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Tag Archives: Life
Love’s Chance Brings Gratitude
Love’s Chance Brings Gratitudeby Michael DoyleTrue beauty rests within the heart.There is, perhaps, no better place to start.Moonshine begins from within beauty’s skin.Truth and beauty will tell you when…Setting the journey at a leisurely pace,Beauty leaves its eternal trace.It is … Continue reading
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Tagged Appreciation, Coffee, Deserve, Drink, Faith, Finest Art, Gratitude, Heart, Journey, Life, Light, Love, Love's Chance, Moonshine, Pace, Pleasure, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Serve, Skin, Start, Think, Trace, True Beauty, When, Window Reflection, Writing
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First Principles: Gratitude Bestows Reverence, Allowing Us To Encounter Everyday Epiphanies…That Change Forever How We Experience Life and the World
“Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.” – John Milton
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Tagged Awe, Change, Encounter, Epiphany, Experiece, First Principles, Gratitude, John Milton, Life, Reverence, The World, Transcendent Moments
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When the Detour Becomes the Intention
When the Detour Becomes the Intentionby Michael DoyleThere is an art to elegant simplicity,Avoiding all that becomes duplicity,We seek to make our lives be lived realWhere the art of meaning meets the feel.Funny moments become the art of distinction,As we … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Destination, Detour, Distinction, Duplicity, Elegant Simplicity, Faith, Feel, Funny Moments, Inclination, Inspiration, Intenttion, Life, Live Real, Mening, Poetry and Poms
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Her Song
Her Songby Michael DoyleA voice came to me from beyond my screen.A brown-eyed beauty who loved what she had seen,She smiled at me with growing anticipation Suggesting with a smile that we write about creation. I couldn’t help but wonder … Continue reading
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Tagged Anticipatioin, Beautiful Face, Beyond, Brown-Eyed Beauty, Comforrtable, Creation, Dannger, Emotion, Fear, Glad, Grace, heartbeat, Her Song, Kiss, Knew, Know, Life, Love, Miss, Note, Personal Ocean, Poeetry, Poetry and Poems, Riff, Screen, Smle, Stranger, Suggestion, Vibe, Voce, Wonder
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Community Thrived
Community Thrived by Michael DoyleA new day awaits the exploring soul.It decides where and when to go.Learning things as it openly dreams,All its world bursting at the seams.Becoming brave, it becomes itself,Either through life or books on the shelf.From this … Continue reading
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Tagged Accept, Books, Brve, Community, Dream, Exploring Soul, God, Integrity, Learn, Life, New Day, Oopportunity, Poetry and Poems, Prosperity, Seams, Thrive, Understood, World
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Season of the Lamb
Season of the Lambby Michael DoyleSatan has lost his position to win,With Christ, I no longer pursue sin.Once, I walked this world in harshness.But with God’s love, I walked from darkness.Instead, let me walk by daylight.At last, I am getting … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Chains, Christ, Darkness, Dayight, Faith, Flame of Love, Gain, God's Love, Harshness, Lamb, Life, Lion, Loss, Poetry and Poems, Position, Satan, Season, Sin, The Cross, The World, Vain, Walk, Win
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Thought For the Day: Let Us Learn From the Past To Profit By the Present, and From the Present, To Live Better In the Future
“Life is divided into three terms – that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.” – William Wordsworth
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Tagged Better, Future, Learn, Life, Past, Present, Profit, Thought For the Day, Three Term, Which Is, Which Was, Which Will Be, William Wordsworth
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Closing Eyes To the Blind Side
Closing Eyes To the Blind Sideby Michael DoyleIn this world, there’s a gathering darkness.Love has been put aside and replaced with harshness.Each side proclaims hate that they cannot hide,And each side demands that we pick our side.I think I’ve thought … Continue reading
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Tagged Beautiful Day, Blind Side, Closing Eyes, Faith, Gathering Darkness, God, Harshness, Hate, Hide, Jesus, Kind Side, Life, Love, Loved the World, Loving Intenion, Neighbor, Neighborhood, Poetry and Poems, Reason, Reverence, Season, Side, Smile, Understood, World, Wounded Pride, Writing
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Happy Halloween 2025!
Happiest of Halloweens to everyone from Aloha Promises Forever!! I hope your tricks are all happy and filled with joy, and that your treats are pleasing yet somehow healthy(..ier??)!! Turns out that added sugar can do a number on your … Continue reading
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Tagged 2025, A1C, Aloha Promises Forever, Happy Halloween, IIntentionality, Key, Life, Love, Love Life, Moderation, Sugar, Thought For the Day, Treat, Trick
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It Feasts On Fear
It Feasts On Fearby Michael DoyleI.Watch for signs of corruption in the morning,In all the troubles that come without warning.American Sign Language signals the meaningOf all the challenges for us human beings.Small towns brush life with their mercy,Sipping whiskey from … Continue reading
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Tagged Fear, Night, Feast, Writing, Meaning, Life, Challenges, Anxiety, Trouble, Poetry and Poems, Mercy, Small Town, Evil, Solitude, Vice, Warning, Signal, Kid, Whiskey, Pout, Human Bengs, It, American Sign Language, Hennessy, Drry, Narrowly
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