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Oblique Stare
Oblique Stareby Michael DoyleI looked up in an oblique stareUpward into that cold ceilingFighting with God in my prayerHoping that my wish would be prevailingTwo daughters stood near by my sideI was not ready to leave behindAnd to my Lord, … Continue reading
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Tagged Adore, Another Day, Behind, Brave, Cold Ceiling, Confide, Cry, Daily Meditation, Deserve, Die, Fight, Forgiven, Given, God, Hear Me, Love, Medication, Mercy, My God, My Life, My Lord, Oblique Stare, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Prevail, Question, Respect, Take My Life, Thankful, Time, Two Daughters, Understood, Wish, Year Later, Yours
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First Principles: A Sacred Respect For the Constitutional Law Is the Vital Principle, the Sustaining Energy of A Free Government
“If it be asked, What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? The answer would be, An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws — the first growing out of the last. … Continue reading
A Desecration
A Desecrationby Michael DoylePolitics take a backseat to the ConstitutionYet some do not like this resolutionBut that doesn’t make it a wrongIt’s the restoration of where law belongsThere is a value that matters to all of lifeWhere we save the … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged 62 Million Deaths, A Desecration, Agree, All Life Is Sacred, Altar, America, Bad Law, Better, Constitution, Decision, Deny, Ethical, Falter, Foundation, Guiding Light, House, Human Dignity, Law, Life, Life's Sanctity, Matters, Poetry and Poems, Politics, Protect, Reason, Recreational Choice, Republican Nation, Resolution, Respect, Restoration, Right, Right To Life, Sacrfice, Simply Put, Strife, Three Percent, Value, Whale, Wrong
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Well Donne, Spirits In the Night
Well Donne, Spirits In the Nightby Michael Doyle To Donne’s feigned scorn the murderer was deadOnly to reappear as an apparition inside his headAll the spiritualism to be had inside one’s bedFrom the nightmares and seances, and things said The … Continue reading
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Tagged Air, Answers, Apparition, Bed, Beg Questions, Black Cat, Bridge of Light, Cat's Meow, Chains, Connect, Dead, Died, Donne, Fantasy Faire, Feet, Floating Table, Floor, Ghostly, Groans, Haunted Houses, Head, Hope, Host, Human Beings, Ignore, Impression, Inivisible, Last, Lived and Died, Murderer, Neglect, Night, Nightmares, Passages, Past, Peek, Poetry and Poems, Puzzled, Quizzical, Respect, Seances, Seekers of Truth, Seen, Sorrows, Spirits, Spiritualism, Wandering Guests, Week, Wish
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Thought For the Day: If You Once Forfeit the Confidence of Your Fellow Citizens, You Can Never Regain Their Respect and Esteem
“If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Confidence, Esteem, Fellow Citizens, Forfeit, Regain, Respect, Thought For the Day
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Thought For the Day: I Fear To See the Consequences of the Court’s Practice of Substituting Its Own Concepts of Decency and Fundamental Justice For the Language of the Bill of Rights
“In my judgment the people of no nation can lose their liberty so long as a Bill of Rights like ours survives and its basic purposes are conscientiously interpreted, enforced and respected so as to afford continuous protection against old, … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill of Rights, Concept, Consequences, Decency, Departure, Devices, Enforce, Interpret, Judgment, Justice, Justice Hugo L. Black, Language, Liberty, Lose, Nation, Practices, Protection, Purposes, Respect, Substitute, The People, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: Your Love of Liberty – Your Respect for the Laws… and Your Practice of the Moral and Religious Obligations, Are the Strongest Claims to National and Individual Happiness
“Your love of liberty — your respect for the laws — your habits of industry — and your practice of the moral and religious obligations, are the strongest claims to national and individual happiness.” – George Washington (1789)
Posted in First Principles
Tagged Claim, First Principles, George Washington, Habit, Happiness, Individual, Industry, Law, Liberty, Love, Moral, National, Obligation, Practice, Religious, Respect
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Line By Line
Line By Lineby Michael DoyleScripture, being God breathedIs to save us from being deceivedEvery word is for our trainingEver toward righteousness as we are readingReading the Bible filled with our trustPaying attention as we surely mustThe names listed provide more … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Attention, Benign Neglect, Character, Cherish, Deceived, Difference, Diminish, Divine, Doubt, Every Word, Examine, Explanation, Faitfhulness, Familial Line, Genealogy, God, God Breathed, Line By Line, Names, Noble, Pay, Poetry and Poems, Read, Respect, Reveal, Reverence, Righteousness, Save, Scripture, Sentiment, Sign, Summary, The Bible, Theology, Trace, Training, True, Trust
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First Principles: The Foundations of Our National Policy Will Be Laid In the Pure and Immutable Principles of Private Morality
“The foundations of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality, and the preeminence of free government be exemplified by all the attributes which can win the affections of its citizens, and command … Continue reading
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