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Happy Death Day!
Happy Death Day!by Michael DoyleSplitting hangover starts the dayAgain and again in instant replayYou’re certain you have been here beforeFrom what’s seen, you don’t need thinking any moreDespite appearances, you won’t feel better tomorrowYour two choices are either fear or … Continue reading
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Tagged Again and Again, Alley, Answers, Appearance, Before, Beleated, Better, Broken Dreams, Cause, Celebration, Certain, Coming Apart, Curtain, Dead, Death, Delirium, Despite, Disorder, Equilibrium, Fear, Hangover, Happy Death DAy, Head, Hurt, Idiocy, Instant Replay, Invitation, Kissed, Last Breath, Leave, Life, Life Grinds, Lucky, Missed, Pain, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Run, Sanity, Seams, Search, Seen, Self, Shelf, Sorrow, Think, This Day, Through, Tomorrow, Two Choices, Universal
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Grace In This World of Darkness
Grace In This World of Darknessby Michael DoyleIn this world of darknessWe often find too much harshnessAnd not enough faith and loveThat we are told is given from heaven aboveThe Lord has paid our costIn redeeming us from being lostTo … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Blood, Conquer, Cost, Dare, Death, Everyday, Faith and Love, Found, God's Will, Grace, Harshness, Heaven Above, Heaven Bound, Holy Name, Joy, Keep It Real, King, Last Breath, Life, Lost, Love, Majesty, One True Path, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Proclaim, Redeem, Reign, Rise, Salvation, Same, Saved, Savior's Name, Shame, Smiles, The Lamb, The Lord, Told, Trinity, Us, Way, World of Darkness, Worthy
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No Cause To Weep
No Cause To Weepby Michael DoyleThere is in life’s turning awayLike that of a new day’s dawningThe sort of thing in a man’s wayOf time spent sipping lemonade under the awningUntil that day, when life simply slips awayAnd the miracle … Continue reading
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Tagged Afraid, Awning, Beautiful, Belonged Together, Called Him Home, Children, Day, Death, Done, Embrace, End, Enjoyed, Fight, Final Say, Her Name, Hold His Hand, Holding Him Closer, Honest Man, Journey, Known, Last Breath, Left, Lemonade, Life, Life's Strife, Lived, Lives, Loneliness, Love, Love's Timeless Seam, Loved Her, Madness, Man's Way, Memories, Miracle of Love, New Day's Dawning, No Cause, No Cause To Weep, No Longer, No Longer Thre, One Night, Pain, Passed Peacefully, Peace, Peaceful Dream, Poetry and Poems, Quietly Care, Reasons To Live, She, Simple Life, Sleep, Slips Away, Smile On His Face, Souls, Strain, Survived, Take and Give, Time Spent, True Love Shown, Turning Away, Two Into One, Understand, Ways of Sadness, Weep, Wife, Years Ago, Young Boy
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No Longer Afraid
No Longer Afraidby Michael DoyleIt’s really not so frightening To see Satan fall like lightningCast down from the Heavens aboveAll in the name of God’s sacred loveLiving life as a personal testimonyThe world sometimes crashes down on meAnd I’ll remain … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Above, Afraid, Believe, Birth, Blessing, Cast Down, Conceive, Crash, Crippled, Death, Eyes, Fixed, Fright, God's Care, God's Sacred Love, Heaven, Holiness, Holy Hour, House of Worship, Jesus, Lam, Last Breath, Lightning, Living Life, Met, Miacles, Name, No Longer, Personal Testimony, Poetry and Poems, Pour, Power, Proclaim, Protected, Purpose, Safe, Satan, Satan's Snare, Servant, Spokn, Street, The World, Truth and Love, Victory, Walk
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Mountain of Consequence
Mountain of Consequenceby Michael DoyleThere are legends of lost treasureThat goes deep and beyond known measureThe locks that must be brokenAs the stories are told, quietly spokenMankind’s greed leads to deathAn old man mumbles under breathWhile the bringer of life … Continue reading
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Tagged Age Old Story, Ansswer, Arrogance, Awe, Beg, Beyond, Bleed, Breath, Bringer of Lifee, Broken, Bury, Calculated Science, Call, Castle, Consequence, Control, Cres, Darkness, Date, Day, Death, Death and Misery, Deep, Dies, Disenchanted, Echo, Embrace, Everything and Everyone, Face to Face, Fairytales, Fate, Forgive, Fractured Soul, Fragile, Free, Frozen Prayer, Greed, Harshness, Heart, Heartbreak, Heresy, Horror, Intolerance, Know, Left, Legends, Length, Live, Lock, Lost Treasure, Love, Mankind, Measure, Meet, Mercy, Mountain, Mumble, Need, New Strength, Old man, Pines, Poet, Poetry and Poems, Pretend, Promise, Search, See, Seeking Glory, Snow, Sorrows, Spoken, Street, Survive, Tears, The End, Tomorrow, Tortured Souls, Trace, True Secret, Universe, Unknown God, Valley of Sorrow, Verse, Wish
