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Lizzy Borden II: Black Cat History
Lizzy Borden II: Black Cat Historyby Michael DoyleHowever well rehearsed the day,Things happen as they do along the way.Old habits and gestures don’t hold sway.However much it is that some might say.There are expectations for pleasantryThat are no match for … Continue reading
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Tagged Black Cat, Expectations, Gentility, Habits and Gestures, Hiatory, Lizzy Borden, Pleasantry, Poetry and Poems, Reality, Rehearsal, Savagery
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Far Enough
Far Enoughby Michael DoyleDid you go far enough to seeThe ends of your possibility?Did you bring your best to beFar enough to test reality?Because until you have this done,The world at its best has really won.And you don’t know your … Continue reading
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Tagged Best, Done, Far Enough, Front Row, Inspiration, Poetry and Poem, Possibility, Reality, See, Settle, Shadow, Spirit, Test, Won
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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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Thought For the Day: Literature Adds To Reality,…(I)t Enriches the Necessary Competencies That Daily Life Requires and Provides
“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.” – C.S. Lewis
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Tagged Addition, C.S. Lewis, Coopetencies, Daily Life, Descrption, Desert, Enrich, Irrigationn, Life, Literature, Reality, Require and Provide, Thought For the Day
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Bonhoeffer, Part 7
Bonhoeffer, Part 7by Michael DoyleTime stands still with its lit fuse,We wonder why life makes us choose.We do our best to stop the evil in men,To give or take life feels a lesser sin.What would one give to save one’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Better, Bible, Choose, Christ's Blood, Christianity, Communio, Cordial Driink, Destiny, Die, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Doom, Evil, Face of Evil, Fail, Faith, Faithfully, Fuse, Gallow, Genocide, God, God's Love, Hate, Hello, Holy, Humanity, Jesus, Journey, Last Chance, Life, Live, Love of God, M, Mankind, Memory, Miracle, Mourn, Nation, News, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Purity, Purpose, Racism, Reality, Reputaton, Rescuue, Room, Salvatiion, Service, Shadow, Silence, Sin, The Gift, Time, Together, Unbroken, Vain Whispers, Will of God, Words of Love
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Bonhoeffer, Part 2
Bonhoeffer, Part 2by Michael DoyleTo the bully, no one is a partnerTo that bully, no one is smarter.And if the smarter does not hide his mind,He’ll be lucky if any part is left behind.You find the bullies in hidden alleyways.Or … Continue reading
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Tagged Alleyways, Bible, Bully, Canary, Christianity, Darkest Times, Democracy, Demons, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Doubt, Faith, FDR, Free, Gallows, God, Growth, Hang Together, Hitler, Jail, Jesus, Last Days, Left Behind, Light, Lucifer, Lucky Ones, Need, News, Od, Odd, Opposition, Oppression, Poetry and Poems, Power, Puppets, Reality, Reason, Rhyme, Rumors and Rage, Smart, Strong Man, Supplant, The Church, The Poet, Wsemen
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Thought For the Day: The Greatest Achievement Was At First and For A Time A Dream. The Oak Sleeps in the Acorn, the Bird Waits In the Egg, and In the Highest Vision of the Soul A Waking Angel Stirs
“The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings … Continue reading
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Tagged Acorn, Bird, Dream, Dreams, Egg, First, Greatest Achievement, Highest Visiion, James Allen, ngel, Oak, Reality, Seedlings, Soul, Thought For the Day
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To Strive and Labor On
To Strive and Labor Onby Michael DoyleEvery day that we wake up aliveIt’s a new day for each of us to strive,To see what it is that we’re meant to do.The doing of which is up to me and you.Ours … Continue reading
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Tagged Alive, Be Kind, Build and Mend, Celebration, City Street, Daily Bread, Days End, Dedication, Farm Field, Great Nation, Hearts, Hour, Labor, Labor Day, Less Blind, Lessons, Love, Meant To Do, New Day, Poetry and Poems, Poor, Power, Progress Meets, Pulse, Reality, Richness, Sing, Skilled Hands, Song of Labor, Strive, Strong Minds, Sweat, Understand, Weaving Dreams, Wisdom, Wonderful, Work
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Hoosier Rains
Hoosier Rainsby Michael DoyleIt has been over twenty years nowAnd it’s on my mind still somehow.I was driving, approaching the state lineOf Indiana, determined to make it mine.Shortly before the sight of the dunes, I had plannedTo visit like some … Continue reading
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Tagged Beauty, Central, Crags, Destination, Dunes, Flatness, Glacier, Grace, Heart, Hills, Himility, Hoosier, Hoosier Hopsitality, hoosiers, Indiana, Kindness, Lake Michigan, Location, Mind, Naive Skies, Nature, Planted Ground, Poetry and Poems, Procrastination, Rain, Rainbow, Reality, Reputation, Sand, Silence, Soul, State Line, Structure, SUV, Time's Passages, Tranquility, Travel, Twenty Years
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The Riddle of the Sands
The Riddle of the Sandsby Michael DoyleWith my mind’s last breathI felt myself melt into my death.Reality faded into flowery dimensions,None of which flows with great precision.But the sounds inside were already goneBefore I realized what it was to go … Continue reading
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Tagged Clever, Cold, Death, Dimension, Dreaming, Eyes, Fade, Fingers, Fire, Forever, Fragile Heart, Idenity, Jesus, Know, Last Breath, Laugh, Learn, Liquid Sky, Living, Mars, Memories, Mercury, Mind, Misery, Months, Night, Perception, Poetry and Poems, Precision, Pyschobabble, Reality, Realize, Red Alert, Riddle, Sands, Silence, Sleep, Sound, Spike, Spirit, Starlight, Surreal, Tears, Temple of Wonders, Thought, Trauma, Walk, Waves, Weep, World, Years, Yesterday
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