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Thought For the Day: Drama Is Life With the Dull Bits Left Out. There Is No Terror In the Bang, Only In the Anticipation of It
“Drama is life with the dull bits left out. There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. I believe in putting the horror in the minds of the audience, and not necessarily on the screen. … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Anticipation, Audience, Bang, Drama, Dull Bits, Endurance, Film, Horror, Length, Life, Mind, Screen, Terror, Thought For the Day
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Over the Ending of Years
Over the Ending of Yearsby Michael DoyleSometimes as we travel over the lighter yearsWe find ourselves confronted by our dark fears.Things come along that change our soulsAnd agonize at how much we are out of control.It’d be something if we … Continue reading
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Tagged Agonize, Approach, Dark Fears, Death, Depth, Elephant, Ending, Future, Heaven, Holy Service, Last Breath, Length, Matter, Numbing, Pass, Poetry and Poems, Purpose, Recall, Soul, Tatter, Travel, Years
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Saltwater Traces
Saltwater Tracesby Michael DoyleLooking out from the edge of the ocean’s shoreThere is a vast expanse we’ve yet to exploreWe know so little about our Mother OceanAnd yet, fools like me are filled with devotionLimited as we are by human … Continue reading
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Tagged Baptized, Beginning, Begins, Blood, Board, Breadth, Brutality, Calm, Colors and Emotions, Dance, Devotion, Dip, Edge, Emotion, Ending, Eternity, Explore, Fascination, Feelings, Fools Like Me, Gaze, Graves, Hair, Human Contemplation, Human Perceptions, Humble, Immortality, Know, Length, Life, Limited, Majesty, Mankind, Measure, Moment, Mother Ocean, Ocean, Patches, Perspective, Poetry and Poems, Pounding Waves, Reflective, Reminder, Repeitition, Salt, Saltwater Traces, Sands, Scale, Sea, Shadow, Shallows, Shore, Strength, Sunlight, Sweat, Tears, Time and Space, Toes, Touch, Vast Expanse, Winds, Windswept, Years
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With Uplifted Voice
With Uplifted Voiceby Michael DoyleWith uplifted voiceWe join in our praiseKeeping the spirit to rejoiceThroughout our daysAs long as the day has lengthThe Lord is my special strengthAs the days pass, once againWe end each prayer with AmenProtecting us as … Continue reading
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Tagged 10 Foot Tall, Amen, Chains, Circumstance, Darkness, Days, Fall, Freinds, God, Hand-In-Hand, Join Hands, Length, Libery, Light, Link, Pass, Poetry and Poems, Pottect, Praise, Prayer, Rejoice, Sins, Soul, Spirit, Story Ends, Strength, Strong, Uplift, Victory, Victory Song, Vidtory, Voice, Washed
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Mountain of Consequence
Mountain of Consequenceby Michael DoyleThere are legends of lost treasureThat goes deep and beyond known measureThe locks that must be brokenAs the stories are told, quietly spokenMankind’s greed leads to deathAn old man mumbles under breathWhile the bringer of life … Continue reading
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Tagged Age Old Story, Ansswer, Arrogance, Awe, Beg, Beyond, Bleed, Breath, Bringer of Lifee, Broken, Bury, Calculated Science, Call, Castle, Consequence, Control, Cres, Darkness, Date, Day, Death, Death and Misery, Deep, Dies, Disenchanted, Echo, Embrace, Everything and Everyone, Face to Face, Fairytales, Fate, Forgive, Fractured Soul, Fragile, Free, Frozen Prayer, Greed, Harshness, Heart, Heartbreak, Heresy, Horror, Intolerance, Know, Left, Legends, Length, Live, Lock, Lost Treasure, Love, Mankind, Measure, Meet, Mercy, Mountain, Mumble, Need, New Strength, Old man, Pines, Poet, Poetry and Poems, Pretend, Promise, Search, See, Seeking Glory, Snow, Sorrows, Spoken, Street, Survive, Tears, The End, Tomorrow, Tortured Souls, Trace, True Secret, Universe, Unknown God, Valley of Sorrow, Verse, Wish
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Recovering the Way To Self
Recovering the Way To Selfby Michael DoyleComing back from catastropheTakes the best of you and meStill you must move towardThis attitude to move forwardIn overcoming adversityThis is the challenge for you and meDramatic changes come and goThis is the path … Continue reading
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Tagged Ambitions, Best Information, Best of You and Me, Best Self, Bring, Catastrophe, Challenge, Changing Moments, Character, Dramatic Changes, Dreams, Ebbs and Flows, Extended Family, Favor, Focus, Forward, Full Transformation, Give, Goals, Going On, Going Through Something, Grateful, Journey, Latitude, Length, Life's Flow, Love, Mere Mortals, Moments of Weakness, Nobody Else, Odds, One Hundred, Overcoming Adversity, Path Back, Poetry and Poems, Positive, Recover, Self, Shaken, Share, Soul, Spaces, Steps, Strength, Strong, Superman, Talk, Tenacity, Toward, True Success, Trust, Walk the Walk
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First Principles: He Who Permits Himself To Tell A Lie Once, Finds It…Becomes Habitual
“There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible; and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time, till at length it becomes habitual.” – … Continue reading
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Tagged Contemptible, Easy, First Principles, Habitual, Length, Lie, Mean, Permit, Pitiful, Thomas Jefferson, Vice
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Investing In Old Age
Investing In Old Ageby Michael DoyleIt has become as sort of a jokeBut one that makes me slightly chokeThe youngest of chronological ageSays as if with the wisdom of a sageThat her dad, me, is growing a bit oldShe laughs … Continue reading
How Many Wrong Turns
How Many Wrong Turnsby Michael DoyleHow many wrong turnsCan we believers takeBefore each of us learnsThe truth beyond our heartbreaksThat God’s word can stabilizeWhen all around us starts to crumbleUntil, that is, we realizeThe necessity of keeping humbleIn this nation, … Continue reading
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Tagged Believers, Calamities, Conflict and Distrust, Crumble, Cry Out, Each of Us, Every Step, Foundation, God's Word, God's Words, Heartbreaks, Holy Kingdom, Humble, Learns, Length, Lift Our Voices, Lost, Me and You, Nation, Necessity, Oneness, Our Eyes, Our Traditions, Poetry and Poems, Realize, Remember, Righteous, Scriptures, Sing, Stabilize, Strength, Tatters, The Lord, Truth, Uncertain Costs, Wisdom, Wrong Turns
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