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On Turning 17
On Turning 17by Michael DoyleThe days crawl slowly on one by oneAnd your birthday is past and doneI am still thinking on what it meansThat my baby girl has turned seventeenWasn’t it only just yesterdayThat you entered this world’s wayLaying … Continue reading
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Tagged Affection, Agreed, Allowed, Angel, Baby, Baby Girl, Best Person, Birthday, Blessed By God, Bloom and Grow, Both, Bring, Broken, Comes Your Way, Continues, Create, Dad's Love, Daddy, Days, Deal, Deserve, Doctor, Eighteen, Eternity, Experiences, Father, Favorite Human Beings, First Time, Forever, Go Easy, Grown, Heart, Know, Life, Living Room, Love, Loved By Me, Make the Most, Making the Best, Means, Mother's Womb, No Strife, On Turning 17, One By One, One of Two, Pages, Peace, Pleasure, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Precious Daughter, Prematurely Born, Privilege, Promise Me, Promises Kept, Proud, Read, Remain, Remember, Seventeen, Show, Sing, Smiling Laugh, Spoken, Stage, Stages, Struggles, Survive, Thoughts, Thrive, Token, Turning Seventeen, Unafraid, Unbroken, Walk, Warn, Watch, Watched, Wish, Words, World's Way, Write Songs, Yesterday, Young Lady
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In Beginning To Chill Hostility
In Beginning To Chill Hostilityby Michael DoyleIn truth, Christ came to save us allBringing us peace, as we might recallChrist has already graced us as He’s doneIn the name of the Father, the Spirit, and the SonIn this world, hanging … Continue reading
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Tagged Align, Argument, Attention, Begin, Better Day, Bind, Blowback, Bread, Capture, Case Study, Chill, Christ, Christians, Civility, Confidence, Controversy, Conversation, Corruption, Critical Thinking, Derivations, Echo Chambers, Embrace, Eternal Liberty, Fall Short, Father, Golgotha, Good Repute, Grace, Guided By God, Hands of Providence, Holiness, Hostility, Humility, Impure, Incendiary, Insensibility, Intention, Know, Life's Purposes, Lip Service, Morality, Our Times, Passion, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Preach, Pretend, Public Square, Reach, Reasoned Dispute, Rules of Engagement, Seem, Son, Spirit, Spoken, Struggle, Study, Surface, True, Truly Woken, Truth, Understand, Words, World
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The Painful Reality of Perfectionism
The Painful Reality of Perfectionismby Michael DoyleThere is a need to face eventuallyWhether painful or not, the realityThat however much we have optimismThere is no such thing as perfectionismAt least so much as actually be perfectThere is only really the … Continue reading
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Tagged Accept, Analysis, Attitude, Bearable, Best Ways, Burdens, Capable, Correct, Crack, Creation, Crush Your Soul, Daughters, Days, Destroy, Door, Embrace, Encouragement, Error, Eventually, Father, Fear, Foolish, Honest Face, Humility, Illuminate, Imperfection, Incapable, Light Gets In, Need, Nothing, Optimism, Pain, Paralysis, Perfect, Perfectionism, Poetry and Poems, Practiced Failure, Pretend, Push, Reality, Restrain, Self-Correction, self-improvement, Self-Solitude, Share, Sing, Something, Song of Life, Time Enough, Trace, Truth, Truth of Life, Unachievable, Uncertainty, Urgency, Well Being, World
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To Keep Growing
To Keep Growingby Michael DoyleIn the first end, we objectifyWhat we were once taught to deify But being nothing but the average manWe still seek to do the best we canWe get so very much wrongTrying to model ourselves and … Continue reading
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Tagged Average Man, Belong, Best We Can, Better Sort of Man, Bias, Brother, Change Our Ways, Deify, Desperate, Do and Say, Each Step, Equality, Error, Father, Feeling, Find, First End, Foothold, Forward, Get It Right, Greater Truths, Growing, Imprinted Ways, In the End, Keep, Keep Growing, Knowing, Learning, Life Lived Well, Long Way, Longing, Love, Lover, Meaning, Misunderstand, Model, Nothing, Objectify, Poetry and Poems, Rearrange, Repent, See, Seek, Shame, Sins, Standing, Strong, Taught, Toward, True Society, Wrong
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The Power In No
