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First Principles: We Cannot Learn From One Another Until We Stop Shouting At One Another, Until We Speak Quietly Enough So That Our Words Can Be Heard
“In these difficult years, America has suffered from a fever of words; from inflated rhetoric that promises more than it can deliver; from angry rhetoric that fans discontents into hatreds; from bombastic rhetoric that postures instead of persuading. We cannot … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Deliver, Difficult Years, Discontent, Fever, First Priinciples, Hatred, Heard, Lean, One Another, Posture, Promise, Rhetoric, Richard M. Nixon, Shout, Speak Quietly, Voice, Words
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Voice Sang Soft
Voice Sang Softby Michael DoyleYour voice sang softly like a melody.It’s hard to say what it did to me.Then and there from the very start,Your love was gentle, blooming in my heart.Your smile might be your special power,As it captivated … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Begun, Belong, Better, Blindness, Bloom, Blow, Born, Choice, Complete and Strong, Distant Seasons, Everybody Knows, Eyes, Feel, Fire of Love, Flower, Forever, From, Future, Gentle, Glow, Grateful, Heart, Hearts Beat, Kind Words, Kindness, Life, Linger, Love, Magic, Melody, Miracle, Music, Night, Night Breeze, One, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Power, Pray, Reason, Right, Same, Sang, Smile, Soft, Starlit Sky, Start, Together, Unforgettable, Voice, Walk, Words, Worlds, Writing, Your Love
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Face Painted As Comedy
Face Painted As Comedyby Michael DoyleFrom herder of cats to herder of men,The voice of confusion thinks itself Zen.Thirty years of perverted energyHas produced something akin to synergy.In this passage of marbled historyAre the layers of false controversy That have … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Alone, America, Change, Choice, Comedy, Comfortably Numb, Confusion, Controversy, Die, Energy, Face Paint, Falure, Gravity, Grounded, History, Laughter, Levity, Masquerade, Neurosis and Anexiety, Original Ideas, Own, Passage, Pink Floyd, Poetry and Poems, Polite Society, Proud, Question, Rearrange, Reply, Rough Crowd, Sketches, Static, Success, Synergy, Talk, Total Sum, Voice, Walk, Zen
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Echoing the Grace
Echoing the Graceby Michael DoyleWorthy of the Lord’s call,I am prayerful about all.I feel His joy everydayAs He changes my every way.The Holy Spirit guides me,Overflowing inside of me.There is a need for His strengthAs long as the day’s length.My … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Change, Choir of Angels, Day's Length, Doubt, Echo, Grace, Heal, Heart, Holy King, Holy Spirit, Joy, Lord's Call, Overflow, Poetry and Poems, Power, Praise, Prayerful, Sing, Strength, Voice, Worthy
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Victory Worn
Victory Wornby Michael DoyleWhen we talk about my king,I can’t help but sing.Wide awake with praise,I lift my voice in all my days.Into the world, He shines His light.Darkness is defeated in this fight.With Grace given on Calvary,He has given … Continue reading
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Tagged Arose, Calvary, Darkness, Days, Devil, Dignity, Down, Enemy, Felt Victory, Fight, Grace, Heaven, Heaven and Earth, His Life, Holiness, Holy Veil, Jesus, Light, Lion, Mine, My King, Parades, Poetry and Poems, Powerfully Real, Praise, Reveal, Seamlessly, Sing, Stone, Talk, The Lamb, Torn, Victory Worn, Voice
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Father In A Modern World
Father In A Modern Worldby Michael DoyleBeing a father who is generationally removedLeaves very little feeling that life has improved. The world is spinning, and it feels blurredWhen I think of the changes that have occurred.I watch my daughters rooting … Continue reading
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Tagged Aspiration, Believe, Blur, Broken Nations, Career, Change, Choice, Cradle, Daugvhters, Father, Feelling, Generationally Removed, Improved, Life, Modern World, Occur, Poetry and Poems, Relationship, Spin, Struggle, Voice, World
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Thought For the Day: Opinions Alter, Manners Change, Creeds Rise and Fall, But the Moral Law Is Written On the Tablets of Eternity
“Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity. For every false word or unrighteous deed, for cruelty and oppression, for lust or vanity, the price has to be paid … Continue reading
My Living Prayer
My Living Prayerby Michael DoyleLooking on the mountainsDown to the seasLiving waters from the fountainsI live my life to pleaseThe God of generationsBringer of true venerationWe need you, here and nowBelieving in the somehowThat gets me day to dayAs I … Continue reading
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Tagged Believe, Comunion, Connection, Day To Day, Fountain, Generation, God, God Is Always There, Grace, Here and Now, Jesus, Life, Live and Pray, Living Prayer, Living Waters, Mounatains, Peace, Place, Please, Poetry and Poems, Sacrifice, Sea, Somehow, Spiritual Reunion, Suffice, Thankful, True Choice, Veneration, Voice, Wonderful
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An Introduction To First Principles
There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily.” —George Washington (1795) In the affirmative: Though the founding principles of the United States were drawn from another era, these principles remain essential to … Continue reading
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Tagged Acceptable Authority, Aesop, America, American Revoluation, Branches, Constitution, Contemporary World, Declaration of Independnence, Delegated Rolles, Elites, Equality, Era, First Principles, Founding Principles, Franchise, Freedom, George Washington, Government, Government's Perogative, History, Humanity, Introduction, Justice, Law, Liberty, Madison, Nation, Natural Rights, Not Equity, Philosophy, Politics, Progressive Agenda, Property Rights, Providence of God, Pursue, Regressive, Representative Voice, Republic of the United States, Rights, Seek, Shadows, Shining Example, Straight Course, The People, Thomas Hobbes, Truth, Unalienable, United States, Voice
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Weight To Words
Weight To Wordsby Michael DoyleIn these, the end of daysI think of a million waysWe needed to attach weight to wordsAnd all of the misdeeds occurredLife’s constant motion gets the best of meWhen I think of all that might yet … Continue reading
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