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First Principles: May the Father of All Mercies Scatter Light, and Not Darkness, Upon Our Paths
“May the Father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths.” – George Washington (1790)
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Tagged All, Due Time, First Principles, George Washington, Happy, Here, His, Light, Mercy, Not Darkness, Paths, Scatter, The Father, Useful, Vocations, Way
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I Wanted To…
I Wanted To…by Michael DoyleI wanted to reach up to the heavensAnd pull down the stars down closeJust so they could shine on youI wanted to be the one who makes lifeSomething beautiful and magicalJust so that you would smileI … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged All That You Are, Asleep, Be True, Beautiful, Believe, Brought, Burning, Close, Constant Wonder, Devotion, Each Night, Every Night, Every Other Man, Fire, Forever, Heart, Heart's Desire, Hearth, Heavens, Hold You Close, Know, Laugh, Laughter, Life, Light, Love, Love Me, Magical, Man, Mortal, My Dream, My Love, Poetry and Poems, Promise, Pull Down, Reach, Safe, See, Shine, Smile, Smiles, Someone To Believe In, Stars, Superman, There For You, To Be the One, To You, Treasure, Want, Wish, World, You, Your Eyes
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For Bill of Rights Day
For Bill of Rights Dayby Michael DoyleTo embark on teaching history of the pastEngages us with the things that lastThe best way of doing this of courseIs to teach things right from the sourceBefore going further, let me just sayHappy … Continue reading
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Tagged Assert, Assertion, Beacon, Bill of Rights Day, Candid, Civic, Civic Virtue, Civil, Dark Night, Debate, Design, Education, Engage, Enlighten, Faith and Family, Fundamental, Great Nation, History, Ignorance, Join Together, Last, Lessons, Liberty, Light, Limited Government, Marvel, Mystery, Participation, Photograph, Pillars, Poetry and Poems, Policy, Polite, Public Square, Reason, Rule of Law, Say and Do, Source, Stand, Teach, Treason, Truth and Light, Tyranny, Viewpoints, World
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In the Precedent of 2020
In the Precedent of 2020by Michael DoyleThere is something setQuietly there in the precedentAn unlikely principle we forgetThat we’d not be without accidentWho it is that we are todayI hope that’s not too flippant to sayThat despite our efforts to … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020, Acceptance, Accident, Afraid, Answers, Beautiful, Beyond Cure, Border, Cherry Pick, Come and Go, Conceal, Contagion, Contemporary, Contrary, Converse, Crumble, Dare Not, Deinfe, Detail, Doctors, Efforts, End, Enforced Isolation, Familiar, Family Tree, Fantastic, Fealty, Find Our Way To Right, Flippant, Forget, Heads In Books, Heal, Impure, Ingredients, Intimacy, Itch, Light, Madness, Minds, Necessary, Noise, Notes In Bottle, Obsessive Order, One Another, Out of Order, Pan Flute, Patience of A Saint, Photograph, Pledge, Poem, Poetry, Popping Pills, Precedent, Quiet, Reality, Reverse, Sanity, Scratch, Send, Set, Sheer Edge, Still, Storms, Straighten, Sympathy, Tea, Teach, Today, Tragedy, Tremble, True, Unlikely Principle, Unpredictability, Whisper, Wind, Window Shopping, Wish, World, Wrong
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In the Infinite Depth
In the infinite Depthby Michael DoyleIn the infinite depthOf this emotionMy love for youIs deeper than the oceanMy hope rests inWhat it is that I cherishDreaming that it Will never perishAnd that as our loveKnows its high and lowsThat it … Continue reading
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Tagged Always Be, Always Be the One, Cherish, Deeper, Depth, Dreaming, Ebb, Emotion, Flow, Full Moon, High, Hope, I know, Infinite, Know, Light, Loom of Fate, Love, Low, My Hope, My Love, Neither of Us, Never Let You Go, Never Perish, Night, No One, Ocean, Our Love, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Recall, Rests, Run, Sees All, Shimmer, Truth, Waits, You, Your Eyes, Your Love
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First Principles: May the Father of All Mercies Scatter Light, and Not Darkness, Upon Our Paths
“May the Father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths.” – George Washington
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Tagged Due Time, Father, First Principles, George Washington, Happy, His, Light, Mercy, Not Darkness, Paths, Scatter, Useful, Vocations, Way
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In the Truth of Poetry
In the Truth of Poetryby Michael DoyleLife, it seems in as far as it is reachableIs filled with those moments that are teachableOne of the most powerful of lessons to learnIs the ability to quick study, determine and discernA poem … Continue reading
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Tagged Being, Certainty of Knowing, Choose Between, Cryptically Fractured, Dark Tango, Deeply, Determine, Disappear, Discern, Evoke, Fear, Fills, Final Cost, Firm, Goodness, Home, Honest Handshake, Images, Incite, Increase, Integrity, Journey, Lessons To Learn, Life, Light, Lost, Love and Fear, Means, Moments, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Poetry Calls, Powerful, Quick Study, Reachable, Reality, Resistance, Return, Seen, Seen Before, Shake, Teachable, Tortured Souls, Truth, Tyranny, Virtual, Words Form, Writing, Wrong From Right, You and Me
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Wounds Let In the Light
Wounds Let In the Lightby Michael DoyleThey say our wounds let in the lightI don’t know if it’s by experience or second lightBut something about this notion is wound tightAnd from what I have seen, perhaps they’re rightThe worst wound … Continue reading
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Tagged Bear, Believed, Better Selves, Born, Clear, Comfort, Dead, Deeply Understood, Defend, Enter, Experience, Fatality, Fate, Forced Wrong, Give Almost Anything, Guilt, Immortality, Innately Good, Innocent, Lane, Life, Light, Little Left, Moral Injury, Mortality, Name, No Going Back, Notion, Ourselves, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Right, River, Same, Sear, Second Light, Seen, Self-Confessed, Shame, Sin, Smoke Clears, Soul, Stood, To Return, War's End, Worst Wound, Wound Tight, Wounds
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Making A Difference In Possible End Days Blues
Making A Difference In Possible End Days Bluesby Michael DoyleDetermined that I am going to make a differenceHolding my head up high but still in reverenceAs I am making way through 2020’s day to daySpending my soul’s debt down, giving … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020, Belief, Believers, Birth Pains, Blessed, Blink, Ceaseless Rhymes, Confident, Confusion, Day To Day, Debt, Descend, Determined, Difference, Doom, Ears, End Days, Faith, Fears, Filters, Forgives, Giving Love Away, Giving My Heart, God, God's Good Truth, God's Holy Breath, Good Deed, Grace, Graced, His Love, History, Holy Word, House, Illusions, Jesus, Keeping It Real, Lessons, Light, Linking Arms, Lord's Ways, Lost Up, Love, Love It Right, Make, May Yet Live, Means To Me, Miracles, Misfortune, Mystery, Needs, No Harm, Opening Eyes, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pouring Rains, Prayerfully Learned, Prayers, Promises, Prophesy, Put to Death, Quietly, Reasons, Redeem, Reliance, Remind, Return, Revealed, Reverence, Sacred Rooms, Salvation, Season, Signs of Our Times, Silently Repeat, Sinner's Prayer, Solid Foundation, Soul, Steady, Thanking God, These Days, Time We Have Left, Turning My Troubles Over, Two Minutes to Midnight, Wait, World, You
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