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Ghosts of A Daddy’s Duty
Ghosts of A Daddy’s Dutyby Michael DoyleSpent the weekendHoping for the GodsendThat of finding a ghostOr, at least making the mostOf finding a haunted houseQuiet like a church mouseCreeping around a shadow’s homeWondering if we are aloneWe didn’t find any … Continue reading
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Tagged Alone, Around, Believe, Church Mouse, Creeping, Dad, Daddy, Daddy Duty, Driving, Duty, Fear, Find, Fun, Gain, Ghost, Ghosts, Godsend, Haunted House, Home, Hope, Less, Making the Most, Miles, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Saw, Shadow, Smiles, Spirits, Weekend, Wonder, Young
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Not Even Death
Not Even Deathby Michael DoyleIf only the hand of loveCould ensnare the moonAnd if belief in the stars aboveBrought faith to the near and soonThere would be nothing to being handledNo complications to become rattledJust the courage needed to be … Continue reading
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Tagged Alone, Be Strong, Belief, Best of Life, Blush, Breath, Chance, Cheer, Concern, Courage, Dance, Danger, Death, Declarative, Faith, Fear, Flight, Go the Distance, Go Wrong, Gravity, Hand, Handle, Heroes, Home, Imperative, Inter-Stellar, Love, Mars, Moon, Moonlight, Onward, Photograph, Planet, Poem, Poetry, Pride, Rattle, Sacred, Sacred Duty, Sanctuary, Snare, Stars, Stay the Course, Stranger, Toward, Victory, Want the Shot
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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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To Keep the Sacred Near
A look at life’s lessons. To Keep the Sacred Near by Michael Doyle Life thrusts us into situations Thigh deep in aggravations But then there’s a lesson even in that One felt deep even if you’re not an empath Another … Continue reading
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Tagged Aggravations, Another Day, Bambi, Care, Country, Dear, Doe, Doesn't Really Matter, Empath, Endless Days, Eyeball, Eyes, Felt Deep, Go Far, Good Enough, Heart, Holding On, Home, Instinct, Keep, Last Night, Learn, Lesson, Lessons, Life, Mortality, Near, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Realization, Sacred, See, Situation, Slip By, Spare, Surprise, Thigh Deep, Thrust, Time, True, Wonder, Yearling
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Thought For the Day: Great Nations Have Responsibilities To Lead and We Should Always Be Cautious of Those Who Would Lower Our Profile
“It was leadership here at home that gave us strong American influence abroad, and the collapse of imperial Communism. Great nations have responsibilities to lead, and we should always be cautious of those who would lower our profile, because they … Continue reading
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Tagged Abroad, American Influence, Cautious, Collapse, Communism, Flag, Great Nations, Home, Lead, Leadership, Lower Profile, Lowering, Responsibility, Ronald Reagan, Thought For the Day, Wind Up
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Prayer For Courage
Poem Number Six in a series on a retelling of a classic werewolf tale: Prayer For Courage by Michael Doyle Look deep – is it a surprise? Do you see the beast in my eyes God knows that I wish … Continue reading
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Tagged Alone, Beast, Bold, Cards, Courage, Desire, Divine, Eyes, Flaws, Forgiveness, Fortunes, God, God Knows, God's Law, Good, Greater Good, Home, Hope, I, Inside, Look Deep, Looking Hard, Mortal Heart, Moves, Pensive, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Prayer, Prove, Read, Real, Sadness, Savage Beast, Series, Signs, Stand, Start, Stumble, Surge, Surprise, Tale, Times, Told, Understood, Urge, Werewolf, Whisper, With, World
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Thought For the Day: A House Is Made With Walls and Beams; A Home Is Built With Love and Dreams
“A house is made with walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Having just spent the day in the company of my two princesses grown into big girls, I can attest to … Continue reading
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Tagged Beams, Built, Dreams, Home, House, Love, Made, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thought For the Day, Walls
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War Changes A Man
While paying attention to something else, I started to think on PTSD. War Changes A Man by Michael Doyle It came on without any warning Half past two in the morning And suddenly, it was show time Landing hard like … Continue reading
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Tagged Alone, Backfire, Best, Booby Traps, Boys, Came On, Can, Change, Crawling, Door, Emotional Crime, Face Down, Facedown, Ghosts, Ground, Hip Deep, Home, Hug, Landing Hard, Left Behind, Loud Noise, Loud Sound, Made It Out, Man, Mind, Morning, Past, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Show Time, Struggle, Times, Trip Wires, Visit, War, War Changes A Man, Warning
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The Moral Imagination
It is not enough to give to our children and our society definitions of right and wrong or normless stories and books leading to an inability to make the profound decisions needed for the better world we so desperately need. … Continue reading
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Tagged Absence, Accountability, Act, Action, Address, Bad, Banality, Best Selves, Better Path, Better World, Blame, Blur, Books, Build, Capable, Capacity, Character, Childhood, Children, Churn, Clean Cut, Commanding, Could Be, Cultivation, Deeper Truth, Defeat, Depart, Desire To Do, Difference, Earn, Education, Embrace, Emulation, Encourage, Experience, Explanation, Fascination, Form Habits, Game, Go, Good Morals, Grown, Hate, Head, Heart, Heavy Hand, Heroes, High Ideals, Home, Humanity, Ideal, Illustration, Imagination, Important, Ingrain, Innate, Just Quality, Know, Laws, Learn, Learning, Light, Love, Manner, Me and You, Mind, Moral, Moral Components, Morality, Nation, Need, Nice, Nobility, Not Enough, Obligation, Older, Onward, Open Eyes, Parents, Passing, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Possibility, Poverty, Reach, Read, Reliable, Require, Richness, Right, Rules, Shelves, Should Be, Shown, Social Good, Society, Soul, Stir, Surface, Systematically, Tales, Taught, Teach, Teachers, Tending the Heart, The Rub, Train Up, Turn, Understand, Understanding, Understood, Unfed, Upright, Vice, View, Virtue, Virtuous Character, Vision, Wardrobe of Images, Ways, Worth Holding On To
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Facing Fear Toward Tomorrow
A review of race history in America is a mix of hope and of fear; rights and wrongs; in short and in truth a mixed story. Today, we confront that which was wrong. Still, we should do so not in … Continue reading →