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Thought For the Day: No Fathers Or Mothers Think Their Own Children Ugly; and This Self-Deceit Is Yet Stronger With Respect To the Offspring of the Mind
“No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.” – Miguel de Cervantes, novelist (29 Sep 1547-1616)
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Thought For the Day: People Who Love Literature Have At Least Part of Their Minds Immune From Indoctrination. If You Read, You Can Learn To Think For Yourself
“People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.” – Doris Lessing
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The Lord Turns His Blessed Face
The Lord Turns His Blessed Faceby Michael DoylePraise the Father; Praise the SonPraise the Spirit for what is doneJoy spreads across all creationGiving us all its holy inspirationTruth is truth, new to oldThis is God’s story toldAll things that are … Continue reading
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Tagged Blessed Face, Blind, Choir, Creation, Daily Prayer, Done, Find, God, God's Story, His Word, Holy Inspiration, Joy, King of Kings, Left Behind, Love, Mind, Pace, Peace and Grace, Poetry and Poems, Power, Praise, Sacred Sight, Seek, Sing, The Father, The Lord, The Son, The Spirit, Three-In-One, Traces, Truth, Truth of God
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Like Leaves In Autumn
Like Leaves In Autumnby Michael DoyleA quintessential road trip brings to mindThat Autumn has come to leave Summer behindMany roads can be taken, traveling any wayTo capture the colors that make up our daysAutumn falls like leaves becoming flowersThere is … Continue reading
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Tagged Autumn, Baptismal Shower, Behind, Blanket, Breath, Breeze, Campire, Capture, Carved Smiles, Chill, Colors, Fall, Fall Winds, Flow, Flowers, Gift, Glow, Ground, Leaves, Life, Look, Mind, Mother Nature, Nature, Passing Hours, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Pumpkin, Rake, Reverence, Road Trip, Shift, Sky, Slow, Squirrels and Chipmunks, Summer, Travel, Trees, Winds of Change, Winter
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Love Is A Choice
Love Is A Choiceby Michael DoyleSometimes I silently look at youIn awe and wonder at all you doAnd I know, it’s true what some sayI fall deeper for you with each dayFor the good and bad of this voiceI know … Continue reading
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Tagged A Thousand Times Over, Atttention, Awe and Wonder, Best, Boundary, Choice, Close, Closer Still, Comfort, Cosmos, Depth, Face, Fall Deeper, Forget, Forgiveness, Gauge, God, Good and Bad Days, Grow, Healing, Hold Your Hand, I, Intention, Keep You, Kind, Know, Life, Limits, Live, Look, Love, Love Is A Choice, Loving Embrace, Mind, Moment's Breath, More Than A Feeling, My Love, Needs, Poetic Pretense, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Process, Quandary, Quanitfy, Relationships, Remember, Sanctuary, Say, Selfish, Selfless, Sentence, Share, Singulre, Spirituality, Step Forward, Survive, Test, Thrive, True Love, Understand, Upset, Voice, Ways, Whisper, Withstand, World's Strife, Worth, You
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Out of A Writer’s Head
Out of A Writer’s Headby Michael DoyleSome who writeHave fumbled for wordsAs though words aren’t rightEven as they’ve occurredWhether poetry or proseIt’s the words that passIt’s less what one knowsBut what has amassedWords flow best in experienceThen become arranged by … Continue reading
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Tagged Amassed, Arrange, Collage, Collates, Enough, Experience, Fits, Flow, Fumble, Head, Knows, Left Behind, Little Bits, Mind, Occurred, Pass, Poetry, Poetry and Prose, Preference, Prose, Right, Right Stuff, Said, Spill Out, Test, Words, Writer, Writer's Head, Wwrite
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 
The Influence of Pulp Fiction
The Influence of Pulp Fictionby Michael DoyleScience fiction without a snarkDidn’t just materialize out of the darkIn 1926, Hugo Gernsback, without a lot of gloryCame to publish the first Amazing StoriesFrom the cover of this first, we might knowThe Hugo … Continue reading →