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Tag Archives: Heart
To the New Sunrise
To the New Sunriseby Michael DoyleHand to heart, heart to handI wish only that you understandThat even if it weren’t for all your charmI would never wish to bring you harmWhen and wherever you may goYou take my care beyond … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Betteer, Brave, Care, Charm, Comfort, Deeper, Desire, Dream, Eyes, Feel, Fire, Forward, Greet, Hand, Harm, Heart, Inspire, Joy, Known, Life, Lifetimes, Light, Love, Make Love Real, Memories, Memory, Morning Light, New, Playfulness, Poetry and Poems, Refuge, Restless, Reverie, Safe, Sense of Peace, Sunrise, Tire, Toward, Understand, Warmth, Wish, Words, World
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Thought For the Day: Use Your Voice For Kindness, Your Ears For Compassion, Your Hands For Charity, Your Mind For Truth, and Your Heart For Love
“Use your voice for kindness, your ears for compassion, your hands for charity, your mind for truth, and your heart for love.” – William John Bennett
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Tagged Charity, Compassion, Ears, Hands, Heart, Kindness, Love, Mind, Thought For the Day, Truth, Voice, William John Bennett
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The Slow Crawl
The Slow Crawlby Michael DoylePushing past the slow crawl of another dayEdged to darkness and I begin to prayTo a god that I feel unsure ofBut who has a sense of humor disguised as loveDeath is a way out of … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged All I Loved Died, All of My Thoughts, Alone, Another Day, Authentic, Beach, Being, Blessing, Brutality, Change, Contend, Curse, Darkness, Daze, Death, Deeply, Deeply Feel, Disguise, Edge, End, Failed Humanity, Flow, Given heart, God, Grains, Heal, Heart, Honest, Humor, Immortality, Learn, Lessons, Life, Love, Math, Maze, Mercy, Naught, Need, Path, Pits, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Pushing Past, Reach, River, Scars, Seen, Slow Burn, Slow Crawl, Staring Deep, Stone, Straighter Course, Stranger, Twisted, Undeserving, Unsure, Waking Up, Wish, Worse
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Standing Against Gender Identity Ideology
Standing Against Gender Identity Ideologyby Michael DoyleI.Warnings from the churchRight the bell of genderAn articulated realityOr a decision capriciously madeAre women to have rightsOr does post-modernist MarxismErase these differences based on secrecyPropelled into an intercultural revolutionFracture of family and identityQuestions … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Account, Alienate, Anti-Realist, Art, Articulated Reality, Articulation, Basis, Bell, Best of Minds, Blurring of Lines, Bodies, Body, Capricious, Chameleon, Christmas Address, Church, Compass, Concepts, Concerns, Conditions, Confuse, Confused, Construct, Contentions, Creation, Culture, Decision, Deep Thinking, Define, Defined Within Reality, Defining Line, Dehumanizing, Destroy, Development, Differences, Digital Age, Disassociation, Discursive, Disembodied World, Distinct Differences, Distinguish, Diversion, Each Sex, Entrenchment, Exception, Expressed, Facades, Fall Back, Family, Fiction, First Called, Flesh, Fracture, Fracturing the Law, Freedom, Fullness of Functionality, Fundamental Source, Gameable, Gender Dysphoria, Gender Identity, Gender Identity Ideology, Genesis, Gift From God, Gifts, Gingerbread, Gnostic Essentialism, Gnostic Temptation, God and Nature, Harm, Heart, Heresy, Historical Moments, Holiness, Holy Sacrament, Humanity, Hydra, Identity, Illusion, Immersed, Impulse, In God's Image, Individuals, Insist, Intention, Inter-Sex, Intercultural Revolution, Isolation, Journey, Language, Legal Protections, Life, Long Way, Male and Female, Malleable Identity, Man, Marxism, Meaningless, Mind, Modern Myths, Natural Form, Open Con, Performance, Physical World, Poetry and Poems, Political Football, Post-Modernist, Post-Structualism, Potential, Pragmaticism, Problematic, Projection, Purpose, Question, Rampant, Reborn, Rights, Screen, Secrecy, Self-Definition, Separate, Sex Theology, Shift, Society of Contradictions, Source, Spiritual, Standing, Subversion, Suspiciion, Systems, Tear, Technology, Temporal Utility, Texture, Trans-Humanism, True Categories, True Story, Truth, Unicorns, Unity, Uprooting, Vulnerable, War, Warnings, Within A Sex, Woman's Space, Women, Worlds Apart, Wrong Paths
