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To Stay Alive In All Seasons
To Stay Alive In All Seasonsby Michael DoyleWe give up our courageTrying hard to discourageOurselves or any othersAmong those we call our brothersBut not a single John Wayne aspirationWould save Pearl Harbor or our nationThe men present mostly fought to … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged A Thousand Images, All Seasons, Aspiration, Attack, Belly Crawling, Bitter Memories, Boys, Brave Men, Breath, Brothers, Burn, Competing Reasons, Courage, Courage and the Dead, Cry, Dark Stain, December 7th, Dire, Discourage, Earn, Expected, Fire, Fought, Ghosts, Great War, Heart, Hide, History, Infamy, Insane, John Wayne, Learn, Lessons, Make It Home Tonight, Memorial, Men, Modern-Day Cowboys, Nation, No Glory, Ourselves, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Real War, Reality, Remain, Return, Sadness, Scars, Seasons, Situation, Sleeping Giant Awoken, Smoke, Spoken, Start, Stay Alive, Story, Stumble, Survive, Survivors, Talk, Tears, The USS Arizona, Tragic Day, Turn Out Right, Unsuspected, Walk, World
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First Principles: Newspapers…serve As Chimneys to Carry off Noxious Vapors and Smoke
“Newspapers … serve as chimnies to carry off noxious vapors and smoke.” – Thomas Jefferson (1802)
Posted in First Principles
Tagged Chimneys, First Principles, Newspapers, Noxious, Serve, Smoke, Thomas Jefferson, Vapor
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Kalavale
Kalavaleby Michael Doyle In a Finnish woodWhere life is understoodTo be a magical thingThere were songs to singAnd laughter filled the airThe night washed away careAs we looked on the beautyThere amidst the trees A different music filled the airWith … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Arttist, Beat, Beauty, Care, Celebration, Colors, Dance, Dreams, Fascination, Finland, Finnish, Finnish Folk Art, Fire, Inspire, Kalavale, Laughter, Magical, Mead, Music, Night, Paint, Poetry and Poems, Pop, Romance, Satisfied, Sigh, Smoke, Songs, Stem van Helsinki, Strangers, Trance, Trees, Understood, Why, Wood
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Inspired By Conversation
Inspired By Conversationby Michael DoyleLife has its hitsThat come along the wayThe Devil has his duesWe all have to payIt’s a slow paradeThe passage of these yearsFilled with ups and downsIts smiles and its tearsBut of all the thingsThat have … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Along the Way, Beauty, Belong, Caught, Come and Gone, Connections, Conversation, Dare, Dawn, Destination, Devil, Dream, Dues, Exchange, Fascination, Favorite Song, Feel, Fire, Hits, Hope, Inside Joke, Inspire, Life, Lyrics, Note, Passage, Pay, Poetry and Poems, Rainbow Constellation, Real, Shimmer, Slow Parade, Smiles, Smoke, Soul Shine, Time, True, Ups and Downs, Wish, Words
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First Principles: Newspapers…Serve As Chimneys To Carry Off Noxious Vapors and Smoke
“Newspapers … serve as chimnies to carry off noxious vapors and smoke.” – Thomas Jefferson (1802)
Posted in First Principles
Tagged Carry Off, Chimneys, First Principles, Newspapers, Noxious, Smoke, Thomas Jefferson, Vapors
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Letting An Innocent Man Die
Yes, this is still a big issue if not the biggest issue with me left over from the work for which I will always take a bit of my dignity and honor (such as it is) from. Even one … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Another Day, Better, Big Issue, Breath, Brutal, Burn, Compel, Daze, Death, Decide, Devil, Die, Dry Eye, Electric Chair, Emotions, George Floyd, Guilty Man, Heart, Hell To Pay, High, Injustice, Innocent Man, Learn, Less, Let, Lie, Live, Nothing, Path of Destruction, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reform, Selma, Sigh, Smell, Smoke, Snare, Somethign, Teachable Moments, The Devil, Time, Unacceptable, Ways, Weak Man
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On Perspective and Horizon
A second look at photographic composition: On Perspective and Horizon by Michael Doyle A good clean background Focuses the attention When aptly found These photos are worthy of retention Layered photographs have their place But cleaner is best to embrace … Continue reading
Posted in Photographs & Memories
Tagged Add, Angles, Attention, Background, Beginner, Big Deal, Block, Build, Camera, Capture, Change, Clean, Complete, Composition, Cooking, Detail, Distraction, Drama, Embrace, Focus, Fog, Forward, Found, Glory, High, Horizon, Horizon Line, Human Being, Kick, Know, Layered Phototgraphs, Looking, Low, Matter, Mountain, Overdone, Perspective, Photographs, Photos, Picture, Place, Poem, Poetry, Popping Out, Read, Retention, Satisfaction, Seen, Shatter, Sing, Smoke, Story, Subject, Sun, Toward, Trick
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