagged Accord, Children, Circumstances, Decent, Dictates of Prudence, Duty, Educate, First Principles, Happiness, James Wilson, Judicious, Maintain, Parents, Protect, Regard, Respectability, Suggestions, Usefulness, Zealous
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Waking From Lies
Waking From Liesby Michael DoyleThe life before usSeen as if waking from liesMaybe it never wasWe awake with opened eyesDanger stands on either sideWhile we choose our confessionWe can fake that it stops at wounded prideOr press forward despite our … Continue reading
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Tagged Books, Cast Off, Children, Choose, Confession, Content, Danger, Disappear, Either Side, End of the Story, Every Day, Every Heart, Feel, Feeling Alive, Forget, Hope, Human Beings, Hurt, Kiss, Learn, Lies, Life Before Us, Never Was, Opened Eyes, Poetry and Poems, Predilection, Press Forward, Pretend, Quest, Questioning, Real, Real Meaning, Reverie, Seek Happiness, Seeking Glory, Sermons, Shadows, Sorrow, Stay Near, Tears, Tomorrow, Travel, Vast Distances, Wake, Waking From Lies, Walk, Wounded Pride
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The Magic of Hope, Part I
The Magic of Hope, Part Iby Michael DoyleIn all of the hustled hassleOf a snow-blanketed sense of seasonLife is oft lived like an air-castleFilled with whimsy decorated with reasonA good Christmas is worked uponAnd not just a state-of-mindJust as soon … Continue reading
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Tagged Air-Castle, Approach, Articles, Atomic Particles, Bear, Believing, Best Company, Blessed, Blessing, Bliss, Brave, Busy, Cheerful, Children, Christmas, Company, Cozy, Crisis, Danger, Destination, Elves, End of the Rope, Everywhere, Feet, Floorboards, Forget, Gentle Reminder, Giants, Girl, Half-Forgotten, Happiness, Hassle, Hear, Heart, Incentive, Journey, Knowing, Lost, Lurk, Magic of Hope, Magic of Snow, Making Ends Meet, Miserable, Nestled, Nightmare, Noise, Nordic Forest, Persevere, Place, Poetry and Poems, Poor, Purity, Read, Reason, Reclaim, Regret, Relief, Sacred Quest, Season, Secret Village, Silver Moon, Skies, Snow, Snowing, Speaking Without Words, Special Part, State-of-Mind, Story, Sympathy, Talked, Top Shelves, True Glory, Truth, Tune, Twinkle, Two Kind Words, Universe, Vapors, Walked, Warm Memory, Whimsy, Woods, Year
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 