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Pages Turn (The Night We Watched The Notebook)
Pages Turn (The Night We Watched the Notebook)by Michael DoyleTogether in each other’s heart,You wanted to watch a movie.We did our best, and each did our best partYou picked one to see how it would move me.A summer spark with … Continue reading
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Tagged Calloused Hands, Cherish, Choice, Faith, Heart, Home, Kept, Kiss, Learned, Letter, Life, Lifetime, Lost, Love, Memories, Movie, Night, Notebook, Pages, Part, Poetry and Poems, Rain, Story, Summer Spark, The Notebook, Together, True Heart, True Love, Turn, Understand, Writing
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A Hero’s Journey Begins, Part II
A Hero’s Journey Begins, Part IIby Michael DoyleEach moment of life is loaded with intensity,Peppered in each moment to withstand the immensityOf whatever challenge might come our way.This is the wake-up call of a hero’s day.Staying the course keeps the … Continue reading
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Tagged Beginning, Challenge, Collective Conscience, Cool, Course, Day, Hard Science, Hero, Immensity, Intensityy, Journey, Lesson, Life, Meaning, Peservation, Poetry and Poems, Reach, School, Way
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A Hero’s Journey Begins, Part I
A Hero’s Journey Begins, Part Iby Michael DoyleEssentially, a hero is someone ordinaryWho is given the chance to be extraordinary.Through whatever set of events or circumstance,He or she has been given this dynamic chance.It’s about rising up to the opportunityAnd … Continue reading
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Tagged Adversaries, Answer, Beginning, Best, Call, Capability, Chapter and Verse, Choice, Chunk of the Universe, Circumstance, Death, Description, Dynamic, Event, Extraordinary, Eyes, Fear, Fight, God, Hero, Journey, Light, Me, Means, Opportunity, Opposition, Ordinary, Persevere, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Push Forward, Readiness, Recognize, Rising Up, Test, The Rest, Thought, Tomorrow, Unflinching, Villains
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Great Is the Lord
Great Is the Lordby Michael DoyleThough the rains may fall,I will hear and heed your call.Through my darkest days,I will always sing your praise.Through all that Satan has done,I will keep my eyes on the Son.Whispering my love to your … Continue reading
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Tagged Aspiration, Call, Christian Lives, Darkest Days, Eternal Fire, Eyes, Feel, Flood, Give, God, Great, Hear, Hear and Heed, Holy Desire, Kenees, Light, Lord, Love, Morning, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Pray, Rain, Real, Right, Satan, See, Sin, The Son, Tree, Warning, Whisper, Wind
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From the Weeping Cradle
From the Weeping Cradleby Michael DoyleSeeing you there on the mountain peak,It takes away my ability to speak.Which is more than something beautiful.It becomes a conception a bit too wonderful.The trails become empty circles of storied land.Their beauty lost inside … Continue reading
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Tagged Ability, Baauty, Beautiful, Cradle, Dream, Eyes, Held Hand, Love, Lullaby, Mountain Peak, Poetry and Poems, Quiet, Recognize, Rite of Wrongs, Song of Songs, Speak, Storied Land, Trails, Unknown Love, Vastness, Weep, Wonderful
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Nehemiah (To Fix What’s Broken)
Nehemiah (To Fix What’s Broken)by Michael DoyleWe find God’s lessons spokenServing like Nehemiah to fix what’s broken,Renewing Israel’s holy prosperityFollowing many years of austerity. Nebuchadnezzar exiled the Jews to Babylon,Until allowed to return from the pantheon.The Jewish people returned from … Continue reading
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Tagged Action Taken, Austerity, Babylonian Exile, Bible, Broken, Broken Heart, Change, Compassion, Control, Devotion, Discontent, Example, Faith, Fix, God, God's Glory, Grace, Guile, Holy Commands, Holy Imprint, Homeland, Humanity, Israel, Leadership, Legacy, Lessons, Mourning and Fasting, Nebuchadnezzar, Necessary, Nehemiah, Opposition, Ordinary People, Place, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Prosperity, Protection, Recovery, Redemption, Renewal, Soul, Story, Task, The Jewish People
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It Takes Money (A Farmer Meets Reality)
It Takes Money (A Farmer Meets Reality)by Michael DoyleThe land and youAre everything to me.The mortgage is due,And hellhounds are dogging me.All that I want to doIs to farm this land.A simple, honest farm and you,But the Lord gave me … Continue reading
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Tagged Bad Harvest, Bullet, Certain, Devil's Lies, Dusky Eyes, Fall In, Family, Farmer, Forty Acres and A Mule, Fuel, Hell Hounds, Honest Wages, Hunter, Land, Money, Mortgage, Paradise, Poetry and Poems, Reality, Rogue, Soar, Steady Hand, Tall Blue Skies, The Dead Line, The Law Man, The Lord, Turkey Vultures, War, Wasted, Watch
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What Do Critics Know?
What Do Critics Know?by Michael DoyleCritics are those with little ability,Often bashing those with greater capability.While the talented few find their success good,It’s a confusing arrangement seldom understood.Those without skill find talent self-indulgent,And seldom suffer to give others acknowledgment.Unimaginative translates … Continue reading
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Tagged Ability, Acknowledgment, Capability, Critics, Dazed and Confused, Harmonics, Imrpovisation, Intensity, Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin, Music, Pay To Play, Performers, Poetry and Poems, reviews, Robert Plant, Rock, Self-Induldgent, Success, Talented Few, The Rolling Stone Magazine, Unimaginative, Violin Bow, Writing
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Consistency
Consistencyby Michael DoyleStepped into His presence,I stumble at His essence.Feeling humbled and weak,There are times I cannot speak.Stumbled by His integrity,Here then is the consistency.And I know He is the allOf all the truth that I recall.I offer my love … Continue reading
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Tagged Consistency, Days, Humbled and Weak, Integrity, Love and Praise, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Presence, Speak, Step, Stumble, The All, Truth, Word
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Hallelujah Confession
Hallelujah Confessionby Michael DoyleMaybe it’s true there’s nothing new.I hold to what is known to be true.The Hallelujah Chorus is on my breath.Once again, I’ve defiled unholy death.I stand with my arms held wide,Confusing my faith over my pride.The song … Continue reading
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Tagged Arms, Breath, Confusion, Conversation, Deceived, Faith, God, Hallelujah Confession, Invitation, Jesus, Life's Control, Nothing New, Poetry and Poems, Pride, Receieved, Soul, Surrender, Testinomy, True, Unholy Death, Wide, Worship
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