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The Gift of Darkness
The Gift of Darknessby Michael DoyleLifeGave me the gift of darknessStrifeIn a world filled with harshnessIt was a gift Though it took years to understandThoughts shiftAs you travel the years and the landDarkness Is as important as lightIt takes harshnessTo … Continue reading
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Tagged Anger, Burn, Candle, Compromise, Define, Defy, Doubt, Experience, Gift of Darkness, Harshness, Hate, Hide, Ignorance, Inside, Justify, Know, Land, Learn, Lesson, Life, Light, Madness, Need, No Place, Poetry and Poems, Promise, Refine, Right, See, Shadow, Share, Shift, Stare, Starkness, Stranger, Strife, Teach, Time, Too Late, Travel, True Sight, Understand, World, Wrong, Years
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Thought For the Day: If You Love Life, Don’t Waste Time, For Time Is What Life Is Made Up Of
“If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.’”– Bruce Lee
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Tagged Bruce Lee, Lifee, Love, Thought For the Day, Time, Waste
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In A Less Than Perfect World
In A Less Than Perfect Worldby Michael DoyleI look out into my living roomIt gives me hope instead of gloomTo see my daughters study by preferenceAnd not out of some required deferenceMaybe I did one or two things rightTo be … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Accord, Afraid, Better Things, Brave Young Ladies, Brilliance, Bring, Cajole, Confusing, Curled, Daughters, Deference, Destination, Dissipating, Dream, Elegance, Engineering, Express, Father, Feet Planted, Felt, Forward, Gloom, Goad, Gone, Happy Thought, Head, High Road, Hope, Ignore, Joy, Landed There, Less Than Perfect, Life, Living Room, Look, Lost, Love, Mislaid, Parent, Poetry and Poems, Preference, Procrasination, Rarified, Read, Reading, Reference, Reflect, Right, Sight, Sing, Tenacity, Time, Two, Universe, Walk, Well-Spoken, World
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Thought For the Day: Your Time Is Limited, So Don’t Waste It Living Someone Else’s Life
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner … Continue reading
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Tagged Courage, Dogma, Heart and Intuition, Inner Voice, Limited, Noise, Opinions, Other People's Thinking, Someone Else's Life, Steve Jobs, Thought For the Day, Time, Trap, Waste
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Venomously Bitten
Venomously Bittenby Michael DoyleOn this roller coaster of loveIt’s sometimes hard to keep track ofWho’s the saint, and who is sinningToo many complications can set things spinningThrowing in the towel isn’t how it’s doneNot if you’re fighting for your golden … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Affinity, Bitten, Chapters, Complication, Contrary, Cultivate, Deception, Done, Embrace, Empathy, Fight, Forgive, Garden, Gossip, Grace, Habits of Excellence, Integrity, Lives, Love, Mistakes, Other Side, Persistence, Poetry and Poems, Roller Coaster, Sad, Saint, Scenes, Sinning, Spin, Stability, Throwing In the Towel, Time, Track, Understanding, Vemonous, Venomously Bitten, Words, Written
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Second Chance Poker
Second Chance Pokerby Michael DoyleYou don’t truly knowWhat it’s like to live hollowHaving nowhere to goLiving in a jail cell’s shadowClinging to who you used to beSilently hoping for your dignityFeeling like your honor is goneIs this life worth going … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Blood, Chase, Cling, Comedy, Dignity, Disguise, Disintegration, Eyes, Fire, Grief, Hollow, Imagination, Indignation, Innocence, Jail, Killer, Life, Mud, Noose, Poetry and Poems, Poker, Relief, Rolling Up, Second Chance, Sorrow, Soul, Tears, Time, Tomorrow, Tragedy, Violence
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Owed To America 2024
Owed To America 2024by Michael DoyleMy daughters ask me why is it you cryI think back on history and will not lieToo many brave souls have fought and diedFor us not to have mourned and criedThere was a time when … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Ages, America, American Nation, Battle, Belief, Believe, Bend Their Knees, Bleed, Blue, Brave, Brave Souls, Cause, Ceaseless, Color, Courage, Cried, Cry, Danger, Daughters, Dedication, Defeat, Despotic Crown, Died, Fear, Fight, Fire, Fought, Freedom, Good, History, Hope, Ill, Imagination, Inspiration, Inspire, Internal Eney, Judgment Day, Justice, Kind, Land, Liberty, Lie, Love, Measure, More, Mourn, Nation, Owed To America 2024, Passing Years, People, Photography, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Red, Rights, Road, Save, Spark, Stand, Stand Tall, Street, Strength, Sweet Land, This Land, Time, Travel, Unbeatable, Values, White
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Thought For the Day: To Stop the Flow of Music Would Be Like the Stopping of Time Itself, Incredible and Inconceivable
“To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.” -Aaron Copland
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Tagged Aaron Copland, Flow, Inconceivable, Incredible, Music, Stop, Stopping, Thought For the Day, Time
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A Living Web
A Living Webby Michael DoyleOur minds have a superpowerIt’s the ability to project beyond the hourWe can be in the future or the pastTemporarily, though, it will not lastLanguage is the mystic secretIt can be soft or hard as concreteOur … Continue reading
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Tagged Ability, Beyond, Change, Choices, Concrete, Conform, Continuum, Echo, Every Word, Experience, Eyes, Flow, Future, Hour, Inside, Know, Knows, Language, Last, Learn, Living Web, Magic, Minds, Moment, More, Muse, Mystic Secret, Our Words, Past, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Project, Reach, Rearrange, Revelation, See, Serve, Soft, Spectrum, Super Power, Teach, Temporarily, Time, Tradition, Transform, Truth, Understand, Voices, World
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To Raise Godly Children
To Raise Godly Childrenby Michael DoyleTime travels as shadows grow longerAnd the need to be wiser is strongerI look on my children and hope the bestI look for answers that might pass the testAs we raise our children for successIt’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Above All the Religons, Actions, Affection, Answers, Attention, Authority, Believe, Best, Build, Children, Clear Expectations, Clear Rules, Comparison, Consistency, Control, Correction, Cue, Did, Direct, Do, Dream, Dress, Echoes, Encouragement, Example, Fair Consequences, Faith, Family, Fools, God's Way, Grace, Grown, Happiness, Hold, Holy Worship, Hope, Imprint, Instill, Instruction, Integrity, Intention, Keep, Known, Leave, Lessons, Live Righteously, Long Game, Long Ride, Longer, Look, Lord's Grace, Love, Maturity, Meant, Name, Parenting, Pass, Path, Place, Poetry and Poems, Presence, Presents, Promise, Quality, Quantity, Raise, Relationship, Rely, Rescue, Responsibility, Right, Right Direction, Rules, Said, Say, Shadows, Soul, Speaking Life and Love, Strong Balance, Stronger, Struggle, Success, Tears, Test, Tight, Time, Trace, Traces, Travel, Walk, Weep, Wise
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