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Tag Archives: Focus
In the Focus and Calm (Are Moments of Truth)
In the Focus and Calm (Are Moments of Truth)by Michael DoyleThere in the focus and calmIs a remembrance of who you areIt comes back like a twist of balmThat you reach for, no matter how farOnce this fortress has been … Continue reading
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Tagged Balm, Breach, Cage, Calm, Conspsiracy, Control, Courage, Crashing Down, Far, Focus, Fortitude, Grafitti, Help, Home, Jaded, Moments of Truth, Poetry and Poems, Pretend, Questions, Remebrance, Sand, Save
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Recovering the Way To Self
Recovering the Way To Selfby Michael DoyleComing back from catastropheTakes the best of you and meStill you must move towardThis attitude to move forwardIn overcoming adversityThis is the challenge for you and meDramatic changes come and goThis is the path … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Ambitions, Best Information, Best of You and Me, Best Self, Bring, Catastrophe, Challenge, Changing Moments, Character, Dramatic Changes, Dreams, Ebbs and Flows, Extended Family, Favor, Focus, Forward, Full Transformation, Give, Goals, Going On, Going Through Something, Grateful, Journey, Latitude, Length, Life's Flow, Love, Mere Mortals, Moments of Weakness, Nobody Else, Odds, One Hundred, Overcoming Adversity, Path Back, Poetry and Poems, Positive, Recover, Self, Shaken, Share, Soul, Spaces, Steps, Strength, Strong, Superman, Talk, Tenacity, Toward, True Success, Trust, Walk the Walk
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Dreams and Voices
Dreams and Voicesby Michael DoyleThe real truth revealed in the nightRevels in its parts brought to lightEven those that sear and hurtBringing the mind in focus, fully alertPretending to give an ounce of careAbout all the divisiveness laid bareIt is … Continue reading
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Tagged Alibi, Choices, Cost, Deep Inside, Details, Device, Different, Divisiveness, Doubt, Dreams and Voices, Essence, Facades, Faith, Focus, Freedom, Haunt, Hid, Hidden Secrets, Hope, Hunter and Prey, Hurt, Laugh, Legends in Their Own Minds, Light, Lost, Ounce of Care, Play, Poetry and Poems, Real Truth, Reverent, Saviors, Shade, Thoughtless and Crass, Underestimate, Voices, Wrong Decisions
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Thought For the Day: Concentrate All Your Thoughts Upon the Work At Hand. The Sun’s Rays Do Not Burn Until Brought To A Focus.
“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.” – Alexander Graham Bell, inventor (3 Mar 1847-1922)
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Tagged Alexander Graham Bell, All, Burn, Concentrate, Focus, Sun's Rays, Thought For the Day, Thoughts, Work At Hand
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To Lean Out of Wandering
To Lean Out of Wanderingby Michael DoyleLiving out the days of my back fortyKnowing that the end may come shortlyLike Moses, I lift my hands in prayerLiving a moment of taking proper careHaving learned to number my precious daysI long … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Affirmation, Back Forty, Bases, Celebration, Confirmation, Days, Decisions, East, Embrace, Failsures, Focus, Forgiven, Future, Ghosts, God's Ways, Gone, Grain, Hands, Haste, Hourglass, Important Battles, Joy, Juggle, Lean, Live, Living Our Prayer, Manage, Moment, Moments, Moses, Need, New Morning, Nowhere, Number, Nurture, Pains, Past, Paths, Play, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Procrastination, Proper Care, Questions, Reason, Regret, Reset, Rhymes, Season, Seed, Self-Defeating, Shortly, Sins, Sow, Stock, Test, The End, Thief of Time, Time, Today, Traces, Wandering, Waste, West, Wheel, Wisdom
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Come To the End
Come To the Endby Michael DoyleYou want me to take you seriouslyAs you glare at me furiouslyWith your arms around the guyI caught you with before my replyYou flame me by way of “fuck you” balloonAs I advert my eyes … Continue reading
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Tagged Arms, Balloon, Best, Cards, Caught Up, Come To An End, Comedy, Dream, End, Evidence, Fable, Fantasy, Feigned Hurt, Flame, Focus, Furious, Glare, Guy, Heart, Heights, Holding On, Hurt, James Dean, Legendary, Lesson Learned, Majesty, Mean, Mediocrity, Might-Have-Beens, Mind, Poetry and Poems, Relevance, Relevancy, Remember, Reply, Serious, Table, Tragedy, True Friends, True Words, Truth, Verbally Punch, Whens
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