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On Turning 17
On Turning 17by Michael DoyleThe days crawl slowly on one by oneAnd your birthday is past and doneI am still thinking on what it meansThat my baby girl has turned seventeenWasn’t it only just yesterdayThat you entered this world’s wayLaying … Continue reading
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Pass the Torch (This Revolution Is Over)
Pass the Torch (This Revolution Is Over)by Michael DoyleOver the course of many stolid yearsI have listened to a tsunami of tearsOver how socialism turned chevere to chimboThe Land of Grace defiled blow by blowThe Land of the Orchids and … Continue reading
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Long Gone Phrases (Phases of Yesterday)
Long Gone Phrases (Phases of Yesterday)by Michael DoyleI’m not sure where this story should beginIt doesn’t matter – the color of your skinAnd what you care to believeMatters not as much as you don’t deceiveThere are jokes enough to not … Continue reading
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Tagged Begin, Believe, Blame, Choose Better, Color of Your Skin, Complete, Could Be, Deceive, Deserve, Disappear, Discerned, Door, Earned, Fate, Fear, Hate, Hear, Jokes, Learn, Life, Long Game, Long Gone, Neglect, No Place For You Here, Ordinary People, Our Way, Phases, Phrases, Play, Poem, Poetic, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Possible, Recall, Remember, Respect, Same, Say, Should Be, Story, Surname, Think, Tribes and Types, Unique
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A Question of Dimension
A Question of Dimensionby Michael DoyleA question awaits every believerIs God or Is God not a deceiverFrom this point, we’ll need evidenceConclusions must be drawn based on relevanceIs the Earth young? Or Is It Old?Are we to believe our eyes … Continue reading
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Tagged 2000 Years Ago, Adherents, Age, Answers, Appareance, Apprehension, Bats and Birds, Believer, Bible, Children, Clue, Complexity, Comprehension, Conclusions, Confuse, Deceiver, Demanding, Dimension, Disciples, Drawn, Earth, Evidence, Explain, Faith, Free, God, Good Enough, Jesus, Know, Life, Living, Love, Our Eyes, Page, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Point, Precious, Pretend, Pursue, Question, Relevance, Right, Seen, Sense, Simplicity, Today, Told, Truth, Understanding, World, Yesterday
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Owed To America 2024
Owed To America 2024by Michael DoyleMy daughters ask me why is it you cryI think back on history and will not lieToo many brave souls have fought and diedFor us not to have mourned and criedThere was a time when … Continue reading
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Tagged Ages, America, American Nation, Battle, Belief, Believe, Bend Their Knees, Bleed, Blue, Brave, Brave Souls, Cause, Ceaseless, Color, Courage, Cried, Cry, Danger, Daughters, Dedication, Defeat, Despotic Crown, Died, Fear, Fight, Fire, Fought, Freedom, Good, History, Hope, Ill, Imagination, Inspiration, Inspire, Internal Eney, Judgment Day, Justice, Kind, Land, Liberty, Lie, Love, Measure, More, Mourn, Nation, Owed To America 2024, Passing Years, People, Photography, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Red, Rights, Road, Save, Spark, Stand, Stand Tall, Street, Strength, Sweet Land, This Land, Time, Travel, Unbeatable, Values, White
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Thought For the Day: Out of the Quarrel With Others We Make Rhetoric; Out of the Quarrel With Ourselves We Make Poetry
“Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.” -William Butler Yeats, writer, Nobel laureate (13 Jun 1865-1939)
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Tagged Others, Ourself, Out, Poetry, Quarrel, Rhetoric, Thought For the Day, William Butler Yeats
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The Golden Ratio of Fibonacci
The Golden Ratio of Fibonacciby Michael DoyleThe Fibonacci numbers aren’t tragicIndeed, these are a thing of constant magicLeonardo of Pisa is a true figure of historyThat revealed these numbers in their mysteryWe ask ourselves questions to puzzle and learnAll these … Continue reading
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Tagged Belong, Clear, Connections, Constant, Direction, Discern, Discover, Disparate Ways, Distortion, Diverese, Driving Force, End, Evenness, Everywhere, Exercise, Fable, Fibonacci, fibonacci-sequence, Forever, Go Along, Golden Ratio, Grand Contemplation, Grow, History, Joke, Knowledge, Leap Frogging, Learn, Leonardo of Pisa, Magic, Mind, Mystery, Nature, Numbered Patterns, Numbers, Numerical Propotion, Persuade, Pervade, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Puzzle, Question Why, Questions, Questionss, Revael, Riddles, Science, See, Sequence, Show, Sigh, Solve For X, Squares, Summed Up, The World, Thirds, Tragic, Travel, True, Wise
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