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Somehow Clinging
Somehow Clinging by Michael Doyle Slipped halfway down The edge of the rabbit hole The Cheshire Cat in his crown Ripped apart his soul Seeking to find a path through To the center of the maze Somewhere between half to … Continue reading
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Tagged Believer, Between, Center, Certain, Cheshire Cat, Clinging, Crown, Daze, Debt, Deception, Edge, Fortune Tellers, Garden's Wall, Halfway, Hatter, Humility, Ledge, Manipulate, Maze, Misconception, No Longer Pure, Path, Pays the Price, Poetry and Poems, Price, Pride, Rabbit Hole, Real, Recall, Remain, Rusty Chains, Sinless Savior, Somehow, Soul, Spin Doctors, Story Sold, Strain, Suffer, Think and Feel, Twist of Fate, Twisted, World
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Thought For the Day: America, My Friends, Is the Only Country In the World Actually Founded On Liberty…People Went To America To Be Free
“America, my friends, is the only country in the world actually founded on liberty — the only one. People went to America to be free.” – Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013)
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Tagged America, Founded, Free, Liberty, Margaret Thatcher, My Friends, Only Country, People, Thought For the Day, World
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Is Reverence So Alien?
Is Reverence So Alien?by Michael DoyleAnd there it is againStated with righteous persistenceTrust is the necessary bondBehind peaceful coexistenceToo may ills bleed from greedArising in forms of aggressionPeace is easy enough to heedWhere love answers the questionsConflict splinters away all … Continue reading
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Tagged Alien, Answers, Anyone, Beliefs, Burning Bright, Cling, Conflct, Consumption, Contemplation, Darkness, Easy Enough, Evil, Faith, Forms of Aggression, Goodness, Greed, Hard To Believe, Heed, Light, Love, Negativity, Peace, Peacefulness, Poetry and Poems, Questions, Redemption, Resumption, Reverence, Righteous Persistence, Rule, Serendipity, Splinters, Tight, Too Many Ills, Trust, Unity, Waiting, World
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The All American Get Together
The All American Get Togetherby Michael Doyle This world of ours has seenWhat is called fairer weatherBusy as we are in simply beingAnd hoping things turn better With Fourth of July coming soonWe are malcontent in preparationRefusing to allow fears … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged All American, Allow Fears, America, Answer the Questions, Being, Busy, Carry On, Celebration, Cumbersome, Different, Drumbeat, Fairer Weather, Fourth of July, Glimmer of Hope, Good Times, Hesitation, Hoping, Malcontent, Maruch, No One, Ours, Pledges, Poetry and Poems, Preparation, Prepare, Promise, Refuse, Reverent, Seen, Soon, Summer, The Fourth, This Year, Undaunted, Unkowns, World
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Thought For the Day: A World of Unseen Dictatorship Is Conceivable, Still Using the Forms of Democratic Government
“A world of unseen dictatorship is conceivable, still using the forms of democratic government.” – Kenneth Boulding (1910-1993)
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Tagged Conceivable, Democratic, Dictatorship, Forms, Government, Kenneth Boulding, Thought For the Day, Unseen, World
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Books Read Throughout Life
Books Read Throughout Lifeby Michael DoyleIn a repeated mantra of lifeIn all the things we have soughtThere is the truth reflectedIn lessons accidentally taughtIn this and all stages of lifeWe find it’s worth another lookTo sit and quietly curl upWith … Continue reading
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Tagged Accidentally Taught, Another, Books, Connectives, Curl Up, Excuse, Experience, Failed, Finding Hope, Genius, Golden Rule, Guess, Hamlet, Know Better, Lessons, Look for the Less, Mantra, Mediocre Minds, Nobility, Our Eyes, Philosophy, Playwright, Poetry and Poems, Read, Reflective, Shakespeare, Sit, Sought, Space, Stage, Stages of Life, Steep, Stumble, Tragic Comedy, Truth Reflected, Vengeance, Words, World, Worth Another Look, Wrong, Yet to Learn, Youth
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First Principles: I Think All the World Would Gain By Setting Commerce At Perfect Liberty
“I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty.” – Thomas Jefferson (1785)
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Tagged Commerce, First Principles, Gain, Liberty, Perfect, Setting, Think, Thomas Jefferson, World
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Thought Of the Day: We Have Grasped the Mystery of the Atom and Rejected the Sermon On the Mount…the World Has Achieved Brilliance Without Conscience. Ours Is A World of Nuclear Giants and Ethical Infants
“We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount…The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.” – Five-Star General Omar Bradley (d. April, 8, 1981)
