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Thought For the Day: What Sunshine Is To Flowers, Smiles Are To Humanity…Scattered Along Life’s Pathway, the Good They Do Is Inconceivable
“What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.” – Joseph Addison
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Tagged Flowers, Good, Humanity, Inconceivable, Joseph Addison, Life's Pathway, Smiles, Sunshine, Thought For the Day, Trifle
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If We Never Said Hello
If We Never Said Helloby Michael DoyleMeet me where the sun setsI’ve never loved as much as I will, yetMeet me where our road endsAnd be my lifetime friendTell me all your secretsLet’s live a love of no regretsIn a … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Admit, Beautiful, Better, City, Deep End, Dipping My Toes, Fast Train, Fate, Flowers, Greatest Pity, Hello, I Will, Know, Laugh, Life, Life's Shallow, Lifetime Friend, Loved, No Regrets, Nowhere, Ocean, Poetry and Poems, Road Ends, Say Hello, Secrets, Shadow, Small Town, Smile, Spring, Stopped, Sun Sets, Sunshine, Timeless Style, Together, We, Wonderful, Worth the Care
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First Principles: The Earth Laughs In Flowers
“The earth laughs in flowers.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Tagged First Principles, Flowers, Laugh, Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Earth
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Thought For the Day: Flowers Always Make People Better, Happier, and More Helpful; They Are Sunshine, Food and Medicine For the Soul
“Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.” – Luther Burbank (7 Mar 1849-1926)
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Tagged Better, Flowers, Food, Happier, Helpful, Luther Burbank, Medicine, People, Soul, Sunshine, Thought For the Day
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It’s There In A Song Somewhere
It’s There In A Song Somewhereby Michael DoyleYou can find it in the record-spinning roundThere in the melody is where it is foundListen carefully to the words of the songYou’ll find the truth of our love where it belongsWhere this … Continue reading
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Tagged Above, Beauty, Become One, Belongs, Below, Bended Knee, Beside, Best Friend, Best Life, Bliss, Complete, Connection, Cure, Dream, Dreams, Expressed, Eyes Meet, Face, Floating In the Air, Flowers, Found, Garden, Hair, Implore, Lasting Trace, Love, Matching Stride, Meet, Melody, More, Never Become Undone, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Record, Roses, Same Direction, Shine, Side-By-Side, Silvery Moon, Smile, Somehow, Somewhere, Song, Strife, Sweet, Sweet Fragance, The Together of Happiness, Think, Thought, Time, Truth of Our Love, Two Hearts, Two Souls, Walk Through, Walk Together, Words, World
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Like Flowers In A Vase
Like Flowers In A Vase (For Joni Mitchell)by Michael DoyleBlonde hair and a long silhouetteA beautiful voice, unforgotten yetLife’s so short and makes us numbBeauty like this is what we becomeA voice for her generationHeld by many with great venerationA … Continue reading
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Tagged Beautiful Voice, Beauty, Become, Blonde Hair, Circumspection, Clouds, Declarative, First-Person Narrative, Flowers, Generation, Hesitation, Introspection, Involved, Joni Mitchell, Known, Lady Blue, Life, Madmen and Badmen, Memory, Numb, Poetry and Poems, Point of View, Question, Short, Shown, Silhouette, Sus Chords, Taken For Granted, True, Truth, Unforgotten, Unresolved, Vase, Veneration, Voice, Words
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Like Leaves In Autumn
Like Leaves In Autumnby Michael DoyleA quintessential road trip brings to mindThat Autumn has come to leave Summer behindMany roads can be taken, traveling any wayTo capture the colors that make up our daysAutumn falls like leaves becoming flowersThere is … Continue reading
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Tagged Autumn, Baptismal Shower, Behind, Blanket, Breath, Breeze, Campire, Capture, Carved Smiles, Chill, Colors, Fall, Fall Winds, Flow, Flowers, Gift, Glow, Ground, Leaves, Life, Look, Mind, Mother Nature, Nature, Passing Hours, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Pumpkin, Rake, Reverence, Road Trip, Shift, Sky, Slow, Squirrels and Chipmunks, Summer, Travel, Trees, Winds of Change, Winter
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Pass the Torch (This Revolution Is Over)
Pass the Torch (This Revolution Is Over)by Michael DoyleOver the course of many stolid yearsI have listened to a tsunami of tearsOver how socialism turned chevere to chimboThe Land of Grace defiled blow by blowThe Land of the Orchids and … Continue reading
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Tagged Angelic Contrast, Army, Beautiful Land, Bloodbath, Bloody Dictatorship, Bolivar, Bullets, Candidate, Courage, Course, Defiance, Dissent, Done, Economic Mismanagement, Election Cycle, Empanadas, Eternal Spring, False Prosperity, Firm, Flowers, Food, Freedom and Liberty, Gauchos, Greater Loss, Hope, Hours, Imprisoning, Intimidating, Jeopdardy, Jester, Kill, Los Llanos, Madness and Buffoonery, Maduro, Marxist Masks, National Depression, Orchids, Outside, Page, Pass the Torch, People's Will, Pessimism, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Policies, Poverty, Prevail, Promise, recipes, Relent, Reliance, Repression, Reprisals, Revolution, Sing, Socialism, South America, Standing, Step Down, Stolen Crown, Street of History, Sun, Tears, The Poor, Totalitarian Comman, Travel, Tsunami, Tyranny, Venezuela, Withstand, Writing
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Thought For the Day: What Sunshine Is To Flowers, Smiles Are To Humanity
“What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.” – Joseph Addison, essayist and poet (1 May 1672-1719)
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Tagged Flowers, Good, Humanity, Inconceivable, Joseph Addison, Life, Pathway, Scattered, Smiles, Sunshine, Thought For the Day, Triffles
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