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The Distance Between Now and Then
The Distance Between Now and Thenby Michael DoyleThere’s a hurt deep inside you.It makes you say things you shouldn’t do.Lashing out at things that aren’t true.I get this because I once loved you.I’m leaving you and thoughts of you behind.The … Continue reading
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Tagged Behind, Betrayal, Confusion, Distance, Healing, Hurt, Illusion, Lashing Out, Leaving, Life, Love, Loved, mental-health, Mind, Now and Then, Opened My Eyes, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Point, Recognize, Relationships, Say, Thoughts, True, Wish
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First Principles: There Can Be No Greater Error Than To Expect, Or Calculate Upon Real Favours From Nation to Nation. ‘Tis An Illusion Which Experience Must Cure
“There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate upon real favours from Nation to Nation. ’Tis an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.” – George Washington (1796)
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Tagged Caculate, Cure, Error, Expect, Experience, Favor, First Principles, George Washington, Illusion, Nation
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Thought For the Day: A Great Deal of Intelligence Can Be Invested In Ignorance When the Need For Illusion Is Deep
“A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.” -Saul Bellow, writer, Nobel laureate (10 Jun 1915-2005) (Legal Immigration is not the same as illegally disregarding our borders and choosing not to … Continue reading
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Tagged Deal, Deep, Ignorance, Illusion, Intelligence, Invest, Legal Immigration, Need, Saul Bellow, Thought For the Day
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Sudden Thunderstorm
Sudden Thunderstormby Michael DoyleWhen I left to go hike, the skies were clear.I just wanted God and nature’s path to be near.Besides missing my daughters, my world had no care.It turned out that this illusion was its own snare.Having hiked … Continue reading
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Tagged Acted, Baby Squirrels, backpacking, Birds, Brightness, Buildings, Car, Cell, Chipmunks, Clear, Darkness, Daughters, Dead, Disappear, Distance, Distracted, Energuy, God, GPS, Hard To Understand, Harshness, Heartland, Hike, hiking, Illusion, Life, Lightning, Limb, Loving Intention of God, Moan and Talk, Nature, No Care, Orchard Trail, Otter Trail, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Punch, Rain, Rock, Shadowed, Shaken Up, Silent, Skies, Snakes of Fire, Snare, Straight-Line Winds, Thunderclap, Thunderstorm, Tornado, Tornado Skies, Torrential Downpour, Travail, Travel, Twists of Light, Ugly and Frightening, Versailles Park, Weather, Woodland, Wrath of Rain
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Thought For the Day: That Which We Call Substance and Reality Is Shadow and Illusion, and That Which We Call Shadow and Illusion Is Substance and Reality
“That which we call substance and reality is shadow and illusion, and that which we call shadow and illusion is substance and reality.” – H.P. Lovecraft
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Tagged Call, H.P. Lovecraft, Illusion, Reality, Shadow, Substance, Thought For the Day
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How, Then, Should I Live?
