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In A Less Than Perfect World
In A Less Than Perfect Worldby Michael DoyleI look out into my living roomIt gives me hope instead of gloomTo see my daughters study by preferenceAnd not out of some required deferenceMaybe I did one or two things rightTo be … Continue reading
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The Painful Reality of Perfectionism
The Painful Reality of Perfectionismby Michael DoyleThere is a need to face eventuallyWhether painful or not, the realityThat however much we have optimismThere is no such thing as perfectionismAt least so much as actually be perfectThere is only really the … Continue reading
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Tagged Accept, Analysis, Attitude, Bearable, Best Ways, Burdens, Capable, Correct, Crack, Creation, Crush Your Soul, Daughters, Days, Destroy, Door, Embrace, Encouragement, Error, Eventually, Father, Fear, Foolish, Honest Face, Humility, Illuminate, Imperfection, Incapable, Light Gets In, Need, Nothing, Optimism, Pain, Paralysis, Perfect, Perfectionism, Poetry and Poems, Practiced Failure, Pretend, Push, Reality, Restrain, Self-Correction, self-improvement, Self-Solitude, Share, Sing, Something, Song of Life, Time Enough, Trace, Truth, Truth of Life, Unachievable, Uncertainty, Urgency, Well Being, World
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Road Trips With My Daughters 2024
Road Trips With My Daughters 2024by Michael DoyleThere’s a sort of magic I learned as I grewThat traveling with children reveals anewThe wonders and enchantments there are to findAlong with the souvenirs that serve to remindOne of the places gone … Continue reading
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Tagged 2024, Adventure, Beach, Believe, Bliss, Children, Creativity, Daughters, Dinner, Families, Glory, Growth, Happiness, Hours, Imagination, Ingenuity, Innovation, Investment, Lake Erie, Mage, Memories, Michigan, Perfection, Place, Plan, Poetry and Poems, Possible, Road Trip, Souvenirs, Story, Summer's Sun, Sunset, The Henry Ford, Travel, Understand, Wonders
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Owed To America 2024
Owed To America 2024by Michael DoyleMy daughters ask me why is it you cryI think back on history and will not lieToo many brave souls have fought and diedFor us not to have mourned and criedThere was a time when … Continue reading
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Tagged Ages, America, American Nation, Battle, Belief, Believe, Bend Their Knees, Bleed, Blue, Brave, Brave Souls, Cause, Ceaseless, Color, Courage, Cried, Cry, Danger, Daughters, Dedication, Defeat, Despotic Crown, Died, Fear, Fight, Fire, Fought, Freedom, Good, History, Hope, Ill, Imagination, Inspiration, Inspire, Internal Eney, Judgment Day, Justice, Kind, Land, Liberty, Lie, Love, Measure, More, Mourn, Nation, Owed To America 2024, Passing Years, People, Photography, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Red, Rights, Road, Save, Spark, Stand, Stand Tall, Street, Strength, Sweet Land, This Land, Time, Travel, Unbeatable, Values, White
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The Power In No
The Power In Noby Michael DoyleIn my life, I’ve been a sonHeld by a mother as second to noneTo my sister, I have been a brotherLoved by her like no otherI’ve been a doting sort of fatherOf my two beautiful, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alone, Available, Believe, Bitter Fate, Brother, Call, Capability, Daughters, Deserve, Diligent, Do, Doting, Dreams, Dreams and Hopes, Empowerment, Father, Feelings, Find Themselves, Full Capacity, Getting Less, Greatest Power, Happiness, Healing, Home, Inconvenient Truths, Late, Life, Live Up, Love, Love Given, Medical Care, Mirrors, Mother, Neglect, No, Observe, Phone, Poetry and Poems, Power, Pretense, Rocks, Rope, Self-Respect, Shade, Single Sentence, Sister, Son, Wait, Weight, Women
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Newport Aquarium
Newport Aquariumby Michael DoyleAs though a knight eager on his questI, as a father, find little need to restInstead, I eagerly undertake a two-hour driveGlad to teach my daughters and feel aliveThough I wish I could take them to the … Continue reading
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Tagged Accidentally Learn, Aquarium, Beauty, Care, Cared, Challenges, Class, Daughters, Dimming, Diversity, Dreams, Drive, Endless Miles, Expereince, Father, Gentle Traces, Glass, History, Imagination, Knight, Learn, Lessons, Miles, Minds, Museums, newport, Newport Aquarium, Ocean, Poetry and Poems, Preference, Princess Smiles, Quest, Remember, Revealed, rhode-island, Served Their Love Well, Share, Shared, Shore, Smiles, Swimming, Tale, Taught Them Well, Together, Travel
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In Prayers for My Mother
In Prayers For My Motherby Michael DoyleMy ex-wife recovers from surgery on this Mother’s DayI gave up the weekend she owed to show in some sort of wayThat I wish her to recover and want my daughters to tendTo her … Continue reading
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Tagged Alone, Best, Better Son, Call On God, Church, Daughters, Done, Every Day, Ex Wife, Family, Grace, Heaven, Imperfect Son, Jesus, Laugh, Lessons, Look Back, Love, Loving and Brave, Mature, Miracle, Mom, Momma, Mother, Mother's Day, My Mother, Nature, Personal Relationship, Poetry and Poems, Prayers, Precious Daughters, Present, Quietly Pray, Recover, Remember, Saves, Show, Sought, Strength, Struggle and Strife, Stumble, Surgery, Taught, Tear, Tend, The Lord, The Power, The Son, Think, Throughout My Day, Time, Time To Pray, Traces, Trail, Weekend
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Turkey Run State Park
Turkey Run State Parkby Michael DoyleIndiana is prone to having a second winter appearAfter it seems the real winter has disappearedThis was the circumstance in February 2024When a snowfall came, inviting my family to exploreMy daughters and I loaded up … Continue reading →