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Thought For the Day: Gratitude Bestows Reverence, Allowing Us To Encounter Everyday Epiphanies, Those Transcendent Moments of Awe That Change Forever How We Experience Life and the World
“Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.” – John Milton
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Tagged Encounter, Epiphanies, Experience, Forever, Gratitude, John Milton, Life, Reverence, The World, Thought For the Day, Transcendent Moments
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Garrulous Excess Canonized
Garrulous Excess Canonizedby Michael DoyleThe poet fought against fame againThinking only of peace found in ZenSeeking quiet life in a monastery But the truth faced turned out contraryDeath on two legs stole no small amountLeaving Cohen with nothing in his … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Account, Amount, Angel, Archangel, Bending Words, Breath, Broken and Lame, Canonized, Catalog, Cohen, Collide, Contrary, Creatures, Dark, Deal, Death, Death On Two Legs, Deity, Disallowed, Emotions, Essence of Fame, Ethics, Excess, Experience, Fame, Game, Generational Divide, Guard, Guitar, Hand, Healer, Heart's Song, Hollywood, Image, Induced, Insight, Light, Monastery, Muse, Numbers, Peace, Poet, Poetry and Poems, Prefrence, Private Failures, Produce, Quiet Life, Reality, Recall, Reduced, Role, Seduce, Songs, Star, Stardom, Sympathy, Symphony, Tall, Truth, Understood, Unwanted Fans, Wealth, Zen
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Thought For the Day: A Writer Needs Three Things, Experience, Observation, and Imagination, Any Two of Which, At Times Any One of Which, Can Supply the Lack of the Others
“A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.” – William Faulkner, novelist (25 Sep 1897-1962)
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Tagged Experience, Imagination, Observation, Supply, Thought For the Day, Three Things, Times, Two, William Faulkner, Writer
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The Gift of Darkness
The Gift of Darknessby Michael DoyleLifeGave me the gift of darknessStrifeIn a world filled with harshnessIt was a gift Though it took years to understandThoughts shiftAs you travel the years and the landDarkness Is as important as lightIt takes harshnessTo … Continue reading
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Tagged Anger, Burn, Candle, Compromise, Define, Defy, Doubt, Experience, Gift of Darkness, Harshness, Hate, Hide, Ignorance, Inside, Justify, Know, Land, Learn, Lesson, Life, Light, Madness, Need, No Place, Poetry and Poems, Promise, Refine, Right, See, Shadow, Share, Shift, Stare, Starkness, Stranger, Strife, Teach, Time, Too Late, Travel, True Sight, Understand, World, Wrong, Years
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Out of A Writer’s Head
Out of A Writer’s Headby Michael DoyleSome who writeHave fumbled for wordsAs though words aren’t rightEven as they’ve occurredWhether poetry or proseIt’s the words that passIt’s less what one knowsBut what has amassedWords flow best in experienceThen become arranged by … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Amassed, Arrange, Collage, Collates, Enough, Experience, Fits, Flow, Fumble, Head, Knows, Left Behind, Little Bits, Mind, Occurred, Pass, Poetry, Poetry and Prose, Preference, Prose, Right, Right Stuff, Said, Spill Out, Test, Words, Writer, Writer's Head, Wwrite
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First Principles: A Dependence On the People Is, No Doubt, the Primary Control On the Government; But Experience Has Taught Mankind the Necessity of Auxiliary Pre Cautions
“A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.” – James Madison (1788)
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Tagged Auxiliary, Dependence, Experience, First Principles, Government, James Madison, Mankind, Necessity, Precaution, Primary Control, The People
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Nature and Dignity Earned
Nature and Dignity Earnedby Michael DoyleThere’s a quiet in natureThat you won’t find in the cityIt helps you to think and matureLearning what is and isn’t prettyThis is especially true of the soulAs you learn the value of self-controlBeing where … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Beauty, Born To Be, Chance, Circumstance, City, Critical Moments, Danger, Decide, Deserve, Dignity Earned, Discern, Experience, Eyes, Face-To-Face, Felt, Give, Grace, Heart, Humility, Imprint, Known, Learn, Live, Lives, Master Ourselves, Mature, Meant, Nature, Observe, Outcome, Paths, Places, Poetry and Poems, Pretty, Quiet, See, Self-Control, Shown, Soul, Stars, Start, Step, Teach, Think, Traces, True, Value, Wish
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A Living Web
A Living Webby Michael DoyleOur minds have a superpowerIt’s the ability to project beyond the hourWe can be in the future or the pastTemporarily, though, it will not lastLanguage is the mystic secretIt can be soft or hard as concreteOur … Continue reading
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Tagged Ability, Beyond, Change, Choices, Concrete, Conform, Continuum, Echo, Every Word, Experience, Eyes, Flow, Future, Hour, Inside, Know, Knows, Language, Last, Learn, Living Web, Magic, Minds, Moment, More, Muse, Mystic Secret, Our Words, Past, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Project, Reach, Rearrange, Revelation, See, Serve, Soft, Spectrum, Super Power, Teach, Temporarily, Time, Tradition, Transform, Truth, Understand, Voices, World
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