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Tag Archives: Dying
A Catch of Breath
A Catch of Breathby Michael DoyleLet’s admit that we’re born dyingIt’s time to stop our cryingLet these words be quietly spokenIt’s okay to be a little brokenWe’re connected by more than our headsWe have more meaning than our words saidIt … Continue reading →
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Tagged A Catch of Breath, Admit, Beaten Down, Blues, Breath, Breathe With Me, Broken, Bullet In the Gun, Connection, Crying, Dearm, Death, Deceive, Deeper, Distance, Done, Dying, Embrace, Every God, Fade Away, Fear, Gentle Nod, Gentle Squeeze, Gone, Goodbye, Hear, heartbeat, Kept, Last Breath, Meaning, My Turn To Die, Nightmare, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Post Apocalytpic, Promises, Punish, Sad Eyes, Say Goodbye, Sing, Spoken, Stream, Struggle, Swear, Tears, Time, Today, Wept, Wish, Words, Words of Love, Years
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Love Is A Dance of Promises
Love Is A Dance of Promisesby Michael DoyleTo weave the fabric of lasting bondsTo feel first love and move beyondIt is a path that is a kind of worshipMaking us into a resilient relationshipLosing you would be to die without … Continue reading →
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Tagged Beyond, Commitments, Communication, Cornerstone, Crying, Dance, Die, Dying, Fabric, Felt, First Love, Five Promises, Forgot, Good and Bad, Here For You, Intimacy, Lasting Bonds, Late Hour, Love, Loving Trust, Must, Neglect, No Matter What, Path, Poetry and Poems, Promises, Relationship, Remind, Resilient, Respect, Sould, Survive, Talk, Tears, Thrive, Truth, Walk, Weave, Weight, Worship
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Thought For the Day: Life, Forever Dying To Be Born Afresh, Forever Young and Eager, Will Presently Stand Upon This Earth As Upon A Footstool, and Stretch Out Its Realm Amidst the Stars
“Life, forever dying to be born afresh, forever young and eager, will presently stand upon this Earth as upon a footstool, and stretch out its realm amidst the stars.” – H.G. Wells
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Tagged Born, Dying, Earth, Footstool, Forever, Forever Young, H.G. Wells, Life, Realm, Stand, Stars, Stretch, Thought For the Day, Upon
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Thought For the Day: This Is the Secret of Life: the Self Lives Only By Dying, Finds Its Identity (and Its Happiness) Only By Self-Forgetfulness, Self-Giving, Self-Sacrifice, and Agape Love
“This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love.” – Peter Kreeft
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Tagged Agape Love, Dying, Find, Happiness, Identity, Live, Peter Kreeft, Secret of Life, Self-Forgetfulness, Self-Giving, Self-Sacrifice, Thought For the Day
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Benign Neglect
Benign Neglectby Michael DoyleThere is a benign neglectBehind “with all due respect”That cannot be missedEven when sealed by a Judas kissPassions passed down by generationSkills kept in venerationThe wrong path with correct conclusionStill feels like it is mass confusionHalf-remembered, glanced … Continue reading →
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Tagged Battle, Benign, Conclusion, Confusion, Cry, Dying, Face, Feel, Forward, Generation, Gone, Guarantee, Humanity, Judas Kiss, Life, Mass, Missed, Neglect, Passions, Poetry and Poems, Sealed, Shame, Skills, Strength, Trace, Uncertainty, Veneration, Wrong Path
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The Death Head of Night
The Death Head of Nightby Michael DoyleThere in the darkest of the 20th CenturyWere pages to learn from in our historySuch evil as was darker than the nightWhere our traditions still bring us lightNo matter what the king tells usTruth … Continue reading →
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Tagged 20th Century, Ability, Accident, Accusation, Adolph, All But Lost, All Peoples, Americans, Ancient Peoples, Apart, April Tenth, Arrive, Atmosphere, Atrocity, Auschwitz, Babies, Barren Fields, Believe, Betray, Bluffing, Buchenwald, Burn, Caged Ghetto, Captivity, Cattle Cars, Cleft, Communication, Cost, Crushed, Cry, Cup, Darkest, Daughters, Death Became the Mercy, Death Head, Deeds, Dehumanized, Demonized, Deportation, Desperation, Destination, Determination, Devil's Symphony, Doubt, Dread, Dying, Elders, Eternal, Eternity, Evil, Extermination, Face, Faith, Father, Fear, Few, Flames, Flick, Forced March, Forgotten, Germany, Ghost Train, God, God Be Willing, Going On, Goodness, Grapple, Graves, Grief, Grim Determination, Guide For the Perplexed, Hand, Happenstance, Haste, Hatred, History, Hitler, Hold On