Flickr Photos
Tag Archives: Love
Thought For the Day: People Hate As They Love, Unreasonably
“People hate as they love, unreasonably.” – William Makepeace Thackeray, novelist (18 Jul 1811-1863)
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Hate, Love, People, Thought For the Day, Unreasonably, William Makepeace Thackeray
Leave a comment
Wonder Expressed Within Five Words
Wonder Expressed Within Five Wordsby Michael DoyleIts in the habits of faith we liveTaking each day catching what it givesOn seeing Christ we believeDoubting as we do as we self-deceiveFeelings revealed in wounds feltThere in the good reasons dealtDenying as … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Believe, Believed, Best, Christ, Darkness, Deny, Determined In Purpose, Doubt, Each Day, Eternal Life, Expedience, Express, Faithful Obedience, God, God's Authority, Good Reasons, Habits of Faith, Knowing, Love, Modeled, Newness, One, Paiin, Poetry and Poems, Realized, Received, Recognized, Reliability, Resurrection, Self-Deceive, Sinful Condition, Submit, Triune Box, Trust, Truths, Twice Over, Undone, Unlocks, Walking, Wonder, Wounds
Leave a comment
Thought For the Day: Mental Toughness Is the Ability To Accept the Fact That You’re Human and That You’re Going To Make Mistakes…And You Don’t Let Your Mistakes…Keep You From Doing the Very Best That You Can
“…(D)o you know what mental toughness is? Well, mental toughness is the ability to accept the fact that you’re human and that you’re going to make mistakes – lots of ’em – all your life. And some of them are … Continue reading
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Ability, Accept, Billy Jack, Can, Crush, Doing, Human, Keep, Love, Mental Toughness, Mistakes, Perfect, Thought For the Day, Tom Laughlin, Very Best
Leave a comment
Let’s Rest Here A Little While
Let’s Rest Here A Little Whileby Michael DoyleLet’s rest here a little whileYour hands in mineYou give me reasons to smileAs my thoughts refineWhat it is I feel deep insideAs I look into those eyesTalking soft as we confideThe love … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Beside You, Done, Feel Deep Inside, Hands In Mine, Hardest Part, I know, Imparts, In All the Miles, Just Begun, Lightness, Little While, Love, Love Is, Our Hearts, Our Journey, Poetry and Poems, Realized, Reasons, Refine, Rest, Sit, Smile, Sweetest Expressions, Those Eyes, Thoughts, True, Walk, We Talk
Leave a comment
Is Reverence So Alien?
Is Reverence So Alien?by Michael DoyleAnd there it is againStated with righteous persistenceTrust is the necessary bondBehind peaceful coexistenceToo may ills bleed from greedArising in forms of aggressionPeace is easy enough to heedWhere love answers the questionsConflict splinters away all … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Alien, Answers, Anyone, Beliefs, Burning Bright, Cling, Conflct, Consumption, Contemplation, Darkness, Easy Enough, Evil, Faith, Forms of Aggression, Goodness, Greed, Hard To Believe, Heed, Light, Love, Negativity, Peace, Peacefulness, Poetry and Poems, Questions, Redemption, Resumption, Reverence, Righteous Persistence, Rule, Serendipity, Splinters, Tight, Too Many Ills, Trust, Unity, Waiting, World
Leave a comment
Once There Was A Beginning
Once There Was A Beginningby Michael DoyleOnce there was a beginningWhere two could end up winningA smile shared on a sunny dayYou really shook my blues awayYour two lips were surely meant for kissingAnd now here we are caught in … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Away, Beginning, Caught, Countless Days Gone By, End Up, First Said Hi, Happiness, Kiss, Love, Meets, Mellow, Once, Poetry and Poems, Question, Reminiscing, Shadow, Share, Shook, Simmers, Smile, Some Things, Summer Day, Sunny Day, Tides, Time, Today, Two, Two Lips, Wash Away, Willow, Winning
Leave a comment
Lessons In Life’s Suffering
Lessons In Life’s Sufferingby Michael DoyleSpring isn’t the sameWhen love has been lostSorrow calls out the nameBut refuses to pay the costThe thing held sacred as follyTouch the inner workings of the soulA moment away from devotionHas the depth of … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Circumstances, Clings, Control, Decision, Deeply Morose, Depth, Devotion, Divinity, Fallen Knee, Feel, Folly, Forlorn Eyes, God, Hides Within, Human's Being, Infinite Femininity, Inner Workings, Lessons, Lies, Life's Suffering, Lost, Love, Matchlock Pistols, Matter of Finality, Mortality Known, Mother Mary, Name, New Meaning, Ocean, Pay the Cost, Perishing Soul, Poet's Pen, Poetry and Poems, Reveals, Romantic, Sacred, Same, Scribbled Verse, See, Serious Passions, Small Hope, Smallest Details, Sorrow, Soul, Spring, Tales of Ossian, Teach Me, Time, Touch, Truth Bent, Tyrant, Waking, Worse, Wrecked and Weak, Young Lovers
Leave a comment
Cinderella of the Pacific
A friend of mine invented a 5 line form of poetry in honor of Cinco de Mayo this year. At a short form poetry workshop tonight, I turned this into five verses of this and wrote the following in recollection … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Aquamarine, Baja, Banderas Monumentales, Blues, California, California Current, Children, Cinco de Mayo, Cinderella of the Pacific, Clothes, Contrast, Dance, Ensenada, Face, Future Dreams, Geyser, Hope, Joy, La Bufadora, Lagunita Pond, Love, Mediterranean, Memories, Mexico, Music, Noble Intentions, Ocean, Poetry and Poems, Purity, Rancho Coronitas, Seeded, Splash, Sun Shine, Toys, Vineyards, Visit, White, Winds
Leave a comment
Na/GloPoWriMo #20: Sijo For An Ill-Turned Vaccination
Na/GloPoWriMo #20: Sijo For An Ill Turned Vaccinationby Michael DoyleFather, will you be alright? But of course, I will my dearsWith one hundred three point three, who might I fooling?The fire blazes hot inside, but not as deep as my … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged 103.3, Alright, Be Fine, Dad, Daugthers, Dears, Deep, Do Not Worry About A Thing, Father, Feeling Better, Fire, Fooling, Had Worse, I Am Fine, Ill-Turned, Love, Mother, Na/GloPoWriMo, Poetry and Poems, Sijo, Sleeping, Sunshine, Temperature, Time, Too Much, Two, Two To Love, Vaccination, Vaccine, Wait, Worry
Leave a comment
