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In His Faithfulness
Based in part on Romans 6: In His Faithfulness by Michael Doyle For all our fears and all of our doubt The Lord will guard us faithfully Established as guard that we might work out That the Lord has … Continue reading
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Tagged Arose, Ask, Authority, Behavior, Belief, Burial, Busy Day, Cannot, Choosing God's Way, Coexist, Cognitive Dissonance, Confluence, Dark Into Light, Dead, Death, Death and Life, Depart, Despite, Different, Discouragement, Divinity, Do, Do Right, Doing What's Right, Doubt, Each of Us, Embrace, Encouragement, Established, Every Woman and Man, Faithful, Faithfulness, Fear, Fears, Find, Find Our Way Back, Follow the Right Path, Fumble, Give, Giving, God, God's Word, Gracefully, Guard, Harmony, Has Its Way, Hearts, Here, His, In Our Heads, In Your Head, Influence, Jesus, Justification, Know, Let This roll, Live, Match, Never Depart, New Life, Often, Old Self, Our Lives, Persist, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Quiet, Rationalization, Remove, Resurrected, Reverently, Reward, Right, Right Path, Romans 6, Sadness, Salvation, Same Truth, Seek, Seeking Out, Speak to Heart, Strengthen, Strife, Strive, Stumble, The Lord, Truth and Grace, Unchanged Hearts, Unchanged Life, Walk, Walk In the Light, Walks Among Us, We Are Saved, We Can, Wonderfully, Work Out, Yoke
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Planted Seed of Fear
Poem 4 in a series retelling a classic werewolf tale: Planted Seed of Fear by Michael Doyle Plant the seed The seed of fear As the blood moon rises Evil comes in its disguises The village wills to celebrate While … Continue reading
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Tagged Blood Moon, Celebrate, Dance, Disguise, Drink, Evil, Fear, Firelight, Fools, Guard, Hunter, Invigorate, Know, Lurk, Moonlit, Night, Pageantry, Photograph, Plant, Poem, Poetry, Rise, Second Sight, Seed, Seek, Shadow, Sleight of Hand, Stand, Tapestry, Things Seen, Trick, Trick of the Light, True, Village, Warrior
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Rites of Passage
What might it be to see the rites of passage for a Viking daring to reach west not east and in so doing changes perceptions of possibility? Rites of Passage by Michael Doyle As odd as it may seem You … Continue reading
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Tagged Born, Confess, Dead Thigns, Depth, Die, Doorframe, Dragon Ships, Dreams, East, Edge, Eye, Family, Fight, Flavor, Give, Guard, Had, Knowledge, Life, Man, Mistress, Northern Lights, Odd, Odin, Passage, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Precious, Quest, Right, Rites, Sad, Satisfied, Sea, Seem, Seen, Seldom, Sight, Test, Tried, True, Viking, West, Worry, You
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Guarding Against Faction
Today’s poem about American history speaks on some basic principles as set out in largely in Federalist Paper Number 10 in which we choose to become a republic and not a democracy to protection of nation from the encroachment of … Continue reading
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Tagged Advice, Air, American History, Ancient, Answer, Argue, Become, Capacity, Citizens, Community, Constitution, Contest, Control, Convene, Cost, Counter Direct, Country, Democracy, Deprive, Differences, Direct Democracy, Duly Elected, Effect, Elective Despotism, Eliminate, Enfranchise, Faction, Federalist Paper No. 10, Fire, Form, Good, Government, Guard, Guide, Harm, Heed, Injury, Institutions, Insult, Justice, Latent Cause, Learn, Lesson, Liberty, Lost, Love, Majority, Man, Medium, Minority, Mystery, Nation, Nature, Outcome, Outvote, Path, Patriotism, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Political Control, Primary Role, Principles, Protect, Purpose, Representation, Republic, Rest, Rights, Rights and Interests, Rule of Law, Sacrifce, Satisfaction, Scheme, Seek Advantage, Settle, Society, Sown, Stop, Survive, Temporary, The People, Tryanny of the Majority, Tyranny, Understood, Unjust Result, Utility, Wisdom
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Thought For the Day: The Happiness of Your Life Depends On the Quality of Your Thoughts
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.” – Marcus Aurelius
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Tagged Depends, Entertain, Guard, Happiness, Life, Marcus Aurelius, Nature, Notions, Quality, Reasonable, Take Care, Thought For the Day, Thoughts, Virtue
