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Madami III
Madami IIIby Michael DoyleMadami is the Democratic Socialist poster child.They’ve hijacked the Democrats into a party gone wild.Processing the hubris of communism and derision,These scandals swim through the cesspools of division.This is the long game of total determinationBy a group … Continue reading
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Tagged Alarming, Best, Cancer, Cesspool, Charities, Civilization, Communism, Constitution, Dark, Defeat, Democracy, Democratic Party, Democratic Socialiist, Derision, Division, DSA, Failure, Freedom, Grandstand, History, Hubris, Karl Marx, Madami, Marxism, Network, Nihilism, No Kings, NYC Mayor, Philosophy, Poetry and Poems, Politics, Poster Child, Private Property, Progressive Evolution, Prosperity, Red and Green Alliance, Republic, Revolution, Roaches, Shadows, Social Media, The People, The Socialists, The West
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A Reverence For Hurts Felt
A Reverence For Hurts Feltby Michael DoyleIt’s never easy on the children. Is it?Perfection is not really a standard. Is it?There is so much to be worked out,Between the fears, the tears, and the doubts.It’s too bad about the power … Continue reading
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Tagged Appreciation, Children, Daughter, Difference, Done, Doubt, Earnest, Failure, Faith, Family, Father, Fear, Felt, Forgiving, Hurt, Jesus, Life, Lord, Love, Measure, Omission, Perfection, Poetry and Poems, Power of Animosity, Pray, Rage, Reverence, Son, Starndard, Tears, Thanksgiving, Treasure, Understood, Worked Out, Writing, Wrongs
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Thought For the Day: Ninety-Nine Precent of the Failure Comes From People Who Have A Habit of Making Excuses
“Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.” – George Washington Carver
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Tagged Excuses, Failure, Habit, Ninety-Nine Percent, People, Thought For the Day
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In A Time of Flux
In A Time of Fluxby Michael DoyleTheory and practice belong togetherIf international relations are to be betterThese are pivotal times to seeFilled with dread and promise for you and meThose who talked of an end to historyWere blinded to the … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Aggression, Alternative, Attacks, Balance, Brutality, Claws, Conflict, Conversation, Decide, Declarative, Democratic Nations, Discern, Divide, Dread and Promise, Dynamics, Elements, End To History, Existence, Failure, Full Change, Idealism, Integrity, International Relations, Multipolar, Narrative, National Sovereignty, Nations, Neighbors, Optimism, Order, Persistence, Perspective, Pivotal Times, Place, Poetry and Poems, Political Mystery, Power, Power Vacuum, Renegotiation, Rule of Law, Russia, Ruthless Regression, Sovereignty, Spheres of Interest, Stand Together, The United Nations, The World, Theory and Practice, Threaten, Time of Flux, Trace, Tyrants, Ukraine, Value Space, Velvet Gloves, Western Civilization, Western Ways, World War II, Yalta
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Thought For the Day: Socialism Is A Philosophy of Failure, the Creed of Ignorance, and the Gospel of Envy
“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy.” – Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
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Tagged Creed, Envy, Failure, Gospel, Ignorance, Philosophy, Socialism, Thought For the Day, Winston Churchill
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Thought For the Day: Everything You’ve Ever Wanted Is On the Other Side of Fear
“Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – George Addair — Throughout our lives, overcoming fear is essential meeting and achieving our goals. Fear of rejection and/or failure paralyzes us from taking the right actions needed … Continue reading
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Tagged Absence of Fear, Anxiety, Career, Comfort Zone, Common Sense, Confidence, Control, Everything, Failure, Fear, Fear of Rejection, Goals, Growth, Guidance, Health, Hinderance, Life, mental-health, Move Forward, Old Patterns, Other Side, Personal Development, Personal Growth, Reason, Relationships, Retreat, Self-Discovery, Self-Doubt, Stagnation, Success, Thought For the Day, Valid, Want
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First Principles: Falling Down Is Not A Failure. Failure Comes When You Stay Where You Have Fallen
“Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.” – Socrates I cannot help but like Socrates, who is quoted as saying that poets are the interpreters of the gods. We are not, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Aspiration, Challenge, Come, Dust Ourselves Off, Encounters, Failure, Fallen, Falling Down, First Principles, Giving up, Gods, Grow, Growth Mindset, Humor, Interpreters, Lamp Filament, Learn, Life, Life's Journey, Mistakes, Motivation, Obstacles, Opportunity, Overcome, Perseverance, Personal Growth, Poets, React and Respond, Resilience, Rethinking, Setbacks, Significant Error, Socrates, Stay, Stepping Stones, Success, Suitable Approaches, Surrender, Think, Thomas Edison, Time To Time, Vain, Wise
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Light And Darkness
Light and Darknessby Michael DoyleI approach my inner self with intimationLooking for deeper thoughts of originationSo much of who I am comes from ancestral careThen living life as bold as I might dareWheels spin inside on subjects of light and … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Accept, Ancestral Care, Approach, Beauty, Best, Boundless Feelings, Dare, Deeper Thoughts, Express, Eyes, Failure, Imagination, Impractical Hopes, Indulging, Inner Self, Intimation, Lashing Out, Light and Darkness, Light and Sight, Living Inside, Living Life, Mastery, Origination, Pen to Paper, Perfection, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Right, Self-Examined, Stretch, Struggle, Subject, Success, Surprise, Thoughts, Truth, Vitality, Wheels, World's Harshness
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Just Beyond Possible
Just Beyond Possibleby Michael DoyleHowever much it seems to be implausibleThe risk is taken to push beyond probableThough sometimes this makes you culpableAt times, you must push just beyond possibleIt is for the good of every profitable companyThat we risk … Continue reading
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Tagged Accept, Action, All Paths, Articulation, Begun, Beyond, Bold, Canonical, Certainty, Company, Conceivable Theology, Culpable, Done, Earth, Elder Statesmen, Failure, First Turn, Godly Reality, Good, Hazard, Hesitation, Imagination, Implausible, Innate Good, Knowledge, Magic, Mysteriouis, Poetry and Poems, Possible, Pray, Probable, Profitable, Prophecy, Push, Question, Risk, Science, Sometimes, Supernatural, Systems, Technology, Tragic, Understood, Unknowable
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