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Around Every Corner
As I was driving down the eastern terminus of the Old National Road, it occurred to me… Around Every Corner by Michael Doyle Around every corner There is a story Down every street Hiding from its glory Just a bit … Continue reading
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Tagged Around, Around Every Corner, Bit, Built, Careless, Down Every Street, Drive, Driven By, Eastern Terminus, Every Corner, Flown Over, Gain, Garden, Gates, Getting Through, Glory, Hand That's Dealt, Hidden, Hide, In Every Loss, Lost and Found, Moment, Mumble, Nothing, Old National Road, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pout, Pride, Quarry, Revealing, Road Side, See, Story, Stumble, Telling, Toss, Twist of Fate, Untold Story, Voice, Wait, Word
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In Your Silent Reply
Is silence really the best answer at times? I am not so certain of this. In Your Silent Reply by Michael Doyle Haunted by all the dreams Filled with the dramatic scenes Wondering what it is to find All the … Continue reading
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Tagged Answer, Bleed, Blur, Burn, Cards, Certain, Cheap, Cheer, Chipped, Conversations, Cry, Cushion, Dark, Decisions Made, Despite, Dramatic, Dreams, Embrace, Emotions, Erase, Expect, Fear, Find, Fine Point, Force, Forget, Greed, Haunted, Heart, History, Hold Onto the Dead, Keep, Kept In Head, Lark, Led, Losses, Lost, Might Against Might, Miracles, More, Mystery, Near, No More Tears, No Reason, One Moment, Pages, Photograph, Play On the Mind, Poem, Poetry, Point, Pointless, Prepared To Fight, Price Paid, Priceless, Pride, Reply, Scar, Scenes, Silence, Silent, Smell of Fear, Something, Special, Steep, Tears, Tend, Times, War, Weep, Well Played, Wished For, Wishing, Wonder, Written Words
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The God Smiles
A bit of a story about Celtic magic derived from a much larger story: The God Smiles by Michael Doyle The God smiles in sanctification Blessing His love in its purification Lessons taught in the Garden’s tending Such is the … Continue reading
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Tagged Blessing, Burn, Burning Embers, Celtic, Dawn, Death, Demons, Face, Garden, Go On, Greater, Inside, Learn, Lessons, Life, Love, Magic, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pretending, Pretense, Pride, Purification, Rage, Santification, Sleepy Village, Smiles, Taught, Tending, The God, Timbers, Wakes, Wish, Wolf
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Leaning On His Promises
It’s interesting times we live in. Watched a church sermon via the internet. Leaning On His Promises by Michael Doyle The church’s electronic bulletin board read Much as the Good Book itself has said We need to remember each other … Continue reading
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Tagged Anxiety, Break, Break Down, Breakthrough, Calm, Church, Conquer, Control, Creation, Electronic Bulletin Board, Embrace, End, Faith, Fear, First Dawning, Forgiving, Friendly Reminder, Giants, Glory, God, Good Book, His Promises, Hope, Internet, Jesus, Lean, Living, Lord God, Love of God, Love One Another, Loving God, My Soul, New Day, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Praise, Prayer, Presensce, Pride, Promises, Remember, Said, Sermon, Silence, Sister and Brother, Society's, Storms, Sun, Take Fall, The Enemy, Unshakable, Wall, Walls, Weary Eyes
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First Principles: The Name…American…Must Always Exalt the Just Pride of Patriotism, More Than Any Appellation Derived From Local Discriminations
“The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations.” – George Washington (1796)
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Tagged American, Appellation, Belong, Discriminations, Exalt, First Principles, George Washington, Local, Name, National Capacity, Patriotism, Pride, You
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Brand Me
Watched a Ted Talk with my princesses on branding. Brand Me by Michael Doyle Thinking back on life Through all of the joy and strife There has been one question Held back with some hesitation What then is my story? … Continue reading
