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Thought For the Day: Every Time I See an Adult on a Bicycle, I No Longer Despair for the Future of the Human Race
“Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.” -H.G. Wells, writer (21 Sep 1866-1946)
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Tagged Adult, Bicycle, Despair, Every Time, Future, H.G. Wells, Human Race, See, Thought For the Day
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I’ll Always Take Your Call
I’ll Always Take Your Callby Michael DoyleRipped apart deep inside my DNAFinding the scary part is the last biteWhen suddenly, I run short of what to sayAnd my wildest dreams hold me through the nightSomewhere in the geometry of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Abstract, Always, Apprehensive, Beeline, Behind, Bitter Respite, Boundaries, Breath In, Breath Out, Bridge, Catch Your Fall, Chase, Condescension, Conviction, Dark Tendency, Despair, Desperate, Different Tempos, Direction, DNA, Do It AGain, Dread, Edges, Elasticity, Facts, Feeling, Finish Stong, Geomtry, Hands In Mine, Heat of It, Holding On, Hollow Comfort, Hope, Implore, Infinite, Jester, Jump, King, Less Than Clever, Letting Go, Live and Learn, Lives Lessons, Melts Away, Moments, My Love Runs Deep, Never Leave You, Nighttime, Offer, Photograph, Place, Plasticity, Poem, Poetry, Prevail, Rare, Refuse To Drown, Remember, Return, Ripped Apart, Run Short, Say, Scary Part, See Beyond, Shadows Creep In, Shriek, Silent, Silver Lining, Society, Song, Spin, Superficiality, Take Your Call, Terror, Through the Night, Unruly Mind, Waiting Out, Wildest Dreams, Worse, Wrap, Zig Zag
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First Principles: Act Worthy of Yourselves
“Our country is in danger, but not to be despaired of. Our enemies are numerous and powerful; but we have many friends, determining to be free, and heaven and earth will aid the resolution. On you depend the fortunes of … Continue reading
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Tagged Act, Aid, America, Danger, Depend, Despair, Determine, Enemies, First Principles, Fortunes, Free, Happiness, Heaven and Earth, Important Question, Liberty, Millions, Numerous, Our Country, Powerful, Resolution, Unborn, Worthy, Yourselves
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Feelings Felt That Night
Poem Number 5 in the retelling of a classic story of a werewolf event in the life of an otherwise uneventful village: Feelings Felt That Night by Michael Doyle The feelings felt surpass right and wrong It is more a … Continue reading
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Tagged Belong, Bodies, Chased Around, Classic Story, Compelling, Desire, Despair, Feelings, Felt, Fire, Forbidden, Found, Hay, Hid, Hunger, Kiss, Laid Back, Love, Lovers, Lure, Miss, Night, Night Air, Nothing Stops, Passion, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Revealing, Right and Wrong, Seal, Sense, Soul, Village, Want, Wants, Ways of Desire, Werewolf
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Depths of Despair
How much sadness can one little girl’s heart hold? More than the number of angels that can dance on the head of an infinite pinhead. Depths of Despair by Michael Doyle In the depths of despair Her life out of … Continue reading
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Tagged Against, Alone, Angels, Anguish, Bed, Bleakness, Candle, Closed Door, Dance, Darkness, Decision, Defeat, Depths, Despair, Disrepair, Draw, Eat, Fallow, Fears, Feeling, Field, Found, Hard Heart, Head, Heart, History, Hold, Ignore, Legacy, Life, Little Girl, Lump, Night, Out of Control, Path, Photograph, Pity, Plight, Poem, Poetry, Reel, Sad, Sadness, Sill, Spin, Swallow, Synch, Tears, Thoughts, Throat, Uncomfortable, Will, Window
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Thought For the Day: Praise God That Believing Souls Give Light In Darkness, Comfort In Despair
“Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.” – William Shakespeare
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Tagged Believe, Comfort, Darkness, Despair, God, Light, Praise, Soul, Thought For the Day, William Shakespeare
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First Principles: Act Worthy of Yourselves
“Our country is in danger, but not to be despaired. Our enemies are numerous and powerful; but we have many friends, determining to be free, and heaven and earth will aid the resolution. On you depend the fortunes of America. … Continue reading
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Tagged America, At, Country, Danger, Despair, Earth, Enemy, First Principles, Fortunes, Free, Friends, Happiness, Heaven, Joseph Warren, Liberty, Power, Question, Resolution, Self, Unborn, Worthy
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Joy In the Gifts of Hard Times
The challenge for Na/GloPoWriMo Day 7 is to write a poem about gifts and joy. Above this challenge was a bit about how poetry can prove quite the therapeutic tool. I can see this easily from my own life. From this … Continue reading
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Tagged Above, Abundance, Agony, Alive, Believe, Bleak, Celebrate, Circumstance, Clarity, Concieve, Dark, Daughters, Day, Depend, Despair, Devotion, Difficulty, Each Day, Earth, Employ, Faith, Family, Find, Focus, Gift, Gifts, Good, Good Friends, Grasp, Gratitude, Hand, Happenstance, Hard Times, Heaven, Hope, Joy, Key, Little Girls, Love, Moments, Na/GloPoWriMo, Nature, Negate, Out of Control, Passing Moment, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reason, Rejoice, Salvation, Seasons, Situation, Soul, Spiral, Sublime, Support, Survive, Thankful, Today, World, World Turned Upside Down
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First Principles: Never Despair In Rekindling The Patriotic Fire
“Nil desperandum, — Never Despair. That is a motto for you and me. All are not dead; and where there is a spark of patriotic fire, we will rekindle it.” — Samuel Adams
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Tagged All, Dead, Despair, Fire, First Principles, Motto, Nil Desperandum, Patriotic, Rekindle, Samuel Adams, Spark
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 