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Parenting As We Go
Parenting As We Goby Michael DoyleHolding on so tightAs life brings dark and lightParenting the children trusted to usAnd doing our best just becauseGod loves us and we should love one anotherAs we are either serving as father or motherIt’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Acknowldge, Adjust, Allow, Approach, As We Go, Aspired, Beacon of Light, Because, Believe, Best, Bound, Bring Harm, Charm, Children, Choose, Commandments, Community, Dark and Light, Deceive, Depart, Doing Right, Encouraging, Express, Faith, False Colors, Family, Father or Mother, Freedom, God, God Loves Us, God's Goodness, God's Path, God-Inspired, Goodness, Grow, Harvest, Heart, Holding On, Homily, Illuminated, Impress, Kingdom, Life, Lines, Live Each Moment, Live Free, Love and Truth, Love One Another, Parent, Parenting, Parenting As We Go, Poetry and Poems, Praised, Pretenses, Profess, Raised, Shining, Symbols, Teaching, Tight, Trusted, Upright, Us, Words Matter, World, Youth
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Torn As A Teenage Girl’s Heart
Torn As A Teenage Girl’s Heartby Michael DoyleThis one has me in tears before I even startWatching torn as a teenage girl’s heartThe princess who loved me like her biggest heroYells at me and treats me as less than zeroOnly … Continue reading
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Tagged Arms, Asleep, Beautiful, Bed, Best Friend, Blessing, Bolder, Climb, Close, Crime, Daddy, Dead, Destroy My Will, Doubt, Fall, Feelings, Forgiving, Give Them My All, Good Night, Grow Out of This, Heart, Heart Hurts, Helping Her Out, Hero, Hormones, Hour Has Grown Late, Hour Later, Instead, Intensity, Kleenex, Knows, Less Than Zero, Life, Love and Respect, Loved Me, Loving, Miss, Neglect, Nothing Could kill, Older, On Her Side, Pillow, Poetry and Poems, Princess, Quietly Whisper, Rage, Reach Out, Reason For Living, Remember, Rushing Out, Said, Seriously, She Has This Thing, She'll Turn Around Again, Sleeping, Smiles Sweetly, Start, Study, Suddenly, Tears, Teenage Girl, Temper, Tight, Too Sensitive, Torn, Upend, Wise Woman, Years, Yell
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Thought For the Day: And the Day Came When the Risk It Took To Remain Tight Inside the Bud Was More Painful Than the Risk It Took To Blossom
“And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” -Anais Nin, writer (21 Feb 1903-1977)
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Tagged Anais Nin, Blossom, Bud, Day, Painful, Remain, Risk, Thought For the Day, Tight
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Just Like Hollywood
Just Like Hollywoodby Michael DoyleEvery baby truly belongsEven in the world of wrongsDreams turn into nightmaresIn this world filled with caresSometimes maybe it’s alrightTo know what’s worth the fightAnd maybe love is one of thoseThat would be one those we … Continue reading
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Tagged Alright, Baby, Belongs, Came Here To Win, Cares, Chose, Dreams, Eyes, Good, Hard Knock Lives, Hearts, Hold On, Hollywood, Lift Up, Love, Nightmares, No Good, Play It Out, Poetry and Poems, Push Back, Push Us Down, Put It Together, Run, Say Goodnight, Song, Strong, Those, Throwing the Towel In, Tight, Truth, Victor's Crown, World, Worth the Fight, Wrongs
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Is Reverence So Alien?
