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The Rejected Man Stumbles
The Rejected Man Stumblesby Michael DoyleThe rejected man stumbles back into the darknessFilled as he has become by this life’s harshnessHe had been helpful and knowledgeable in his waysAnd though ill-tempered, he was useful in his daysScience, too, is useful … Continue reading
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Tagged Aberration, Abomination, Acceptable, Accountable, Afraid, Anger, Appointed Stations, Argument, Arrogance, Blame, Blindness, Cautionary Tale, Challengers, Cloud, Consensus, Consicence, Cruelty, Darkness, Dedication, Differently, Disgrace, Diviine, Encourage, Enmity, Experts and Tyrants, Fortunetellers, Free, Full Moon, Governance, Harshness, Honest Peson, Ill-Tempered, Immune, Impertinence, Imposition, Infidelity To God, Inner Voices, Insurmountable, Intemperance, Knowledge, Last Words, Learn, Learned Positions, Lessons, Majority, Monster, Mystery, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Position, Prejudices, Proud, Pursuit of Truth, Question, Questions, Rage, Reject, Rejected Man, Remedy, Rule, Science, Seek, Shame, Shine, Sources, Status Quo, Steadfast, Struggle, Stumble, Swallow, Systeem, Tame, Test, Throne, Tongue, Tranquil, Travail, True Solutions, Trust, Undaunted, Undermine, Unkindness, Useful, Venomous, Vulnerability, Ways, Well, Wise Voice, Yoke, Young
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Jeering At the Past
Jeering At the Pastby Michael DoyleToo often, society burns with fireForgetting virtue for forms of desireProgression is found in cinders burningAll of the lessons, we keep relearningBrigands scoff at things of the pastLaughing at those things that didn’t lastAnd believing … Continue reading
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Tagged Acts of Cruelty, Answer, Attitude, Believe, Brigands, Brings, Brutality, Burning, Burns, Cancer, Cinders, Common Mistakes, Confuse, Consume, Desire, Discarded Hopes, Dreams, Fire, Flesh, Foot, Forget, Guess, Heart, Intensity, Inventory, Jeer, Last, Laugh, Lessons, Love, Measure, Mettle, Mistakes, Out of Control, Passion, Past, Pedal, Piasnissimo, Poetry and Poems, Presnt, Progression, Regrets, Relearning, Scary Thing, Sensitivity, Society, Soul, Strenght, Subterfuge, Superiority, Time, Virtue, Wonder, World, Youth
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Lamentations Through the Tears
Lamentations Through the Yearsby Michael DoyleBefore my eyes and with my own earsI’ve witnessed miracles in my yearsYet, there have still been times of painWhich have brought lessons, not in vainHard times hit, and they hit hardWith darkness compelling like … Continue reading
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Tagged Cares, Communication, Dependent, Ears, Eyes, Faith, Frustration, God, Hard Times, Heartbreak to Hope, Lamentations, Lessons, Limitation, Miracles, New, Old Testament, Pain, Plain View, Poetry and Poems, Prayers, Psalmist, Relationship, Sovereignty, Submit, Tears, Theology, Vain, Wild Card, Years
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Crash and Burn
Crash and Burnby Michael DoyleCrash and burnWhen will I learnMy stomach churnsFrom the lessons that I learnIf I haven’t learned by nowWill I ever somehowI keep pushing onI keep pushing onGonna slow it downA warm smile turned to frownI keep … Continue reading
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Tagged All, Answer, Bad Fish, Churn, Count, Crash and Burn, Ebb and Flow, Fall, Feel, Feet, Floor, Good Dish, Good Wish, Hall, Hesitation, Insane, Know, Learn, Lessons, Life, Matter, Nothing, Now, Poetry and Poems, Pride, Pushing On, Questions, Sheep, Sleep, Slow It down, Somehow, Stomach, Train, Vain, Voice, Which, World, Worries
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On the Role of Grandparenting
On the Role of Grandparentingby Michael DoyleIn a celebration of one anotherWe commemorate the blessings of each otherThis is part of being God’s familyAs we live within God’s holy communityThe lessons taught by new facesAre blessed when revisited by old … Continue reading
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Tagged Blessing, Boom, Celebration, Community, Confidence, Death, Dignity, Embrace, Example, Expression, Full Attention, God's Family, Godly Intention, Gospel, Grandparenting, Grandparents, Honor, Integrity, Lasting Impression, Legacy, Lessons, Life, Living Culture, Love, Loved and Safe, Loving Eyes, New Faces, Nurture, Old Traces, Poetry and Poems, Positive, Purpose, Quality, Relevance, Reveal, Reverence, Role, Scrapbook, Shape, Stages, Talk, Tongue, Touch, Tradition, Values, Walk the Walk
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Wonderous Sea’s Night Dive
Wonderous Sea’s Night Diveby Michael DoyleAt the end of the day comes the night diveTo find that at the bottom, it’s the tinyThat somehow manages to keep us all aliveThe millions of phytoplankton are lights, however tinyEvery other breath that … Continue reading
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Tagged Alive, Basket Stars, Bends, Bottom, Breath, Carbon Dioxide, Chance Encounter, Chancy Balance, Colors, Comb Jellies, Constellations, Darkness, Decompress, Delicate, Depths, Down Side Up, Embrace, Enigmatic, Fly, Gift of Life, Health, Impression, Inner Space, Law, Ledge, Lessons, Millions of Species, Moon, Moonlight, Nature's Balance, Night, Night Dive, Ocean's Edge, Ocean's Floor, Oxygen, Phytoplankton, Poetry and Poems, Recall, Reefs, Sea Shore, Sea Turtles, Shine, Teach, Tiny, Tug-A-War, Vibrant, Zooplankton
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At the End of Life
At the End of Lifeby Michael DoyleAt the end of life’s pathAs a matter of the simplest mathA good man wishes he has ledHis children to right thoughts in their headsAt the end of life’s dreamsFilled with love bursting at … Continue reading
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Tagged All, Best, Chilcren, Contributes, Detail, Dreams, End of Life, Fairy Tale, Fractured, God, God Above, Good Man, Heads, Heartbreaks, Knows, Last Breath, Led, Lessons, Life's Path, Love, Memories, Mistakes, Only A Man, Poetry and Poems, Prayerss, Recall, Right Thoughts, Righteousness, Roots, Seams, Serve, Simplest Math, Sought, Talk, Taught, Thoughts, Truth, Walk, Watch, Whisper, Wind, Wish, Words
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Visceral Causes
The fifth and final of the series based on the science fiction movie, Alien. Visceral Causesby Michael DoyleThe visceral causes bits of reactionConnected to the phobias with distinctionA baby born with a visual screamBirthing the nightmare, where might have been … Continue reading
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Tagged Baby, Birth, Black, Blank Slate, Burn, Cause, Chance, Clouds, Collective Memory, Dance, Darkest Corners, Dedicate, Distinction, Dreams, Escape, Essence, Frequency, Future, Height of Creativity, Hollywood, Human Beings, Inside, Inter-Connection, Learn, Lessons, Linear Direction, Mother, Name, Nightmare, No Limits, Nuance, Pass, Past, Phobia, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Reaction, Reactivity, Reality, Remaining, Sand, Screen, Self-Destruction, Shadow, Shapes, Thoughts, Unknown, Visceral, Visual Scream, Window, World
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