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In the Complexity of This World
In the Complexity of This Worldby Michael DoyleAnger and other toxic emotionsCan linger with all their commotion.All of these feelings are indwelling,And are in our control. God willing.We grow up as boys in the hood,But the hope is that we … Continue reading
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Tagged Appreciation, Boys In the Hood, Commotion, Complexity, Control, Depth, Feelings, God Williing, Hope, Indwelling, Meaning, Mr. Rogers, Opportunities To Grow, Poetry and Poems, Saint, Snapshot, Step, Talked, The Bible, Toxic Emotions, Understood, Walked, Words
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Thought For the Day: There Is No Saint Without A Past, No Sinner Without A Future
“There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.” – Saint Augustine
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Tagged Future, Past, Saint, Saint Augustine, Sinner, Thought For the Day
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As Every Child Knows
As Every Child Knowsby Michael DoyleThere is a lot that isn’t knownAnd still yet, the legend has grownWas he real, or was he notOr maybe, as with many, much has been forgotSt. Nicholas of Myra is one of the fewSt. … Continue reading
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Tagged Biship, Champion, Children, Christian, Every Child, Evil, Forgot, Gifts, Good, Humble Beginnings, Inspire, Known, Knows, Krampus, Legend, Myra, Nicholas, Not, Poetry and Poems, Poseidon, Real, Saint, Secret, St. Francis of Assisi, St. Nicholas of Myra, Tire, Truth
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Virtue and Disobedience
Virtue and Disobedienceby Michael DoylePainting away your dayAs old records playEach portrait painted with feelingIs nothing less than soul-revealingThat is to say about the painters’ waysNot of the sitter, despite honoring his daysSpending time on crafting the right impressionThis is … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Artist's Confession, Confident, Control, Dangerous, Deal, Death, Depravity, Disobedience, Drink Away, Duress, Equally Unafraid, Evil, Explanation, Feeling, Genuis, Great Ideas, Heart, History, Holidy, Immoral, Indignity, Innocent, Knife Blade, Lips, Madman, Mask, Mystery, Old Records, Pain, Paint, Painter, Pawns, Phantom Lover, Plain, Poetry and Poems, Polish, Portrait, Possibility, Rationalization, Regrets, Rewrite History, Right Impression, Saint, See, Sitter, Skill Set, Sorrow, Soul Revealing, Strangeness of Life, Survivors, Truth, Virtue, Wolves, Wonder
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Venomously Bitten
Venomously Bittenby Michael DoyleOn this roller coaster of loveIt’s sometimes hard to keep track ofWho’s the saint, and who is sinningToo many complications can set things spinningThrowing in the towel isn’t how it’s doneNot if you’re fighting for your golden … Continue reading
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Tagged Affinity, Bitten, Chapters, Complication, Contrary, Cultivate, Deception, Done, Embrace, Empathy, Fight, Forgive, Garden, Gossip, Grace, Habits of Excellence, Integrity, Lives, Love, Mistakes, Other Side, Persistence, Poetry and Poems, Roller Coaster, Sad, Saint, Scenes, Sinning, Spin, Stability, Throwing In the Towel, Time, Track, Understanding, Vemonous, Venomously Bitten, Words, Written
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Happy Halloween 2023
Happy Halloween 2023by Michael DoylePumpkin, ghosts, and black catsCoffins, ghouls, and witches hatsIt’s a dizzying juxtapositionOf death in a freeform composition Each holiday has its own marked placeThat helps society’s children embraceThe traces of life that we all knowThat shift … Continue reading
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Tagged Acceptance, Black Cats, Children, Coffins, Composition, Death, Dormancy, Embrace, Fall, Fear, Freeform, Frivolity, Ghost, Ghouls, Grow, Halloween, Happiness, Happy Halloween 2023, Holiday, Horror Tales, Juxtaposition, Know, Laughter, Life, Magic, Marked Place, Mean, Memento Mori, Mortality, Movies, Nonsensical, Pieces, Poetry and Poems, Pumpkins, Reminder, Saint, Scare, Scares, Scattered, Shift, Smile, Society, Soul, Stitches, Teach, Trace, Whimsical, Winter, Wish, Witches, Witches Hats
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Searching For Signals
Searching For Signalsby Michael DoyleTrying to save our soulsIn the messes we makeSpinning out of controlThough all of our mistakesPressing out from the undergroundTo be just who it is that we areA part of all that we have foundIn the … Continue reading
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Tagged Better Living, Blind, Bluff, Caught, Chemicals, Circle, Class, Clever Thought, Dadaism, Despair, Destination, Devil, Dialog, Enough, Far, Feeling, Fog, Found, Hint, History, Identity, Life, Lyrical, Make, Meaning, Mess, Mind, Mistake, Mystery, Observation, Obsolescence, Optimism, Out of Control, Painting, Path, Poetry and Poems, Position, Possibility, Preconception, Reality, Saint, Save, Search, Self-Deception, Signals, Souls, Underground
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Thought For the Day: Every Saint Has A Past and Every Sinner A Future
“Every saint has a past and every sinner a future.” – Oscar Wilde, writer (1854-1900″”)
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Tagged Every, Future, Oscar Wilde, Past, Saint, Sinner, Thought For the Day
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Sure Hand of the Devil Dealt
The surest hand the Devil’s ever dealt is the deceit blotted out into the dark of night… Sure Hand of the Devil Dealt by Michael Doyle The bell tolls out into the black of night So little is seen in … Continue reading
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Tagged Ancestors, Awaken, Bad Dreams, Bell, Bell Tower, Black of Night, Bought, Candle, Cast, Child, Conceal, Cost, Crucifix, Danger, Darker Things, Deal, Dealt, Destiny, Devil, Diabolical, Dice, Door, Embrace, Face, Feeling, Felt, Flicker, Footsteps, Generation, Hand, History, Howl, Hurt, Inspection, Know, Less, Light, Locked, Locked Door, Lost, Lurk, Masque, Mind, Night, Nightmares, Old Village, Past, Persistence, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Present, Prison, Protection, Real, Reason, Reget, Reward, Saint, Search, Seen, Shadow, Shatter, Sins, Sky, Slam, Stab, Startle, Submerge, Sure, Surest Hand, Toll, Truth, Urge, Veneration, Vision, Wall, Ward, Whisper, Winds
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Be the Salt
Based in part on Matthew 5:13: Be the Salt by Michael Doyle The God who was faithful then Will be as faithful now as when When He made Goliath fall Shaking down all the walls The salt of earth made … Continue reading
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Tagged Culture, Cure, Earth, Faith, Faithful, Fall, Fall Out, Fear, Feeling, Forget, God, Goliath, Good News, Holy, Holy Ghost, Holy Star, Huddle, Humble, Influence, Isolation, Key, Light, Live, Matthew, Path, Pews, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prevention, Pure, Right, Saint, Salt, Sanctified, Sanctity, Sell Out, Silent, Sing, Society, Son, Spirit, Stand up, The Church, Truth, Walls, Youth
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