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In the Solitude of Darkness
In the Solitude of Darknessby Michael DoyleTo the degree that I do not fearI am powerful enough to persevereI say this with a heavy-hearted sighAs my soul fixes its intellectual eyeThe love and rage that exists inside meHave become the … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Beast, Beginning, Bitter Instinct, Change, Consolation, Creativity, Darkness, Depravity, Design, Destination, Divine, Dreams, Ending, Explore, Extinct, Fallen Angel, Fear, Harshness, Heart, Heart of Desire, Howl, Intellectual Eye, Knees, Level, Lie, Life, Love, Love and Rage, Malignant Devil, Misery, Outstretch, Persevere, Philosophy, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Sigh, Snarl, Solititude, Solitude, Soul, Understand, Wickedness, Wild Seas and Regions, Work, World's Secrets, Wounded Hand
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Walking In A Mystery
Walking In A Mysteryby Michael DoyleThe preacher, in his way of reachingHas spent his time preachingThe fullness of God’s holy wordBounces in letters that have become blurredIn all of God’s glorious mysteryWe’ve heard history and prophecyJoined together as God’s legacyThe … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Bible, Every Way, Faith, Focal Point, God, God's Legacy, Good Plan, Goodness and Control, History and Prophecy, Holy Spirit, Holy Word, Impact, Jesus, Letters, Malign and Distract, Mystery, Pillars, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Preacher, Revelatioin, Satan's Lies, Shaken Faith, Today, Understand, Walk, Yesterday
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Love Is A Choice
Love Is A Choiceby Michael DoyleSometimes I silently look at youIn awe and wonder at all you doAnd I know, it’s true what some sayI fall deeper for you with each dayFor the good and bad of this voiceI know … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged A Thousand Times Over, Atttention, Awe and Wonder, Best, Boundary, Choice, Close, Closer Still, Comfort, Cosmos, Depth, Face, Fall Deeper, Forget, Forgiveness, Gauge, God, Good and Bad Days, Grow, Healing, Hold Your Hand, I, Intention, Keep You, Kind, Know, Life, Limits, Live, Look, Love, Love Is A Choice, Loving Embrace, Mind, Moment's Breath, More Than A Feeling, My Love, Needs, Poetic Pretense, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Process, Quandary, Quanitfy, Relationships, Remember, Sanctuary, Say, Selfish, Selfless, Sentence, Share, Singulre, Spirituality, Step Forward, Survive, Test, Thrive, True Love, Understand, Upset, Voice, Ways, Whisper, Withstand, World's Strife, Worth, You
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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
Posted in Photographs & Memories
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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In the Heat of August
In the Heat of Augustby Michael DoyleRising temperatures affect the moodWith noisy insects seeming to intrudeSome live to complain line after lineBut I think instead, I’ll make August mineEven a poet or two finds it a povertyThat they cannot enjoy … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Affect, August, Autumn, Blue Moon, Children, Complain, Dreams, Dusk, Embrace, Evening Woods, Explore, Favorite, Feast, Fields of Flowers, Fireflies, Forget, Fruit, Heat, Helen Hunt Jackson, Hours, Intrude, Line After Line, Magic, Mine, Mood, Moon Beams, Nature, Noisy Insects, Poet, Poetry and Poems, Pools, Poverty, Regret, Ripe, Rising Temperatures, Soul, Summer's Last Stand, Sunny Days, Swim, Swimming Holes, Tapestry, Think, Understand, Violets
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I Stand Justified
I Stand Justifiedby Michael DoyleGod’s grace rewrote my storyTo be touched by His gloryBy grace, I will testifyAbout the God that I deifyGreater things have yet to comeAs we join linked to His kingdomAll that good that I can conceiveBecomes … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Above Us All, Ages, Apart, Blessed, By Grace, Church, Clever, Crumbled, Deify, Efforts, Forever, God, God's Grace, Guide, Healed, Hearts, Held Up, Holy, Holy Name, Joined, Justified, Kill, Life, New Possibility, One Path, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Recall, Remain, Resonate, Rewrote, Sacred Hand, Seek, Self-Crucified, Separate, Shown, Smart Enough, Span, Stand, Story, Testify, The Lord, Thousand Generations, Thousand Pages, Times, Tried, Tumbled, Understand, Veneration, Wiser, Worthy, Written, Wrong
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How Much Law Is Enough Law?
How Much Law Is Enough Law?by Michael DoyleIt is no secret that laws weren’t to be numerousNor were our laws meant to be written as voluminous Every one of our Founding Fathers made that clearWhen they said as much and … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Aspiration, Average Man, Clear, Command, Complex, Complexity, Demand, Expected, Explode, Explore, Facts, Founding Fathers, Freedom and Liberty, Glory, Graze, Hand, Human Story, Law, Maze, Measure, Measures, Nation, National Goal, Needed, Numerous, Ordinary Americans, Our Republic, Our Soul, Outrages, Pages, Poetry and Poems, Qualitative, Quantitative, Rationale, Regulatory Law, Rejected, Seldom, Simplicity, Soul, The People, Tolerated, Tyrannical, Understand, Voluninous, Written
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In Beginning To Chill Hostility
In Beginning To Chill Hostilityby Michael DoyleIn truth, Christ came to save us allBringing us peace, as we might recallChrist has already graced us as He’s doneIn the name of the Father, the Spirit, and the SonIn this world, hanging … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Align, Argument, Attention, Begin, Better Day, Bind, Blowback, Bread, Capture, Case Study, Chill, Christ, Christians, Civility, Confidence, Controversy, Conversation, Corruption, Critical Thinking, Derivations, Echo Chambers, Embrace, Eternal Liberty, Fall Short, Father, Golgotha, Good Repute, Grace, Guided By God, Hands of Providence, Holiness, Hostility, Humility, Impure, Incendiary, Insensibility, Intention, Know, Life's Purposes, Lip Service, Morality, Our Times, Passion, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Preach, Pretend, Public Square, Reach, Reasoned Dispute, Rules of Engagement, Seem, Son, Spirit, Spoken, Struggle, Study, Surface, True, Truly Woken, Truth, Understand, Words, World
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Road Trips With My Daughters 2024
Road Trips With My Daughters 2024by Michael DoyleThere’s a sort of magic I learned as I grewThat traveling with children reveals anewThe wonders and enchantments there are to findAlong with the souvenirs that serve to remindOne of the places gone … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged 2024, Adventure, Beach, Believe, Bliss, Children, Creativity, Daughters, Dinner, Families, Glory, Growth, Happiness, Hours, Imagination, Ingenuity, Innovation, Investment, Lake Erie, Mage, Memories, Michigan, Perfection, Place, Plan, Poetry and Poems, Possible, Road Trip, Souvenirs, Story, Summer's Sun, Sunset, The Henry Ford, Travel, Understand, Wonders
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