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Lessons of Sadie Hawkins
Life in its myriad of dances has it’s meaning sometimes coming in multiples of delusion… Lessons of Sadie Hawkins by Michael Doyle Sock hop memories wake the school Where twists in plot are the rule All of life is filtered … Continue reading
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Tagged Above, All of Life, Astray, Attraction, Awake, Bread, Changing Seasons, Common Man, Connection, Costs, Dances, Days, Daze, Derision, Desperation, Directions, Distraction, Dread, Dream, Ease, Effort, Empty Rage, Eyes, Fadeaway, Feel, Filter, Growth, Ideas, Implausible, Impossible, Last, Laughter, Lessons, Life, Life Lived, Life Unfolds, Long Division, Lost Love, Memories, Morbid, Myriad, One By One, Pain, Pass Out, Passing Through, Persevere, Photograph, Phrase, Poem, Poetry, Reach, Reason, Roman Circuses, Rule, Sadie Hawkins, Sarcastic, School, Screens, Shake, Sides, Sock Hop, Song Titles, Spent, Spin, Split, Stuff Away, Subject, Symptom, Television, Themes, Time, To Live By, Try, Turn of Page, Turns, Twists In Plot, Wonder
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Tavern Dice
Much of life is lived as though on a roll of the dice. Game of chance and circumstance lived with our best intentions. Tavern Dice by Michael Doyle With a roll of dice A gamble is made For something nice … Continue reading
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Tagged Afraid, After, Best Intentions, Broken Melody, Circumstance, Crookedly Weighted, Dare, Deception, Dice, Die, Discard, Evil, Familiar, Fix, Gamble Made, Game of Chance, Laughter, Lies, Life, Lived, Minstel, Name of Heaven, Nice, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Ramble, Roll of the Dice, Same, Score, Seven, Snake Eyes, Tavern, This Game, You and Me
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Brand Me
Watched a Ted Talk with my princesses on branding. Brand Me by Michael Doyle Thinking back on life Through all of the joy and strife There has been one question Held back with some hesitation What then is my story? … Continue reading
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Tagged Adore, All I'll Ever Be, All-American, All-Star, American, Any, Bed, Believe, Best of Life, Body, Books, Brand, Branding, Care, Choir Boy, Conversation, Crazy, Destiny, Devote, Dream, Dreams, Echo, Eighteen, Family, Fine Enough, First Chorus, Glory, Gratefully, Grave, Grindstone, Head, Hell, Hesitation, Humble, Joy, Just As Well, Laughter, Life, Love, Many, Me, Military Man, Moment, Nose Held Down, One Question, Open Door, Passion, Photograph, Place, Placed, Poem, Poetry, Precedent, President, Pride, Pride and Joy, Princesses, Privilege, Put Away, Read, Song, Story, Stride, Strife, Study, Sunbeam, Team, TED Talk, Thank God, Thinking Back, Time, Tombstone, Trust, Two, Wounded, Years
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Don Quixote Reexamined
A hidalgo or minor nobleman gets so lost in his reading that he mistakes folklore regarding chivalry as the path of history that will lead him and through him the world to greater nobility. The intention being good. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Account, Admonishment, Beautiful, Borrowed Time, Cervantes, Chivalry, Comic, Complexity, Correct, Don Quixote, Embrace, Examine, Excess, Fantasies, Fiction, Folklore, Folly, Good Magic, Hidalgo, History, Human Mind, Intention, Journey, Knight Errant, Lady, Laughter, Lent, Life, Literary, Mad, Man, Moments, Musical, Name, Nobility, Nobleman, Pages, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Practicalities, Practice, Preach, Railing, Reach, Read, Reading, Real, Reveal, Sad, Sally, Sights, Simplicity, Spent, Substance, Tales, Tear, Tragic, Understand, Unique, Utterances, Wrong Conclusions
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Depths of Me and You
It’s all about connection. The deeper I dig in, the deeper I want this to go. Every moment is a new revelation to cherish. Depths of Me and You by Michael Doyle Taking our time To build our foundation It … Continue reading