How Then Should I Live?by Michael DoyleI look around this world with troubles to seeAnd I wonder to myself how then should I be?There are troubles all around – enough to seeThe need is here everywhere for another way to … Continue reading
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Tagged Absolution, Adere, Answers, Beatitudes, Believing, Better Citizens, Bible, Blind, Christian Theology, Christianity, Clear View, Comfortable, Confusion, Correct, Direction, Disbelieving, Everywhere, Forgive, God, God's Worship, Guidance, Head, Heart, Heartache, Hesitation, Hid, Home, Human Beings, Humility, Illusion, Jesus, Kingdom, Leaders, Leadership, Lean-In, Lessons, Live, Meaning, Meekness, Mercy, Miracles of Life, Misdeeds, Mistakes, Mourn, Obedience, Others First, Ourselves Less, Path, Patience, Philosophy, Place, Poetry and Poems, Poor In Spirit, Pride, Profusion, Quench, Questions, Recognition, Relationship, Religions, Repentance, Righteousness, Satisfied, See, Seek, Sermon on the Mount, Sight, Sin, Sinful Nature, Steps, Strength, Submit, Thrist, Troubles, Unjust World, Ways of Man, Weakness, Wonder, World
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Reflections On the Aftertaste
Reflections On the Aftertasteby Michael DoyleIt was just one of those endless nightsI sat feasting on a garden of fried delightsTurning the channel to hear a bit of debateSurreally hoping to help decide the nation’s fateThere on the stage were … Continue reading
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Tagged Administrative, Aftertaste, Agencies, American Dreams, Americans, Avoid, Blame, Blessing, Channel, Confusion, Countercharges, Curse, Debate, Decide, Desire, Dog, Economy, Elder Abuse, Elected, Endless Nights, Evidence, Falling Up Stairs, Familiarity, Fascism, Forgive, Fried Delights, Garden, Grown Men, Hard To Defend, Haste, Homework, Hostile Charges, Illusion, Kind But Direct, Lashing Out, Lead, Live, Malarkey, Medicare, Memory, Name Calling, Nation's Fate, Our Own Good, Pass, Passive Aggressive, Poetry and Poems, Pointed Fingers, Policies, Prepared, Puppet Master, Reflections, Road, School Children, Seem, Sell, Snarky, Stage, Suit, Surreal, Swallow, Talking Points, They Say, This Land, Truth, Two Minutes, Tyrannical Administration, Understand, Unhelpful, Verdict, Way, Weak
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About Trees
About Treesby Michael DoyleDriving through the forestIt can be a bit like a testTo know that they pleaseAs you examine all the treesFrom saplings up to the heightsA million reasons offer delightSome live through the centuriesAll offer their sweet legaciesBranched … Continue reading
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Tagged About Trees, All of Life, Biology, Branched Out, Breath, Call Us Out, Centuries, Define, Delight, Drive, Dvinity, Ecology, Embrace, Examine, Forest, Generations, God's Creations, Grace, Hearts, Heights, Illusion, Indiana, Infinity, Kentucky, Legacies, Life, Live, Living Memory, Living Spaces, Love, Lucky, Mankind, Million Reasons, Niche, Numberless, Offer, Old Growth Patches, Please, Poetry and Poems, Realign, Relationship, Restorative, Root Systems, Saplings, Space, Spirituality, Stars, Start, Test, Timeless Regeneration, Travelers, Trees, Woodlands, Worship
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A Huntington Beach Memory
A Huntington Beach Memoryby Michael DoyleThe sand in my shoesHolds a Midas shadowOver time passages and windowsOf all these memories and bluesMy eyes rise to the timeless skiesWhen certain songs on the radio playThis, then, is no real disguiseFor the … Continue reading
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Tagged Accurate, Al Stewart, Appreggiated, Arts, Blues, Certainty, Charade, Clinker, Closer To the Heart, Coming, Crescendo, Daydreams, Days, Disguise, Done, Echo, Ending, Eyes, Forget, Girls, Got Away, Guitars, Held, Highway One, History, Huntington Beach, Illusion, Jam, Left Behind, Lot To Say, Memories, Memory, Midas, Mind, Old Song, Play, Poetry and Poems, Present, Radio, Radio Charts, Regret, Remember, Sand, Shadow, Shoes, Songs, Straightened, Sunshine, Time Passages, Timeless Skies, Verses, Wheels of Confusion, Windows, Wonder
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Preparation and Interpretation
Preparation and Interpretationby Michael DoyleI begin this in prayer and dedicationStanding firm on God’s holy foundationSpeaking the Word of God before meIn supplication, I seek to let this beGod, the three-in-one, formed in trinityIs holy and righteous in His dignityWelcoming … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible, Book of Daniel, Bound, Broken, Challenges, Confidence, Confusion, Constant, Days, Dream, Esteem, Faith, Faithful, Found, Foundation, God, Going For Broke, Hand of God, Holy Spirit, Identify, Identitty, Illusion, Interpretation, Jesus, Kingdom, Living God, Manipultion, Marketplace, Poetry and Poems, Preparation, Presentation, Reeducation, Relevance, Resistance, Righteous, Separation, Sin, Society, Spoken, Strategy, Strife, Supplication, Tame, The Woke, Translate, Trinity, Trust, Truth, Ways, Wisdom, Word of God, Word View, Worldview
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