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Among the First Casualties
Among the First Casualtiesby Michael DoyleAmong the first casualties of warIs the promise that love will live onAnd if something goes wrong, lovers will love moreThe white heat of passion burns until it’s goneA touch, a line, a singular traceA … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Among, Borne, Broken Hearts, Burn, Comfort, Embrace, Fallen, Fear, First Casualties, Forget, Heart, Hide, Hope, Left Behind, Line, Linger, Lingering Memory, Live On, Love, Lovers, Mind, Mustache, Okay, Paassion, Poetry and Poems, Pretend, Promise, Reflections, Regret, Scars, Stars, Touch, Trace, Void, War, White Heat, Wish, Wounded Heart, Wrong
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First Principles: He Who Permits Himself To Tell A Lie Once, Finds It Much Easier To Do It A Second and A Third Time, Till At Length It Becomes Habitual
“It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible; and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it … Continue reading
Posted in First Principles
Tagged Believe, Contemptible, Falsehood, First Principles, Good Disposition, Habitual, Heart, Importance, Lie, Peter Carr, Resolution, Thomas Jefferson, Time, Tongue, Truths, Untruth, Vice
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Thought For the Day: In the Small Matters Trust the Mind, In the Large Ones the Heart
“In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.” -Sigmund Freud, neurologist, founder of psychoanalysis (6 May 1856-1939)
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Tagged Heart, Large Ones, Mind, Sigmund Freud, Small Matters, Thought For the Day, Trust
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Strike the Match
Strike the Matchby Michael DoyleLife broke our heartsAnd filled it with sorrowLife killed our hopeBy filling us with promised tomorrowsThere inside our broken smilesAre the tatters, we won’t leave behindEven for a sacred shot at sanityThat is, after all, naught … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Alexandria, Bad, Broken Smiles, Care, Children, Choose, Core, Darkness, Eyes, Fair, Flames, Good, Hard Price, Harshness, Heart, Hope, Immortality, Learn, Life, Live For Love, Match, New World, Nice to Win, Old World, Open, Poetry and Poems, Promise, Sanity, Secret Pain, Shame, Should, Sigh, Sleep, Sorrow, Stay Alive, Strike, Sunrise, Survive, Tatters, Vanity, Win
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Parenting As We Go
Parenting As We Goby Michael DoyleHolding on so tightAs life brings dark and lightParenting the children trusted to usAnd doing our best just becauseGod loves us and we should love one anotherAs we are either serving as father or motherIt’s … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Acknowldge, Adjust, Allow, Approach, As We Go, Aspired, Beacon of Light, Because, Believe, Best, Bound, Bring Harm, Charm, Children, Choose, Commandments, Community, Dark and Light, Deceive, Depart, Doing Right, Encouraging, Express, Faith, False Colors, Family, Father or Mother, Freedom, God, God Loves Us, God's Goodness, God's Path, God-Inspired, Goodness, Grow, Harvest, Heart, Holding On, Homily, Illuminated, Impress, Kingdom, Life, Lines, Live Each Moment, Live Free, Love and Truth, Love One Another, Parent, Parenting, Parenting As We Go, Poetry and Poems, Praised, Pretenses, Profess, Raised, Shining, Symbols, Teaching, Tight, Trusted, Upright, Us, Words Matter, World, Youth
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Land Hold
Land Holdby Michael DoyleThe land holds its historyThe heart has its mysteryHeld generations in a familyIt’s the passing of love steadilyFrom generation to generationThe way of society’s inclinationAs we simply pass it onResisting that it ever be tornBut kept instead … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Clever, Continuation, Degrees of Affection, Family, Forever, Forlorn, Future, Future Generations, Garment, Generations, Heart, History, Inclination, Land Hold, Lawyers Up, Legacy, Legendary, Love Kept, Mystery, Part, Pass It On, Passing of Love, Perfection, Poetry and Poems, Posterity, Prosperity, Resist, Sever, Society, Souls, Stake-Hold, Tear, The Land, Torn, Unchanged, Unfold
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