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The One Who Won’t Go Away
The One Who Won’t Go Awayby Michael DoyleIn the air is a feeling of anticipationAs we joyfully prepare our contributionChristmas is coming as if we’re dreamingSoul shine fills us as if it’s beamingGod is with us as we happily prepare … Continue reading
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Tagged Advent, Air, Angels, Anticipation, Baby In A Manger, Beam, Belief, Bell, Bible, Blessed, Blessing, Blessings, Born, Buden, Changing the World, Chase the World, Christ, Christmas, Christmas Morn, Church, Compare, Contentment, Contribution, Cope, Discourage, Dream, Eternity, Faith, Free, Glory To God Alone, Go Away, God, God's Holy Ways, Good News, Goodness, Great Comission, Grow, Heart, Hearts, Hope, Impact, Inspiration, Jesus, Joy, Know, Light, Living, Love, Loving Ways, Majesty, Mankind, Merry Christmas, Million Views, Mistaken, Odd, One, Outside World, Peace, Pleasing, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Prayers, Prepare, Read, Reason For This Season, Redefine, Regisgry, Relief, Savior, Second-Guessing, Shifting Sands, Shown, Sight, Simple Beginnings, Socials, Soul Shine, Strife, Stumble, Sunday, Taken For Granted, Time, Transformation, Trust, Understood, Walk, Wedding, Wings, Wonderful Life, Words, Worship, Worth, Yesterday
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Places Forms Voice
Place Forms Voiceby Michael DoyleIt’s said that place forms voiceEven when it’s not of our choiceIn my life, I’ve traveled aroundAnd this is what I, too, have foundThis is especially true of poetryEach of us is formed by our countryIt’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Allow, Believe, Can, Changes, Choice, Circumstance, Clogged, Constant, Country, Desitny, Dreams, Fear, Feet, First Step, Found, Ground, Happiness, Impossible, Journey, Life, Life's Dance, Limited, Make, Master, Moonbeams, Need, Places, Plunge In, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Possible, Read, Space, Success, Sun, Thoughts, Time, Trace, Travel, Trrap, True, Understand, Voice, Words
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First Principles: As We Express Our Gratitude, We Must Never Forget That the Highest Appreciation Is Not To Utter Words, But To Live By Them
“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” – John F. Kennedy
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Tagged Appreciation, Express, First Principles, Forget, Gratitude, John F. Kennedy, Live, Words
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Like Flowers In A Vase
Like Flowers In A Vase (For Joni Mitchell)by Michael DoyleBlonde hair and a long silhouetteA beautiful voice, unforgotten yetLife’s so short and makes us numbBeauty like this is what we becomeA voice for her generationHeld by many with great venerationA … Continue reading
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Tagged Beautiful Voice, Beauty, Become, Blonde Hair, Circumspection, Clouds, Declarative, First-Person Narrative, Flowers, Generation, Hesitation, Introspection, Involved, Joni Mitchell, Known, Lady Blue, Life, Madmen and Badmen, Memory, Numb, Poetry and Poems, Point of View, Question, Short, Shown, Silhouette, Sus Chords, Taken For Granted, True, Truth, Unforgotten, Unresolved, Vase, Veneration, Voice, Words
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Rights of Passage
Rights of Passageby Michael DoyleAs just another poet by designI would like to contest what’s mineYou see, it’s true that I’m not deadBut folks want to argue over words saidThe count is not final in the leastThough some would provoke … Continue reading
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Tagged Contest, Design, Poet, Poetry and Poems, Rights of Passage, Words
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Rodin’s Artistry
Rodin’s Artistryby Michael DoyleSome pursue the fine arts for immortalityThat makes a degree of sense thoroughlyAfter all, you start with a marble blockBut see what you will transform from rockLike water, the shape begins to conformThe chisel drips patiently to … Continue reading
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Tagged Alone, Appetite, Artist's Heart, Artistry, Atone, Behind, Better Days, Bronze, Chisel, Complication, Conform, Contemplation, Creativity, Depth, Deserved, Drip By Drip, Feeling Right, Fine Arts, Finish, Fool, Genuine Spark, God's Home, Guided Hand, Immortality, Just So, Knowledge, Marble Block, Movement Observed, Nature, Plaster, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Precision, Reality, Reflection, Rock, Rodin, Sculptor, See and Know, Sense, Shape, Start, Stone, Terra-Cotta, The Artist, Thinker's Mind, Tortured Heart, Transform, Truth, Vision, Water, Words
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Two-Way Street
Two-Way Streetby Michael DoyleI don’t have the words to sayAll the things that I must sayI silently sit here, and I prayI will somehow make my wayTo my shepherd, I will singThe holiest of holies, He is my kingYou know … Continue reading
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Tagged Comfort, Congregation, Days of Life, Destination, Disappear, Faith, Faithfulness, Feeling Weak, Freed, Holiest of Holies, King, Lead, Life, Lost, Make My Way, Meet, Path, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Say, Shepherd, Silent, Sing, Sing and Shout, Tapestry, The Lord, Two-Way Street, Wait, Words, Words To Speak, Yoke
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First Principles: Blessed Is the One Who Reads Aloud the Words of This Prophecy, and Blessed Are Those Who Hear It and Take To Heart What Is Written In It, Because the Time Is Near
“ Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it and take to heart what is written in it, because the time is near.” – Revelation 1:3
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Tagged Blessed, First Principles, Hear, Heart, Prophecy, Read Aloud, Revelation1:3, Time, Words, Written
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 