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Fiona’s Bee
Fiona’s Beeby Michael DoyleThere by the grace of April’s sleetWas a bumble bee at Fiona’s feetIt was good to start her morning pleasantlyCaught up in a childhood memoryHer father had taught her to pet them gentlyFiona did so then very … Continue reading
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Tagged Ability, Adult, Affection, April, Bee, Bees, Bombus Tetris, Boundary Line, Bumble Bee, Buzz, Capability, Childhood Memory, Coincidence, Comfort, Communication, Copernican Revolution, Erase, Father, Fellow Creatures, Fiona, gardening, Gentle, Harbor, Human, Kinship, Kitchen Box, Lock, Morning, Nature, Palm, Poetry and Poems, Practicality, Preen, Queen, Recall, Respldence, Sensibility, Serenity, Sing, Sip, Sleet, Sugar Water, Urgency, Wing
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Thought For the Day: No Fathers Or Mothers Think Their Own Children Ugly; and This Self-Deceit Is Yet Stronger With Respect To the Offspring of the Mind
“No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.” – Miguel de Cervantes, novelist (29 Sep 1547-1616)
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Tagged Children, Father, Miguel de Cervantes, Mind, Mother, Offsrping, Respect, Self-Deceit, Strong, Think, Thought For the Day, Ugly
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Call Out To Love
Call Out To Loveby Michael DoyleIn a life lived with sanctimonyI somehow came to my testimonyBased on faith and healingThat moved beyond mere feelingInto knowing the true dealOf finding belief and knowing it realI reached out as if shownTo the … Continue reading
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Tagged All Things, Belief, Beyond, Call Out, Days, Done, Faith and Healing, Father, Feeling, Focus, God, God's Ways, Healing, Heaven Above, His Good, Home, Known, Life, Love, Miracle, Name, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Real, Sanctimony, Shame, Shown, Simple Man, Son, Soul-Revealing, Spirit, Testimony, True Deal, Understood, Worked, Worship
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On the Journey of Fatherhood
On the Journey of Fatherhoodby Michael DoyleAsked about how fatherhood is ratedIt has seemed to me somewhat understatedI could not have imagined the journeyThat it has been in all of its totalityWhen you talk about consequences and moralityFatherhood is the … Continue reading
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Tagged Abundant, Becoming, Believe, Birth, Boast, Consequences, Content, Daddy, Daughters, Destined, Discern, Every Time, Father, Fatherhood, Filled, Forever Knowing, Gift, Given and Received, Glowing, Grown, Happy, Heaven Above, Hugged Tight, Imagine, Journey, Last Breath, Learn, Lessons, Lifetime, Lives, Love, Masterpiece, Matter, Mature, Money, Morality, Most, My Heart, Nature, Parents, Pictures, Poetry and Poems, Poverty, Rated, Rich, Right, Soul, Step By Step, Superstar, Talk, Think, Totality, Understated, Wealth
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Thought For the Day: I Cannot Think of Any Need In Childhood As Strong As the Need For a Father’s Protection
“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.” – Sigmund Freud
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Tagged Childhood, Father, Need, Protection, Sigmund Freud, Strong, Think, Thought For the Day
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Outbursts of Truth
Outbursts of Truthby Michael DoyleAll my repeated outbursts of truthHave gotten me in trouble since my youthFor you see, truth can destroy the worldsEven the worlds ruled by fallen godsWho each have sought, by meteors hurled, To increase their own … Continue reading
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Tagged Ancient, Apples, Arcane, Belief, Breeze, Cared, Clarity, Control, Cross, Dare, Daughters, Deception, Defiance, Delivered, Destroy, Drown, Earth, Emotions, Erroneous, Errorss, Fallen Gods, Father, Feet, Fly, Free, God, Grace, Greatest Artisst, Hair, Heads High, Hearts, Held Down, Hell, Holdfast, Human Being, Intolerance, Inventory, Know, Life, Line, Lose, Loss, Matter of Preception, Mature, Meteors, Moment, Mortal, Mortal Man, Natural Ways, Natured, Ocean, Odss, Outbursts, Pagan Gods, Path, Peace, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Potions, Practice, Punish, Questions, Reality, Repentance, Rise Above, Ruled, Share, Sincereity, Slim Odds, Slink, Sought, Soul, Spent My Time, Strife, Sublime, Submit, Sunflowers, Sweet, Teach, Time and Again, Trickery, Trouble, True Love, Truth, Voice, Whsper, Wonder, Worlds, Youth
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In the Name of the Father and the Son
In the Name of the Father and the Sonby Michael DoyleTrying to hide in the nightWaiting for the morning lightFeeling my soul must atoneI have never felt so all aloneUntil I glanced on God’s faceThen and there, I knew graceA … Continue reading
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Tagged Abundantly, Afraid, Alone, Atone, Believing, Blame, Blemish, Done, Embrace, Father, Feel, Feeling, Feet, Felt, Fill, Glory, God's Face, God's Will, Godly, Grace, Gratitude, Healing, Hide, Home, In the Name of, Joy, Living Up To, Made, Mighty Sound, Miracles, Morning Light, Name, Never Again, Night, Poetry and Poems, Power, Right Attitude, Savior, Solid Ground, Son, Sorrow, Soul, Step, Story, Talk, Today and Tomorrow, Wait, Waken, Walk the Walk, Wayward Son
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Echo Back
Echo Backby Michael DoyleMy words echo back into tomorrowA half-life that’s full of sorrowI’m often sorry for what I sayThe demons inside won’t have it any other wayIf these were the last words I saidI wouldn’t want them rolling in … Continue reading
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Tagged Better Choice, Bones, Construction, Demons Inside, Destroy, Destruction, Echo Back, Family, Father, Feeling, Full of Sorrow, Generational Sinds, Grown, Half-Life, Head, Humbly, Hurt, Ideal, Immeasurable, Imprint, Intrude, Kill You, Last Words, My Brokenness, New Thoughts and Habits, Nobility, Own, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Point of View, Proof of Life, Raise, Rise Above, Rolling, Rude, Say, Served, Shown, Solitude, Sorry, Sticks and Stones, Strong Regret, The Bible, Thoughts, Tomorrow, Treasurable, Truth of Love, Voice, Wish, Won't Do, Words
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Like A Child
Like A Childby Michael DoyleUnafraid like a childFeeling the spirit of the wildI serve our Father’s kingdomIn the name of love and freedomPraising Jesus’s sweet nameThe spirit of the Lord is the sameThat brings our Father’s loveBelieved from below; proclaimed … Continue reading
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Tagged Above, Believe, Below, Bring, Child, Darkest Night, Darkness, Day, Days, Delivered, Deserve, End, Father, Father's Kingdom, Feel, Free, Freedom, Grave, Jesus, Light, Live, Lord, Love, Name, Night, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Remove, Same, Save, Serve, Sing, Son, Spirit, Spirt, The Living King, Unafraid, Wild
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In A Less Than Perfect World
In A Less Than Perfect Worldby Michael DoyleI look out into my living roomIt gives me hope instead of gloomTo see my daughters study by preferenceAnd not out of some required deferenceMaybe I did one or two things rightTo be … Continue reading
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