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Moonbow Symphony
Moonbow Symphonyby Michael DoyleMy daughters and I are proneTo take all-day drivesPreferably together, not aloneTo feel the peace of being aliveLast weekend, early on SaturdayOur packed-up SUV got underwayThe goal was to see the MoonbowTo Cumberland Falls, we would goLexington … Continue reading
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Tagged Adventure, Alive, All-Day Drives, Beautiful Phenomenon, Beauty, Blaze, Bluegrass, Breeze, Colors, Crowd, Cumberland Falls, Cumberland Gap, Daniel Boone, Daughters, Days, Design, Expected, Forest Green, Goal, Gray, High, Horses, Ledgge, Lexington, Lifestyle, Light, Luck, Magic, Mist, Moon, Moonbow, Moonbow Symphony, Mystified, Nature, Night, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Presence, Rainbow, Rejected, River, Saturday, Second To None, Serene, Silver, Sky, Spectral Bridge, Sun, SUV, Toes, Together, Travel, Water's Edge, Waterfalls, White
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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
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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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Signaled Purity
Signaled Purityby Michael DoyleThe future is dark with obscurityFilled as it is with so much uncertaintyThe song of love will prevailAs the rains and winds outside swellYou can promise happiness and never knowThe fortunes that will come and goLike a … Continue reading
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Tagged Absolution, Bride, Come and Go, Day, Divide, Embrace, Expression, Eyes, Feelings, Feet, Fill, Find, Fortune, Found, Future, Happiness, Know, Left Behind, Monstrosity, Morality, Night, None, Obscurity, Past, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Prevail, Prometheus, Promise, Purity, Rains, Repression, Signal, Song of Love, Spoken, Swell, Tale, Threshold, Trap, Ugligness, Unbound, Uncertainty, Unfold, Way, White, Wind, Words, Worn
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Ways of Life Previously Chosen
Ways of Life Previously Chosenby Michael DoyleEating smoked salmon and in contemplationAbout what will be the fate of my nationI will let no untruths be varnished or toldBut insist on telling how history did unfoldI have watched the destruction of … Continue reading
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Tagged 13th Through 15th Amendments, 1860s, 1960s, 40 Acres and A Mule, ACA, Actual History, America, America's Legacy, American Power, American Soul, Aspiration, Assimilation, Bells and Lights, Bill of Goods, Bill of Rights, Black, Blight, Blood and Tears, Brooks, Bureaucracy, Calhoun, Choose, Chosen, Civil Rights, Civil Rights Act, Civil Rights Movement, Civil War, Common Man, Complicit, Contemplation, Credit, Creed, Crockett, Cross Road, Cruelty, Darker Brothers, Deep State, Deliberate Illusion, Delivered, Democratic Republcian, Democratic Standard, Destruction, DNC, Doubling Debt, Douglas, Dredging Up the Truth, Dysfunction, Economical, Election Day, Election Year, End Slavery, Ensure, Equal Opportunity, Equal Rights, Equality, Equity, Equivalency, Extorionate, Fable, Fact, Fair Life, False Flag, Fate, Filibustered, Focus, Freedom, Frelinghuysen, Fringe, Gang, Greenlight, History, Inconvenient, Indian Removal Act, Instill Fear, Islamic Militancy, Jackson, Jefferson, Kleptocracy, Knee, Lands, Lash, Legacy, Liberty, Lies of Equity, Lincoln, Love For the People, Merit, Military, Modern Democrats, Modern History, Nation, Native American, North and South, Not So Distant Past, Obama, Open Opportunity, Opposing Listeners, Pathway, Permanent, Poetry and Poems, Politics, Price Paid, Priority, Profit, Promises, Racism, Real Fight, Real History, Recalled, Republican, Restore, Right To Vote, Rule of Law, Sexual Plunder, Shackled, Shivered, Slavery, Sleight of Hand, Smoked Salmon, Social Justice, Stand Up In the Front, Steeple, Stumble, Suffragettes, Supreme Court, Sword, Tainted Legacy, Taught, The Hermitage, Theft, Tocquieveille, Told, Trading Lives, Trail of Tears, Understood, Unfold, Untruth, Varnish, Vehement, Votes Are Cast, War, Ways of Life, Whip, White, White House, Women, Worth
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Thought For the Day: It Doesn’t Matter What You Look Like…What Does Matter Is the Size of Your Heart and the Strength of Your Character
“The lesson I want you to learn is it doesn’t matter what you look like. You can be tall or short or fat or thin or ugly or handsome, like your father, or you can be black or yellow or … Continue reading
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Tagged Black, Fat, Father, Fred Gwynne, Handsome, Learn, Lesson, Look Like, Matter, Short, Size of Your Heart, Strength of Your Character, Tall, The Munsters, Thin, Thought For the Day, Ugly, White, Yellow
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Thought For the Day: The Dividing Line In America Right Now Is….Between Those Who Are Fundamentally Pro-American and Those Who Are Anti-American
“The dividing line in America right now isn’t between rich and poor, black and white, or even Democrat and Republican. It’s between those who are fundamentally pro-American and those who are anti-American.” – Vivek Ramaswamy
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Tagged America, Anti-American, Between, Black, Democrat, Dividing Line, Fundamental, Poor, Pro-American, Republican, Rich, Right Now, Thought For the Day, Vivek Ramaswamy, White
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Have A Blessed and Merry Christmas One and All!
Though it isn’t a white one And it seems it’s all been done Today is Christmas Day May it be blessed in every way! Let us never forget the holy reason That stands behind the season And keep our blessings … Continue reading
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Tagged Before, Behind, Blessed, Blessings, Chase, Christmas Day, Done, Door, Embrace, Every Way, Familiar, Felt, Friends, Grace, Heart, Holy Reason, Merry Christmas, Mind, Never Forget, Relations, Remember, Season, Thought For the Day, Troubles, Welcome, White
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Cinderella of the Pacific
A friend of mine invented a 5 line form of poetry in honor of Cinco de Mayo this year. At a short form poetry workshop tonight, I turned this into five verses of this and wrote the following in recollection … Continue reading
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Tagged Aquamarine, Baja, Banderas Monumentales, Blues, California, California Current, Children, Cinco de Mayo, Cinderella of the Pacific, Clothes, Contrast, Dance, Ensenada, Face, Future Dreams, Geyser, Hope, Joy, La Bufadora, Lagunita Pond, Love, Mediterranean, Memories, Mexico, Music, Noble Intentions, Ocean, Poetry and Poems, Purity, Rancho Coronitas, Seeded, Splash, Sun Shine, Toys, Vineyards, Visit, White, Winds
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Thought For the Day: We Value and Respect Every Black Life
“We value and respect every black life. The black cops who have been shot in the line of duty, they matter. The black small business owners who have watched their life’s work go up in flames, they matter. The black … Continue reading
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Tagged Black, Black Cops, Black Kids, Black Small Business Owners, Came Together, Democrat, Every, Flames, Gunned Down, Horrific, Life, Line of Duty, Lives, Matter, Mother Emanuel AME Church, Nikki Haley, Our Streets, Playground, Republican, Respect, Ruined, Shot, Stolen, Thought For the Day, Tragedy, Turn Against Each Other, Value, Violence, Watched, We, White
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 