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God’s Path
God’s Pathby Michael DoyleGod’s path is one of crystalline clarityMaking easy the hard life lived in sincerityBefore we follow, we much count the costFinding our Way forward from being lostLiving then this life of giving takes priorityThinking out strategically in … Continue reading
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Tagged Clarity, Cost, Divine, Doubt, Faith, First Fruits, Follow, Forward, Glory, God First, God's Path, Grateful, Hard Life, Line, Living, Lost, Natural, Open Eyes, Poetry and Poems, Priority, Rhythm of Life, Savior, Sincerity, Strive, Theology, Tithe, Vice
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Thought For the Day: I Believe That the First Test of A Truly Great Man Is His Humility
“I believe that the first test of a truly great man is his humility. I do not mean by humility, doubt of his own powers. But really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not in them, but through them. And they … Continue reading
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Tagged Believe, Curious Feeling, Divine, Doubt, Every Other Man, First Test, Great Man, Greatness, Humility, John Ruskin, Merciful, Powers, Thought For the Day, Through
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A Song of Thanksgiving
A Song of Thanksgivingby Michael DoyleA song of thanksgivingSung to be braveIn need of forgivingI claw my way from my graveWith apprehensionI am reaching outBeyond comprehensionMy thoughts are filled with doubtStill, I danceIn your rain of kindnessTaking this chanceDespite my … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Apprehension, Better Choice, Blindness, Brave, Chance, Circumstance, Comprehension, Dance, Days, Doubt, Forgiving, Good, Grave, Heaven, Kindness, Love, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Prayer, Reaching Out, Relevance, See, Song, Thanksgiving, Theology, Understood, Voice
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Mountain Top Revelations
Mountain Top Revelationsby Michael DoyleUnknown mountain tops to exploreIs an answer and a prayer for the moreThat comes from a world knowing lessIs actually more, the function search of a guessAs if there is still a peak yet to existIt … Continue reading
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Tagged Answer, Answers, Babble, BE Me, Clever, Corrupt, Disappear, Doubt, Duplicate, Exist, Explore, Forever, Forgiven, Freedom's Shout, Function, Guess, Hobbits, Laugh, Less, Mountain Tops, Outside World, Peak, Persist, Place, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Questions, Replcate, Revelations, Self-Control, Shire, Soul
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The Christmas That Was Tragic
The Christmas That Was Tragicby Michael Doyle This Sunday, Christmas, is a bit tragicWhen we’ve stopped believing in magicWe call it adulting but it’s really notIt’s just the goodness we’ve simply forgot Take a deep breath, and try to believeIn … Continue reading
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Tagged Adulting, Believe, Cheer, Children, Christmas, Conceive, Cynics, Deep Breath, Disappear, Doubt, Elves, Forgot, Forgot It, Gnomes, Goodness, Got It, Homes, Joy, Lie, Light, Magic, Merry Christmas, Naughtiness, Night, PC World, Poetry and Poems, Problematic, Sunday, Tragic, World
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Moments That Bring Gratitude
Moments That Bring Gratitudeby Michael DoyleThere are moments that bring gratitudeThat we must face with the right attitudeA first basis needed, a case made then pleadedThere is the voice of God that must be heededThese are the gifts that keep … Continue reading
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Tagged Admiration, Adoration, Authority, Best Friend, Bottom of the Ninth, Calling, Case, Christ, Cultivation, Depend, Doubt, Evidence, Faithfully, First Basis, Gifts, God's Love, God's Purposes, Gratitude, Interconnection, Interpretation, Life of Faith, Lovers of God, Moments, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Purity, Relational, Relevance, Right Attitude, Shepherd, Special Plan, Translation, True Living, Voice of God
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Dreams and Voices
Dreams and Voicesby Michael DoyleThe real truth revealed in the nightRevels in its parts brought to lightEven those that sear and hurtBringing the mind in focus, fully alertPretending to give an ounce of careAbout all the divisiveness laid bareIt is … Continue reading
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Tagged Alibi, Choices, Cost, Deep Inside, Details, Device, Different, Divisiveness, Doubt, Dreams and Voices, Essence, Facades, Faith, Focus, Freedom, Haunt, Hid, Hidden Secrets, Hope, Hunter and Prey, Hurt, Laugh, Legends in Their Own Minds, Light, Lost, Ounce of Care, Play, Poetry and Poems, Real Truth, Reverent, Saviors, Shade, Thoughtless and Crass, Underestimate, Voices, Wrong Decisions
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Scaling the New Heights of the Dawn Wall
(Scaling the New Heights of the) Dawn Wallby Michael DoyleIn the dawn of winterWe scaled the face of the wallLearning to never pause in winterWe rose above Yosemite’s fallCapturing the dreams of our own storyFinding the way through until the … Continue reading
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Tagged Ability, Achievement, Ambition, Baby Steps, Burning, Capability, Chance, Climb, Dawn Wall, Dead, Deliverance, Depressurized, Destination, Destiny, Doubt, Dreams, Extent, Fail, Fake, Fall, Flow State, Fortitude, Glory, Hardships, Heads, Learning, Moments, Mutuality, New Heights, Patches, Poetry and Poems, Pride, Rationality, Reason, Right Attitude, Right Intent, Scale, Season, Second Rate, Shaken, Silence, Story, Stride, Successes, Taken, Tectonic Shift, Thoughts, Transformation, Winter, Wonder, Yosemite
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Short Form Poetry Workshop: Zejel Duel of Recitation
As is known, from time to time, I attend a long running short form poetry workshop. I went back there tonight and learned of a poetic form called the Zejel. What is a Zejel? • Spanish poetic form likely an … Continue reading
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Tagged ACcompany, Beauty, Belong, Doubt, Drunkard, Duel, Flow, JoinIn, Lebanese, Lout, Magic, Means, Metric, Midsong, Poetic Duel, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Proper Poetry, Quatrain, Recitation, Rendition, Short Form Poetry Workshop, Sing, Song, Stanza, Tambourine, Tercet, The People, Troubadour, Two Poets, Zejel
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