Flickr Photos
Tag Archives: Compassion
Merle Oberon
Merle Oberonby Michael DoyleIt doesn’t matter what screen she’s onHere’s to the legendary Merle OberonIn 1935, she set eyes and minds reelingPlaying the heroine with thought and feelingSouth Asian, yet with Javanese eyesHer ascent had come with some surpriseAs Goldwyn … Continue reading →
Posted in Poetry and Poems
|
Tagged Alienation, Artistic Truth, Ascent, Asian, Cautionary Tales, Color-Blind Casting, Compassion, Confide, Creation, Dark Angel, Eyes, First "Colored" Actress, Goldwyn, Heroine, Hide, Hollywood, Hostility, India, Javanese Eyes, Kolkata, Legend, Listen, Merle Oberon, Minds, Mixed-Race, Plain Sight, Poetry and Poems, Present Time, Psychological Will, Reeling, Screen, Society's Torments, South Asian, Starry Eyes, Studio, Tantalize, Terms, Troubled Desires, Understood, Vision
|
Leave a comment
A Study On Faith
A Study On Faithby Michael DoyleListening in on a deep conversationI was maybe a little disturbed by my fascinationSpeaking on Paul’s missionIt’s interesting how grace and peace breed compassionHere as we sit and openly thinkPaul’s reasoning brings us to the … Continue reading →
Posted in Poetry and Poems
|
Tagged Approach, Bible, Blessings, Bountiful, Calming Influence, Capable, Challenge, Change, Church, Clouds of Doubt, Comfort, Compassion, Conflict, Control, Damaged Souls, Deceived, Deep Conversation, Disturbed, Faith, Fascination, Gap, Garden, God, God's Peace, Grace, Growth, Harshness, Heal, His Love, Impossibility, Inside Out, Intention, Jesus, Keep, Learn, Legalistic Conceptions, Life's Lessons, Light, Listen, Merit, Navigate, Poetry and Poems, Rawness, Rearrange, Reasoning, Received, Religion, Repentance, Return, Right, Right Relationship, Ritual, School, Sin, Skin-Deep, Struggle, Study, Surrender and Acceptance, Transparent, Understanding, Wonderful, Wrong
|
Leave a comment
Fires Framing Truth
Fires Framing Truthby Michael DoyleHow can you serve the peopleWhen you’re feeding them lies?How can you mislead a motherAnd look her straight in the eyes?You think a dismissive smileIs all you need to wearAs you issue your political denialDon’t you … Continue reading →
Posted in Poetry and Poems
|
Tagged Authority, Burning, Care, Choke, Clarified, Common Sense, Compassion, Controversy, Courage, Decision, Dismissive Smile, Eyes, Fires, Flow, Forgot, Frame, Going Up In Smoke, Grieving Families, Homes, Houses, Hydrants, Integrity, Leader, Lies, Life, Listen, Lives, Love, Love of Ease, Love of Power, Maquerade, Matched, Measure, Memories, Mislead, Mother, No Defense, Office, Ought, People, Perceptions of Truth, Poetry and Poems, Policy, Political Denial, Power, See, Serve, Social Disease, Tears, Times of Challenge, True Strength, Trust, Truth, Vote, Walk Away, Water, Wear, Who
|
Leave a comment
Thought For the Day: Man May Dismiss Compassion From His Heart, But God Never Will
“Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.” – William Cowper
Posted in Thought For the Day
|
Tagged Compassion, Dismiss, God, Heart, Man, Thought For the Day, William Cowper
|
Leave a comment
Thought For the Day: A True Leader Has the Confidence To Stand Alone, the Courage To Make Tough Decisions, and the Compassion To Listen To the Needs of Others
“A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality … Continue reading →
Posted in Thought For the Day
|
Tagged Action, Compassion, Confidence, Courage, Decision, Douglas MacArthur, Equality, Integrity, Intent, Leader, Listen, Needs, Others, Stand Alone, Thought For the Day, True Leader
|
Leave a comment
Healing From A Thunder Song
Healing From A Thunder Songby Michael DoyleThey whisper of loveTo the moon and backBut they don’t know real loveIt’s something that they lackAs they stand on the roofWatching the sky changeThey mimic standing aloofTrying to find the normal in the … Continue reading →
Posted in Poetry and Poems
|