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Tagged Adore, All I'll Ever Be, All-American, All-Star, American, Any, Bed, Believe, Best of Life, Body, Books, Brand, Branding, Care, Choir Boy, Conversation, Crazy, Destiny, Devote, Dream, Dreams, Echo, Eighteen, Family, Fine Enough, First Chorus, Glory, Gratefully, Grave, Grindstone, Head, Hell, Hesitation, Humble, Joy, Just As Well, Laughter, Life, Love, Many, Me, Military Man, Moment, Nose Held Down, One Question, Open Door, Passion, Photograph, Place, Placed, Poem, Poetry, Precedent, President, Pride, Pride and Joy, Princesses, Privilege, Put Away, Read, Song, Story, Stride, Strife, Study, Sunbeam, Team, TED Talk, Thank God, Thinking Back, Time, Tombstone, Trust, Two, Wounded, Years
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The Lateness of the Hour
Returning back to a promised project that was set down for a time and based in part on The Twilight Zone, Season 2, Episode 8: The Lateness of the Hour by Michael Doyle In a labyrinth of the mind’s imprecision We … Continue reading
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Tagged Alive, Anger, Artistic, Asylum, Automated, Automaton, Back Story, Belong, Bill, Chance, Chorus, Clock Hands, Comfort, Competition, Confront, Console, Constrain, Contempt, Control, Cost, Counter Argument, Craving, Creation, Creature, Daughter, Decay, Deliberation, Design, Difference, Dimension, Discontent, Distraught, Disturbing, Dream, Empty, Environment, Exposure, False, Family, Father, Feel, Felt, Fine, Free, Glide, Hand Dealt, Harshly, Heart, Hour, Humanity, Ill Afford, Imprecision, Infer, Insular, Intentional, Irritation, Labyrinth, Lateness, Lost, Love, Maid, Mausoleum, Measure, Mechanical, Memories, Memory Track, Menagerie, Mental, Mental Inventory, Museum, Neuroses, No Strings, Noise, One Dance, Outside, Own Mind, Passing Day, Perfect, Petulant, Photograph, Pleasant, Poem, Poetry, Pond, Poverty, Prattle, Prefection, Prejudice, Pride, Project, Quality, Ravages of Time, Reach, Real, Recitation, Recount, Recreated, Reference, Refine, Relative, Repetition, Rest, Right, Rigor, Robots, Safe, Sameness, Science, Second, Secret, Security, Sensation, Serenity, Share, Shrill, Speak, Speech, Stone Thrown, Stormy Night, Strive, Stumble, Superaltive, Survival, The Twilight Zone, Tick, Tick Tock, Toys, Travel, Twist, Twist of Fate, Understand, Unhappy, Unruffled, Vegetable, War, Will, Willful, Wish, World, Worn Out
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Venice – Piazza San Marco
Venice, Italy is one of the beautiful and historical places in the world that we could all use some familiarity. This is a look at Piazza San Marco. Venice – Piazza San Marco by Michael Doyle Through the Bacino … Continue reading
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Tagged Adornment, Ancient, Angel, Bacino di San Marco, Basilica of San Marco, Broglio, Byzantine, Cafe, Case, Centuries, Chance, Column, Conspiracy, Culture, Doge Palace, Earthly, Elegance, Embroil, Execution, Face, Family, Forgive, Foscari Arch, Four Horsemen, Games of Chance, Gate, Gates of Heaven, Gather, Government, Grand Palace, Guiding Light, History, Home, Hour, Ignorance, Italy, Journey, Justice, Live, Mask, Memorial, Merchants, Mosaic, Mystery, Napoleon, Night, Old, Orchard, Overthrow, Paint, Paper, Patron Saints, Perch, Perfection, Photograph, Piazza San Marco, Piety, Poem, Poetry, Politic, Political, Power, Pride, Republican, Roman Emperors, Romance, Royals, Secret, Serve, Society, Spiritual, Spoils, St Mark, St Theodore, Stolen, Symmetry, Tangle, Temporal Power, Theft, Time, Triangle, Triumpal, Union, Venetians, Venice, Welcome, Whisper, Words, Wrong
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The Dreamwork of Nightmares
In these dark times when it is so hard to be optimistic, can anyone be blamed for having nightmares? But what then are these? The Dreamwork of Nightmares by Michael Doyle Even still as we grow and mature We find … Continue reading
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Tagged Actuality, Alarm, Arrival, Bad, Believe, Blame, Bodily Defect, Books, Brain, Caverns, Clean, Clear, Complete, Context, Contortion, Curtain, Dark Side, Dark Times, Demons, Depression, Derision, Desire, Distortion, Division, Dream, Dreams, Dreamwork, Each, Endure, Erupt, Fear, Find, Fire, Flood, Fulfillment, Full Color, Fuzzy, Ghost Written, Gods, Graceless, Greet, Grow, Hide, Human Nature, Impression, Impure, Irony, Layer, Level, Live Out, Masterpiece, Mature, Measure, Mind, Moments, Monochromatic, Multiplicity, Naked, Needless, Nightmare, Nightmares, One, Optimistic, Pages, Photograph, Play Out, Poem, Poetry, Pride, Psyche, Reality, Rebound, Rehearse, Repression, Responsibility, Sanitize, Scenes, Scripts, Seem, Self, Self Justified, Shelves, Significance, Soul, Stages, Suffer, Suitable, Suppression, Survival, Thoughtless, Trigger, True, Undone, Unpack, Us, Warp, Way, Wish, Wishes
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