The Power In Noby Michael DoyleIn my life, I’ve been a sonHeld by a mother as second to noneTo my sister, I have been a brotherLoved by her like no otherI’ve been a doting sort of fatherOf my two beautiful, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alone, Available, Believe, Bitter Fate, Brother, Call, Capability, Daughters, Deserve, Diligent, Do, Doting, Dreams, Dreams and Hopes, Empowerment, Father, Feelings, Find Themselves, Full Capacity, Getting Less, Greatest Power, Happiness, Healing, Home, Inconvenient Truths, Late, Life, Live Up, Love, Love Given, Medical Care, Mirrors, Mother, Neglect, No, Observe, Phone, Poetry and Poems, Power, Pretense, Rocks, Rope, Self-Respect, Shade, Single Sentence, Sister, Son, Wait, Weight, Women
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The Quiet Colors
The Quiet Colorsby Michael DoyleAs the quiet colors Of the midnight hour Starts to come to closeAs the quiet colors Of the midnight hour Starts to come to closeI feel as lonely as the pain insideTortured to my soul, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Abandoned, Above Water, Aks, Bluff, Broken, Broken Cross, Call, Close, Confuse, Cross, Crucified, Damaged Control, Dead, Deep, Done, Drown, Father, Feel, From the Inside, Going On, Hang, Head, Hide, History, Inside, Job, Killing Me, Lonely, Look Into My Eyes, Mercy, Midnight Hour, Misery, No Longer Know Me, No Right To Complain, Nobody's Son, Nowhere to Hide, Overwhelm, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Pull, Pulled, Quiet Colors, Reach, Realize, Reminded, Rot, Satan, See, Soul, Sould, Stand, Strings, Strong Enough, Teeth, The Lord, Too Much, Tortured, Wrong
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Newport Aquarium
Newport Aquariumby Michael DoyleAs though a knight eager on his questI, as a father, find little need to restInstead, I eagerly undertake a two-hour driveGlad to teach my daughters and feel aliveThough I wish I could take them to the … Continue reading
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Tagged Accidentally Learn, Aquarium, Beauty, Care, Cared, Challenges, Class, Daughters, Dimming, Diversity, Dreams, Drive, Endless Miles, Expereince, Father, Gentle Traces, Glass, History, Imagination, Knight, Learn, Lessons, Miles, Minds, Museums, newport, Newport Aquarium, Ocean, Poetry and Poems, Preference, Princess Smiles, Quest, Remember, Revealed, rhode-island, Served Their Love Well, Share, Shared, Shore, Smiles, Swimming, Tale, Taught Them Well, Together, Travel
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First Principles: Therefore Go and Make Disciples of All Nations, Baptizing Them In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit and Teaching Them To Obey Everything I Have Commanded You
“16 Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. 17 When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. 18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in … Continue reading
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Tagged All Nations, Baptize, Commanded, Disciples, Everything, Father, First Principles, Go, Holy Spirit, Matthew 28:16-20, Name, Obey, Son, Teach
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Valentine’s Season
Valentine’s Seasonby Michael DoyleIn a circular society, there are seasonsSome of these devoid of sensible reasonsAs to why there is plenty or there is lessLove to be found, yet if I had to guessIt’s more worth quietly learning to resignAnd … Continue reading
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Tagged Age, All of This, Alone, Anguish, Apartment Wall, Argument, Attention, Call, Capuccino, Chances, Circular Society, Complete, Constant Denial, Cry, Design, Devoid, Do Not Disturb Sign, Dream, Easy, Efforts, Evade, Failed To Say, Falling In Love, Father, Feelings, Find Her, Follow, Found, Four Course Dinner, Friends, Good Turn, Guess, Happiness and Joy, Human Condition, Journey, Learn, Less, Life, Loneliness, Love, Love Depends, Loveable, Manage, Mine, Miss, My Daughters, My Fault, Plenty, Poetry and Poems, Point, Prayer, Quiet Moments, Reasons, Reminder, Replete, Resign, Season, Seasons, Secret, Self-Sedition, Shadows, Silver Moonlight, Sip, Smile, Someone, Stone, Trip, Try, Tyle, Valentine, Wish
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 
Turkey Run State Park
Turkey Run State Parkby Michael DoyleIndiana is prone to having a second winter appearAfter it seems the real winter has disappearedThis was the circumstance in February 2024When a snowfall came, inviting my family to exploreMy daughters and I loaded up … Continue reading →