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Lord of My Passing Days
Lord of My Passing Daysby Michael DoyleGod fights my battles first,Giving me a spiritual thirst.Inviting me to pray continually,I make my way to eternity.My battles are begun in prayer,Speaking my challenges to the God who cares.This then is how I … Continue reading
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Tagged Battle, Care, Challenges, Continually, Days, Eternity, Fight, First, Glory, God, Gratitude, heartbeat, Lord, Morning, Night, Noise, Passing Days, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Prayer, Speak, Spiritual Thirst, Thousand Joys, Thunder, Wonder
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Thought For the Day: Any Soldier Worth His Salt Should Be Antiwar. And Still There Are Things Worth Fighting For
“Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.” – Norman Schwarzkopf
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Tagged Antiwar, Fight, Norman Schwarzkopf, Salt, Soldier, Thought For the Day, Worthiness
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A Hero’s Journey Begins, Part I
A Hero’s Journey Begins, Part Iby Michael DoyleEssentially, a hero is someone ordinaryWho is given the chance to be extraordinary.Through whatever set of events or circumstance,He or she has been given this dynamic chance.It’s about rising up to the opportunityAnd … Continue reading
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Tagged Adversaries, Answer, Beginning, Best, Call, Capability, Chapter and Verse, Choice, Chunk of the Universe, Circumstance, Death, Description, Dynamic, Event, Extraordinary, Eyes, Fear, Fight, God, Hero, Journey, Light, Me, Means, Opportunity, Opposition, Ordinary, Persevere, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Push Forward, Readiness, Recognize, Rising Up, Test, The Rest, Thought, Tomorrow, Unflinching, Villains
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Dancing With Ghosts
Dancing With Ghostsby Michael DoyleIn spaces where war is thought of as gloryThere are legends that make for great story.Those of us who have fought for our nationKnow this as a fantastic conversation.Around the fire, it’s meant to endlessly inspireSo … Continue reading
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Tagged Acceptable Kind, Battle, Blind, Convesation, Death, Explantion, Fight, Fire, Flanked, Forwrd, Glory, Inspiraton, Legends, Marks of Battle, Monsters, Night, Ntion, Poetry and Poems, Real, Spaces, Story, Toward, Truth
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Resistance Begun
Resistance Begunby Michael DoyleThere are times of darknessThat leads to nihilism.There was a time of harshness,From it arose Nazism.Banned music played on shortwave,Kept by some in their secrecyDancing on civilization’s grave.Conformity became a form of vanity.Worship was bent to teach … Continue reading
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Tagged Banned Music, Brave Fools, Civilization's Grave, Conformity, Darkness, Fight, Follow, Fuhrer, God's Way, Harshness, Nazism, Nihilism, Poetry and Poems, Price, Resistance, Rote Form, Rule, Shadow, Shortwave, Stand up, Thomas Mann, Times, Vanity, Woship
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The Fight After the Fight
The Fight After the Fightby Michael DoyleThe first death you seeStrips away a layer of life’s dignity.It stays with you like an aura you wearWhile you fight the pangs of despair.The pain grips you by the heart.As you look into … Continue reading
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Tagged Aura, Battle, Bury, Christmas Season, Dead and Gone, Despair, Dignity, Due, Eyes, Family, Fight, First Death, Glory, Heart, Lack, Layer, Life, Love, mental-health, Misery, Move On, Mystery, Night, Pain, Pan, Pangs, Poetry and Poems, Rattle, Rucksack, Saber, Soul, Story, Treason, War, Writing
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Thought For the Day: I Will Not Allow My Life’s Light To Be Determined By the Darkness Around Me
“Life is a hard battle anyway. If we laugh and sing a little as we fight the good fight of freedom, it makes it all go easier. I will not allow my life’s light to be determined by the darkness … Continue reading
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Tagged Allow, Darkness, Easier, Fight, Freedom, Good fight, Hard Battle, Laugh, Life, Life's Light, Sing, Sojourner Truth, Thought For the Day
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All the Broken Pieces
All the Broken Piecesby Michael DoyleWhen our sanity has turned to treason,We make up every kind of reason.It seems like our life is by misconception,When we fall for our own self-deceptions.It’s next to tragic applied to our family,In the conflicts … Continue reading
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Tagged All, Broken Pieces, Choices of Love, Conceal, Conflict, Decency, Dignity, Family, Fantasy, Fight, Forget, Glory, Kindnesses, Life, Misconception, Misery, Poetry and Poems, Reason, Revealed, Sanity, Self-Decpetion, Sorrow, Story, Thrown Away, Tomorrow, Tragic, Treason, Yesterday
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First Principles: We, Too, Born To Freedom, and Believing In Freedom, Are Willing To Fight To Maintain Freedom
“We, too, born to freedom, and believing in freedom, are willing to fight to maintain freedom. We, and all others who believe as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Tagged Believe, Born, Deep, Die On Our Feet, Fight, First Principles, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Freedom, Live On Our Knees, Maiintain
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