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Minding the Gap
Minding the Gapby Michael DoyleAn angel looked at our pretense at good.Or the lack thereof, as it’s understood.Finding God where I call my earthly home,In His presence, I find I’m never alone.Blessings of good news are heard,No matter what’s happened … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Ability, Adversity, Angel, Bible, Blessing, Capability, Christianity, Correction, Earthly Home, Faith, Forgiven, God, Good News, Growth, Hardest Part, Heaven's Glory, Hesitation, His Presence, Holiness, Impatience, Instant Gratififiation, Jesus, Lamentation, Limitation, Minding the Gap, Opportuity, Overcome, Perseverance, Poetry and Poems, Pretense, Question, Rebllion, Refocus, Relationship, Right Direction, Sanctification, Season, Significance, Spiritual Improvement, Spiritual REalm, Stewardship, Sublime, Test, The Enemy, Thread, Trust, Understood, Upper Story, Waiting, Waiting Stars, Worship
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The Truth About Power
The Truth About Powerby Michael DoyleThe edges of rationality tatterWhile the People determine what matters.If there is one thing needed to learned,It’s the limits of power properly discerned.When a jaded politician wants to steal the hour,Maybe it’s best to show … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Agitation, Another's Complaint, Capital, Civic Stewardship, Congress, Edge, Grave, Hour, Jaded Politicians, Learn, Limits of Power, Matters, Oxygen, Poetry and Poems, Politics, Power, Rationality, Singularity, Test, The People, Truth, Understand, Washington, Wreath
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To Feel Good, Do Good
To Feel Good, Do Goodby Michael DoyleUnhappiness Is an affliction on bliss.By Cicero’s severed neck,Duty can make us into wrecksThose who live in their mindAre too often left behind.Such is the way of those in powerWho care only for a … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Advance, Advice, Affliction, Bliss, Cardinal Virtues, Cicero, Correct, Courage, Direct, Do Good, Duty, Everything, Faithful, Family, Feel Good, Glory, Honorable, Hour, Justice, Least Resistance, Life, Memory, Mind, Neck, Nothing, Path, Persistance, Poetry and Poems, Power, Price, Success, Temperance, Test, Unhappiness, Wisdom
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We Will Do the Rest
We Will Do the Restby Michael DoyleWith a little rain and the truest grit Following admonitions to never forget,We’ll know liberty’s tree from its roots grownTo the top of freedom’s leaves, deeply flowing.We’ve driven the distance to see the sightsAcross … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Adoninitions, Belong, Constitution, Constitutional Republic, Dare, Daughters, Democracy, Dictum, Distance, Eyes, Failures, Family, Fight, Flowing, Forget, Freedom, Government, Grit, Hearts, Hereditary, Honor, Hope, Improvement, Independence Day, Just Causes, Legendary, Liberty, Mankind, Misunderstanding, My Fault, Necessicty, Nobility, Obama, Poetry and Poems, Posterity, Rain, Republian, Righteous, Roots, Self-Evidenct, Sights, Sing, Song, Start, Stop, Struggle, Talk, Test, The Rest, Think, Thought, Tree, Trust, Truth, Tyranny, Unalienable Rights, Walk, We
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Questioning the Process
Questioning the Processby Michael DoyleIn and out of our lives, we hearThose thoughts around us that persevere.Pushing and prodding us with possibility,And we gravitate toward what has plausibility.There are no promises, only process.We take our nibbles here and there to … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, Best, Deference, Depth, Destination, Document, Dream, Endless Question, Experience, Familiies, Gravitate, Hear, Images, Improvisation, Intention, Jazz, Know, Life, Lives, Love, Memories, Mess, Nibbles, Persevere, Photographs, Plausibility, Pocket, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Promise, Question, Reach Out, Satisfaction, Syncopation, Test, The Process, Thoughts, Travel, Valid, Voyage
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Bumping Up Against
Bumping Up Againstby Michael DoyleBumping up against the edgesToes reaching out over the ledgesThe quest is given up for the idealAs we learn to settle for the realThe higher grounds are out of boundsAs we seek to find further soundsThat … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Belief, Better Off, Bleed, Boundaries, Bumping Up Against, Chaos and Contradiction, Choice, Clock, Dedication, Deeper Truths, Despite, Dreams, Edges, Expectation, False Starts, Fear, Find In Our Hearts, Further Sounds, Ghost, Guitars, Hear, Heartbreaks, Higher Grounds, Hours, Ideal, Idols, Ignorance, Incidental Heathens, Lack, Learn, Ledges, Love, Mistakes, New Paths, Note By Note, Out of Bounds, Pain Cuts, Play, Poetry and Poems, Pretense, Quest, Reading, Real, Rest, Sense, Settle, Someone Else, Test, Toes, Turn Back, Voice, Wilderness, Wish
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Due North
Due Northby Michael DoyleIn these daysWhen everything has gone frothyIn a million waysWe need those around to be worthyThat’s who my friend had always beenThe one I knew was good for the winEver since back in high schoolI knew her … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Alright, Always Been, Answer, Beat It, Brave, Calm, Cancer, Challenge, Come Hell or High Water, Concentration, Connected, Crisis, Days, Degree of Fascination, Demeanor, Due North, Facebook, Feel, Focus, Friend, Frothy, Glide, Good For the Win, Hallway, High School, Is, Joyous Laughter, Keep Things Real, Kept Cool, Lie On My Lips, Lifetime Past, Look, Lord, Lost Track, Million Ways, Mindfulness, More Than Fair, My Friend, Nobody's Fool, Paddleboarder, Peace, Perspective, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Progress, Reconnected, Reflective, Same As the Last, Same Smile, Searching For An Answer, Sigh, Simple, Smile, Soul, Stalled, Stay Still, Stride, Style, Surreal, Tear, Test, Time, Traded Quips, True North Star, Water, Wherever, Words, Worthy, Yesterday
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Thought For the Day: Nearly All Men Can Stand Adversity, But If You Want To Test A Man’s Character, Give Him Power
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” -Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President (12 Feb 1809-1865) (In Remembrance of Lincoln’s Birthday!)
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Adversity, Character, Lincoln's Birthday, Mankind, Nearly All, Power, Test, Thought For the Day
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So Begins Hope
So Begins Hopeby Michael DoyleSo begins hope for a golden ageWe stand as we turn our pageVowing in integrity to quench our thirstStep by step, we’ll make America firstAs exceptional as America’s past successTruth in challenges is sought in testsAs … Continue reading
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Tagged Ambition, America, Assassin's Bullet, Bad Policies, Begin, Borders, Candid, Challenges, Compete, Compromise, Country, Dreams, Economy, Excepational, Fight, Free Speech and Thought, Furture, God's Glory, Golden Age, Greatest Danger, Honor, Honor and Promise, Hope, Inflation, Inihbiition, Integrity, Join Hands, Light, Make America First, Merit, Mortal Sin, Nurture, One Nation, Ongoing Tragedy, Pillar, Poetry and Poems, Poverty, Quench Our Thrrst, Reach, Reclaim, Red White and Blue, Repair, Restoration, Safety and Freedom, Sense, Step By Step, Success, Test, Thoughts, Time, Trust, Truth, Truth and Justice, Wanton Crime
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