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Love and Mercy On A Summer’s Day
Love and Mercy On Summer’s Dayby Michael DoyleIn these lean times of heroes and villains foundOn the dirty streets of LA traveled around,He fell into the cliche of cause and correlation.Addiction to unheard sounds became an attraction.There inside the labyrinth … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: To Love At All Is To Be Vulnerable. Love Anything and Your Heart Will Be Wrung and Possibly Broken.
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. … Continue reading
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Tagged Broken, C.S. Lewis, Heart, Intact, Love, Thought For the Day, Vulnerable, Wrap, Wrung
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Questioning the Process
Questioning the Processby Michael DoyleIn and out of our lives, we hearThose thoughts around us that persevere.Pushing and prodding us with possibility,And we gravitate toward what has plausibility.There are no promises, only process.We take our nibbles here and there to … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Action, Best, Deference, Depth, Destination, Document, Dream, Endless Question, Experience, Familiies, Gravitate, Hear, Images, Improvisation, Intention, Jazz, Know, Life, Lives, Love, Memories, Mess, Nibbles, Persevere, Photographs, Plausibility, Pocket, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Promise, Question, Reach Out, Satisfaction, Syncopation, Test, The Process, Thoughts, Travel, Valid, Voyage
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First Principles: For the Love of Country They Accepted Death, and Thus Resolved All Doubts, and Made Immortal Their Patriotism and Their Virtue
“For love of country they accepted death, and thus resolved all doubts, and made immortal their patriotism and their virtue.” – James A. Garfield In memoriam for this Memorial Day: Please take a moment to say a prayer for the … Continue reading
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Tagged Accept, Country, Death, Doubt, First Principles, Immortal, James A. Garfield, Love, Memorial Day, Patriotism, Resolve, Virtue
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A Holy Genealogy
A Holy Genealogyby Michael DoyleIt didn’t really begin with the rolling back of a stoneAs Jesus reached out to prove we are not alone.The church was born to spread the faith of our gospelAllowing believers to have assurance that all … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Accept, Acceptance, Alone, Assurance, Be;lieve, Beginnning, Believers, Bible's Pages, Call, Chosen, Christianity, Chronology, Cotemplation, Deviation, Discern, Discovery, Faith, Family, Fospel, Genealogy, God, Good, Good News, Goodness of God, Grace, Great Banquet, History, Holy, Holy Remnant, Holy Spirit, Humanity, Inspection, Jesus, Love, Open Door, Poetry and Poems, Receive, Redemption, Self-Control, Soul, Stone, Struggle, The Church, Treasure, True
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Believing in Blessings
Believing In Blessingsby Michael DoyleEncountering the profound,I praise the goodness I have found.Looking into God’s face,I find myself touched by His grace.I have nothing left to prove,Loving to watch God as He movesThe world with His ways.I’ve seen a lot … Continue reading
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Tagged Believe, Blessings, Father, Found, God, God's Face, Goodness, Grace, Jesus, Last, Love, Loving Life, Move, Nation, Passing Days, Past, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Profound, Prove, Salvation, The Son, Touch, Touched, Trace, World
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Let Love Forever Echo
Let Love Forever Echoby Michael DoyleLet love forever echoEvery moment’s helloSpoken by Jesus’s nameWithin the holy picture frame.Life is known like a fire,Filled with arguable desire.To walk in His power,Reborn with every passing hour.He brings this joy we’re feeling,As I … Continue reading
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Tagged Blind, Carry, Change, Darkness, Desire, Echo, Essence, Final Wire, Fire, Harshness, Healing, Hello, His Love, Holy Fire, Jesus's Name, Joy, Life, Light, Love, Passing Hour, Peace, Picture Frame, Poetry and Poems, Power, Presence, Reborn, Shadow, Shining, Sight, Walk
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Memory’s Connection
Memory’s Connectionby Michael DoyleMemory goes beyond mere collection.Below the skin is the synaptic connection.Life is weathered by the sun and the rain,Until there is no awareness left in the brain.Dementia is nature’s worst solitude,Alone in the night where emptiness intrudes.Alzheimer’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Alzheimer's, Awareness, Brain, Bruise, Burn, Collection, Connection, Dementia, Emptiness, Eyes, Family, Forget, Fractal, Fragments of Thought, Huanity, Life, Loss, Lost, Love, Loving Face, Meaning, Memory, Poetry and Poems, Regret, Self-Identity, Soitude, Soul, Tether, Timelines, Touch, Trace, Unlean, Valley, Weathered
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Contamination of Life and Thought
Contamination of Life and Thoughtby Michael DoyleAs a small child, often alone, I usually readThe kinds of books that put thoughts in my head.About lives well lived in their grand nobility,These were filled with love and remarkable purity.To be fair, … Continue reading
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Tagged Beautiful, Beliefs, Bible, Books, Christianity, Contamination, Dignity, Faith, Golden Country, Ideal, Incendiary, Inference, Kindness, Legendary, Life, Life and Thought, Love, Nobility, Poetry and Poems, Purity, Read, Reference, Small Child, Today, Truths, Yesterday
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Time Will Tell
Time Will Tellby Michael DoyleTo begin a familyEven in a place like Tahiti,Is something to approach gently.It will be if it’s meant to be.It was a day like any other,If your day was anotherDay filled with paradise.But if you’re looking … Continue reading
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Tagged Advice, Blossom, Chose, Compromise, Day, Discovery, Door, Family, First Light, Flower, Gently, Grab On Tight, Happen, Heats, Kindness, Know, Life, Love, Love Is Love, Measure, Memories, Night, Own Way, Paradise, Path, Pearls, Poetry and Poems, Recovery, Right, Search, Sigh, Sow, Tahiti, Tell, Time, Treasure, Want
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 