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Thought For the Day: Art Should Be Like A Holiday: Something To Give A Man the Opportunity To See Things Differently and To Change His Point of View
“Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.” -Paul Klee, painter (18 Dec 1879-1940)
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Tagged Art, Change, Different, Holiday, Opportunity, Paul Klee, Point of View, Thought For the Day
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Thanksgiving Pause
Thanksgiving Pauseby Michael DoyleFighting on until backed into the ropeWe do what we can even as losing hopeI look around and see some about to shatterIt makes me wonder if our prayers matterSome irrationally have lost the will to thinkWhile … Continue reading
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Tagged Account, Adopt, Bible, Born Again, Childish Ways, Christian Ways, Christianity, Drink, Fighting, Find, Genuine Freedom, Grace Sets Things Right, Grew, Irrational, Jesus, Living, Losing Hope, Matter, Maturity, Mirror, New, Not New, Outlive, Passion, Pause, Poetry and Poems, Point of View, Positive Light, Prayer, Prayers, Rop, Shatter, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Together, Think, Will, Wonder, Worldly Perspective
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Like Flowers In A Vase
Like Flowers In A Vase (For Joni Mitchell)by Michael DoyleBlonde hair and a long silhouetteA beautiful voice, unforgotten yetLife’s so short and makes us numbBeauty like this is what we becomeA voice for her generationHeld by many with great venerationA … Continue reading
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Tagged Beautiful Voice, Beauty, Become, Blonde Hair, Circumspection, Clouds, Declarative, First-Person Narrative, Flowers, Generation, Hesitation, Introspection, Involved, Joni Mitchell, Known, Lady Blue, Life, Madmen and Badmen, Memory, Numb, Poetry and Poems, Point of View, Question, Short, Shown, Silhouette, Sus Chords, Taken For Granted, True, Truth, Unforgotten, Unresolved, Vase, Veneration, Voice, Words
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Echo Back
Echo Backby Michael DoyleMy words echo back into tomorrowA half-life that’s full of sorrowI’m often sorry for what I sayThe demons inside won’t have it any other wayIf these were the last words I saidI wouldn’t want them rolling in … Continue reading
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Tagged Better Choice, Bones, Construction, Demons Inside, Destroy, Destruction, Echo Back, Family, Father, Feeling, Full of Sorrow, Generational Sinds, Grown, Half-Life, Head, Humbly, Hurt, Ideal, Immeasurable, Imprint, Intrude, Kill You, Last Words, My Brokenness, New Thoughts and Habits, Nobility, Own, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Point of View, Proof of Life, Raise, Rise Above, Rolling, Rude, Say, Served, Shown, Solitude, Sorry, Sticks and Stones, Strong Regret, The Bible, Thoughts, Tomorrow, Treasurable, Truth of Love, Voice, Wish, Won't Do, Words
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Thoughts Looking Back
Thoughts Looking Backby Michael DoyleI do not want to say anything that isn’t trueAt least, that is, from my deepest point of viewI have lived my life in its living, and as a writer,Often seeking to find life a little … Continue reading
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Tagged Best Moments, Bright, Fall, First Admission, Gloss, Happy, Hasty Judgment, Heartbreaks, Horror and Pain, Language, Life, Looking Back, Miles, Mistakes, Mystery and Miracle, Poetry and Poems, Point of View, Seek Good, Smiles, Spring, Tell, Thoughts, True, Writer
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The Naughty List
The Naughty Listby Michael DoyleWhen the truth’s told even in the best of timesA heart should beware of the easiest rhymesKeeping an eye out for the details of the DevilIs best because we know he’s never on the levelThere’s a … Continue reading
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Tagged Because, Best, Best of Times, Beware, Bright Lights, Careful, Christmas, Christmas Magic, Coca-Cola Santa, Contest, Crass Commericalism, Dark Side, Decorations, Details, Devil, Display, Doubt, Eye Out, Fights, Forgotten, Heart, Hustle and Bustle, Level, Modern Age, Parades, Poetry and Poems, Point of View, Pray, Question, Real Reason, Reason For the Season, Rhymes, Room Enough, Teasin', The Naughty List, Time Enough, Told, Too Bad, Tragic, True, Truth, Wish
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Like Souls Rising From the Dead
Like Souls Rising From the Deadby Michael DoyleHidden symbols press the conscienceAnd then denies the separation of scienceFrom the spirituality of all things trueThis is independent of a fearful point of viewMorals only tend to get in the wayOf moments … Continue reading
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Tagged Anger, Asp, Blasphemous Prayers, Block, Born, Clasp, Company, Conscience, Consequence, Cosmic Strife, Craven World, Cursed, Damned, Darkness, Dead, Divine, Engrave, Eternal Fire, Evil, Fallen Angels, Fear, Godless, Greed, Hand, Harness, Hellish Choir, Hidden Symbols, Hidden Truth, Knowledge, Life, Lightning, Majesty, Mire, Mirror, Morals, Mother Nature, Names, New Day, New Life, New Meaning, Night, Outshine, Pain, Palmistry, Past Light, Phoenix Rises, Poetry and Poems, Point of View, Price, Rise, Sacred Veil, Satan, Science, Separation, Souls, Spirituality, Stranger, Sun Rise, Sympathy, True, Undone, Winter Storm, Wish, Womb
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Thought For the Day: Art Should Be Like A Holiday: Something To Give A Man the Opportunity To See Things Differently and To Change His Point of View
“Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.” – Paul Klee, painter (18 Dec 1879-1940)
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Art, Change, Differently, Holiday, Opportunity, Paul Klee, Point of View, See, Something To Give, Thought For the Day
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