Tag Archives: Day

Beyond the Thunder Dome

Beyond the Thunder Domeby Michael DoyleIt took a day to really sink inTo catch my peace and reach ZenA private dancer left the buildingTo rest in Heaven, if God be willingRock-n-roll has lost its acid queenThe hips that hollered a … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: Live Each Day With Enthusiasm, Optimism, and Hope

“Live each day to the fullest. Live each day with enthusiasm, optimism and hope. If you do, I am convinced that your contribution to this wonderful experiment we call America will be profound.” – Ronald Reagan

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Born In the Rockies (Part II)

Born In the Rockies (Part II)by Michael DoyleThe backbone of North America stretches for milesBring life across the land with ceaseless smilesFrom shifting sand dunes to deep river valleys it goesFrom the most brilliant stretches of sun to deep shadowsEach … Continue reading

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Don’t Play With Fire In the Dark

Don’t Play With Fire In the Darkby Michael Doyle The edge of the cliff beckons meWhispering my name dangerouslyIs it taunting the edgeOf a lonely soul on the ledge A reasoned soul knows its contextWhen all the dots fail to … Continue reading

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Nothing But Net

Nothing But Netby Michael DoyleLiving through drift with deferenceWe each live Beethoven’s experienceComing out from every defeatWe stretch our defenses as we greetAll that life gives to usFacing each day and just becauseA preacher’s kid knows the shift of anxietyEveryone’s … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: I Have Known A Vast Quantity of Nonsense Talked About Bad Men Not Looking You In the Face. Don’t Trust That

“I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don’t trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance, any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.” – Charles Dickens, … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: An Artist Discovers His Genius the Day He Dares Not To Please

“An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.” – Andre Malraux, novelist, adventurer, art historian, and statesman (3 Nov 1901-1976)

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First Principles: Enlighten the People, Generally, and Tyranny and Oppressions of the Body and Mind Will Vanish Like Spirits At the Dawn of Day

“Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.” – Thomas Jefferson (1816)

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In the I-IV-VII

In the II IV VIIby Michael Doyle In the I IV VIII just might playMy way to blues heavenBut I wouldn’t want to really say. It’s just another moment in this dayTroubles found and troubles goneNo real matter to how … Continue reading

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We Pretend To Have Forgot

We Pretend To Have Forgotby Michael DoyleI don’t like thingsThat are too touchy and feelyThe reason whyIs these might reveal meWith the turn of the pageIt’s less in what we sayBut the how that we rageAs night fights against dayThese … Continue reading

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