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Second Guess the End
Second Guess the Endby Michael DoyleThere’s a lot of rightIn learning through the wrong.There’s a lot of hanging tightIn finding where I belong.It’s been a hard road to living,But that’s what I’ve been given.The movie is never as good as … Continue reading
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Tagged 20/20, Belong, Betrayal, Book, Christmas Snow, Disappointment, Drink, Find, Follow, Forget, Ghost, Given, Grasp, Hanging Tight, Hard Road, Heaven, Intellectual Hndsight, Judas, Kiss, Know, Learn, Light, Living, Love, Miss, Movie, Ods, Played, Poetry and Poems, Pretend, Right, Second Guess, Sharper Look, Simpolicty, Stranglehol, The End, The Way, Tight, Times, Truth, Wrong, Youth
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Lapsed Into Vulnerability
Lapsed Into Vulnerabilityby Michael DoyleFor most of my life, it’s been grasp and capabilityNow we’ve followed the Silent Generation into vulnerability. Our straightforward path toward security and prosperityLent itself to jaded jokes that were mostly others’ jealousy.The sky was the … Continue reading
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Tagged Absurdity, Age of Austerity, Boomer Generation, Capability, Confident, Easy Stride, Free Ride, Future, Grasp, Imagination, Innovation, Jaded Jokes, Jagged Edges, Jealousy, Jeopardy, Lapse, Life, Nurture, Our Share, Poetry and Poems, Policy, Poverty, Relaxed Feeling, Silent Generation, Social Security, Spending Hawks, Vulnerability
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First Principles: Stepping Up In Opposition
Stepping up in opposition to the gravitational suck of those who attempt to redefine what freedom and liberty mean: A fundamental difference between the allegedly progressive and true classical liberal idealists, now called conservatives, is in how freedom and … Continue reading
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Tagged Aesop, All Citizens, Arrogant Kings and Greedy Elites, Bleed, Civil Rights, Classical Liberal, Coercive Influence, Conservative, Constitution, Constrain, Controversy, Critical Race Theory, Duty, Earn, Emancipatory Element, Equality of Opportunity, First Principles, Found, Founding Principles, Freedom and Liberty, Fundamental Difference, General Welfare, Government Encroachment, Grasp, Historical Oppression, History, Idealism, Illusory Shadows, Law, Mandate, Marcuse, Marx, Mercy Warren, Misinformation, Opposition, Philosophies, Political, Politics, Principles, Private Citizens, Private Individuals, Progressive, Propaganda, Property Rights, Pursuit of Happiness, Regressive, Sacred Obligation, Services and Goods, Stepping Up, The Declaration of Independence, The Founders, The Republic of the United States of America, Trample, Tryanny
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Born Into This World
Born Into This Worldby Michael DoyleWe are born into this wounded worldIn which we see the need for improvementIt often feels as if we’re hurledBecoming ourselves is our greatest accomplishmentGrasping for the bits and pieces we can findThat which which … Continue reading
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Tagged Accomplishment, Beauty of Tomorrow, Becoming Ourselves, Behind, Bits and Pieces, Blind Faith, Books On Shelves, Born, Coming Years, Crowd, Culture, Dare, Desperate, Discontent, Discover, Drowning Surface, Ears, Eccentric Opinions, Essential, Eyes Above, Fallacies, Feel, Find, Fools, Gambit, Grasp, Grievous, Harshest Critics, Humble Beginnings, Hurled, Improvement, Into This World, Love, Ourselves, Poetry and Poems, Potential, Sorrow, Stumble, The Best, Vulturess, Wartmth, Whisper, World's Embrace, Wounded, Written Script
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The Fight For Nobility
The Fight For Nobilityby Michael DoyleTo fight for nobilityOften causes many to loseIn life’s lack of sensibilityWhich comes though we refuseThe Spanish InquisitionHad its inglorious powerThat it used without hesitationTo rule any given hourMadmen and poetsHave much in commonEven when … Continue reading
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Tagged Believe, Best, Born To Die, Broken Dreams, Brutality, Cause, Common, Confuse, Cure, Dare, Death, Desire, Destination, Dreams, Fight, Fool, Give, Grasp, Hesitation, Hour, Idle Talk, Inglorious Power, Judge, Knight, Life, Live, Lived, Lose, Madmen and Poets, Mirror, Moments, Nobility, Noble and True, Plain, Poetry and Poems, Pose, Prevail, Proverbs, Question, Real, Reality, Rebuild, Refuse, Rule, Seem, Sensibility, Test, The Spanish Inquisition, Truth, Why, Youth
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First Principles: Beware Lest You Lose the Substance By Grasping At the Shadow
“Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.” -Aesop (c. 620–564 BC)
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Tagged Aesop, Beware, First Principles, Grasp, Lest, Lose, Shadow, Substance
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Thought For the Day: We Have Grasped the Mystery of the Atom and Rejected the Sermon On the Mount…The World Has Achieved Brilliance Without Conscience.
“We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount…The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.” – Five-Star General Omar Bradley (d. April, 8, 1981)
First Kiss
First Kissby Michael DoyleRemembering back on the magicFound waiting for the first kissThat led to heartbreak, something tragicBut that moment felt like blissThat moment, for the moment, felt like blissThing back on the magicFound in waiting for the first touchThat … Continue reading
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Tagged Alone, Begun, Bliss, Cherry Taste, Done, Feeling, First Touch, Flair, Grasp, Happiness, Heartbreak, Hips, Lips, Magic, Moment, Night's Air, Poetry and Poems, Reeling, Remember, Sadness, Seal, Surprise, Thrill, Tragic, Veil, Wait
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