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Beauty’s Brutality
Beauty’s Brutalityby Michael DoyleIn the deeps of Finland’s heartThe land lies in its darknessBathed in the Northern LightFrom where whispers of hope startAgainst the chilling harshnessBelow winter’s frosted nightSummer has been quick and fleetingTo thrive here takes endurance and courageWorn … Continue reading
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Tagged Alive, Ancient, Aurora Borealis, Beauty, Bleak Midwnter, Borne, Breeze, Brutality, Change, Chill, Comfort, Constant, Courage, Darkness, Deeps, Discourage, Down Under, Dreams, Endurance, Fatal, Finland, Fleeting, Fools, Forest, Free, Frost, Frozen In Time, Frozen Mouth, Gifts, Golden Eagle, Greeting, Grit, Harshness, Hope, Impatience, Infinity, Jeweled Crown, Land, Lapland, Legends, Life, Magical, Mesmerized, Midnight Sun, Moment To Spare, Myth, Myth of Fire Foxes, Never Know, Northern Light, Owl, Photograph, Pleasure, Poem, Poetry, Reindeer, Rule, Santa, Serenity, Shine, Stand To Know, Star-Filled Sky, Stillness, Struggle, Summer, Sunrise, Surprise, Survive, The Sun, Thrive, Tough Lessons, Trees, Warmth, Weeks On End, Weight In Gold, Whisper, Winter, Winter Snow, Wisdom
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The Chi Within All
The Chi Within Allby Michael DoyleIt matters not, woman or manEach is to yield chi as they canIt is not for a father to sayWhich is who and what’s the wayThere in the essence of controlWhere one’s power finds one’s … Continue reading
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Tagged All, Become, Behalf, Best, Beware, Breath, Chi, Darkness, Death, Disruption, Edge, Essence, Father, Firm, Foretold, Harshness, Honor, Imperial Throne, Know, Life, Light, Man, Matters, Phoenix, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Right, Road, Shadows, Shapeshift, Shrine, Sould, Talk, Test, The Way, Walk, Warrior, Witch, Within, Woman
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To Find A Friend
The world is a sometimes scary place, particularly when it comes to the heart, isn’t it? To Find A Friend by Michael Doyle To find a friend In this friendless world Toward this end I lay fetal and curled Is … Continue reading
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Tagged Alone, Another, Back Against the Wall, Bath, Beat, Being Alone, Curl, Darkness, Depend, Dream, Each Other, Fetal, Find, Fist, Friend, Friendless, Gold, Guide, Harshness, Heart, Home, I, Light, Magic of Trust, Must, Myself, Never Again, Night, One Heart, One Soul, One Thing, Other, Our, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Precious, Purity, Scary Place, Share, Stay Alive, Survive, Together, Too Much, Toward This End, Truest End, Uncurled, Willing, World, Worth
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Logical Pursuit
Though it ultimately comes down to faith, belief is also about evidence and applying logic to this evidence. Logical Pursuit by Michael Doyle Saying no over and over and then again Is the path of righteousness that we walk The … Continue reading
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Tagged Again, All Things, Apply, Attitude, Authenticity, Belief, Choose, Chosen, Clear, Cling To, Confess, Conviction, Cross, Crucified, Darkness, Death, Debt, Decision, Decline, Deeper, Earnestly Seek, Embrace, Enormity, Evidence, Excuses, Explanation, Faith, Fallibility, Fatality, Finger, Follow, Forgive, From Immorality, Gain, Get In the Way, Giving New Life, God's Plan, God's Will, Grace, Gratitude, Habit, Hardened heart, Harshness, Heaven, His Name, Holiness, Holy Spirit, Indication, Integrity, Keep Near, Know, Last Breath, Law, Life, Light, Live, Living In Love, Logical, Love, Milk, Need, Never Mind, Newness, No, Not Loss, Not Sinless, Path of Righteousness, Paves the Way, Perfection, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prayers, Priorities, Purity, Pursuit, Regardless, Reign, Repentence, Restoration, Sanctified, Saved, Seed, Seem, Sin, Sinning Less, Spiritual Maturation, Taken Place, The Lord, Transformation, Ultimate, Walk, Walk Past, Ways, Ways of God, Woman and Man, Work In Progress, Work our Way, World
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Cancel Culture Must End
I was so heartened to see 100 voices from the Left have finally seen the light so much so that they themselves are now beginning to say what I have said for over 15 years now. This whole cancel culture … Continue reading