Tight, Hope, Huddle, Hunger, Incessant, Infernal, Jewish History, Kabbalah, King, Know, Learn, Left, Let This Be A Lesson, Light, Line, Literature, Live or Die, Living Skeletons, Loved, Madmen, Marginalized, Mengele, Mercilessly, Miracle, Mirror, Misery, Monsters, Mystic Union, Names, Necessary Lie, Night, No Coming Back, No End, Nothing, Optimism, Pages, Peace Alone, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Practice, Pray, Prophets, Prove Forgiving, Provident, Purpose, Question, Rage, Recall, Receptivity, Robbery, Rogues, Rule of Law, S;piritual, Sacred Ritual, Sake, Scarlet, Seek, Shame, Shed, Shrieking, Sighing, Slight, Slip, Snow, Sons, Soul, Spark, Suffering, Suffocating, Sunken Eyes, Survival, Survived, Surviving, Targets, Taste, Terror, Test, The End, The Jewish, The Jewish People, Track, Tradition, Transition, Transmission, Treasures, Truth, Ugliness, Unity, Water, Weisel, West, Whenever, Wherever, Wine, Wisdom, World, Worse, Worship, Yiddish
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Flaws of My Heart
Sat in on an early morning sermon today. While listening in, this came to mind… Flaws of My Heart by Michael Doyle My flaws of the heart Directed by sin from the start My eyes closed to Godly fear I … Continue reading →
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Tagged Adam, Believe, Born Again, Call, Child, Choice, Cling, Days, Deep, Defense, Delusion, Desperate, Disappear, Doubt, Dream, Drink, Dying, Empty, Eyes Closed, Fall, Fated, Fear, Fidelity, Flaw, Forget, Fountain, Give, God, Hated, Heart, Illusion, Judgment, Know, Life, Live, Lord, Lot, Loved, Mercy, Mouth, Need, Needs, Now and Then, Part, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pretense, Prostrate, Recieve, Refuge, Self, Sermon, Shadow, Show, Sin, Sins, Start, Strife, Sustain, Time and Again, True, Truth, Verity, Victim, Wages of Sin, Weep, Wicked Ways
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21st Century Goings On
Dedicated to George Floyd and all victims of brutality in hope that we may yet find our way to a more just and less cruel world shared in our walk of humanity. Marvin Gaye would probably be rolling over in … Continue reading →
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Tagged 21st Century, America, Antifa, Arm In Arm, Belong, Better Way, Brick, Brother, Brutality, Burning Down, Cancer, City, Common Bonds, Conquer, Cruel World, Death, Despair, Do the Trick, Dying, Each Other, Embrace, Farther, Father, Find Our Way, George Floyd, God's Sake, Goings On, Good Answer, Hate, Humanity, Just, Lawlessness, Light, Locking, Loss, Love, Make, Martin Luther King Jr, Marvin Gaye, Me, Mother, Not Too Late, Our Day, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Radicals, Rage, Right, Riot, Scar, See, Shared Humanity, Sigh, Strong, Talk Your Truth, Tell Me Now, Terms, The Streeets, Think, Today, Together, Uncaring, Understanding, Unjustified Homocide, Us, Walk, We, Weary, What's Going On, World, Wrong
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Cross Shaped of An Imperfect Heart
On the ninth day of Na/GloPoWriMo 2020, the optional prompt is to “write a “concrete” poem – a poem in which the lines and words are organized to take a shape that reflects in some way the theme of the … Continue reading →
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Tagged 2020, Been, Broken Promises, Calling, Comfort, Concrete Poem, Control, Cross, Deny, Despite, Done, Dreadful, Dwell, Dying, Earnest, Easter, Eden, Embrace, Eyes, Faithful, Falling, Forgive, Grace, Gratitude, Heart, His, Holy, Hope, Humbly, Hung, I, Imperfect Heart, Know, Latitude, Live, Lord, Love, Loving, Loyalty, Man, Mistakes, Mystery, Na/GloPoWriMo, Nature, Photograph, Pledge, Poem, Poetry, Prayerfully, Rest, Say, See, Shape, Sin, Sinful, Son, Soul, Stand, Stood, Sunday, Tragic, Ways, Wonder
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Unpredictable Play
Play is how children best first learn. Maybe it’s that way throughout all of life? Unpredictable Play by Michael Romani Life, she says, is truly best When it’s lived an unpredictable test Where attention is paid like a guest Requiring … Continue reading →
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Tagged Alibis, Alive, Architecture, Attention, Aware, Best, Bit, Brink, Cat, Child, Children, Claw, Curious, Detail, Dream, Dying, Empower, Engagment, Explore, Feel, Fit, Guesst, Heroes, Hide, Important, Insist, Intuition, Learn, Lesson, Life, Live, Mind, Nuts and Bolts, Pattern, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poetry, Post-Industrial, Real, Recall, Repitition, Rest, Rise, Rote, Rules, School, See, Shine, Significant, Soul, Survive, Test, Think, Try, Unpredictable, Value, Way, World, Young
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