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Thought For the Day: Live and Let Live and Remember This Line: Your Bus’ness Is Your Bus’ness and My Bus’ness Is Mine
“Live and let live, be and let be, / Hear and let hear, see and let see, / Sing and let sing, dance and let dance. … Live and let live and remember this line: / ‘Your bus’ness is your … Continue reading
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Tagged Cole Porter, Let Live, Line, Live, Mine, Remember, Thought For the Day, Your Bus'ness
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On Bended Knee
On Bended Kneeby Michael DoyleOn bended knee, I see the memoryOf the day and the costI watched you let it beGiving it your dignityIt’s hard to add the costMaking it worseIs I know that bullet was mineIt had my nameBleeding … Continue reading
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Tagged Across, American Liberty, Bended Knee, Blame, Bleeding, Blood, Breath, Bullet, Choose, Cost, Cry, Days, Death, Define, Depend, Dignity, End, Expend, Fight and Die, Forgive, Friends, Full Price, Hard, Hope, Indignantly, Integrity, Lives, Measure, Memory, Mine, Mistakes, Moments, My Name, Nation, Obligation, Poetry and Poems, Politicians, Pray, Protect and Defend, Refuse, Speak, Taken For Granted, The Cost, Toil, Treasure, Verse, Watch, Why, Worse, Your Death
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First Principles: It Should Be Your Care, Therefore, And Mine, To Elevate the Minds of Our Children and Exalt Their Courage. If We Suffer Their Minds To Grovel and Creep In Infancy, They Will Grovel All Their Lives
“It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage… If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives.” – John Adams (1756)
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Tagged All Their Lives, Care, Children, Courage, Creep, Elevate, Exalt, First Principles, Grovel, Infancy, John Adams, Mind, Mine, Suffer, Your
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Valentine’s Season
Valentine’s Seasonby Michael DoyleIn a circular society, there are seasonsSome of these devoid of sensible reasonsAs to why there is plenty or there is lessLove to be found, yet if I had to guessIt’s more worth quietly learning to resignAnd … Continue reading
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Tagged Age, All of This, Alone, Anguish, Apartment Wall, Argument, Attention, Call, Capuccino, Chances, Circular Society, Complete, Constant Denial, Cry, Design, Devoid, Do Not Disturb Sign, Dream, Easy, Efforts, Evade, Failed To Say, Falling In Love, Father, Feelings, Find Her, Follow, Found, Four Course Dinner, Friends, Good Turn, Guess, Happiness and Joy, Human Condition, Journey, Learn, Less, Life, Loneliness, Love, Love Depends, Loveable, Manage, Mine, Miss, My Daughters, My Fault, Plenty, Poetry and Poems, Point, Prayer, Quiet Moments, Reasons, Reminder, Replete, Resign, Season, Seasons, Secret, Self-Sedition, Shadows, Silver Moonlight, Sip, Smile, Someone, Stone, Trip, Try, Tyle, Valentine, Wish
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Thought For the Day: The Butterfly Flitting From Flower To Flower Ever Remains Mine, I Lose the Lone That Is Netted By Me
“The butterfly flitting from flower to flower ever remains mine, I lose the one that is netted by me.” -Rabindranath Tagore, philosopher, author, songwriter, painter, educator, composer, Nobel laureate (7 May 1861-1941)
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Tagged Butterfly, Flitting, Flower, Lose, Mine, Net, Rabindranath Tagore, Remain, Thought For the Day
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In Our Pain
In Our Painby Michael DoyleIn that momentI saw beyond myselfThrough my tearsTo someone elseI had walkedBeyond the shadow of deathAs the spirits talkedWhispering under breathAlways so selfishAnd filled with needsFor things never mineTo find myself freedInto life’s stormTurned with a … Continue reading
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Tagged A Single Tear, Beyond, Beyond Myself, Bound, Damned, Death's Door, Deliverance, Each of Us, Enter, Eye, Forbidden Key, Forgiving, Freed, Goodbye, In Our Pain, Living, Meant, Mine, Moment, Moment of Life, Moments, Needs, Passing Year, Poetry and Poems, Price of Love, Promises, Recompense, Said, See, Seen, Selfish, Shadow of Death, Spirits Talk, Storm, Symbols, Tears, Together, Unexplained, Walk, Whisper
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What’s Your Story?
