Tag: history
member name: John Doyle
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July 05, 2006 01:50 PM EDT --
For the past six year we have been reminded by the Religious Right and those politicians who have hijacked Christian principals for their own purposes that The United States is a nation . . .
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May 29, 2006 08:02 PM EDT --
For those of you who read "What if We Should Fail" and especially those who were kind to comment on it, you may be interested to know that I wrote it on October 2, 2002
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October 02, 2006 06:18 PM EDT --
I find it interesting that the morality police of the nation in the person's of Gerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and James Dobson of Focus on the Family have had nothing to say about the conduct . . .
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October 18, 2006 01:27 PM EDT --
Note; I wrote this four years ago. The question seems more relivant today that in 2002
What if we should fail as a nation?
What if through our arrogance
Other nations come . . .
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September 09, 2006 10:33 AM EDT --
We preach forgiveness
But cry out for revenge
We are the home of the brave
But tolerate those who preach fear
We are helpful to other nations in time of disaster
But our own . . .
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September 09, 2006 01:04 PM EDT --
In These Troubled Times
How many times since September 11
Have we heard that phrase
And shaken our heads in disbelief
And blamed the sinister outsider
For disturbing our bliss.?
But . . .
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September 10, 2006 02:03 PM EDT --
In the heart of the Wood, that Mythic place
The source of all magic, prophecy and true poetry
Is the Cave of the Bard, the Merlin,
The maker of poems, the singer of songs,
The dreamer of dreams, . . .
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September 18, 2006 07:22 PM EDT --
Question
While I was one of the first to suggest that the Pope's remarks were I'll advised and grateful that he said he was sorry, I now pose the following question:
Why are those . . .
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October 31, 2006 02:43 PM EST --
She is not dead yet, but dying
So I chant the ancient prayer
Lest I should go before she
And it chanted by one who
Who loved her less.
What a wonder she was in her youth
So bright . . .
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May 29, 2006 12:06 AM EDT --
What if we should fail as a nation?
What if through our arrogance
Other nations come to despise and fear us
And then turn on us?
Other great nations and empires
Have . . .
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June 04, 2006 12:26 PM EDT --
A great wind blows
Fire falls from the sky
Touching a few
Yet rushing around a tired world
Challenging the dominion of darkness
God is saying "Let there be light
Again . . .
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October 06, 2006 06:38 PM EDT --
I Wonder
In bygone days
The way of the pilgrim
Was over high mountains
Through dense forests and raging streams
Now it is through city streets
Concrete canyons
And board rooms . . .
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May 15, 2006 09:52 PM EDT --
There are many imponderables that have plagued mankind since he first discovered the ability to think and categorize things. But perhaps the one that I find the most difficult to come to grips with . . .
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May 22, 2006 02:56 PM EDT --
(by Joanne M. Doyle)
I want to write poetry that will make a difference
I want to write poetry that will touch the soul
So many people write, march and protest in the name of the . . .
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May 22, 2006 08:23 PM EDT --
By Joanne M. Doyle
Ireland, oh Ireland
Poets have described you as
A land of forty shades of green
It has always been attributed to the climate
Where it is raining . . .
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May 24, 2006 11:31 PM EDT --
(Katrina Witt skating to the theme from Shinldler's List November 1995)
I am the flame that burns eternally
In the Hero's Hall of Remembering.
Drawn to this ice arena . . .
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June 11, 2006 02:26 PM EDT --
(By Joanne Doyle)
Oh great beauty gray wolf
With your haunting yellow eyes
Why is it that I feel that
You can see into my soul
You have fought bravely to maintain your territory
And . . .
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June 26, 2006 05:51 PM EDT --
I don't claim to be a political or military analyst . I am just a sometimes adequate poet with somewhat odd views. But it seems so obvious to me if the "insurgents" in Iraq . . .
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July 29, 2006 04:18 PM EDT --
Capitol crime, capitol punishment
Do the crime do the time
We are full of little platitudes like that
What about the innocent who may be killed
They will tell you that the percentage is so . . .
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August 25, 2006 03:37 PM EDT --
The sun has set beyond the western horizon
Still showing the shafts of red and yellow and purple
That the old mountain men used to call fire in the sky
When they reflected behind the snow capped . . .
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