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Today and Always
Six months ago today, I met my love dressed in the guise of an elf with a high interest in photography, kindness in her heart, beauty in her soul, endowed with a laugh that woke the core of my soul … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged All Days, All Things, Always, Amaze, Attention, Beats, Beautiful, Beauty, Beyond Words, Bless, Brand, Breath, Cherish, Day We Met, Depend, Devoted, Dreams, Elf, End of Days, Falling Star, Far, Girlfriend, Happiness, Happy, Happy Anniversary, Heart, Hope, In All Ways, Joy, Keeper, Kindness, Laugh, Life, Love, Love You, Love You Always, Magic, Memory, Met, Moments, Never Find, Never Giving Up, Nice, Once, Partner, Photograph, Pledge, Poem, Poetry, Priceless, Promises, Proud, Reason, Right Intention, Season, Six Months, Spark, Spice of Life, Thanks, This Day, True, Turn Around, Twice, Wish, Wishes Came True, Wonderful, You
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The Journey Back
Things of memory have the worth of time revealed in the quiet moments of our hearts. The Journey Back by Michael Doyle Somewhere in a cup of coffee Is the reflection that is memory Somehow a photograph starts to show … Continue reading
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Tagged Back, Broken, Burdens, Childhood, Children, Coffee, Confusion, Cruel, Crush, Dance, Disappointments, Every Day, Fanciful Hopes, Fantastic Schemes, Find, Firm, Forgot, Given, Graveyard, Half Measure, Hearts, Hope, Humility, Idleness, Illusion, Journey, Kin Is Kin, Know, Left Behind, Lies, Little Things, Living Dreams, Love, Memory, Mind, Open, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Practical, Pretend, Prove, Quiet Moments, Reflection, Remind, Reveal, Show, Skin, Spoken, Strong, Times, Treasure, Trouble, True Love, Truer Words, Truth, Utility, Warm, Wishing It So, Words, Worth, Yesterday, Youth
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A Child of Interesting Conversation
It’s hard for some to listen to a child, dream his or her dreams. I’m not certain of why. Maybe because for so many, life in the end can be a be let down? Not sure and even less certain … Continue reading
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Tagged Awesome, Child, Company, Conversation, Destination, Devotion, Dream, Eyes, Heart, Hope, Imagination, Joy, Open, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Rise, Sacred, Say, Sun, Way
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In Reverence For Pentecost Sunday
With all that is going on in the world it’s maybe a bit hard to have the peace of mind and so to recall. Still, in reverence for and in hopefulness and love, I wish toward that we a bit … Continue reading
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Day, Glad, Hope, Lord, Love, Peace of Mind, Pentecost Sunday, Rejoice, Reverence, Thought For the Day
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Knowing Who We Are
Based in part on Pentecostal Sunday and Ephesians 10: Knowing Who We Are by Michael Doyle For we are the handiwork of God for His good Created in His image, let this be understood With all thanks to God we … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Attitude, Benefit, Best, Blood of Jesus, Candle, Capacity, Charged, Christ, Command, Creation, Darkeness, Dedicate, Duties, Ephesians, Fulfill, God, God's Good Plan, Good, Gratitude, Handiwork, His Image, His Will, Hope, Hour, Humble, Illustrate, Immensity, Implication, Intend, Intensity, Jesus, Kingdom, Know, Legacy, Light, Live Up, Lives, Masterpiece, Night, Pentecostal Sunday, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Potential, Power, Promise, Purpose, Repudiation, Responsibility, Salvation, Servants, Service, Shape of God, Sins, State of Grace, Test, Thanks, Time, Truth, Understand, Understood, Victory, We Are, Who
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Beasts of No Nation
Random thoughts on children confronting war form the basis of this poem. Beasts of No Nation by Michael Doyle In a parliament of owls It’s easy to believe And to keep busy Certain only of the war Dancing now while … Continue reading
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Tagged Beasts, Believe, Busy, Can, Certain, Children, Coin, Dancing, Draw Out, Find, Hope, Imagination, Junk, Know, Learn, Life, More, Nation, Old Men, Owls, Parliment, Photograph, Picture Show, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Price, Questions, Random, Rescue, Smile, Spent, Teach, Television, Treasure, Unanswered, War, Way, Wish, Young
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Something In the Time
A brief reflection on life: Something In the Time by Michael Doyle There’s something wonderful to life Full of patterns and rhythms rife Skipping stones across wooded streams And summer evenings filled with dreams Beautifully seen through your elven eyes … Continue reading
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Tagged Beautiful, Blessing, Corridor, Creep, Crumble, Dazzle, Desire, Dream, Elven, Eyes, Fascination, Feeling, Fire, Fleet, Hope, Indiscretion, Life, Light, Meet, Moments, Moving, Mystic, New Norm, Night Skies, Pattern, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reflection, Rhythm, Rise, Skipping Stones, Something, Spark, Speak, Storm, Stream, Sublime, Summer, Summer Evenings, Sun, Suntan, Time, Tongue Tied, Travel, Walk, Whisper, Wonderful, Woods
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Sounds For Troubled Times
One thing I’ve had some time to do lately is to explore what tuneage tends to lift my spirits in these sunken times. Sounds For Troubled Times by Michael Doyle Susceptible to a classic boogie fever As though there be … Continue reading
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Tagged 250th Birthday, Anything, Aspiration, Beethoven, Bent Pitches, Black Jazz, Blue, Boogie Fever, Brilliance, Call, Catharsis, Celebrate, Charm, Classic, Composition, Cool, Dance, Dark, Deaf Man, Define, Dim, Divide, Ear, Energy, Everything, Forget, Gershwin, Get Up, Greater Than, Hang In There, Happiness, Harmony, Heart Strings, Hearts, Hope, Humor, Imposition, Improvisation, Inspiration, Instrumental, Interlude, Joy, Kick, Lever, Loss, Love, Masterpiece, Missed, Mood, Moonbeam, Morals, Music, Musical, Need, Pandemic, Parts, Persevere, Photograph, Place, Playlist, Pocket, Poem, Poetry, Resilience, Rhapsody, Romance, Sign, Songs, Sonic, Soul, Sounds, Spirit, Star, Stick, Sweep, Teach, Tone, Troubled Times, Tunes, Universe, Verse, Voice, Wall, Way, We, Where, Who, Whole, Write
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Thought For the Day: Let Your Hopes, Not Your Hurts, Shape Your Future
“Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.” – Robert H. Schuller
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Future, Hope, Hurt, Let, Not, Robert H Schuller, Shape, Thought For the Day
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