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Trusting In His Resilience
Trusting In His Resilienceby Michael DoyleSo many things constantly changeAs we live our lives rearrangeBut some things stay the sameThat’s how it’s lighted with God’s flameGod loves us with urgent insistencyStated with a solid state of consistencyBut he does want … Continue reading
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Tagged Christ, Conform, Consistency, Constant Change, Darkness, Flame, God, Grow, His, Holy Nation, Light, Love, Poetry and Poems, Rearrange, Reiliance, Same, Set Apart, Trust
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Thrown Away
word prompt is Away Thrown Awayby Michael Doyle Times like these are seasonableWhen life itself feels unreasonableWhat I had wanted to be for the betterSomehow fell apart when together Now it seems taking life day by dayAlone with the feelings … Continue reading
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Tagged Alone, Better, Day by Day, Edge, Fatal, Feelings, Fell Apart, Flow, Forward, Konw, Life, Me, Me and You, Memory, Mistakes, Poetry and Poems, Season, Sorrow, Stand Strong, Sympathy, Taking Life, Thrown Away, Times, Tomorrow, Unreasonable, Want, Word Prompts, Words, Wrong Done
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Holding On to Legacy
Holding On to Legacyby Michael DoyleThere are some things to be saidThat keep rolling around in my headOne of which must be said preciseThat extremism in defense of liberty is no viceModeration in pursuit of justice is not a virtueNor … Continue reading
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Tagged American, Ancestral Institutions, Birth, Construe, Decide, Declaration, Defense of Liberty, Extremism, Face of Destruction, Freedom, Guard Against, Head, Hold On, Holding On, Legacy, Leveling, Moderation, Modernity, Nation, Negate This Past, No Vice, Oblivious, Obvious, Poetry and Poems, Precise, Pursuit of Justice, Realize, Relevance, Rolling Around, Seeds, Shirk Off, Strong, Te Deum, The Constitution, Things To Be Said, Virtue
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The New Tolerance
The New Toleranceby Michael Doyle A little something about toleranceIt’s not by majority or in ignoranceTruth is absolute and not up for voteThe new intolerance needs an antidote This the antidote or speaking truthSomething we should from our youthTruth spoken … Continue reading
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Tagged Absolute, Antidote, Day by Day, Equal In Worth, Ignorance, Intolerance, Majoirty, New, North, Objective, One Way, Opinion, Poetry and Poems, Saving Grace, Speaking Truth, Subjective, Tolerance, Truth, Vote, Youth
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The Best Answers
The Best Answersby Michael DoyleThe best answers are seldom violenceDespite the circumstances or incidencesThe toughest battles are fought withinThe struggle is to find peace againThe one who truly wins this contestHas found the path to tranquility’s restNo longer pushed by … Continue reading
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Tagged Best Answers, Circumstance, Incidence, Poetry and Poems, Violence
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A Dragon Born
A Dragon Bornby Michael DoyleIn the province of Henan, gungfu was bornTo rise to defeat China’s enemies as swornShaolin’s grace side by side with Tai Chi’s schoolBrought honor to their disciples’ ruleA battle head was one of strictly set contestFighting … Continue reading
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Tagged All That Is Left, Alley Ways, Anger and Pride, Avoid, Battle, Born, Brick, Building Up, China, Contest, Deciding Factor, Defeat, Disciple, Discipline, Dragon, Ebb and Flow, Enemy, Equilibrium, Every Moment, Extra Weight, Fall, Fate, Fights, Forget, Game, Glass, Glory, Grace, Gracious, Grow, Gungfu, Hard Learned, Henan, Hollywood, Honor, Humility, Importance, Increase, Increasing Strife, Inside, Keep Control, Lessons, Life Comes, Live, Live Strong, Live Yet Another Day, Lost In Life, Need, Other Person's Head, Pain, Path, Penance, Poetry and Poems, Power, Province, Restoration, Rule, Seal, Seifoo, Shaolin, Share, Side By Side, Skill, Spirit Unbroken, Spoken, Step By Step, Street, Strict, Tai Chi, Tea, Torn Down, Trick, True, Unspoken, Victory's Crown, Ways, When, Whisper, Will, Win, Won, Words
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Chosen to Live
Chosen to Live by Michael DoylePraying to a God of second chancesRecovering from life breaks and broken romancesWe have become one of the familyThrough the glory and the days of dramedyWe say our prayers in thankfulnessGrateful for God’s role in … Continue reading
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Tagged Born, Chosen, Difference, Glory, God, Hard Knocks, Linking Arms, Live, Magnificence, Mourn, One of the Family, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Rejoice, Sanctified, Second Chances, Thankfulness, Three Lock Box
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Off Ramp
Off Rampby Michael DoyleFrom dodge ball to full gloryWe live the Christmas storyBridged by that crossOn which God took our lossUnknown is the time and seasonBut what is known is the reasonThat healing of eternal riftIf only we will receive … Continue reading
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Tagged Above, Accept, Bridged, Chains, Chosen, Christmas Story, Cross, Dead, Death, Elected, Enjoy, Eternal Rift, Freeway, Fruit, Full Glory, Gift, God, Good Book, Hallelujah, Healing, Holy Priests, Known, Last, Last Breath, Left, Life, Live, Loss, Love, Off Ramp, Past, Poetry and Poems, Raised, Real Death, Reason, Receive, Relieve, Righteous Nation, Said, Salvation, Savior, Selected, Time and Season, Unknown, Walks
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Pierce the Charade
Pierce the Charadeby Michael DoyleOne thing I’ve discovered recentlyIs that I am capable of acting decentlyBut if the world could see my inspirationMaybe there’d be cause to doubt my motivationStill it is that I struggle for my bestAnd my failings, … Continue reading
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Tagged Accustom, Against, Anchored, Angel, Beauty, Best, Capable, Charade, Crimes, Decent, Deep, Detest, Discover, Doubt, Duty, Explore, Failings, Find, Friendship, Guilty, Hatter, Inspiration, Knew, Know, Masquerade, Motivation, My Mind, No Better Way, Of My Heart, Offered, Pierce, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Rare, Recent, Search, See, Spoke, Steeped, Struggle, Taint, Today, Traces, True Love, Truths, Wages of Sin, Whisper, Women and Men, World, Worship
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