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Every Day With You
Every Day With Youby Michael DoyleIn every way, people try to push apartIn all the ways that break our heartsIt’s one in a million who stay the courseInstead of changing out that tired horseToo many dreams they just fall apartIn … Continue reading
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Tagged Actions, Break Our Hearts, Change, Clarity, Days, Desperate Souls, Drag, Dream, Dreams, Ever True, Every Day, Every Way, Fall Apart, Gone Wrong, Hazy, Hear, Holding Your Hand, Horse, I Want To LIve, I Will Always Give, Jester's Crown, Keep Me Sane, Late Into the Night, Love, Never Depart, One In A Million, Poetry and Poems, Push Apart, Say, See, See Your Soul, Stay, Stay the Course, Talk, Things That You Do, Touch Your Heart, Towards That End, Upside Down, World Gone Crazy, You, You and I, You're My One Hundred, You're the One
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Oblique Stare
Oblique Stareby Michael DoyleI looked up in an oblique stareUpward into that cold ceilingFighting with God in my prayerHoping that my wish would be prevailingTwo daughters stood near by my sideI was not ready to leave behindAnd to my Lord, … Continue reading
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Tagged Adore, Another Day, Behind, Brave, Cold Ceiling, Confide, Cry, Daily Meditation, Deserve, Die, Fight, Forgiven, Given, God, Hear Me, Love, Medication, Mercy, My God, My Life, My Lord, Oblique Stare, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Prevail, Question, Respect, Take My Life, Thankful, Time, Two Daughters, Understood, Wish, Year Later, Yours
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Elephants Mourn Their Dead (Happy the Elephant)
Elephants Mourn Their Dead (Happy the Elephant)by Michael DoyleNo freedom, no libertyNo right to fundamental dignityHappy the Elephant pays the costAnd the decision it seems is lostThere will be no sanctuaryPersonhood has been denied capacityRegardless of intelligence, elephants are thingsSubstantially … Continue reading
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Tagged "X", Ability, Aesthetic, Arbritary, Autonomy, Beauty, Capacity, Chattel, Complexity, Cost, Dead, Decision, Dissent, Dominant Tusked, Elephants, Empathy, Factors, Family, Forehead, Freedom, Full Recognition, Fundamental Dignity, Given Hand, Happy the Elephant, Human Beings, Humanity, Intelligence, Language, Legal Reasoning, Liberty, Love, Majestic Giants, Memory, Mirrors, Mourn, Nonverbal, Personhood, Picky Eaters, Poetry and Poems, Points of Similarity, Present, Recognize, Refinement, Rejected, Sanctuary, Science, Self, Sentient Beings, Solitary Confinement, Talking, Things, Things Unsaid, Understand, Unfeeling, Walking, Words, World, Zoo Enclosures
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On A Friendship
On A Friendshipby Michael DoyleFriendship is like a storyA melody that catches and belongsThere in the ways of trustIs a love that grows as it mustChildren play at their gamesWe play our own, just the sameBelieving in things hard to … Continue reading
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Tagged Believe, Belongs, Better, Carry, Catches, Celebrated, Children, Conceive, Eludes, Eyes, Friendship, Games, Intrudes, Life, Lights, Load, Love, Lve, Melody, Must, Peace, Play, Poetry and Poems, Purgatory Road, Rudeness, Same, Search, Skies, Sparkle, Story, Together, Travel, Trials, Walk, Ways of Trust, World's Wonders
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First Principles: Love Is Patient, Love Is Kind. It Does Not Envy, It Does Not Boast, It Is Not Proud. It Does Not Dishonor Others, It is Not Self-Seeking, It Is Not Easily Angered, It Keeps No Record of Wrongs
“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.” – 1 … Continue reading
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Tagged 1 Corinthians13:4-5, Boast, Dishonor Others, Easily Angered, First Principles, Keeps, Kind, Love, Patient, Proud, Record of Wrongs, Self-Seeking
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Thought For the Day: I Seem To Have Loved You In Numberless Forms, Numberless Distance, In Life After Life, In Age After Age, Forever
“I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless distance, in life after life, in age after age, forever.” – Rabindranath Tagore
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Tagged Age, Distance, Do Good, Door, Forever, Gate, Knock, Life, Love, Loves, Numberless Forms, Open, Rabindranath Tagore, Seem, Thought For the Day, You
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The Chasm Between
The Chasm Betweenby Michael DoyleWhen man creates the perfect machineWill it be as some utopian dreamsOr will they find the chasm betweenWho we are and how we wish to seemIs one which it escapes all detectionThat mortals such as we … Continue reading
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Tagged Begun, Between, Body, Breaks, Chasm, Create, Detection, Flaws, Friends, Love, Man, Mind, Mistakes, Mortals, Perfect Machine, Perfection, Poetry and Poems, Recalibration, Start, Test, Utopian Dreams, Wish
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To Angie (At Age 15)
To Angie (At Age 15)by Michael DoyleSince the day you entered the worldWith longish locks and fists uncurledI have stood amazed and maybe dotedAs I looked into your heart devotedAs it was and still in angelic senseArmed with a smile … Continue reading
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Tagged Age 15, Amazed, Angelic, Angie, Beautiful, Birthday, Blossom, Daughter, Daugther, Devoted, Easy, Father, Independence, Kind, Love, Make the World Better, Poetry and Poems, Smile, Treasure Chest, Wonderful, World
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Thought For the Day: Trust Is the First Step To Love
“Trust is the first step to love.” -Premchand, novelist and poet (31 Jul 1880-1936)
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Tagged First, Love, Premchand, Step, Thought For the Day, Trust
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 