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Tag Archives: Hard
On Bended Knee
On Bended Kneeby Michael DoyleOn bended knee, I see the memoryOf the day and the costI watched you let it beGiving it your dignityIt’s hard to add the costMaking it worseIs I know that bullet was mineIt had my nameBleeding … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Across, American Liberty, Bended Knee, Blame, Bleeding, Blood, Breath, Bullet, Choose, Cost, Cry, Days, Death, Define, Depend, Dignity, End, Expend, Fight and Die, Forgive, Friends, Full Price, Hard, Hope, Indignantly, Integrity, Lives, Measure, Memory, Mine, Mistakes, Moments, My Name, Nation, Obligation, Poetry and Poems, Politicians, Pray, Protect and Defend, Refuse, Speak, Taken For Granted, The Cost, Toil, Treasure, Verse, Watch, Why, Worse, Your Death
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With An Idea In View
With An Idea In Viewby Michael DoyleWith an idea in viewI wished for a dream come trueAnd hope replaced my heartacheThat came from my last mistakeTrying my best to figure it outTaking my best shot at what it’s aboutFinding it … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Art, August Moon, Band, Best Shot, Bloom, Brave, Call, Dance and Sway, Dancing, Dream, Fall For Me, Fallen Guard, Fan, Figure It Out, Graceful, Hard, Heart, Heartache, Hope, Hoping, Idea, Kisses Like Roses, Last Mistake, Magic, Man, Mean, Meet, Miine, Miss, Moonlight, Moonshine, Moping, Music, Nightfall, Often Do, One In A Million, One Look, Passion, Please, Poetry and Poems, Queen, Rhythm, Right, Shades, Simple, Sonata, Speak My Words, Street, Sweet, Talk Too Much, Tasteful, Tease, Time, True, Unforgettable, View, Watch, Wish
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Facedown With Mediocrity
Facedown With Mediocrityby Michael DoyleIn every town and in every cityWe find challenges met with mediocrityThese are the moments of losses takenAnd near certainty of a world wanting and mistakenFor some, this is hard to be faced head onWhile others … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Act, Actors, Alright, Bad Science, Break, Challenges, Chice, City, Compassion, Confidence, Conscience, Defiance, Desist, Diffidence, Dragged Into the Light, Easy, Excellence, Facedown, Force, Forge, Get In the Way, Gone, Hard, Hard to Know, Head-On, Hellion, Impressed, Life, Loss, Loud, Mediocrity, Mistaken, Must, New Day, Out of Fashion, Path, Play, Poetry and Poems, Push the Boundaries, Reasons, Resist, Role, Salute, Say, Seasons, See, Simple, Study, Stuffed Ballot Boxes, Sunglight, Suppressed, Tied UP, Tow, True Hearts, Trust, Unanswered Questions, Victories, Voice, Walking Shaodow, World, Youthful Rebellion
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However Hard
However Hardby Michael DoyleHowever Hard the wind blewWe knew we’d make it throughHe who wears the victor’s crownWould never let us drownWith our strength of willWe depend on Him, and stillGod will allow to prevailOur faith is shown in our … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Busy Days, Community, Course, Crowd, Depend, Drown, Dust, Faith, God, God's Family, God's Gift, God's Ways, Good, Hands, Hard, Him, In the End, Make It Through, Matter, Mix, One Another, Poetry and Poem, Prevail, Shatter, Strength of Will, Strong, Tale, Understood, Victor's Crown, Ways
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Thought For the Day: The Hardest Single Part of Building A Software System Is Deciding Precisely What To Build
“The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build the most important function that software builders do for their clients is the iterative extraction and refinement of the product requirements. For the truth is, … Continue reading
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Answer, Build, Decide, Detail, Fred Brooks, Hard, Know, Part, Precise, Problem, Question, Software, Specified, System, Thought, Thought For the Day, Truth
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Growing Vulnerability
Growing Vulnerabilityby Michael DoyleSome fools say that men don’t cryBut let me tell you, that’s just a lieIt’s so hard to express inner truthAnd it’s played that way since youthWe need to get the curtains down and outMoving hard beyond … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Another, Armor, Better Way, Capability, Cloud, Communication, Cry, Curtains, Doubt, Down and Out, Dust, Essence of You, Excuse, Express, Eyes, Fascination, Fools, Forever, Gone, Grow, Growing, Happy, Hard, Heart, Here, Hype, Inner Truth, Leak, Lie, Look, Love, Lvel, Macho, Men, Move, Moving Hard, Near, Own Way, Pardon, Peek, Place, Play, Poetry and Poems, Process, Reason, Say, Sensitive Type, Shadow of Doubt, Shine, Shine On, Speaking, Stay, Straight Up, Talk, Tell, True Love, Trump Card, Vulernable, Vulnerability, Walk, Way Out, Youth
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Thought For the Day: If People Knew How Hard I Worked To Get My Mastery, It Wouldn’t Seem So Wonderful After All
“If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful after all.” -Michelangelo Buonarroti, sculptor, painter, architect, and poet (6 Mar 1475-1564)
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged After All, Hard, Knew, Mastery, Michelangelo Buonarroti, People, Thought For the Day, Wondeful, Work
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Sucker Punch
Sucker Punchby Michael DoyleYou’re never fully dressedWithout a smileBut it’s hard to wear oneWhen you feel that you’re on trialDon’t put it downAs a matter of happenstanceWhen you’re watchingA wrong conviction buried in circumstanceFacing a false accusationIsn’t a pleasant feelingWhen … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Bury, Cannot Be Trusted, Care, Circumstance, Compelling, Dare, Dime, Disappeared, Dove, Face, False Accusation, Feared, Feeling, Fully Dressed, Happenstance, Hard, Harsh Ability, Know, Loyalty, Openly, People, Poetry and Poem, Pushed Too Far, Put It Down, Question, Smile, Sucker Punch, Trial, Vulnerability, Watching, Wear, Wrong Conviction, You To Me
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One By One
One By Oneby Michael DoyleWe work the problemsOne by oneOne at a timeThat’s how it’s doneWe face the worldOne step at a timeRemaining undefeatedWe struggle for primeThe point of no returnComes fast as we learnThere’s no turning backFrom the life … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged All We Got, Blood, Done, Down and Dirty, Earn, Face, Fast, Fight, Forgot, Give, Good, Hard, Hit, Hurt, Laugh, Learn, Life, Mud, Never Mind, No Turning Back, One By One, Poetry and Poems, Point of No Return, Prime, Problem, Right, Roll, Step, Struggle, Swing, Time, Undefeated, Understood, Win Or Lose, Work, World
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Searching For Reasons Why
Searching For Reasons Whyby Michael DoyleSearching for wordsThat just won’t comeHoping for a pocketful of miraclesBut finding noneThis is no way to spendThe moments leading to Christmas DayJust hoping for them to endCause they make no difference anywayTake another sip … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Able, Believe, Blues, Cards, Chair, Christmas, Christmas Day, Comfort, Could, Cry, Daughters, David, Die, Difference, Dream, Dreams, Drenched, End, Father, Give, Gone, Good, Half, Happy, Hard, Hearts, Hope, Knocked Back, Lack, Life, Life's Pain, Long, Moments, None, Nudge, Pocketful of Miracles, Poetry and Poems, Pouring Rain, Read, Reasons, Rhyme, Sadness, Seams, Searching, Shoulders, Sip, Snowman, Spend, Stand, Stars, Table, Think, Time, Watch, Why, Without A Reason Why, Words
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