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Thought For the Day: Thousands of Tired, Nerve-Shaken, Over-Civilized People Are Beginning To Find Out That Going To the Mountains Is Going Home; That Wildness Is A Necessity
“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity.” – John Muir
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Tagged Home, John Muir, Moutain, Over-Civilized, People, Thought For the Day, Thousads, Wilderness
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And Then Came the Final Fall (For Ozzy)
And Then Came the Final Fall (For Ozzy)by Michael DoyleFacing the music as it begins to playI, in my pulpit of one, begin to pray.Lost within my sense of inconsolable dreams,I take comfort in the prophet’s endless screams.Time went on, … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Black Sabbath, Blizzard of Oz, Call, Comfort, Crazy Train, Dark Night, Demons, Depression, Extremists, Final Fall, Hell, Hex, Hitching A Ride, Home, Homicidal, Inconsolable Dreams, Mature, Music, Nurture, Ozzy Osbourne, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Pouring Rain, Pray, Prince of Darkness, Prophet, Pulpit, Puzzle, Randy Rhoads, Regret, Shouting At the Devil, Singer, Song, Sreams, Urgency, Vain, Western Dessert
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First Principles: We Must Go Home To Be Happy, and Our Home Is Not In This World. Here We Have Nothing To Do But Our Duty
“We must go home to be happy, and our home is not in this world. Here we have nothing to do but our duty.” – John Jay
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Tagged Duty, First Principles, Happy, Home, John Jay, Nothing, World
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Bob Dylan’s Blues
Bob Dylan’s Bluesby Michael DoyleBob Dylan’s tangle was a lot more than blueIts effect has had a multi-generational hueHis music, writing, and lyrical poetryHas etched its way into the best of historyMost of us take part in shallow walk-on rolesThere … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrival, Bell Tolls, Blessed, Blood On the Tracks, Blues, Bob Dylan, Chimes, Context, Destiny, Electrified, Etch, Folk Reborn, Folk Tradition, Freedom, Heard, History, Home, Lasting Impression, Left Alone, Lives, Lyrical Poetry, Mr. Tambourine Man, Multi-generational Hue, Music, Poetic Expression, Poetry and Poems, Respect, Shallow, Success, Survival, Tangle, Walk-On Role, Worn, Writing
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The DJ Adds the Bassline
The DJ Adds the Basslineby Michael DoyleLay the basics downTo wear the DJ crownDo you feel meThe drip reveals meChurch bells ringIt’s a banger thingAnd you can’t come homeUntil you’re solid as a stoneThe DJ adds the basslineSealing it into … Continue reading
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Tagged Banger, Basics, Bassline, Blackmail, Church Bells, Compel, DJ, Drip, Feel, Home, Poetry and Poems, Pump, Real Time, Said, Sealing It, Solid As A Stone, Tracks, Work In Progress
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Raising Unnecessary Spirits
Raising Unnecessary Spiritsby Michael DoyleConsigned to a comedic sense of HellThere is a demon who laughingly dwellsHe makes his home in haunted house scareBeetlejuice is filled with tricks and daresTo call his own shots filled with this synergyIt recalls the … Continue reading
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Tagged Aesthetic, Alone, Back Down, Beetlejuice, Best Telling, Charmingly Twited, Demon, Don't Do Over, Dwell, Eccentric Parts, Half-Interest, Haunted House, Hell, Hollywood, Home, Imagination, Juice, Learn, Life Moves Forward, New Script, New Vision, Not New, Older Eyes, One Soul, Paralyzed, Pizzaz, Plot Line, Poetry and Poems, Profitable Return, Raise, Resume, Shake Loose, Shot, Spirit, Story, Stripped, Supernatural Complications, Synergy, Theory, Three-Ringed Energy, Unneccesary, View, Whole, Wise
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Call Out To Love
Call Out To Loveby Michael DoyleIn a life lived with sanctimonyI somehow came to my testimonyBased on faith and healingThat moved beyond mere feelingInto knowing the true dealOf finding belief and knowing it realI reached out as if shownTo the … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged All Things, Belief, Beyond, Call Out, Days, Done, Faith and Healing, Father, Feeling, Focus, God, God's Ways, Healing, Heaven Above, His Good, Home, Known, Life, Love, Miracle, Name, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Real, Sanctimony, Shame, Shown, Simple Man, Son, Soul-Revealing, Spirit, Testimony, True Deal, Understood, Worked, Worship
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For Me and You
For Me and Youby Michael DoyleNo one has really asked my adviceBut I’ve seen lightning strike twiceEveryone’s part is more than necessaryTo be heard is not something contraryWe need to speak out on what we’ve heardWe need to share what … Continue reading
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Tagged Advice, Alone, Behind, Believe, Better, Bridge, Broke My Heart, Build, Clock, Contrary, Cried, Cross, Do, Each Other, Faith and Love, Fates, Find, For Me and You, Gods, Hands, Heard, Heart, Home, Know, Lied, Lightning, Necessary, Need, New World, No One, Occur, Our Place, Part, Poetry and Poems, Recognize, Share, Sigh, Speak, Through, Time, Together, True, Twice
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In the Name of the Father and the Son
In the Name of the Father and the Sonby Michael DoyleTrying to hide in the nightWaiting for the morning lightFeeling my soul must atoneI have never felt so all aloneUntil I glanced on God’s faceThen and there, I knew graceA … Continue reading
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Tagged Abundantly, Afraid, Alone, Atone, Believing, Blame, Blemish, Done, Embrace, Father, Feel, Feeling, Feet, Felt, Fill, Glory, God's Face, God's Will, Godly, Grace, Gratitude, Healing, Hide, Home, In the Name of, Joy, Living Up To, Made, Mighty Sound, Miracles, Morning Light, Name, Never Again, Night, Poetry and Poems, Power, Right Attitude, Savior, Solid Ground, Son, Sorrow, Soul, Step, Story, Talk, Today and Tomorrow, Wait, Waken, Walk the Walk, Wayward Son
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