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First Principles: May the Father of All Mercies Scatter Light, and Not Darkness, Upon Our Paths
“May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths.” –George Washington, 1790
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Tagged All Mercies, Due Time, Everlasting, Father, First Principles, George Washington, Happy, His, Light, Not Darkness, Paths, Useful, Vocations
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There’s Maybe Nothing Better
There’s Maybe Nothing Betterby Michael DoyleThere is maybe nothingThat could be any betterHowever bright or gloomyThe day has turned the weatherThan spending this Sunday afternoonWatching dreams with my daughtersHearts overflowing with joy soonWatching Rudolph with their fatherThere’s nothing like a … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Allow, Better, Born, Bright, Confide, Daughters, Day, Differences, Dreams, Every Heart, Father, Fit, Follow, Girls and Boys, Gloomy, Good, Grow Up, Hearts, Hide, Joy, Lesson, Love, Loving World, Memory, Misfit, Misfit Toys, Nothing Better, One, Outrun, Place, Poetry and Poems, Room Enough, Rudolph, Sunday Afternoon, Together, Tomorrow, Troubles, True, Understood, Weather, World, Yesterday
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Starting Each Day In Devotion
Starting Each Day In Devotionby Michael Doyle Starting every day the right wayBrings about a good sort of dayKnowing that wherever we goGod follows us as if our best shadow No matter what comes as we scatterOur attention to the … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Adore, Ahead of the Game, Attention, Awaken, Best Human Being, Busyness, Challenges, Choice, Day, Declare, Deliberate, Devotion, Empower, Father, God, Holy Ghost, Hope, Live, Love, Morning, Music and Praise, Poetry and Poems, Power, Pray, Presence, Scatter, Shadow, Shatter, Significance, Start, Surrender, The Lord, The Son, Voice, Worship
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Reflections On Dorian Gray, Pt VIII: Reality’s Seams
Reflections On Dorian Gray, Pt VIII: Reality’s Seamsby Michael DoyleThere on that snow fallen black of nightIn an alley filled with guilt’s blightDorian fears the tell of tongue wagged taleThat pursues him to the gates of HellThere are dreadful things … Continue reading
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Tagged Alley, Ancient Danger, Attic Door, Begin Again, Begun, Black of Night, Blight, Burning Fire, Chain, Change, Closeness, Confession, Conspire, Corruption, Creep, Daughter, Dead Rat, Death, Deceptive, Decrepit, Delusion, Demand, Desire, Done, Dorian Gray, Dreadful Things, Dream, Edge of Death, End, Evil, Father, Final Breath, Final Price, Final Say, Fire, Forlorn, Gates of Hell, Ghastly, Hope, Innocence, Innocent Man, Intoxication, Intrusion, Kiss Away Moment, Locked Away, London, Mortal Sin, Only Friend, Paid, Penny, Poetry and Poems, Priest, Purity, Putrify, Real, Reality's Seams, Reflections, Secret Key, See, Sin, Snow, Strange, Stranger, Subway, Tarnished History, Tongue Wag, Train, Traps, Truth, Tunnel, Wake, Whisper, Wind
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Radically Reversed
Radically Reversedby Michael DoyleReversing the brokenness of circumstanceTo give sacred life to its every chanceKnowing that those who have less are not lessHowever much life’s moments might be a messThe most hurting present are our familyBlessed be this truth in … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Affirmed, Affirmed Dignity, Appreciation, Atone, Be Not Afraid, Blessed, Blown Away, Brokenness, Brother, Chance, Choice, Circumstance, Climb, Decision, Deserve, Destination, Dignity, Dread and Danger, Drink, Each Child, Each Step, Encourage, Faith, Father, God, God's Blessing, Hopeful Reminder, Humble Supplication, Hurting, Isolation, Kingdom, Legacy, Less, Life's Moments, Lift, Mercy, Mess, Nation, Needs, Not Alone, One Family, Opportunity, Our Family, Poetry and Poems, Radical, Raise, Ready, Real Time, Release, Restore, Reverse, Rhyme, Roads, Sacred Life, Seismic Shift, Service, Sin Confessed, Sister, Stranger, Swirled, Take A Moment, Troubles, Truth, Vision, Walk, Water, Words
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Na/GloPoWriMo #20: Sijo For An Ill-Turned Vaccination
Na/GloPoWriMo #20: Sijo For An Ill Turned Vaccinationby Michael DoyleFather, will you be alright? But of course, I will my dearsWith one hundred three point three, who might I fooling?The fire blazes hot inside, but not as deep as my … Continue reading
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Tagged 103.3, Alright, Be Fine, Dad, Daugthers, Dears, Deep, Do Not Worry About A Thing, Father, Feeling Better, Fire, Fooling, Had Worse, I Am Fine, Ill-Turned, Love, Mother, Na/GloPoWriMo, Poetry and Poems, Sijo, Sleeping, Sunshine, Temperature, Time, Too Much, Two, Two To Love, Vaccination, Vaccine, Wait, Worry
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Na/GloPoWriMo #6: Setting Fires To Feel Joy
Na/GloPoWriMo #6: Setting Fires To Feel Joyby Michael DoyleI set fires to feel joyIt’s just one of those tricksThat I employ – I ate my twin inside the wombNot being malicious, but…Just to have more elbow roomThey say,.. and maybe … Continue reading
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Tagged Adventures, Book, Couple of Lines, Daugthers, Day, Elbow Room, Employ, Father, Feel Joy, Fire, Found Myself, Gold Mines, Hemlock Cliffs, In Need, Lincoln's Boyhood Home, Made You Look, Malicious, Na/GloPoWriMo, Not Quite Right, Nothing Short, One of Those Tricks, Photographing, Poetry and Poems, Really Done It, Recall, Responsive Poem, Rightly So, Set, They Say, Traveling, Twin, Two Lines, Unravelin, Verbal, Want To Read, Waterfall, Weary, Womb, Wordsmith's, Worth the Smile, Wouldn't Be Right
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Thought For the Day: The Word Became Flesh and Made His Dwelling Among Us. We Have Seen His Glory, the Glory of the One and Only Son, Who Came From the Father, Full of Grace and Truth
“The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.” – John 1:14
ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 