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Left Behind
Left Behindby Michael DoyleThere is a coziness to all our liesWhispers the darkness in this monster’s eyesThere is peace in settling the scoreVengeance knows the warmth of its pourLike a blended whiskey that burns down slowSo is our lack of … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Alienation, Angel, Anger, Awareness, Beginning, Blended Whiskey, Brimstone and Sulfur, Burn, Cause, Consciousness, Cozy, Creation, Cure, Darkness, Death, Descendants, Design, Desire, Dream, Dwell, Equal, Escape, Exist, Eyes, Fight, Fractional Lineage, Fumbles, Future, God's Favor, God's Will, Heaven's Door, Hell, Humanity, Hunger, Imagination, Isolation, Jesus, Know, Lack of Wisdom, Law, Left Behind, Lesser Beings, Lies, Linear Time, Little More, Living God, Lucifer, Misguided Past, Monster, Odds, Pain, Peace, Pentinents, Persist, Perverse, Poetry and Poems, Pour, Pride, Purgatory, Reincarnation, Requisite Saor, Rest, Satan, Score, Self-Created, Selfishness, Sin, Slow, Sorrow, Soul, Spiritual Synapses, Sublime, Subtle, Suffer, Test, Time, Universe, Vengeance, Warmth, Whisper, Win
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First Principles: The Mind Controlled By the Sinful Nature Is Death, But the Mind Controlled By the Spirit Is Life and Peace
“The mind controlled by the sinful nature is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace.” – Romans 8:6 (NIV)
Posted in First Principles
Tagged Control, Death, First Principles, Life, Mind, Peace, Romans 8:6 (NIV), Sinful Nature, Spirit
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Truth of Dust Roads Taken
Truth of Dust Roads Takenby Michael DoyleSome of the deepest truths are told in fictionEspecially those of times of historical frictionPushed into competition over narrowed resourcesInherent conflicts rise as nature takes its coursesSome conflicts come with visible tags of shameWhere … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Ages, Author, Back, Blame, Certainty, Competition, Conflict, Darkness, Dearth, Death, Deeper Thoughts, Deepest Truth, Depression, Deprive, Desperation, Disappear, Dust Bowl, Dust Road, Fiction, Forward, Hard Times, Harshness, Heavy Vintage, Historical Friction, Humanity, Ignorance and Greed, Lasting Impression, Learn, Nature, Pages, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Prophesy, Resources, Rot, Sin, Strength, Survive, Symbolized, Tags of Shame, Taint, Tears, Tenacity, Truth, Virtue, Wrath
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A Hymn For A Winter’s Day
A Hymn For A Winter’s Dayby Michael DoyleLeaning by the firesidePutting away my vain prideFear is not my wayI’ll follow the Lord in all my daysGod’s house is my dwellingGod’s love is my true ceilingAs I find my heart in … Continue reading
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Tagged Alone, Burn, Ceiling, Darkest Day, Day, Days, Death, Dwelling, Fear, Fireside, Follow, God's House, Heart, Him, History, Humanity, Hymn, Jesus, Joy, King, Lean, Light, Lord, Love, Moments, Naigate, Not My Way, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Pride, Put Away, Rolled Away, Savior, Silent, Sing, Stars, Stay, Stone, The Lord, Victory, Winter's Day
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Friends of Mine Like Poetry
Friends of Mine Like Poetryby Michael DoyleFriends of mine like a little poetryMixed in with their misguided militancy,There is something to the spin reelingWho needs the facts when there are feelingsIt’s a little less about working things outAnd more about … Continue reading
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Tagged Atrocities, Check the Facts, Christian Arabs, Death, Death Tolls, Drinking, Facts, Feelings, Foreign Public, Friends of Mine, HastagLines, Human Shields, Islamists, Known, Militant Actions, Misguided Militancy, Multiple Layers, Muslim Acts, No Tomorrow, Palestine, Palestinian Deaths, Poetry and Poems, Shown, Sober Thinking, Sorrow, Spew, Spin, Spoon-Fed, Suffering, Surprise, Trauma, Untrue Truths, Watercooler Topic, Working Things Out
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