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On the Role of Grandparenting
On the Role of Grandparentingby Michael DoyleIn a celebration of one anotherWe commemorate the blessings of each otherThis is part of being God’s familyAs we live within God’s holy communityThe lessons taught by new facesAre blessed when revisited by old … Continue reading
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Tagged Blessing, Boom, Celebration, Community, Confidence, Death, Dignity, Embrace, Example, Expression, Full Attention, God's Family, Godly Intention, Gospel, Grandparenting, Grandparents, Honor, Integrity, Lasting Impression, Legacy, Lessons, Life, Living Culture, Love, Loved and Safe, Loving Eyes, New Faces, Nurture, Old Traces, Poetry and Poems, Positive, Purpose, Quality, Relevance, Reveal, Reverence, Role, Scrapbook, Shape, Stages, Talk, Tongue, Touch, Tradition, Values, Walk the Walk
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The Spaces Between
The Spaces Betweenby Michael DoyleIn all the paradigms that are shiftedThe moral compasses that have driftedThe zeros, the ones, and those in-betweenAfford the perfected moments as human beingsWould it only be that all things of clarityWere as equal and equitable … Continue reading
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Tagged Best, Between, Biology, Clairty, Dignity, Distortions, Drfit, Eggs and Chickens, Emprical, Endurance, Equal, Equitable, Face, Flashpoints of Ideology, Full Opportunity, Gap, Gender Biology, God, Homones, Human Beings, In-between, Inherent Advantages, Integrity, Limits of Biology, Male and Female, Moral Compasses, Occurrence, Paradigm, Performance Ceilings, Poetry and Poems, Political Identity, Political Will, Potential, Power, Puberty, Questions, Resources, Scientific Credential, Self-Righteous Feelings, Shift, Sincerity, Skill, Space, Spaces, Speed, Strategy, Tale, Test, Testosterone, Trajectory, Wholistic, Wome, Wrong-Minded Ideology, Youth, Zenith
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The History That I’m Still Living
The History That I’m Still Livingby Michael DoyleWhen the winds of change blew throughThe march of history became more trueThere really wasn’t much to sayBy those who outgrew their shackles of yesterdayThe Wild West became the Wild EastAs crime and … Continue reading
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Tagged Beast, Blind, Brave, Cages, Capitalist, Causes of Freedom, Cracked ideals, Crime and Corruption, Determined, Died For, Dignity, Dreams, Evidence, Fabians, False Alibis, Few, Fools, Forefathers, Freedom and Liberty, Good fight, History, Ignore, Invade, Liberty, Lies, Living, Mankind, March of History, Memories, Persist, Poetry and Poems, Resist, Restored Empire, Right and True, Say, Self-Chosen Slavery, Shackles, Socialists, Stubborn Facts, Success, Throw Away, True, Tyranny, Verdict, Watch, West, Wild East, Winds of Change, Yesterday
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The Wonderous Sea’s Coral Reef
The Wonderous Sea’s Coral Reefby Michael DoyleThere’s a moving declaration of loveDedicated to the beauty of Mother OceanIt is as pristine as the heavens aboveThis water planet deserves our devotionJacques Cousteau was like a father to us allSharing underwater images … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Any Direction, Beauty, Citizens, Clams, Clownfish and Sea Anemone, Colonial Animals, Coral Reef, Cost, Course Correction, Crown of Thorns, Declaration of Love, Devotion, Dignity, Divers, Dolphin, Dream, Drift, Dust, Ecological Balance, Endanger, Evidence, Fate, Fiji, Filter, Form, Function, Heart, Heavens Above, Human Cities, Humble, Jacques Cousteau, Keeper of Balance, Life, Limestone, Lost, Lungs and Hearts, Majesty, Mankind, Meaning, Moments of Play, Mother Ocean, Natural Alliance, Nature's Trust, Nudibranchs and Flatworms, Oasis, Pay, Plankton, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Pristine, Pulsations of Life, Scraps, Sea, Selfish Pleasure, Skeletons, Slow, Strategies, Structural Firmament, Struggle, Survival, Swim, Symbiotic Partners, Triton's Horn, Tropics, Underwater Images, Vain Price, Variable, Wander, Water Planet, Worms and Mollusks, Wounded Reef
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A Poem for Patriots Day 2023
A Poem For Patriots Day 2023by Michael DoyleIn the heart of every patriot rests a songIn our love of country, under God, as we belongThe foundations are strong and pillars are highAs long as Old Glory ripples across the skyOther … Continue reading
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Tagged 2023, American Dream, Beauty, Belong, Bold, Brave, Centuries Old, Clarity of Reason, Coastal Gates, Dark Hour, Darkness, Deep, Dignity, Endure, Eternal Vigilance, Every Patriot, Fade, Faith, Fate, Foundations, Freedom, Future, God, Guard, Heart, High, Honor, Justice, Liberty, Light, Love of Country, Mankind's Troubles, Minds, Night, Nobility, Old Glory, Passing, Patriots, Patriots Day, Persevere, Pillars of a Healthy Society, Poetry and Poems, Power, Republic's Principles, Rule of Just Law, Secure, Song, Song of Our Nation, Stay, Stay Firm, Stream, Strong, The Course, The People, Under God, United, Virtuous, Without Fear
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Thought For the Day: When An Individual Is Protesting Society’s Refusal To Acknowledge His Dignity As A Human Being, His Very Act of Protest Confers Dignity On Him
“When an individual is protesting society’s refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.” – Bayard Rustin, civil rights activist (17 Mar 1912-1987)
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Tagged Acknowledge, Act, Bayard Rustin, Confer, Dignity, Human Being, Indvidiual, Protesting, Society, Thought For the Day
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Decency
Decencyby Michael DoyleYou’re a diamondIn a world of human coalBecause you know the worthOf the human soulFragile and fallible as we areWe dream of living our dreamsClinging to every falling starEven as we’re falling apart t our seamsOur dignity frayed … Continue reading
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Tagged Close Your Mind, Decency, Diamond, Dignity, Dreams, Falling Star, Fate, Fragile, Gasp of Air, Human Coal, Last Stand, Poetry and Poems, Propriety, Risks, Seams, Sedate, Semblance, Soul, Splendor, Standing Strong, Strain, Strands, Surrender, Working Hard, World's Care, Worth
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