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Tag Archives: Daughter
Ode To A Tipsy Fairy
Ode To A Tipsy Fairyby Michael DoyleAfter 40 hours locked inside the slave mindIt will take three pints just to leave it behindAnswers needed can’t be found without right questionsThe urgency felt is constrained by life’s hesitationsFundamentally sought within my … Continue reading
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Tagged Answers, Bath, Behind, Birth, Boots, Bottle, Break of Day, Bright, Cobble Stone, Daughter, Edge, End of Night, Explanation, Fairy, Full Throttle, Glow, Hedges, Hesitation, Laugh, Mettalic Roots, Moive, Morning Light, Mystic Lakes, Ode, Pints, Poetry and Poems, Questions, Reality, Sailing Ships, Sip, Slave Mind, Smile, Splash, Tipsy, World
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Pretender or Contender
Pretender or Contenderby Michael DoyleDrawing on song lyrics in my dayMakes life special in its own wayThe singer is my daughter, and she’s on fireAs legends are made to grow and conspireA life led in three-part inspirationWe all know the … Continue reading
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Tagged Appetites, Baptism, Best, Bread, Breakthrough, Capable, Connection, Conspire, Contemplation, Contender, Continuity, Daughter, End, Fire, Friend, Hunger, Immersion, Jesus, Legends, Perspiration, Poetry and Poems, Pretender, Raised Awareness, Regret, Resistance, Satan, Singer, Song Lyrics, Special, Spirit, Stone, Striking Foot, Strong Feeling, Susceptible, Temper, Temptation, Tempter, Test, Three Part Inspiration, Tired, Ultimate Truth
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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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Thought For the Day: To A Father Growing Old, Nothing Is Dearer Than A Daughter
“To a father growing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter.” -Euripides, playwright (c. 480-406 BCE)
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Tagged Daughter, Dear, Euripides, Father, Grow, Old, Though For the Day
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For Sierra At Age Thirteen
For Sierra At Age Thirteenby Michael DoyleIt seems only yesterdayThat you were a tweenAnd now my youngest princessIs aged perfectly to thirteenThere’s not a single dayThat I will ever forgetThe moments that have passedNor will I ever in any way … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Afternoon's Nap, Amazing Young Lady, Been, Birth, Birthday Song, Blessing, Blink, Candles, Card, Climbed Up, Darling Baby, Daughter, Days, Depart, Drink, Express, Far Away, Feel, Forget, God Knows, Grown Up, Guess, Happen, Hope, Laugh, Life, Lifetime, Live To Watch, Moments, My Heart, Never Stray, Now and Then, Only A Single Doubt, Part By Part, Passed, Perfectly, Poetry and Poems, Quickly, Regret, Sameness of Us, Sierra, Simple Words, Single Day, Smile, Softly, Tell Me Please, Thirteen, Tween, Victory Cup, Voice, Watching, Whisper, Woke Up, Yesterday, You'll Go Really Far, Youngest Princess
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A Lament for Michael the Archangel
A Lament of Michael,the Archangelby Michael Doyle The day after celebrating the birth of a daughterI return again to the celebration of the FatherRevisiting instruction in the ways of the kingdomAnd a memory of the better man that I’ve become … Continue reading
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Tagged Archangel, Authority, Become, Better Man, Birth, Blessed Hour, Celebration, Compassion, Daughter, Deception, Defeat, Defender, Ends of the Earth, Father, Father's Feet, Head of the Church, Hell, Indwell, Instruction, Instrument, Jesus, Joy, Lament, Lessons, Memory, Michael, Michael the Archangel, Mirth, Peace, Perception, Poetry and Poems, Power, Power of God, Protector, Recall, Reminder, Satan and His Minions, Serpent, Sight, Sought, Strength, Taught, Time, Ultimately, Walk, Ways of the Kingdom, Wicked World, Wisdom, Witnesses
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Reflections On Dorian Gray, Pt VIII: Reality’s Seams
Reflections On Dorian Gray, Pt VIII: Reality’s Seamsby Michael DoyleThere on that snow fallen black of nightIn an alley filled with guilt’s blightDorian fears the tell of tongue wagged taleThat pursues him to the gates of HellThere are dreadful things … Continue reading
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Tagged Alley, Ancient Danger, Attic Door, Begin Again, Begun, Black of Night, Blight, Burning Fire, Chain, Change, Closeness, Confession, Conspire, Corruption, Creep, Daughter, Dead Rat, Death, Deceptive, Decrepit, Delusion, Demand, Desire, Done, Dorian Gray, Dreadful Things, Dream, Edge of Death, End, Evil, Father, Final Breath, Final Price, Final Say, Fire, Forlorn, Gates of Hell, Ghastly, Hope, Innocence, Innocent Man, Intoxication, Intrusion, Kiss Away Moment, Locked Away, London, Mortal Sin, Only Friend, Paid, Penny, Poetry and Poems, Priest, Purity, Putrify, Real, Reality's Seams, Reflections, Secret Key, See, Sin, Snow, Strange, Stranger, Subway, Tarnished History, Tongue Wag, Train, Traps, Truth, Tunnel, Wake, Whisper, Wind
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Thought For the Day: I Want To See How the Story Turns Out
“One day I was speeding along at the typewriter, and my daughter — who was a child at the time — asked me, “Daddy, why are you writing so fast?” And I replied, “Because I want to see how the … Continue reading
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Tagged Child, Daddy, Daughter, Fast, How the Story Turns Out, Louis L'Amour, One Day, Thought For the Day, Time, Typewriter, Want To See, Writing
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