Tag Archives: Mind

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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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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Just In Case

Just In Caseby Michael DoyleI wake up feeling wonderfulAt the thought that you’re beautifulI lay there and slowly traceYour skin and the smile on your faceThinking to myself that all I knowIs the satisfaction of your glowAs I watch our … Continue reading

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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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Autarkeia

Autarkeiaby Michael DoyleIn these days of enhanced pushes for creativityWe slip and slide in our moral relativityGetting dazed and pushed by sex and violenceWe confuse this with mistaken social turbulenceYesterday’s logic is puzzled by the push and pullOf opinions and … Continue reading

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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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Tough Prayers Silently Spoken

Tough Prayers Silently Spokenby Michael DoyleWe need to keep ourselves humbleHowever, the world may tumbleWe need to be on our knees and prayOur hearts are in gratitude and will stayThis is our best good answerAs we live life’s flow like … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: The World Is Full of People Who Have Never, Since Childhood, Met an Open Doorway With an Open Mind

“The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.” – E.B. White

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First Principles: Music Gives A Soul To the Universe, Wings To the Mind, Flight To the Imagination and Life To Everything

“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.” – Plato

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First Principles: You Will Never Do Anything In This World Without Courage. It Is the Greatest Quality of the Mind Next To Honor

“You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.” – Aristotle

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