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First Principles: The Foundation of National Morality Must Be Laid In Private Families
“The foundation of national morality must be laid in private families. … In vain are Schools, Academies, and Universities instituted, if loose principles and licentious habits are impressed upon children in their earliest years.” – John Adams (1778)
You Cannot Hurt Me
You Cannot Hurt Meby Michael DoyleYou cannot hurt meIt’s beyond possibilityI am damaged goodsA babe lost in the woodsOf my own heart, my own mindLike innocence left far behindEvery day I wake up numbed by painAll of my good intentions, … Continue reading
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Tagged Babe, Burnt Down, Damaged Goods, Dead, Demon, Echo, Every Moment Lived, Feel, Good Intentions, Hate Myself, Head, Heart, In Vain, Innocence, Left Behind, Loving, Mind, Mistakes, Never Go Away, Nothing Left, Nothing Left To Say, Numbed, Pain, Plays, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Savagely, Surreal, Unholy Monster, Wish, Woods, Worth, You Cannot Hurt Me
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As It Is With the Moon Above
As It Is With the Moon Aboveby Michael DoyleIn all the suffering behind poetryIt plays out deeply as if in melancholyIt’s a pouring out of love and painSomething lettered and yet still in vainSunshine and spring are simply a prefaceFor … Continue reading
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Tagged Above, As It Is, Beyond Reason, Blink of the Eye, Chilled, Compulsions of Love, Deep, Deep Passion, Embrace, In Vain, Just Our Luck, Lettered, Love and Pain, Melancholy, Moon, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Pouring Out, Practicality, Preface, Presses On, Pursue, Silvery Moon Above, Soon Gone, Source of Joy, Suffering, Sunshine and Spring, Things of Passion, Things That We Do, Thunderstruck, Time, Trickery, Warmth, Way of Love, Whole New World, Winter
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