Is Reverence So Alien?by Michael DoyleAnd there it is againStated with righteous persistenceTrust is the necessary bondBehind peaceful coexistenceToo may ills bleed from greedArising in forms of aggressionPeace is easy enough to heedWhere love answers the questionsConflict splinters away all … Continue reading
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Tagged Alien, Answers, Anyone, Beliefs, Burning Bright, Cling, Conflct, Consumption, Contemplation, Darkness, Easy Enough, Evil, Faith, Forms of Aggression, Goodness, Greed, Hard To Believe, Heed, Light, Love, Negativity, Peace, Peacefulness, Poetry and Poems, Questions, Redemption, Resumption, Reverence, Righteous Persistence, Rule, Serendipity, Splinters, Tight, Too Many Ills, Trust, Unity, Waiting, World
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Never Enough of You
Never Enough of Youby Michael DoyleI didn’t know what I was afterUntil I heard your sweet laughterI hadn’t a clue what I was missingUntil you and I were kissingNever felt a hand that felt so rightUntil you were holding mine … Continue reading
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Tagged A Few More Smiles, All About, Clue, Days Like This, Deeply, Didn't Know, Dreamy Eyed, Each Memory We Build, Each Other's Faces, Every Moment, Every Turn of Events, Everything Will Be Alright, Felt A Hand, Filled With Love, Find You, Finding, Grab On Tight, Heard, Hold Me Close, Holding Mine, Hope, I Can Never Get Enough of You, Island Girl, Just Being You, Keep the Count, Kind of Kindness, Kiss By Kiss, Kissing, Love You, Missing, Moments So Precious, More and More, My Friend, My Lady, Mystified, Need My Smile, Never Enough of You, Never Replace, Our Story, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Quite the Road, Return, Seems, Seen Eyes, So Beautiful, So Right, Soar, Spend, Sworn, Telling Me, Thread By Thread, Tight, Traveling, Unraveling, What I Was After, Woke, Wonderful, Wonderful Things You Do, Worth While, You and I, You'll Always Love Me Too, Your Sweet Laughter
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Perfectly Bright, Exceptionally Right
Perfectly Bright, Exceptionally Rightby Michael DoyleLike a magic spark in the nightYour fire burned perfectly brightShining deep into my aching soulOne touch and I simply lost controlThere is sweetness on your lipsStaring into my eyes, hands on hipsFitting together so … Continue reading
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Tagged Aching Soul, All of the Love, Beyond My Words, Burned, Combination, Dancing, Deepest Fascination, Every Day, Every Moment, Everything Alright, Exceptionally Right, Fitting Together, Hands on Hips, Happy Measure, Hold You Closer, I Want To Hear, Intentional Connection, Into, Into My Ear, Into My Eyes, Lock, Lost Control, Lovingly Spend, Magic Spark, Meant To Be, Morning's Light, My Direction, Night, One Touch, Perfectly Bright, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Possibly Feel, Shining Deep, Souls Revealed, Sweetness, The Last Thing, Tight, Touch, Transcend, Want and Need you, Well Fitting, Whispering, Wonderfully, You and Me, Your Fire, Your Hands, Your Lips, Your Love, Your Voice
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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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My Beauty Queen
My Beauty Queenby Michael DoyleThere you are, my beauty queenAlways seen if only in my dreamsYou are the holder of my heart’s keyIt’s wonderful how you enchant meI love watching you sleep at nightIn my arms wrapped up cozy and … Continue reading
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Tagged Arms, Beauty Queen, Between, Bliss, Cozy, Day, Dreams, Enchant, Find, Found, Heart, heartbeat, Here, Holder, Key, Kiss, Last Time Seen, Likewise, Lost Moments, Love, Make It Last, More and More, Night, Passes, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Savor, Seen, Shine, Sleep, Slow It down, The Score, Tight, Too Fast, Truth, Wake Me, Wanting, Watching, Wrap, You, You Are Mine, You Say
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In Preparation For Journey
Another poem from the sermons on the dock series: In Preparation For Journey by Michael Romani In the preparation for journey There are steps meant for me Putting my house in order is right As I approach Heaven’s light To … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, Approach, Belong, Breath, Christian, Clung, Engrave, Foundation, Heaven, Home, Hope, House In Order, Inspiration, Journey, Know, Life, Light, Pass, Photograph, Plan, Poem, Poetry, Preparation, Right, Righteousness, Satisfaction, Stone, Tight
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 