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Thought For the Day: Fear Prophets and Those Prepared To Die For the Truth, For As A Rule They Make Many Others Die With Them, Often Before Them, At Times Instead of Them
“Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them” – Umberto Eco, philosopher and novelist (5 Jan 1932-2016)
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Tagged Before, Die, Fear, Instead, Prophets, Rule, The Name of the Rose, Thought For the Day, Truth, Umberto Eco
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Oblique Stare
Oblique Stareby Michael DoyleI looked up in an oblique stareUpward into that cold ceilingFighting with God in my prayerHoping that my wish would be prevailingTwo daughters stood near by my sideI was not ready to leave behindAnd to my Lord, … Continue reading
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Tagged Adore, Another Day, Behind, Brave, Cold Ceiling, Confide, Cry, Daily Meditation, Deserve, Die, Fight, Forgiven, Given, God, Hear Me, Love, Medication, Mercy, My God, My Life, My Lord, Oblique Stare, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Prevail, Question, Respect, Take My Life, Thankful, Time, Two Daughters, Understood, Wish, Year Later, Yours
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Thought For the Day: Perhaps Travel Cannot Prevent Bigotry, But By Demonstrating That All Peoples Cry, Laugh, Eat, Worry, and Die,…If We Try…We May Even Become Friends
“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” -Maya Angelou, poet (4 Apr … Continue reading
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Tagged All People, Bigtory, Cry, Demonstrate, Die, Friends, Idea, Introduce, Laugh, Maya Angelou, Prevent, Thought For the Day, Travel, Understand, Worry
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A Photographic Means
A Photographic Means(Dedicated to Berenice Abbott)To widen our knowledgeOf a world seen through camera’s eyeIt’s truly something to acknowledgeAn acquaintance of truth that will not dieThough it does sometimes fadeawayIn the meantime, it teaches us of todayThere’s an education in … Continue reading
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Tagged Acknowledge, Acquaintance, Appeal, Artistic Expression, Camera's Eye, Communication, Composition, Comprehensible, Concession, Contingent, Die, Education, Emphasisze, Facilitation, Fadeaway, Genuine Aesthetic, Hard Enough, Hint, Honest, Indication, Information, Inner Dialog, Interpretation, Isolated, Knowledge, Neutrality, Objective, Offering, Photographic Means, Photographic Print, Physics, Poetry and Poems, Squint, Summation, Tale, Teach, Times and Places, Today, Transformation, Truth, Unforgettable, Visual, Visual Art, Widen, World
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Cicero Speaks On Becoming Older
Cicero Speaks On Becoming Olderby Michael DoyleLife passes through many a stageUntil calumniating in old ageIt’s a folly to hold this in despiseWe’d be better off to open our eyesCicero offers us his philosopher’s lookIn his writing of many a … Continue reading
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Tagged Assassination, Assert, Assumption, Body, Cherished, Cicero, Clarity, Collective Wisdom, Constitutional Hall, Counsel, Despise, Die, Different, Education, Effective, Elder, Elocution, Ends of History, Essay, Estate, Eternity, Experience, Eyes, Fail, Fair Prize, Farm, Folly, Franklin, Freedom, Good Book, Grandparent, Guide, Hands, Heed, History, Ides of March, Immortality, Indignation, Infirmity, Inner Beauty, Integrity, Justice, Kingdom, Law, Leadership, Life, Life's Lessons, Loss, Meditate, Mental Abilities, Mental Faculty, Moments, Moral Duty, Observation, Offer, Old Age, Older, Open, Opportunity, Oratory, Phaedo, Philosopher, Plato, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Profound, Quality of Life, Reason, Sacred Ground, Sage, Sensual Pleasures, Sharp, Stage, Sweet Surprise, Teach, Throat, Tides, Time and Again, Triumph, Truth, Tyranny, Use, Useless, Valuable, Versed, Why, Wiser, Wonder, Write, Young
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On the Altar of My Life
On the Altar of My Lifeby Michael DoyleIn every moment, even or oddYou put me together, Lord GodIn every flaw and every breakYou have eased every single acheYou have shown me the truthLived every moment since my youthEvery shame of … Continue reading
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Tagged Ache, All of My Days, Altar, Altar of My Life, Beauty, Break, Breath, Christ, Creation, Cry, Day, Destination, Die, Enduring Faith, Every Moment, Eyes, Fullness, Glory, Heart, Law, Life, Lifting You Up, Living Altar, Lord God, Magnified, Man, Meaning, Near, Page, Paths, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Sacrifice, Shame, Shaped, Signified, Sing, Story, Strains, Sunrise, Thankful, The Glory, Truth, Your Ways, Youth
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A Thinking Plague
A Thinking Plagueby Michael DoylePeeped at through the window my mind’s eyeIt seems to philosophize is to learn to dieThere is to every life an adversary named deathOne that we must fight until our last breathFruitful in our play had … Continue reading
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Tagged Adversary, Analysis, Approach, Approximation, Brings, Composition, Conversation, Death, Destination, Detachment, Die, Dreams, Forgot, Hume, Last Breath, Life, Long Road, Meant, Measure, Middle Ground, Obfuscation, Paralysis, Parchment, Pen, Philosophy, Plague, Poetry and Poems, Quest, Reproach, Sinners and Saints, Society, Tale, Taught, Think, Thinking, Tomorrow, Treasure, Window
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With Contented Sigh
With Contented Sighby Michael DoyleNo matter how muchOf this world, Atlas carriesOn his tired old backIt’s the writer’s touchThat moves or buriesThe feelings we too often lackTurning it on, page after pageConveying the feelings we want to sayHinted at or … Continue reading
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Tagged Amusement, Atlas, Back, Bemusement, Binge, Born, Brave, Buries, Clack, Click, Contented Sigh, Conttent, Convey, Crawling, Cringe, Devil, Die, Due, Everyday, Feelings, Hint, Leave This World, Life Comes, Matter, Meager, Meant To Say, Moments, Moves, Our Words, Page, Poetry and Poems, Pound of Flesh, Pressing Onward, Pushing Toward, Sage, Say, Scene by Scene, Sigh, Souls, Straight Forward, Turning It On, Wandering, Wondering, World, Writer's Day, Writer's Touch
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Rittenhouse
Rittenhouseby Michael DoyleWhen the cognitive dissonance begins to divergeAnd we find America struggling and on the vergeThere is no doubt that we must must ask the whyMartyrs are made but no one wants to really dieA young man, barely a … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020 Election, Abyss of Sin, America, Around, Ask Why, Cabal, Cognitive Dissonance, Conspiracy, Courage, Die, Disney, Diverge, Doubt, En Masse, Eternal Vigilance, Exoneration, GoFundMe, Good Guys, Greater Injury, In the Open, Injustice, Jury, Kenosha, Kidnapper, Law Enforcement, Martyrs, Mass Action, Not Guilty, Our Nation, Out of Town, Pander, Peers, Poetry and Poems, Political Hacks, Raw Violence, Righteous Celebration, Riot Kitchen, Riots, Rittenhouse, Seattle, Sigh of Relief, Stoke the Flames, Torment, Underclass, Urban, Verdict, Verge, Weep, Win, Wrong Intention
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