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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
Posted in Poetry and Poems
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
Posted in Poetry and Poems
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
Posted in Poetry and Poems
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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First Principles: Let Your Light Shine Before Others, That They May See Your Good Deeds and Glorify Your Father In Heaven
“ In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.” – Matthew 5:16 (NIV)
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Tagged Father, First Principles, Glorify, Good Deeds, Heaven, Let, Matthew 5:16 (NIV), Same Way, See, Shine, Your Light
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Sweet Victory
Sweet Victoryby Michael DoyleNothing can take God’s placeI’ve felt His glory, face-to-faceI am grateful from my heartHe’s been here from the startSaving me from my transgressionsAnd from all this world’s aggressionsIt’s amazing all that He’s doneIn the trinity of Father, … Continue reading
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Tagged Aggressions, Amaze, Attitude, Badness, Blessed, Blessings, Convinced, Daughters, Deity, Enemies, Eternity, Face to Face, Father, God's Place, Good, Grateful, Grtatitude, Happiness, Heart, His Love, Holy Spirit, Madness, Path, Poetry and Poems, Redemption, Reign, Retoration, Saving Me, Silencing, Son, Start, Sweet Victory, Transgressions, Trinity, Understood, Voice, World
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Thought For the Day: One Father Is More Than A Hundred Schoolmasters
“One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.” – English Proverb
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Tagged English Proverb, Father, George Herbert, Hundred, More, One, Quote, Schoolmasters, Thought For the Day
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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 →