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Tagged Anxiety, Any Over Others, Blame, Cancel Culture, Civility, Coercion, Contribution, Cultural Institutions, Demands, Dogma, Each, Encourage, End, Evil, Fascism, Fetish, Force, Force Against Force, Free Exchange of Ideas, Free Society, Free Speech, God, Going Too Far, Harshness, Humility, Intolerance, Justice, Kindness, Letter, Lifeblood of Society, Love, Main Street, Meet, Mess, North Star, Nothing Good, Once Excluded, Open Debate, Openness, Overdue, Persuasion, Photography, Poem, Poetry, President Trump, Protests, Public Shame, Raise, Retribution, Rival, Scars, Stand, Stand Together, The Left, Tolerate, Toleration, Trial, Voice, Voice of Reason, Void
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Awed By Living
Life is for the living. Let’s do it well! Awed By Living by Michael Doyle Counting the things of needed gratitude Instead of too often taking an attitude At and of those things of circumstance Forgetting to realize each moment’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Ask, Attitude, Awe, Awesomeness, Blessed, Blind, Bliss, Blissfulness, Blunder, Bright, Bring Downs, Bumper Sticker, Chance, Child, Circumstance, Cliche, Count, Cut, Dare, Darkness, Destroy, Drag, Dreams, Embrace, Endurance, Engaged, Enjoy, Erase, Forget, Gratitude, Gravity, Harshness, Headfirst, Ignore, Large, Life, Light, Living, Mentality, Miss, Moment, Moments, More, Need, Often, Openness, Photograph, Platitude, Poem, Poetry, Pretend, Race Race, Reach, Realize, Right, Sacred, Second Guessed, Sentimentality, Smiles, Soar, Spontaneous, Well, Wonder
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An Introduction of Light
Photography is a trick of light crafted to create the illusion desired. It depends on ambient or found light and that introduced light that we use to reflect how we choose to see what we are viewing. Or, ummm… something … Continue reading
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Tagged Add, Attempt, Beauty, Bring, Capture, Control, Craft, Create, Day and Night, Days, Definition, Depend, Depth, Desire, Detail, Diffusion, Experiment, Exposure, Eye, Fill Flash, Flash, Gift, Harshness, Illumination, Illusion, Immensity, Intensity, Introduction, Light, Overhead Light, Party, Photograph, Photography, Photos, Play, Poem, Poetry, Reflect, Reveal, See, Shadow, Show, Shutter Speed, Side, Sight, Softness, Sought, Starkness, Strobe, Thought, Trick of Light, Unusual, World
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Set’s Legacy
A continuing look at Egyptian myth: Set’s Legacy by Michael Doyle Only a mad man would steal Those things that a god would conceal Two bridges rigged with traps Cloaked in the veil of mystery wraps All power is centered … Continue reading
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Tagged Anubis, Banks, Blaze, Blind, Border, Breath, Bridges, Cheat, Clever, Cloak, Conceal, Darkness, Dead, Deal, Death, Deceive, Deception, Deed, Defy, Descend, Ear, Egyptian, End, Eternal, Evil, Eyes, Fame, Fates, Forgiving, Friends, God, Grace, Harshness, Heart, History, Immortality, Journey, Labyrinth, Legacy, Light, Living, Love, Lovers, Mad Man, Mortality, Mystery, Myth, Nile, Nine Gates, Obelisk, Order, Path, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Pray, Proclaim, Reverence, Secret, Set, Skies, Smile, Speak, Steal, Strong, Sun, Thousand, Trap, Truth, Two, Undone, Veil, Whisper, Wish, Wound
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Given In Our Father’s Measure
Based in part on Luke 6:38: Given In Our Father’s Measure by Michael Doyle Give unto the fullness of our own measure We will know and give our heavenly treasure It’s on ourselves to set rightness in motion To be the … Continue reading
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Tagged Abundance, Action, Anathema, Belong, Best, Bigger Person, Blessing, Blindness, Book of Luke, Boomerang, Breathe, Brother, Build, Center, Do Unto Others, Duplicity, Faith, Father, Flame, Forgiven, Freely Give, Fullness, Generosity, Give, God, Grateful, Harshness, Heaven, His, Holy, Implored, Joy, Kindness, Kingdom, Light, Live, Lord, Love, Measure, Melody, Name It and Claim It, Need, Night, Path, Photograph, Pillar, Poem, Poetry, Principle, Purpose, Refrain, Regain, Respldendence, Return, Rightness, Seed, Simple, Sister, Song, Sown, Spark, Standard, Sweet, Tempo, Theology, Together, Transaction, Treasure, Trust, Truth, Understanding, Walk On Water, Word, World
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