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First Principles: If You Want Something You’ve Never Had, You Must Be Willing To Do Something You’ve Never done
“if you want something you’ve never had, you must be wiling to do something you’ve never done.” –-Thomas Jefferson
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Tagged First Principles, Never Done, Never Had, Something, Thomas Jefferson, Want, Willing To Do, You
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Until the Sky Cracks
Until the Sky Cracksby Michael DoyleI get the factThat it’s not an actWhile the sun still glowsYour pessimism growsUntil the sky cracksAlong the back tracksThat play like yesterdayAnd its charades along the wayIt sounds like somethingWe had decided was nothingBrought … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Act, Back Track, Better, Bone, Can't Know, Charades, Cling, Cracks, Dog, Fact, Fear, Glows, Gone, Grows, Know, Left It Alone, Let It Go, Melancholy, Nothing, Passive Aggressive, Pessimism, Play, Poetry and Poems, Pretend, Sky, Something, Sun, There, Think, Yesterday
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The Clock Keeps Ticking
The Clock Keeps Tickingby Michael DoyleFrom that pristine sense of momentWhen we come out of the wombThe clock starts tickingWith all its joy and tormentWe become the life in the roomMaking things happen through our kickingIt is in building the … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged All Your Love, Along, Along the Way, Best Moment, Build, Celebration, Chased Around, Clock, Done, Dreamers, Dreams, Emotion, Example, Falling Down, Feel, Found, Full, Getting Back Up, Glass, Grateful, Ground, Here's To You, Honesty, Integrity, Intimacy, Joy, Jubilation, Kick, Knees, Known, Landing, Last Moment, Lead, Life, Love of Life, Loved the Most, Make Things Better, Matter of Choice, Moment, Moments, Mouth, Nothing, Number, Place, Play, Poetry and Poems, Prayed, Questions, Real, Relevancy, Room, Say, Scrap, Search, Smile, Something, Stormy Weather, Tale, Tears, Tick, Toast, Torment, Voice, Way, Womb
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To Live Beyond the Grave
To Live Beyond the Graveby Michael Doyle There are things I think onThat I wish not to be goneThere are words I have saidThat might help others ahead it’s these things I would saveTo extend these beyond the graveIn hope … Continue reading
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Tagged Adding Up To Nothing, Ahead, Aspiration, Beyond the Grave, Choose To Write, Confide, Cried, Dare, Dreams, Emptiness, Extend, Gone, Grave, Happiness, Help Others, Hope, Inspiration, Into, Keep, Lead, Live, Mean, Might, Need, Not Today, Paper, Poetry and Poems, Purpose, Said, Save, Secrets, Share, Smiles, Someone, Something, Something Yet To say, Stepped, Tears, Things I Think On, Words, Words of Care, Words of Hope
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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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Carnival of Ordinary Love
Carnival of Ordinary Loveby Michael DoyleI guess you could say That I’m nothing extraordinaryThat my life has been livedLike a carnival of the ordinaryAlways keeping my eye on the prizeThat had yet to be wonA life lived with no alibisUntil … Continue reading
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Tagged Anything, Carnival, Chase, Compulsion, Consequences, Dance, Drawn To You, Embrace, Extraordinary, Giving My All, Keeping My Eyes On the Prize, Laughter, Life, Lived, Making Music, Memoments, Near You, No Alibis, Nothing, Ordinary Love, Paint, Persist, Poetry and Poems, Power, Resist, Romance, Sanctity, Something, Treasure, Undone, Want and Need, What We're After, Whatever It Takes To Be Believed, Yet To Be Won, Your Face
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In the Sweetness of Money
In the Sweetness of Moneyby Michael DoyleThe band leader says, “One, two..”And the band knows what to doEspecially slick with his brand new shoesFilled as he is with his particular viewsStepping it up to make it betterIn the harmony of … Continue reading
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Tagged Back Luck, Band, Band Leader, Better, Can't Tell A Fool Nothing, Chart, Crooked Smile, Dance, Desire, Devil, Face, Found, From the Heart, Funny, Harmony, Headlines, Heritage, History, Leftovers, Level, Leverage, Ma Rainey, Misonstrue, Money, Moves, Nailing, New Shoes, Particular, Patent Leather, Piper's Price, Poetry and Poems, Reverent, Right, Sake, Selling Souls, Selling Voice, Set On Fire, Simple, Solid Choice, Something, Sound, Stew, Stomp, Strung Up, Sweetness, Sweetness of Money, Temple, Tight, Whispered Tales, Wicked Ways
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Thought For the Day: Once In Our World, A Stable Had Something In It That Was Bigger Than Our Whole World
“Once in our world, a stable had something in it that was bigger than our whole world.” – C.S. Lewis
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Tagged Bigger, CS Lewis, Once, Our, Something, Stable, Thought For the Day, Whole, World
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