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Tag Archives: Hope
Dependence
Dependenceby Michael DoyleWhen the days are darkestThat’s when we need your lightKeeping hope alive when we’re saddestYou bring morning to our nightKeeping hope there and aliveYou are the source by which we surviveWalking beside us in our humanityAnd loving us … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Baptism, Believe, Celebration, Conceive, Darkest, Days, Depend, Dependence, Destination, Forgiven, Given, God, Hope, Humanity, Journey, Light, Morning, Night, Poetry and Poems, Promises, Saddest, Survive, Vanity
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Inside the Godflow
Inside the Godflowby Michael DoyleBlessed by our confirmationWe are delivered by our affirmationTo honor Christ, coming as we areWishing on the hope of the Christmas StarLeaning in on our faith given in connectionOur prayers tailor fit our meditationsPraying in Jesus’ … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Affirmation, Blessed, Christ, Christmas Star, Confirmation, Connection, Destination, Faith, Godflow, Hope, Inside, Meditation, Poetry and Poem, Salvation
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Held In Silence
Held In Silenceby Michael DoyleDarling, I’ve learned to love youBut somehow hate you moreDarling,I could never be without youBut trust me, I know the scoreThe traces may be coldFrom the fenced goods soldAll the secrets circled roundTo the treasures; they … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Answers, Darkness, Darling, Don Quixote, Fenced Goods, Found, Grieving Widow, Harshness, Hate, Held, Hope, Light, Lonely Mother, Love, Night, Poetry and Poems, Pray Alone, Right, Score, Scream, Secrets, Sense, Silence, Squeeze, Startlled, Traces, Trust, Understand, Violence, Without
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Thought For the Day: Maybe All One Can Do Is Hope To End Up With the Right Regrets
“Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.” – Arthur Miller, playwright and essayist (17 Oct 1915-2005)
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged All, Arthur Miller, Do, End Up, Hope, Right Regrets, Thought For the Day
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Seasons Shift In Meaning
Seasons Shift In Meaningby Michael DoyleIn times filled with doubt and questionOne certainty stands without hesitationThat as the seasons shift in meaningThese changes influence every human beingHearts break on the shores of coincidenceIn this time seemingly devoid of justiceAs phases … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Autumn, Callous Truth, Calmness, Carefully Made Plans, Certainty, Changes, Coincidence, Cultivaation, Detangled Values, Dystopian Pandemic, Fliimsy, Hope, Humanity's Back, Justice, Liberation, Meaning, Morning Sun, Neolithic Observation, New Norm, Optimsim, Pessimism, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Pointlessness, Question, Romance, Seasons, Spring, Summer, Times, Trepidation, Undone, Weather This Storm, Whimsy, Winter
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We Are Who We Are
We Are Who We Areby Michael DoyleWe are who we areNot from our ancestorsBut because of who we cultivateAs our souls travel among the starsScratched and scrapped in our courageSearching for hope we might encourageTo remove the malignant tumorThat spreads … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Ancestors, Company of Elves, Control, Courage, Cultivate, Darkness, Days of Battle, Encourage, Evil, Glory, Hope, Known, Met, Misfortunes, Poetry and Poems, Pursuit, Rumor, Sail, Shown, Skies, Souls, Stars, Sweet Secrets, Tales, Tumor, We, Weight, Who
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First Principles: I Hope That We Shall Crush In Its Birth the Aristocracy of Our Monied Corporations Which Dare Already To Challenge Our Government To A Trial of Strength
“I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.” – Thomas Jefferson
Posted in First Principles
Tagged Aristcracy, Birth, Challenge, Country, Crush, Dare, Defiance, First Principles, Government, Hope, Laws, Monied Corporations, Thomas Jefferson, Trial of Strength, We
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First Principles: For My Part, Whatever Anguish of Spirit It Might Cost, I Am Willing To Know the Whole Truth; To Know the Worst, and To Provide For It
“It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth – and listen to the song of that syren, till she transforms us into beasts. Is this … Continue reading
Posted in First Principles
Tagged Anguish of Spirt, First Principles, Hope, Illusions, Know, Liberty, Mankind, Natural, Pain, Patrick Henry, Provide, Struggle, Temporal Salvation, Whole Truth, Willing
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