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Thought For the Day: Throughout History, It Has Been the Inaction of Those Who Could Have Acted…That Has Made It Possible For Evil To Triumph
“Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most, that has made it possible for evil … Continue reading
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Tagged Acted, Evil, Haile Selassie, History, Inaction, Indifference, Known Better, Possible, Silence, Thought For the Day, Triumph, Voice of Justice
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Na/GloPoWriMo #15: Played Cards
Na/GloPoWriMo #15: Played Cardsby Michael DoyleMaybe it seems insistentTo be so persistentIn finding time an illusionWhile we all seek our absolutionOur veins beg for transfusionCued as it were by life’s confusionDespite being a fancy dancerAnd at moments, a romancerWe all … Continue reading
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Tagged Absolution, Agonized, Alarm, All of My Life, All That Is Left, Alone, Astride, Bring Any Good, Cancer, Cards, Charm, Chase Dreams, Cheap, Clearly, Confusion, Consigned, Cued, Days, Dime, Dirty Faces, Disarm, Easy, Endure, Fancy Dancer, Farms, Fate, Feeling, Find the Savior Last, Follow the Sun, Found the Cure, Future's Past, Grime, Hearts and Minds, Here We Are, Hold Tight, Illusion, In Our Heads, Inner Treason, Insistent, Its Confusion, Long Forgotten, Loved Or Love, Matter, Merciful, Moments, Mothers, Na/GloPoWriMo, Necromancer, Never Knowing, New, One More Time, Payphones, Persistent, Played Cards, Poetry and Poems, Proven Up, Quaint, Quietly, Reason, Remembered Sorrow, Rhyme, Rise Again, Romancer, Short, Silence, Sing, Somehow more, Something to Live For, Sound Out, Speak To Our Dead, Staring, Studied, Succumb, Talk, Them, Thoughts, Time, Tombstones, Tomorrow, Transfusion, Unpunished Crime, Utter, Veins, Verbal, We Might Find, What Have I done, What Would We Give, Wishes, Wishing, Worst Illusion, Yearly
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Na/GloPoWriMo #5: Pennsylvania In Transformation
Na/GloPoWriMo #5: Pennsylvania In Transformationby Michael DoyleBased on the prompt and Pennsylvania – Poetry Daily (poems.com)Other children, live freely and wildAs though energized to win the fight -Standing as I stood.Said in brave silenceWith me, as though violencesaid in shout. … Continue reading
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Tagged All Learning, As It Were, Bit, Born, Brave, Children, Down-n-Out, Empty, Energized, Feels Done, Fight, Holding Breath, Knowing, Lacking Game, Let It Go, Life, Life Free, Me, Moment, Na/GloPoWriMo, Other Is Due, Pennsylvania, Poem, Poetry and Poems, Quiet, Said, Short, Shout, Silence, Something, Stand, Stood, Stopped, Transformation, Uttering, Verse, Violence, Wild
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Thought For the Day: I Have Often Regretted My Speech, Never My Silence
“I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.” – Publilius Syrus (though often mistakenly attributed to Xenocrates or that that other great mind, “Anonymous”
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Tagged Never, Often, Publilius Syrus, Regret, Silence, Speech, Thought For the Day
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Thought For the Day: Truth Is Not Only Violated By Falsehood; It May Be Equally Outraged By Silence
“Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.” -Henri Frederic Amiel, philosopher and writer (27 Sep 1821-1881)
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Tagged Equal, Falsehood, Henri Frederic Amiel, Outrage, Silence, Thought For the Day, Truth, Violate
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Be Your Own Hero
Be Your Own Heroby Michael DoyleIncurable as a dreaming heroStubborn as a seeming zeroWe play our parts in masqueradeEach day lived within its charadeHiding ourselves behind the music we playCaught up in front of screens all dayBecause we cannot be … Continue reading
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Tagged Able, Abuses, Afraid, Against, Aloone, Answering, Answers, Believe, Born, Breath, Calls, Cancer, Charade, Circumstance, Condone, Convince, Cupidity, Cure, Cuts, Dark, Death, Despite, Dingy, Dirty, Double Edged Sword, Drink, Duplicity, Even, Fabric of Society, Filed Away, Find, Finding Clues, Forgot, Front, Half A Shot, Hero, Heroism, Hidden, Hiding, Hope, Ignore, Incurable, Justification, Lessons, Life, Madness, Make It Right, Malignant, Mask, Masquerade, Music, Night, Others, Pardon, Pause, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Profuse, Pushing Through, Put Aside, Real, Recess, Screens, See, Self, Silence, Speak, Stand, Stronger, Stubborn, Swallowed Pride, Take the Hit, Tasks, Tattered, Think, Torn, True, Truth and Light, Unbreakable, Unspeakable, Vast, Villainy, Violence, Warning, Who We Want to Be, Why, Worse, Your Own
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Awkward Silence Felt
Does anyone else ever get into routines? I suppose there is good and bad to these things. Awkward Silence Felt by Michael Doyle The awkward silence between Feels down, dirty and mean In pop culture’s references We’re coming down to … Continue reading
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Tagged Adventure, After All, Avoid, Awkward, Between, Confusion, Dare, Dark Clouds, Desperation, Expect, Familiarity, Feel, Feeling, Felt, Flow, Free, Free of Cost, Full, Go, Good and Bad, Grow, Guarantee, Hurt, Incongruity, Inspiration, Keep, Know, Lame, Learn, Lesson, Life, Live the Dream, Lost, Lot To Be Said, Lull, Might Be, Mind, Moments, Okay, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pop Culture, Prefect, Preference, Psychic, Puppet Master, Puppets, Reference, Regret, Revealing, Routine, Rumor, Rut, Same, Sameness, Say, Secrets, Seem, Shy, Signs, Silence, Sincerity, Sky High, Sleep, Soul, Truth, Work Out
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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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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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Thought For the Day: Throughout History, It Has Been…the Silence of the Voice of Justice…That Has Made It Possible For Evil To Triumph
“Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil … Continue reading
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Tagged Could Have Acted, Evil, Haile Selassie, History, Inaction, Indifference, Justice, Known Better, Matter, Possible, Silence, Thought For the Day, Triumph, Voice
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