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Tagged Alone, Better, Can't Help, Cherish, Close, Connection, Crime, Deep, Depth, Dig, Doubt, Feel, Focus, Form, Foundation, Heart, Hearts, Infatuation, Know, Laughter, Living, Love, Me and You, One, Our Love, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Real, Revelation, Share, Show, Special, Start, Sun, Take, Think, Time, Times, Together, True, Two, Without, World, You, Zone
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On An Ancient Pathway
Today is the last day of NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo 2020! 30 days of poetry. Congratulations to my traveling companions through this journey who stuck with all of this. They tell me it’s really something to write 30 days of poems. I … Continue reading
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Tagged 2.5 Million Years, 2020, Adhere, Always, Ancient, Autumn, Birds, Birth, Bundle, Catch, Cheeks, Children, Clockwork, Daughters, Day, End, Eyes, Fall, Family, Father, Feed, Food, Forehead, Formation, Friends, Glide, Good, Gray, Hope, Human, Hunter, Jasper Pulaski, Joy, Laughter, Look Away, Magical, Memories, Mississippi Flyway, NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo, Nature, Pathway, Photograph, Pilgrimage, Play, Plumage, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Pride, Profound, Recall, Red, Returns, Ribeye, Ride, Run, Sacred Ground, Sandhill Cranes, Savage, Silent, Sky, Soar, Spring, Tears, Thermal, Thrill, Tradition, Unison Calling, Whistle Stop, White, Whooping Crane
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Finding Joy In the Tears
Based in part on Ecclesiastes 3:4: https://flic.kr/p/gsQDkz Finding Joy In the Tears by Michael Doyle In looking back on my many years I am finding joy in the tears There in the sweet music for my ears Is the finding … Continue reading
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Tagged Answer, Belief, Believe, Born, Comfort, Conceive, Contemplation, Cry, Cure, Deceive, Devil, Doubt, Ears, Ecclesiastes, Find, Flash, Gone, Grieve, Hope, Joy, Laugh, Laughter, Life, Live, Love, Meaning, Moments, Mourn, Mourning, Music, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Possible, Pray, Redemption, Relief, Reply, Secret, Smile, Strength, Stress, Sweet, Tears, Think, Tomorrow, While, Why, Years, Yesterday, Your Love
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Lessons Learned As To Revenge
Living well is the best revenge taken. Forgiveness over anger. Love instead of indifference, pain or extreme dislike. Lessons Learned As To Revenge by Michael Romani Revenge is our undoing A debt that keeps accruing When really best left alone … Continue reading
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Tagged Accrue, Anger, Believe, Blind, Books, Build, Clue, Correction, Debt, Dig, Direction, Embrace, Energy, Eye For An Eye, Forgive, Forgiveness, Forgot, Gain, God, Grow, Heart, Hope, Humans, Indifference, Injury, Journey, Kind, Laughter, Learn, Left, Legacy, Lesson, Living Well, Lost, Love, Pause, Peace, Photograph, Poetry, Price, Prove, Revenge, Save, Slights, Strong, Undoing, Value, Weight, Wise
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Delight In the Truth of Sanctuary
Based in part on Psalms 37:4: Delight In the Truth of Sanctuary by Michael Romani Finding happiness in the Lord to find our desires Keeping our sights on the inspiration of our fire Gathering the cornerstones of our days of … Continue reading
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Tagged Being, Bright, Building, Chase, Commandment, Commitment, Commune, Cornerstone, Days, Deep, Delight, Devotion, Divinity, Done, Embrace, Emotion, Eternity, Father, Fire, Forgiven, Forward, Frame, Fruit, Given, Grace, His, Home, Immortality, Inspiration, Kingdom, Know, Laughter, Life, Light, Lives, Lord, Love, Magic, Meaning, Mind, Need, Observe, Path, Photograph, Plan, Poem, Poetry, Power, Process, Promise, Psalms, Read, Real, Reason, Relationship, Right, Righteousness, Sanctuary, Season, Servant, Serve, Shine, Sight, Steps, Toward, Tragice, Trigger, Truth, Why, Worship, Yoke
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