What’s Your Story?by Michael DoyleTell me, please, of the gloryThat opens up your storyLeaving behind the ninety-nineFor the inheritance that is mineDoing that riotous livingNeeding more than a little forgivingFeeling more than unworthyBrother, you are no lesser than meAt least, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alibi, Assured, Belief, Brother, Changing Lives, Contemplation, Could Not Keep, Dead Man Walking, Extermity, Faith, Far Country, Feeling, Forgiving, Found, Free, Freed, God Reached Out, God Shaped Vacuum, God's Glory, Goodness, Grace, Grown Dim, His Majesty, In Him, Inheritance, Leaving Behind, Lights, Linger, Living Past Thirty, Living Prayer, Lost Coins, Lost Sheep, Matter of History, Me, Mine, Moments, Need, Ninety-Nine, No Lesser, Open, Overdose, Peace, Plant, Poetry and Poems, Prodigal, Promises, Read, Redemption, Riotous Living, Satan's Snare, Seed, Sins of the Family, Society, Soul, Stand up, Story, Straight Talking, Taken Back, Tell Me, The Father's Glory, The Glory, Thrown Books, Tossed, Unworthy, What's Your Story?, Without A Clue, Words, Worthy, Wouldn't Keep, Wrecking Crew
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Na/GloPoWriMo #8: The Jester’s Crown
Na/GloPoWriMo #8: The Jester’s Crownby Michael DoyleThis poem is for all who gatheredThat might have been better tarred and featheredFor all of those unfazed by the many stormsThat make up all of life’s normsIn the beginning, I knew there’d be … Continue reading
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Tagged All Those, Amply, An End, Been Better, Cold, Complaints, Complete, Depend, Family, Far Too Few, Friend, Gathered, Given, Good Cheer, Happier Still, Happily, Hard, Heaven, Helped To Pass the Time, Hoe-down, In the Beginning, Jester's Crown, Lend, Life, Mine, Na/GloPoWriMo, Never Mend, None Are Too Serious, Norms, One more Dance, Or Do, Payback, Play This Card, Poem, Poetry and Poems, Pouring, Rife, Silent Life, Simple Man's, Somebody, Someone, Spend My Moments, Storms, Tarred and Feathered, The In-Between, Time, Toasted, Unfazed, Vagabond's Company
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Na/GloPoWriMo #3: Words That Sound Good
Words That Sound Goodby Michael DoyleThere is a bit of something That is eloquently rapped into nothingThat there are words that just sound goodAnd go together well like they shouldIt’s a bit of the simplicity That is found inside the … Continue reading
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Tagged Apocalyptic, Best of Life, Bit of Something, Busy As A Bee, Chase, Clandestine, Complexity, Dictionaries, Eloquently, Equilbrium, Found, Go Together Well, Golden Ore, Good, Mine, Museum, My Heart, Mystery, Na/GloPoWriMo, Nothing, Pageantry, Pleasantry, Poetry and Poems, Precious, Preserve, Rapped, Simplicity, Sound, Square Root, Stare, Unapologetic, Words
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A Tale of Christmas In Two Parts
A Tale of Christmas In Two Parts (Republished for 2020)by Michael Doyle aka Michael Romani I. I have heard it saidThat you can eat ’til you’re fullAnd it’s still not enoughThe excuse to be given“But, it’s Christmas…”And one really shouldn’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Above, All Life Must Give Me, Application, Believe, Bells and Whistles, Best In Marriage, Best Path, Better To Give Than Receive, Bringing Such Peace As I can, Brothers, Cake, Cardinal Rule, Chastity, Christmas, Contentment, Control, Desire, Devoted, Diligence, Dire, Discipline, Each Day A Treasure, Each Other, Earned This Anger, Easier, Endurance, Enough, Entitled, Envy, Essence of Love, Everything, Excess, Excuse, Experienced, Filling Needs, Fire, Forgiven, Fruit, Full, Gather These Around, Give It Toward Others, Given, Giving Toward All Others, Gizmos and Gears, Gluttony, Greed, Harm Done, Heard, Heaven's Sake, Held Without Measure, Holy Living, Holy Spirit, It's Christmas, Keep It All To Myself, Keep Me Angry, Keep My Faith, Keep These Things, Keeping Each of These, Kept, Kindness, Like A Prayer, Live Each Day, Love, Lovers, Lust, Material Things, Milk of Kindness, Mine, Miss, Need, Needed, Never Enough, Noble and Good, Not Do Without, Not Followed, Nourish, Offer Up, Part of Me, Patience, Penitent, Perfect My Soul, Persistence, Phase of Love, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Practice, Purity, Qualities, Reliance, Rely, Remain So, Said, Sexual Union, Share, Should Find Me, Sisters, Sloth, Some More, Spirit of, Spirit of Christmas, Srive, Steadfast, Still Not Enough, Strength, Study of Kindness, Suffice, Sure, Sustain, Temperance, Time and Place, Time Enough, To Do Nothing At All, To Find God, To Keep, Too Hard To Do It Right, True Love, Uncontrolled, Undone, Unearned Grace, Unforgiving, Virtue, Wait A Minute, Walking Life, Wants, Welcome Stranger, Where I Dare, Worth Every Minute, Wrath
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 