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A Life In Size
The saga of Dracula continues: A Life In Size by Michael Doyle In the dark castle hangs her face A painting of the sunlight he once embraced Hidden within were passages of a maze Guarded from the sun that continues … Continue reading
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Tagged Artist, Belief, Blame, Blaze, Blessing, Blood, Broken, Castle, Cave, Creatures of the Night, Cryptic, Darkness, Dead, Death, Devil, Dracula, Eat, End, Ending, Evil, Eyes, Face, Faith, Glow, Good, Gory, Guard, Guess, Hang, Hope, Hunger, Immortal, Immortality, Know, Language, Life, Light, Love, Loveless Marriage, Lucifer, Maze, Monster, Mortal, Pain, Painting, Passage, Photograph, Poem, Poet, Poetry, Quest, Roof, Safety, Saga, Save, Secret, Shock, Sight, Size, Sky, Story, Sun, Sung, Sunlight, Taste, Time, Touch, Truth, Understood, Undone, Unspoken, Vampire, Warmth
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The Turbulence Begins
American history continues: The Turbulence Begins by Michael Doyle As the post-war alliance fell apart, the United Nations started The start of Cold War began and sustained as peace departed Confrontations began and nuclear weapons were on both sides’ hands … Continue reading
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Tagged Abuse of Power, Accommodation, Address, Ailment, Alliance, America, American History, Arab Conflict, Ascendency, Balance, Begin, Bi-Partisan, Border, Champion, China, Citizens, Civil War, Cold War, Command, Common Man, Communists, Confrontation, Consolidation, Containment, Continent, Crystal Ball, Cuba, Danger, Dangers, Deep State Government, Defense, Devastation, Eisenshower, Empire, Expansionism, Fidel Castro, Fiscal Conservatism, Foreign, Forgot, Forward, Free, Free People, Freedom, George Kennan, Global Challenges, Government, Grow, Guard, Hard Times, Harry S Truman, Heritage, History, Hitler, Hostility, Hour, I Like Ike, Ill-Informed, Imperatives, Impulsiveness, Inchon, International Relations, Iron Curtain, Isreal, Issues, Korean Peninsula, Korean War, Legend, Liberty, MacArthur, Mao, Middle East, Military, Military-Industrial Complex, Misplaced Power, Moral Conscience, Mortal Man, Mortgage, New Deal, No Subtitution For Victory, Non-Partisan, Normalization, North, Nuclear, Occupy, Pass, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Police Action, Policy, Politics, Post-War, Presidency, Radical Challenges, Rank, Rectification, Reunification, Russian, Salvation, Security, Self Determination, Sentiment, Settle, Sino, Society, Sorrow, South, Soviet, Stabilize, Stalemate, Stalin, Statesmanship, Stettin, Subjugation, Suez Canal, Technocratic State, Tension, Territory, The People, Tomorrow, Trieste, Truman Doctrine, Turbulence, United Nations, Veteran, Vietnam, Vigilance, Vote, Vulnerable Nations, Warn
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First Principles: To Preserve Liberty, It Is Essential That the Whole Body of the People Always Possess Arms and…Taught…How To Use Them
“Whereas, to preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them; nor does it follow from this, that all promiscuously must go into … Continue reading
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Tagged Actual Service, Anti-republican, Arms, First Principles, Guard, Liberty, Possess, Richard Henry Lee, Select Militia, Taugh, The People, Use, Young
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First Principles: Guard Against the Impostures of Pretended Patriotism
“Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.” – George Washington (1796)
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Tagged Against, First Principles, George Washington, Guard, Imposture, Patriotism, Pretend
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Thankfulness For the Armor of God
A poem in gratitude for our creator #18: Thankfulness For the Amor of God by Michael Romani When I look into the mirror It no longer takes a seer To see that I am not the enemy But am still … Continue reading
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Tagged Adversary, Armor, Battle, Blind, Captive, Clever, Creator, Dark, Devil, Die, Dream, Enemy, Face, False, Fight, God, Grace, Gratitude, Greed, Ground, Guard, Harsh, Heart, Holy, Humility, Leader, Light, Lion, Lose, Mature, Me, Mirror, Need, Patient, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Prowl, Remind, Remorse, Saving Grace, Scheme, Seer, Self, Simple, Step By Step, Stubborn, Submit, Thanks, True, Truth, Whisper, You, Youth, Zion
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 