Tag Archives: Stay

This Love Is Here To Stay

This Love Is Here To Stayby Michael DoyleIn our final steps toward the altarI feel that sometimes we falterIt seems for all purposes and intentsThe pressure is on, and it’s getting intenseMany factors lead to some off-daysThat leaves us side-tracked … Continue reading

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Tough Prayers Silently Spoken

Tough Prayers Silently Spokenby Michael DoyleWe need to keep ourselves humbleHowever, the world may tumbleWe need to be on our knees and prayOur hearts are in gratitude and will stayThis is our best good answerAs we live life’s flow like … Continue reading

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Flip Flops and Cold Drinks

Flip Flops and Cold Drinksby Michael DoyleFlip flops and cold drinksCan only be borne of summer daysThis season makes you thinkOf stolen pleasures in so many waysMy favorite flavor, cherry redWas kissable from her lipsSo went the thoughts in my … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: Speculation Is Perfectly All Right, But If You Stay There You’ve Only Founded A Superstition. If You Test It, You’ve Started A Science

“Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you’ve only founded a superstition. If you test it, you’ve started a science.” – Hal Clement, science fiction author (30 May 1922-2003)

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The Magnificence of Significance

The Magnificence of Significance by Michael DoyleFrom the beginning, we have the visionWe might lack in our precisionBut we know what we’re going forFaith is the kindness that opens the closed doorIn all the paths we are shownWe look back … Continue reading

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Growing Vulnerability

Growing Vulnerabilityby Michael DoyleSome fools say that men don’t cryBut let me tell you, that’s just a lieIt’s so hard to express inner truthAnd it’s played that way since youthWe need to get the curtains down and outMoving hard beyond … Continue reading

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A Hymn For A Winter’s Day

A Hymn For A Winter’s Dayby Michael DoyleLeaning by the firesidePutting away my vain prideFear is not my wayI’ll follow the Lord in all my daysGod’s house is my dwellingGod’s love is my true ceilingAs I find my heart in … Continue reading

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Sparked Distraction

Sparked Distractionby Michael DoyleAll the world is extraordinaryThere is so much to seeIn every moment and all actionsThere is the spark of distractionHopefully and creativelyYour safety is found in beautyAs you go out into the world to seeAll there is … Continue reading

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That You Know Me

That You Know Meby Michael DoyleYou are the same God todayAs you were in my yesterdayYou are the same God who has stayedFaithfully as the God to whom I prayedAll those years so long agoAnd through all my ebbs and … Continue reading

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Autumn Seen Starkly

Autumn Seen Starklyby Michael DoyleOctober 2nd and the days are wearing thinI suppose it is true that Winter is coming againThis, then, is the truth of Autumn seen starklyAs the days grow shorter and are seen darklyPoetry captures violent moments … Continue reading

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