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Thought for the Day: Will the People Ever Be Wise Enough To Refuse To Follow Bad Leaders Or To Take Away the Freedom of Other People?
Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people? -Eleanor Roosevelt, diplomat, author, and lecturer (11 Oct 1884-1962)
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Tagged Eleanor Roosevelt, Follow, Freedom, Other People, People, Refuse, Take Away, Thought For the Day, Will, Wise
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Back Chat of Eternal Insomnia
So many of us spend countless hours into the we hours of the night staving off the limited hours until the morning light. Insomnia and its accompanying sleep exhaustion have claimed many of us and leading into less good than … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Anxiety, Apartment, Audacity, Bed, Believe, Belong, Burn, Change, Chat, Clock, Company, Complexity, Connect, Control, Countless Hours, Cup of Coffee, Data, Do, Drone, Empty, End, Eternal, Eyes, Feel, Fellowship, Flex, Fog, Forget, God, Gone Wrong, Gothic, Gravestone, Gray, Guile, Hours, Humanity, Indignity, Infernal, Insomnia, Insomniacs, Keep, Late, Left Behind, Life, Lose, Lost Souls, Maniacs, Mind, Mistake, Mystical, Need, Night, Numb, Odd, Photograph, Piercing Mind, Poem, Poetry, Realize, Reasonable, Red, Relationships, Restoration, Rise, Rooftops, Seek, Shimmer, Sleep, Sleep Exhaustion, Sleeplessness, Slice, Sorrow, Sour, Surge, Tide, Time, Toast, Today, Tomorrow, Too Little Time, Torments, Tortured Souls, Trace, Unwilling, Virtual, Wake Up, Will, Words, World Peace, Yourself
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On Attempting To Be A Good Father
As Father’s Day approaches, I am thinking a lot on what it means to be a father to my two daughters. I am woefully aware that as they approach their teenage years, there are things I might have said and … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Approaches, Attempt, Bless, Case, Cause, Choice, Circumstances, Daughters, Disrupt, Do My Best, Don't Know What To Do, Eyes, Fail, Fall, Family, Father, Father's Day, Father's Face, Find, Follow, Forgive, Forgiveness, God, Good, Good Father, Grace, Guidance, Hard Calling, Hope, Knees, Know, Lead, Learn, Let Down, Little Voice, Live, Look, Love, Lucifer, Mean, Mend, Mercy, My Family, Not In Vain, Pain, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Press Onward, Prevail, Priceless, Princesses, Proud, Providence, See, Show by Example, Show Them, Steel, Strength, Strive, Tear, Tears, Think, Totality, Treasure, True, Two, Understanding, Velvet, Vulnerability, Weaknesses, Will, Wish
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All Life Is Sacred
Perhaps I repeat myself in saying that elevating one skin tone or sex over another is as wrong as having the first offense kept in place. Love and respect for each other is what is needed. All lives are sacred. … Continue reading
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Tagged Aggrieved, All Belong, All Life Is Sacred, All Life Matters, Another, Appalling, Ask, Bad Decision, Before, Believe, Bend Knee, Better Way, Betterment, Black Lives Matter, Brother, Burn, Children, City, Confess, Construction, Created All Equal, Creed, Deceive, Deference, Derision, Destruction, Dr. King, Elevate, Emblazon, Engrave, Equal Before the Law, Equality, Fascism, Fight, Firmament, Fought, God, Hell, Him, Hurt, Ill Afford, Inclusion, Injustice Toward All, Injustice Toward Any, Late, Learn, Lesson, Love, Lucifer, Mean, Meaning, Name of Love, Need, Not Good, Not Hate, Not Made Better, Offend, One Over the Other, Outrageous, Past Wrongs, Path, Permanent, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Positive, Pretend, Repeat, Replace, Respect, Reverence, Sex, Sister, Skin Tone, Society, Sought, Story, Strive, Tear Down, The Father, Things, Understand, Understood, Us For Them, Vicious, Wall, Ways, Well Disguised, Will, Win, Window, Wrong
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The Lateness of the Hour
Returning back to a promised project that was set down for a time and based in part on The Twilight Zone, Season 2, Episode 8: The Lateness of the Hour by Michael Doyle In a labyrinth of the mind’s imprecision We … Continue reading
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Tagged Alive, Anger, Artistic, Asylum, Automated, Automaton, Back Story, Belong, Bill, Chance, Chorus, Clock Hands, Comfort, Competition, Confront, Console, Constrain, Contempt, Control, Cost, Counter Argument, Craving, Creation, Creature, Daughter, Decay, Deliberation, Design, Difference, Dimension, Discontent, Distraught, Disturbing, Dream, Empty, Environment, Exposure, False, Family, Father, Feel, Felt, Fine, Free, Glide, Hand Dealt, Harshly, Heart, Hour, Humanity, Ill Afford, Imprecision, Infer, Insular, Intentional, Irritation, Labyrinth, Lateness, Lost, Love, Maid, Mausoleum, Measure, Mechanical, Memories, Memory Track, Menagerie, Mental, Mental Inventory, Museum, Neuroses, No Strings, Noise, One Dance, Outside, Own Mind, Passing Day, Perfect, Petulant, Photograph, Pleasant, Poem, Poetry, Pond, Poverty, Prattle, Prefection, Prejudice, Pride, Project, Quality, Ravages of Time, Reach, Real, Recitation, Recount, Recreated, Reference, Refine, Relative, Repetition, Rest, Right, Rigor, Robots, Safe, Sameness, Science, Second, Secret, Security, Sensation, Serenity, Share, Shrill, Speak, Speech, Stone Thrown, Stormy Night, Strive, Stumble, Superaltive, Survival, The Twilight Zone, Tick, Tick Tock, Toys, Travel, Twist, Twist of Fate, Understand, Unhappy, Unruffled, Vegetable, War, Will, Willful, Wish, World, Worn Out
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Depths of Despair
How much sadness can one little girl’s heart hold? More than the number of angels that can dance on the head of an infinite pinhead. Depths of Despair by Michael Doyle In the depths of despair Her life out of … Continue reading
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Tagged Against, Alone, Angels, Anguish, Bed, Bleakness, Candle, Closed Door, Dance, Darkness, Decision, Defeat, Depths, Despair, Disrepair, Draw, Eat, Fallow, Fears, Feeling, Field, Found, Hard Heart, Head, Heart, History, Hold, Ignore, Legacy, Life, Little Girl, Lump, Night, Out of Control, Path, Photograph, Pity, Plight, Poem, Poetry, Reel, Sad, Sadness, Sill, Spin, Swallow, Synch, Tears, Thoughts, Throat, Uncomfortable, Will, Window
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First Principles: Whatever Anguish of Spirit It Might Cost, I Am Willing To Know the Whole Truth; To Know the Worst and To Provide For It
“Are we disposed to be of the number of those, who having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it might cost, I … Continue reading
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Tagged Anguish, Cost, First Prinicples, Know, My Part, Patrick Henry, Provide, Spirit, Truth, Whole, Will, Worse
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