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With A Kiss To the Heart
With A Kiss To the Heartby Michael DoyleWith a kiss to the heartMy love woke with a startThinking on the words saidAnd waking parts thought deadSpeaking ’til early mornMy soul became a smile wornUntil it reaches my faceFinding what it … Continue reading
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Tagged Coffee, Compose, Days, Dream n, Early Morn, Face, Forgot, Form, Gone, Halo, Heart, Heaven, Hello, Hopeful, Kiss, Look Away, Man, My Life's Song, My Love, Passion, Patiently, Poetry and Poems, Prayers, Pull Away, Replace, Rewarm, Say, Slip By, Smile, Soul, Speaking, Start, Stay, Thinking, Thought, Too Long, Try, Wait, Words
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The Problem With Social Justice
The Problem With Social Justiceby Michael DoyleLook at this street full of foolsWho believe that they are heaven sentThey act just like a bunch of toolsYelling at others that they need to repentEach thinking themselves true activistsUrging the rest of … Continue reading
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Tagged Active Hate, Active Listening, Activists, Algorithms, All Life Is Still Sacred, Amphetamines, Apostacy, Ashes, Battle Lines, Better World, Catechism, Choice, Church of Social Justice, Collective Effervescence, Community, Countenance, Creatures of Habit, Crush, Dagnabbit, Differences in Opinion, Different Views, Dissent, Each Soul, Echo Chambers, Exclude, Expression, Fire and Brimstone Language, Fools, Frame, Freedom and Liberty, Gentle, Good Versus Evil, Grand Insight, Hate, Heart and Mind, Heaven Sent, Hell Bent, Lessons, Masses, Memes, Merit, Norm, Patience, Poetry and Poems, Political Idols, Politics, Preach, Priestly Classes, Problem, Reactivists, Real Equity, Repent, Reverence, Shame, Sides, Silence, Social Justice, Soul, Spent, Street, Tolerance, Tools, True Freedom, Voices
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Never Give Up
A poem written dedicated to my daughters in conjunction with the last class in a series on building resilience in life and to encourage them to chase their dreams always! Never Give Upby Michael DoyleLife like a Rembrandt paintingIs meant … Continue reading
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Tagged Believe, Bold, Chase, Control, Daughters, Dedication, Dim, Doing One's Best, Dreams, Earn, Father, Flair, Forgiven, Grow, Human Being, Inspiration, Know, Learn, Life, Live, Never Give Up, Poetry and Poems, Rembrandt, Resilience, Sacrifice, Soul, Stars, Swim, Unafraid
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Recovering the Way To Self
Recovering the Way To Selfby Michael DoyleComing back from catastropheTakes the best of you and meStill you must move towardThis attitude to move forwardIn overcoming adversityThis is the challenge for you and meDramatic changes come and goThis is the path … Continue reading
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Tagged Ambitions, Best Information, Best of You and Me, Best Self, Bring, Catastrophe, Challenge, Changing Moments, Character, Dramatic Changes, Dreams, Ebbs and Flows, Extended Family, Favor, Focus, Forward, Full Transformation, Give, Goals, Going On, Going Through Something, Grateful, Journey, Latitude, Length, Life's Flow, Love, Mere Mortals, Moments of Weakness, Nobody Else, Odds, One Hundred, Overcoming Adversity, Path Back, Poetry and Poems, Positive, Recover, Self, Shaken, Share, Soul, Spaces, Steps, Strength, Strong, Superman, Talk, Tenacity, Toward, True Success, Trust, Walk the Walk
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Road Tripping
Road Trippingby Michael DoyleIn a long history of driving placesFilled with love and smiling facesWe took it up to a whole new levelWhere boredom was the only DevilIt’s all in about that sort of journeyOn our way to the edges … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Better, Blame, Boredom, Broken Shame, Capability, Care of Broken Persons, Case, Choices, Comfort Zones, Concept Without Context, Conflcts, Containers, Deceive, Declarative, Destination, Detection, Devil, Drink, Driving Places, Earth, Edges of Eternity, Embrace, Endless Smile, Equal In Weight, Excitement, Experience, Faith of Promises, Flaws, Goodness, Goodness and Mercy, Grace, Hard Work, Harvest, Hearts, Heaven, History, Holiness, Hope, Incitement, Journey, Justice, Laws, Leaning In, Living Testimony, Living Waters, Loaded Conversation, Love, Managed Shame, Mission Field, Motivation, Narrative, Parsimony, Poetry and Poems, Preference, Receive, Reflected Contemplation, Road Tripping, Rrevealed, Samaria, Seder, Sending Capacity, Setting Example, Shared Grace, Shield, Smiling Faces, Soul, Standing Apart, Tools, Tread, Truth, Veil, Walk, Way In, Weigh In, Weight, Whole New Level, Worthwhile
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In the I-IV-VII
In the II IV VIIby Michael Doyle In the I IV VIII just might playMy way to blues heavenBut I wouldn’t want to really say. It’s just another moment in this dayTroubles found and troubles goneNo real matter to how … Continue reading
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Tagged Belongs, Blues, Blues Heaven, Chill, Circles, Crossroads, Crowd, Cry and Play, Curved, Day, Dig In Deep, Drawn, Etch, Every Day, Fall, Feeling, Find, Fogot, Found, Gone, Groove, Guitar, I-IV-VII, Incendiary, Living Life, Lost Mind, Loud, Memory, Mind, Moment, Night, Note, One Too Many, Play, Poetry and Poems, Question, Real Matter, Right, Room, Say, Sing, Sliding Tones, Slow Roll, Song, Soul, Sting, Strings, Tomorrow, Troubles, Tumbling Dice
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Thought For the Day: The Main Thing Is To Have A Soul That Loves the Truth and Harbours It Where He Finds It
“The main thing is to have a soul that loves the truth and harbours it where he finds it. And another thing: truth requires constant repetition, because error is being preached about us all the time, and not only by … Continue reading
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Tagged Consciousness, Constant Repetition, Encylopedias, Error, Find, Harbor, Individuals, Love, Main Thing, Masses, Newspapers, Preached, Schools, Soul, Thought For the Day, Time, Truth, Universities, Wolfgang von Goethe
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Thought For the Day: Neither Genius, Fame, Nor Love Show the Greatness of the Soul. Only Kindness Can Do That
“Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.” -Jean Baptiste Henri Lacordaire, preacher, journalist, and activist (12 May 1802-1861)
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Tagged -Jean Baptiste Henri Lacordaire, Fame, Genius, Greatness, Kindness, Love, Neither, Show, Soul, Thought For the Day
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Moonkyst and the Twisted Fae
Moonkyst and the Twisted Faeby Michael DoyleIn the early morning mistWe dream our dreams moonkystit’s a fantasy, some might sayBut it gets us through another daySome dance the dance of twisted faeWhile the music plays; they swayAs if it might … Continue reading
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Tagged Believe, Best, Better This Way, Childhood Days, Dance, Day, Dream, Early Morning, Eyes, Fantasy, Games To Play, Head, Hurt, Last Fantasy, Memories, Mist, Moments, Moonkyst, Music, Pillow, Play Out Life, Poetry and Poems, Reality, Rest, Reverie, Say, Silver Screen, Smile, Soul, Sway, True, Twisted Fae, View, Whimsical, Worth the While, Yesterday
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Falling In the Darkness
Falling In the Darknessby Michael DoyleWhatever your beliefI do not mean you griefPlease don’t be annoyedWhen I explain about the voidThat some see and believeBecause it is what they conceiveBetween God and brother manThat confuses us when it canSome react … Continue reading
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