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To Live Beyond the Grave
To Live Beyond the Graveby Michael Doyle There are things I think onThat I wish not to be goneThere are words I have saidThat might help others ahead it’s these things I would saveTo extend these beyond the graveIn hope … Continue reading
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Tagged Adding Up To Nothing, Ahead, Aspiration, Beyond the Grave, Choose To Write, Confide, Cried, Dare, Dreams, Emptiness, Extend, Gone, Grave, Happiness, Help Others, Hope, Inspiration, Into, Keep, Lead, Live, Mean, Might, Need, Not Today, Paper, Poetry and Poems, Purpose, Said, Save, Secrets, Share, Smiles, Someone, Something, Something Yet To say, Stepped, Tears, Things I Think On, Words, Words of Care, Words of Hope
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The Great Not So Great Society
American History continues through the Lyndon Baines Johnson presidency: The Great Not So Great Society by Michael Doyle LBJ entered his presidency aiming to be legendary Setting his sights on ending poverty through Great Society Johnson aimed to do this … Continue reading
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Tagged Affluence, Anti-War, Anxiety, Assassination, Black Vote, Blank Check, Bleed Out, Bobby Kennedy, Civil Rights, Conflict, Conservative, Counter-Culture, Disaffection, DMZ, Doctrine of Limited War, Domino Theory, Draft, Echo, Eisenshower, Emptiness, Ethics, Flaw, Fought, Franchisement, Gap, Government, Great Society, Hubert Humphry, Inadequacy, LBJ, Legendary, Legislation, Limitation, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Marriage, Martin Luther King Jr, Master, Materialism, Medicare, MLK, Nation, Nights, Nihilism, Nominee, Peace With Honor, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Politics, Poverty, Presidency, Promise, Question, Quiver, Radical Movements, Real Time, Repudiation, Result, Return, Richard Nixon, Riots, Role, Skepticism, Soldiers, Southeast Asia, Substiution, Television, Tonkin Bay Resolution, Torpedo, Up Close and Personal, Urban, Victory, Vietnam, Violence, Watts, Welfare, Wilderness
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Thought For The Day: Believers In Self Deception End Up Behaving Like Animals
“A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for … Continue reading
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Tagged Animal, Disrespect, Emptiness, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Hedonism, Impulses, Lies, Love, Pleasure, Respect, Self Deception, Thought For the Day, Vices
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By Words Condemned
By Words Condemned by Michael Romani All these playground rhymes Chasing around in uneasy times Too many words are lies And there are no alibis I wish that I was wise But, instead I despise The life I examine now … Continue reading
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Tagged Centered, Condemnation, Courage, Emptiness, Encouragement, Flame, Justice, Kindness, New Year's Eve, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Sacred, Still, Tame, Tongue, Trust, Words
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