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Tag Archives: Mistakes
Played On and On
Played On and Onby Michael Doyle I always wonderedWhat tomorrow would bringAs I charged aheadDoing my best at everything And though I’ve made big mistakesI did my best at everythingFingers bled into these heartachesListening to the others sing Please don’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Best, Contrary, Cry, Endeavor, Extraordinary, Forever, Forget, Goodbye, Heartaches, Lipstick Trace, Memories, Mistakes, Night, On and On, Played, Poetry and Poems, Regret, Tomrrow, Years
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Thought For the Day: Mistakes Are the Portals of Discovery
“Mistakes are the portals of discovery.” – James Joyce, novelist (2 Feb 1882-1941)
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Tagged Discovery, James Joyce, Mistakes, Potals, Thought For the Day
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A Parable of Treasure
A Parable of Treasureby Michael DoyleLife leads in a process of negotiationQuick as we are to assign our valuationThe problem lies in our lack of accuracyAnd that mistakes made become legendaryAssigned values can bring on heartacheLearning far too often from … Continue reading
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Tagged Accuracy, Decisions, Heartache, Kingdom of Heaven, Legendary, Low, Mistakes, Negotiation, Paraable, Poetry and Poems, Treasure, Valuation
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This Is the Baseline
This Is the Baselineby Michael DoyleThis This is the baselineMissed The punchline that was a signThat That showed us the worldAs Every dream was found fetal and curledMost stages of consciousnessAre degrees of insanityMirrored images of pretentiousnessHeld to the light … Continue reading
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Tagged Baseline, Breath, Bullet, Clear, Control, Death, Decision, Definition, Degrees, Dream, Error, Extractions, Faithful Soul, Fidelity, Flesh, Generation, Half Truth, Hit the Bottom, Insanity, Light, Memory, Mistakes, Outrun, Poetry and Poems, Precision, Pretentiousness, Primary Drive, Punchline, Real, Recognition, Situated, Stages of Consciousness, Struggle, System, Think and Feel, Trigger, Underneath, Vanity, Veneration, World
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Shadowboxing
Shadowboxingby Michael DoyleShadowboxing with my egoHiding from whispers of an echoWhen cleansing of sin is neededAnd common sense is not heededThere are dangers in complexityRaw feelings rough in their simplicityI just need to hold on to the sunriseVisions that bleed … Continue reading
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Tagged Beautiful Soul, Bleed, Cleansing of Sin, Common Sense, Complexity, Danger, Demons Dwell, Echo, Ego, Grow, Hid, Hurt, ID, Inferno, Innocence of Childhood, Jaded Past, Killing Me, Let Go, Living Hell, Lose Control, Love, Making, Mistakes, Must, Pain Inside, Past Trauma, Poetry and Poems, Pool of Blood, Raw Feelings, Shadow Boxing, Simplicity, Sunrise, Swept, Taking, Trust, Uncertainty, Whisper, World, Wound, Wounded Parts
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Thought For the Day: We Want A Society In Which We Are Free To Make Choices, To Make Mistakes, To Be Generous and Compassionate. That Is What We Mean By A Moral Society
“We want a society in which we are free to make choices, to make mistakes, to be generous and compassionate. That is what we mean by a moral society — not a society in which the State is responsible for … Continue reading
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Tagged Choices, Compassionate, Free, Generous, Margaret Thatcher, Mistakes, Moral Society, No One, Responsibile, Society, State, Thought For the Day
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Thought For the Day: Mistakes Are Part of the Dues That One Pays For A Full Life
“Mistakes are part of the dues that one pays for a full life.” – Sophia Loren, actor and singer (b. 20 Sep 1934)
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Tagged Dues, Full, Life, Mistakes, Part, Pays, Sophia Loren, Thought For the Day
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Thought For the Day: The More Original A Discover, the More Obvious It Seems Afterward
“The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterward.” -Arthur Koestler, novelist and journalist (5 Sep 1905-1983)
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Tagged Afterward, Arthur Koestler, Boredom, Boring Minds, Discovery, Learn, Mistakes, Obvious, Original, Thought For the Day
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You Cannot Hurt Me
You Cannot Hurt Meby Michael DoyleYou cannot hurt meIt’s beyond possibilityI am damaged goodsA babe lost in the woodsOf my own heart, my own mindLike innocence left far behindEvery day I wake up numbed by painAll of my good intentions, … Continue reading
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Tagged Babe, Burnt Down, Damaged Goods, Dead, Demon, Echo, Every Moment Lived, Feel, Good Intentions, Hate Myself, Head, Heart, In Vain, Innocence, Left Behind, Loving, Mind, Mistakes, Never Go Away, Nothing Left, Nothing Left To Say, Numbed, Pain, Plays, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Savagely, Surreal, Unholy Monster, Wish, Woods, Worth, You Cannot Hurt Me
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