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Nat Turner’s Legacy
Nat Turner’s Legacyby Michael DoyleExceptions seldom make the ruleFoolish thinkers need their schoolThose who dwell on the mysteryOf why so few rose against slaveryIt is a cowardice of cultureThat we cannot afford to nurtureLet’s recall a moment of historyLived by … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, American History, Asunder, Blood and Brutality, Civil War, Country, Cowardice of Culture, Criticism, Death, Destiny, Dignity, Easy Lesson, Education, Equal Opportunity, Exceptions, Experiment, Field, Fight, Foolish Thinkers, Freedom and Liberty, God and Science, Greatest Republic, Hard Road, History, Incendiary, Inspiration, Ironic, Legacy, Liberty, Luxury, Mystery, Nat Turner, Ntion, Nurture, Optimism, Path Forward, Pessimism, Poetry and Poems, Poverty, Promise, Prophecy, Rage, Re;public, Revelation, Revolution, Right, Satisfaction, School, Scourge, Sinners, Slavery, Soul, The Rule, Theology, Victory, Vision, Voice, Wickedness Revealed
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What Our God Does
What Our God Doesby Michael DoyleLooking at what God has doneWe become baptized in the SonThe details have some meaningIn burying the wrong of our beingStepping into being taken into a new lifeWe take on the peace by putting away … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Acts, Ananias, Audacious Purpose, Baptized, Being, Blinding Light, Bumpy Path, Bury, Christian Zeal, Death, Details, Early Church, Enemy, Faith, Following God, Foundation, God Does, God's Intent, Hero, Instrument, Last Breath, Meaning, Mistaken, New Life, New Look, Odds, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Purposes, Radical Expression of Grace, Right, Righteousness of Ministry, saul, Saul Became Paul, Set Us Free, Son, Strife, The Book, Victory of Christ, Walk, Wrong
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First Principles: For Love of Country They Accepted Death, and Thus Resolved All Doubts, and Made Immortal Their Patriotism and Their Virtue
“For love of country they accepted death, and thus resolved all doubts, and made immortal their patriotism and their virtue.” – James Garfield, at the Arlington National Cemetery
On Bended Knee
On Bended Kneeby Michael DoyleOn bended knee, I see the memoryOf the day and the costI watched you let it beGiving it your dignityIt’s hard to add the costMaking it worseIs I know that bullet was mineIt had my nameBleeding … Continue reading
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Tagged Across, American Liberty, Bended Knee, Blame, Bleeding, Blood, Breath, Bullet, Choose, Cost, Cry, Days, Death, Define, Depend, Dignity, End, Expend, Fight and Die, Forgive, Friends, Full Price, Hard, Hope, Indignantly, Integrity, Lives, Measure, Memory, Mine, Mistakes, Moments, My Name, Nation, Obligation, Poetry and Poems, Politicians, Pray, Protect and Defend, Refuse, Speak, Taken For Granted, The Cost, Toil, Treasure, Verse, Watch, Why, Worse, Your Death
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First Principles: If I Believe In God and Life After Death and You Do Not, and If There Is No God, We Both Lose When We Die. However, If There Is A God, You Still Lose and I Gain Everything
“If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.” – Blaise … Continue reading
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Tagged A God, Believe, Blaise Pascal, Death, Die, Do Not, First Principles, Gain Everything, God, Life, Lose, No God, Still
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First Principles: From the Practice of the Purest Virtue, You May Be Assured You Will Derive the Most Sublime Comforts In Every Moment of Life, and In the Moment of Death
“Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.” ― Thomas Jefferson
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Tagged Assure, Comfort, Death, Derive, First Principles, Life, Moment, Practic, Pure, Sublime, Thomas Jefferson, Virtue
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Coming To Peace With the Questions
Coming To Peace With the Questionsby Michael DoyleWhatever might be said as final proclamationOne way or another about Jesus’ divinationIt can’t fail to be noted, He changed civilizationRegardless of any attempts at miseducationJesus came to fulfill, and not overturn JudaismFrom … Continue reading
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Tagged 4th Century, All, Apostles, Arose, Atonement, Beliefs and Perceptions, Betrayed With A Kiss, Civilization, Coming To Peace, Confluence, Confomed, Conforming Creed, Corinthian, Correction, Critical Truth, Crucifixon, Death, Debates, Decpetion, Discern, Diversity, Divination, Divinity, Dominance, Earliest Days, Easter Day, Essential Fact, Examination, Existing Sin, Explanation, Exponential Growth, Final Proclamation, Fulfill, Future, Galatians, Godly Breath, Happiness, Heresy, Historic Jesus, History, Holy Ways, Human and Divine, Ignore, Impact, In Controversy, Increase, Jesus, Jewish Conversion, Jews and Gentiles, Judaism, Learn, Love One Another, Miseducation, Modern Day, New Creation, No One University, One Way Or Another, Optimism, Overturn, Paul, Peaceful Life, Perception, Perfection, Poetry and Poems, Profound Differences, Question, Relief, Resurrection, Righteous, Shown, Significance, Significant Way, Standard of Belief, Strife, Struggle, The Church, The Good and the Truth, The Nicene Creed, Transofrmed, Truth, Two Billion Christians, Which Is Which
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