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Positivity In Action
Positivity In Actionby Michael DoyleThis evening, as I took myself on a hike,I put my mind toward what I do and don’t like.Deciding to take the course of satisfaction,I have decided to put positivity into action.I will set new limits … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, Adventure, Aspiration, Baby Steps, Comfort Zone, Commitment, Contentent, Darkness, Desintation, Determination, Dignity, Discern, Embrace, Evening, Explore, Fear, Gratitude, Guiding Light, Hasrhness, Hike, Hour, Inspiration, Lean, Lifetime, Light, Limits, Mind, Mindful Attitude, Movtivation, Notoriety, Patterns, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Positivity, Potter's Hand, Purpose, Rearranging, Remember, Right and Wrong, Right Changes, Satisfaction, Service, Shap, Sustance, This and That, Thought, Tribute, Understand, Universe, Unknown, Verse
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The Distance Between Now and Then
The Distance Between Now and Thenby Michael DoyleThere’s a hurt deep inside you.It makes you say things you shouldn’t do.Lashing out at things that aren’t true.I get this because I once loved you.I’m leaving you and thoughts of you behind.The … Continue reading
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Tagged Behind, Betrayal, Confusion, Distance, Healing, Hurt, Illusion, Lashing Out, Leaving, Life, Love, Loved, mental-health, Mind, Now and Then, Opened My Eyes, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Point, Recognize, Relationships, Say, Thoughts, True, Wish
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Thought For the Day: Drama Is Life With the Dull Bits Left Out. There Is No Terror In the Bang, Only In the Anticipation of It
“Drama is life with the dull bits left out. There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. I believe in putting the horror in the minds of the audience, and not necessarily on the screen. … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Anticipation, Audience, Bang, Drama, Dull Bits, Endurance, Film, Horror, Length, Life, Mind, Screen, Terror, Thought For the Day
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Hoosier Rains
Hoosier Rainsby Michael DoyleIt has been over twenty years nowAnd it’s on my mind still somehow.I was driving, approaching the state lineOf Indiana, determined to make it mine.Shortly before the sight of the dunes, I had plannedTo visit like some … Continue reading
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Tagged Beauty, Central, Crags, Destination, Dunes, Flatness, Glacier, Grace, Heart, Hills, Himility, Hoosier, Hoosier Hopsitality, hoosiers, Indiana, Kindness, Lake Michigan, Location, Mind, Naive Skies, Nature, Planted Ground, Poetry and Poems, Procrastination, Rain, Rainbow, Reality, Reputation, Sand, Silence, Soul, State Line, Structure, SUV, Time's Passages, Tranquility, Travel, Twenty Years
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Always, Never, and Forever
Always, Never, and Foreverby Michael DoyleAlways, never, and forever,A girl in her youth though herself clever.With a haughty sense, and lacking graceShe said goodbye to his parental embrace.Her father silently let go,Hurting that he had barely said hello.It’s the modern … Continue reading
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Tagged Air, Always, Ashes of time, Clever, Concentration, Dare, Distraction, Explore, Eyes, Father, Fire, Forever, Girl, Goodbye, Hands, Haughty Sense, Hello, Her World, Hidden Tear, Hurting, Lacking Grace, Let Go, Letting Go, Love, Low, Mind, Miss, Modern Age, Never, Panda's Diary, Parental Embrace, Poetry and Poems, Shadow, Shallow, Spirits, Sunshine and Darkness, Taught, Teach, Understand, World
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To Feel Good, Do Good
To Feel Good, Do Goodby Michael DoyleUnhappiness Is an affliction on bliss.By Cicero’s severed neck,Duty can make us into wrecksThose who live in their mindAre too often left behind.Such is the way of those in powerWho care only for a … Continue reading
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Tagged Advance, Advice, Affliction, Bliss, Cardinal Virtues, Cicero, Correct, Courage, Direct, Do Good, Duty, Everything, Faithful, Family, Feel Good, Glory, Honorable, Hour, Justice, Least Resistance, Life, Memory, Mind, Neck, Nothing, Path, Persistance, Poetry and Poems, Power, Price, Success, Temperance, Test, Unhappiness, Wisdom
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The Riddle of the Sands
The Riddle of the Sandsby Michael DoyleWith my mind’s last breathI felt myself melt into my death.Reality faded into flowery dimensions,None of which flows with great precision.But the sounds inside were already goneBefore I realized what it was to go … Continue reading
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Tagged Clever, Cold, Death, Dimension, Dreaming, Eyes, Fade, Fingers, Fire, Forever, Fragile Heart, Idenity, Jesus, Know, Last Breath, Laugh, Learn, Liquid Sky, Living, Mars, Memories, Mercury, Mind, Misery, Months, Night, Perception, Poetry and Poems, Precision, Pyschobabble, Reality, Realize, Red Alert, Riddle, Sands, Silence, Sleep, Sound, Spike, Spirit, Starlight, Surreal, Tears, Temple of Wonders, Thought, Trauma, Walk, Waves, Weep, World, Years, Yesterday
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In Moving Pictures
In Moving Picturesby Michael DoyleDrawing on our life’s experienceThere are characters of preference.They serve as molds of imagination.So much of life is pure improvisation.The charm that got us byAs we hustled to give life our try.The shots of the frame-by-frameAre … Continue reading
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Tagged Artistry, Behind, Blow By Blow, Brilliance, Brothers, Brutality, Bullets, Characters, Charm, Chemistry, Cinematic Magic, Dalliance, Deep Dive, Differently, Divine Spark, Draw, Experiment, Fashion of Truth, Feel, Fifty Years, Frame, Friendship, Game, Glory, Grown, Heart, Humility, Hustle, Imagaination, Improvisation, Inspiration, Knights, Known, Life, Life's Experience, Light, Light From Dark, Lights, Love, Mind, Mold, Moving Pictures, Night, Okay, Poetry and Poems, Preference, Pushing Forward, Real, Reverently, Score, Shots, Sin, Sixteen, Spirituality, Story, Switchblade Knife, Visceral, Well, Writing
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Thought For the Day: He Wanders, Like A Day-Appearing Dream. Through the Dim Wilderness of the Mind; Through the Desert Woods and Tracts
“He wanders, like a day-appearing dream, Through the dim wildernesses of the mind; Through desert woods and tracts, which seem Like ocean, homeless, boundless, unconfined.” – Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Tagged Day-Appearing, Dream, He, Mind, Ocean, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thought For the Day, Tracts, Wander, Wilderness, Woods
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First Principles: Do Not Conform To the Pattern of This World, But Be Transformed By the Renewing of Your Mind
“Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” – Romans 12:2 NIV
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Tagged Conform, First Principles, Mind, Pattern, Renew, Romans 12:2, Transform
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