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Voices Cry
Watched a bit of a show that reminded me of the folks out there who suffer from PTSD. From that I got this: Voices Cry by Michael Doyle The voices crying into the night Its hard to take this light … Continue reading
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Tagged Better Than the Rest, Bleed, Block, Change, Clown, Cry, Dead, Did My Best, Done, Echo, Far Behind, Friends, Hard To Take, Haunt, Head, In the End, Know, Light, Medal, Memory, Mind, My Name, Never Change, Night, No Good, Normal, Normally, Photograph, Pin, Poem, Poetry, PTSD, Said, Sentences, Shame, Some Things, Stranger, Things Went Down, Thought, Tortured, Trouble, Unfinished, Voice
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Thought For the Day: The Declaration of Independence Is the Ring-Bolt To the Chain of Our Nation’s Destiny…the Principles Contained In That Instrument Are Saving Principles
“I have said that the Declaration of Independence is the ring-bolt to the chain of your nation’s destiny. … The principles contained in that instrument are saving principles.” – Frederick Douglass
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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It’s No Mystery
A thought that occurred to me over and over as I drove through Amish Country yesterday: It’s No Mystery by Michael Doyle Every day that we get to live We have to give what we can give To show that … Continue reading
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Tagged Accepting Differences, Adds Up, Amish Country, Answer, Appears, Better, Blessing, Blindness, Brothers, Chance, Change Our Ways, Choose, Conquer, Different Fate, Drive, Each Other, End of Days, Every Day, Feel, Forgotten, Freed, Give, Grateful, Greater, Greatest Commandment, Greet, Hate, Hearts, Help, History, Kindness, Learn, Learn To Love One Another, Learned, Left, Lessons, Let's Talk, Live, Living, Looking Deep, Love, Love One Another, Love the Lord God, Moment, More Faith, Mystery, Need, Open Fist, Page Turned, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Present, Right, Said, Second Guessing, See, Seeing With Another's Eyes, Seeking, Show, Sisters, Smile, Stop Forcing, Sunrise, Surface, Take Hand, Than Fear, This World, Thought, Turn That Page, Understand, Walk Together
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A Haunting Place
Ghosts don’t require ancient castles or haunted Victorian homes. Sometimes the most haunting place is alone inside a person’s mind. A Haunting Place by Michael Doyle Inside my mind is a haunting place Filled with missed memories I wish to … Continue reading
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Tagged Alienation, Alone, Arise, Assassin, Awake, Break, Chains, Compart, Contentment, Contradictions, Coup, Cross-Examination, Cut Off, Doubt, Embrace, Eyes, Ghosts, Haunting, Head, Help, Hidden, Humble, Impossibility, Inherent, Inner Ghost, Inside, Late At Night, Loss, Lost, Mature, Me, Mind, Mirror, Missed Memories, Morning Light, Most, Nature, Peer, Photograph, Place, Poem, Poetry, Rattle, Ricochet, Said, See me, Self, Shade, True Heart, Truth
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On the 1619 Project
An ahistorical work that seeks to repudiate the founding principles of America won the Pulitzer Prize today. In my eyes, all luster is now gone to both the Nobel prizes and the Pulitzer with this move. It’s not … Continue reading
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Tagged Ahistorical, Alienation, All Against All, Allege, America, American History, Arbitrary, Assert, Attempt, Balkanization, Bill of Goods, Capricious, Compromise, Conceived, Consideration, Constitutional Convention, Content, Core, Curriculum, Declaration of Independence, Democracy, Discern, Division, Do Away, Enough, Equal Under Law, Fabric, Fairy Tales, False, Fiction, Founding Principles, Good, Grapple, Group Rights, Groups, History, Hit Piece, Identity Politics, Ill-Liberal, Ill-Liberalism, Illiteracy, Individuals, Integrity, Intent, Invention, Issue, Journalists, Lack, Legitimacy, Liar's Club, Liberty, Loud, Love, Meander, Mentality, Miscreants, Mob Rule, Nation, Nonsense, Notes, Oversold, Overtern, Photograph, Pluralism, Poem, Poetry, Principles, Privilege, Promise, Propaganda, Proposition, Public Good, Pulitzer Prize, Purpose, Real, Repubican Values, Repudiation, Repudicate, Reveal, Right Path, Said, Sake, Self Loathing, Self-Serving, Sincere, Social Justice, Socialists, Struggle, The 1619 Project, Told, Tool, Toxic, Trotskyite, True, Truth, Tryanny, Unalienable Rights, Unity, Untrue, Value, Victimhood, Virtue Signaling, Want, Won't Do, Wrong Minded
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Collection Recollection
Day 19 of Na/GloPoWriMo 2020 and the goal is a poem about a collection of whatever subject matter picked up along a walk. After a myriad of ideas, good and possibly not so good, I have gone with being … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020, Bed, Breadth, Camera, Climb, Collection, Digital, Eyes, Full, God, Greatest Artist, Hillsides, Hopes, Inspection, Kiss, Lights, Memories, Mindscapes, Mine, Na/GloPoWriMo, Nation, Night, Photograph, Photographs, Physicial, Poem, Poetry, Recollection, Rise, Safe, Said, Seen, Self Isolation, Share, Shine, Sit, Skies, Spread, Summer, Think, Time, World
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Cursed Fate
Once upon a not so long ago, even words spoken could get you accused of all sorts of things. Now it’s a new sort of dogma that we have to conform to or pay a wicked price. Funny isn’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Banal, Blame, Cause, Challenge, Charge, Clever, Contempt, Cunning, Curse, Deception, Deprive, Deveiver, Device, Dogma, Dream, Evil, Fate, Fire, Flames, Glower, Grow, Guilty, Head, Hell, Honest, Ill Manner, Innocent, Inspire, Judgment, Know, Men, Moral, Nightmare, Outlaw, Photograph, Pity, Poem, Poetry, Power, Pretty, Price, Said, Scheme, Shame, Sharp, Slip of Tongue, Smil, Theive, Thought, Tongue, Trial, Undone, Weary, Wicked, Word, Young
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Standard of Gold
There are a lot of reasons to have gratitude toward things learned and passed on through the generations and a lot to be learned and then go on to grow into our own future. This is a sixth poem in … Continue reading
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Tagged Address, Bless, Blows, Bluster, Build, Complex, Considerate, Dare, Decent Man, Dedicate, Difference, Discern, Dream, Faith, Find, Firm, Future, Gain, Generation, Gold, Good, Good Father, Gratitude, Ground, Grow, Harmony, Hour, Humble, Indicate, Insecurity, Learn, Lessons, Mission, Necessity, Pass On, Path, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Preference, Question, Quiet, Reach, Restrain, Road, Said, Selfish, Standard, Stars, Strong, Talk, the Word, Understood, Walk, Young
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 