Tagged Aloof, Beat, Belong, Better, Change, Coastal Salish, Compassion, Delay, Empathy, Faith, Fashion, First Peopole, Glimmer of Hope, Harmonized, Heal, Healing, Healing :Power, Hear, Hearts, Him, Lack, Listen, Lost Their Way, Love, Loving, Mimic, Moon and Back, Music, Night, Normal, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Real Love, Rearrange, Reminded, Right, Roof, Shape, She, Sky Change, Song, Spirit Song, Stand Together, Stay, Strange, Tender Symphony, The Shaman, Thunder Song, Time, Too Long, Understand, Whisper, Wounded World, Wrong
|
Leave a comment
Thought For the Day: Speak Your Mind. Even If You’re A Minority of One, The Truth Is Still the Truth
“Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth, for being correct, for being you. Never apologize for being correct, or for being years ahead of your time. If you’re right and you know it, speak … Continue reading →
Posted in Thought For the Day
|
Tagged Admonishments, Barriers, Best Lives, Better World, Bible, Compassion, Correct, Faith, Forgiveness, Fruit, Gandhi, God, Goodness and Godliness, Harmony, History, Humility and Integrity, Jesus, Love, Mind, Minority, Mirroring the World, Never Apologize, Nobility, One, Punish, Purpose of Life, Rightly, Speak, Speak Your Mind, Spiritual, Superstition, Thought For the Day, Truth, Truth and Integrity, Waste Time
|
Leave a comment
A Cry From the Wilderness
A Cry From the Wildernessby Michael DoyleThe Lion of Judah protects our salvationThe keeper of our faith provides our explanationThis family of faith prays in His nameTo find our path perfected without blamePaul and Barnabas sharply disagreedAbout John Mark’s journey, … Continue reading →
Posted in Poetry and Poems
|
Tagged Action, Bible, Blame, Blind, Christ, Compassion, Conform, Cry, Cry Out, Disagree, Disease, Explanation, Faith, Family, God, Godly Satisfaction, Gory, Gosptel, Heal, Healing Truth, Hearts, Hide, Jesus, John Mark, Journey, Lead, Lion of Judah, Love, Love Story, Mercy, Needy, Passion, Path, Paul and Barnabas, Pause, Perfected, Peter, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Reason, Redeem, Reveal, Roadside, Salvation, See, Shadows, Silent, Son of David, Spiritual Call, Stars, The Bible, Wilderness
|
Leave a comment
Cats, Dogs, and Pizza
Cats, Dogs, and Pizzaby Michael DoyleThere’s a storm brewing between right and wrongAnd where it is that we are best and truly belongMoreso, we struggle to know ourselves in identityAnd what furry and non-furry friends to keep as our familyPeople … Continue reading →
Posted in Poetry and Poems
|
Tagged Alley Rats, Angels, Animals, Beauty, Belong, Better, Better People, Blind Man, Care, Cat, Cats, Celebration, Change, Compassion, Dare, Deserve, Dogs, Familial Relationship, Family, Fellow Animals, Furry Friends, Gentleman, God, Grateful and Loyal, Greedy, Happy, Headfirst, Heaven Above, Human, Identity, Inferior Creatures, Kitten, Leash, Linger, Live Up To, Lonelines, Love, Loved, Masterpiece, Me and You, Meander, Nappy, Needy, Obligation, Observation, Offer, Other, Outward Sense, Pastiche, Pets, Petting, Pizza, Poetry and Poems, Pretense, Question, Reeling, Rhyme, Right and Wrong, Sense of Space, Simplest Moments, Sleepy, Slice, Standards, Storm, Tense, Thought and Feeling, Time, Twain, Unconditional Love, Undying Affection, Unrestrained, Watch, Weather, Whatever, Whole of Nature, Words, Worship
|
Leave a comment
Thought For the Day: The Well Taught Philosophic Mind To All Compassion Gives; Casts Round the World An Equal Eye, and Feels For All That Lives
“The well taught philosophic mind / To all compassion gives; / Casts round the world an equal eye, / And feels for all that lives.” – Anna Laetitia Barbauld, poet, essayist, and editor (20 Jun 1743-1825)
Posted in Thought For the Day
|
Tagged All That Lives, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Compaasion, Compassion, Equal Eye, Feel, Mind, Philosophic, Thought For the Day, Well Taught, World
|
Leave a comment
ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 