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Currents of the Riptide
Currents of the Riptideby Michael DoyleOn the tip of the continent’s ledgeI stand and touch the water’s edgeIn the memory of those who came beforeAnd will never surf any moreThe rides that they once soughtAll of the battles that they … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrenaline, Battles, Child, Confident, Content, Continent, Currency, Currents, Emotion, Face of Waves, Feet, Fought, Ledge, Legacy, Memories, Memory, Neptune, Ocean, Poetry and Poems, Powers, Reveries, Rides, Riptide, Sorrow, Sought, Surf, Tame, Tomorrow, Water's Edge, Wild
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In the Tomes of Humanity
In the Tomes of Humanityby Michael DoyleAlgorithms of simplicityMakeup humanity’s complexityWith habits easy enough to understandAs the madness takes over as plannedMost waiver between love and prideSometimes this happens to coincideThen there are the exceptions irreducibleThat’s what’s become of the … Continue reading
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Tagged AI, Algorithms, Brave Souls, Broken Bodies, Choice, Codices, Coincide, Competitive Advantages, Complexity, Contemptible, Cost, Countless, Coup, Death, Doom, Exceptions, Face Off, False Promises, Final Battle, Garden, Habits, Humanity, Keeping, Last Breath, Libraries, Lost, Love, Madness, Mankind, Overcomes, Pain, Planned Obsolescence, Precipice, Price, Pride, Real Life, Recall, Sacred Door, Simplicity, Smile, Tomes, Truth, Understand, Victories, Villainies, Volumes, Waiver, Warrior's Voice, Weeping, Winner Take All, Wise Mother, Worth
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Held In Silence
Held In Silenceby Michael DoyleDarling, I’ve learned to love youBut somehow hate you moreDarling,I could never be without youBut trust me, I know the scoreThe traces may be coldFrom the fenced goods soldAll the secrets circled roundTo the treasures; they … Continue reading
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Tagged Answers, Darkness, Darling, Don Quixote, Fenced Goods, Found, Grieving Widow, Harshness, Hate, Held, Hope, Light, Lonely Mother, Love, Night, Poetry and Poems, Pray Alone, Right, Score, Scream, Secrets, Sense, Silence, Squeeze, Startlled, Traces, Trust, Understand, Violence, Without
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In Full Stomp (On Satan’s Head)
In Full Stomp (On Satan’s Head)by Michael DoyleLift the cross and trust in the FatherThough the steps seem sometimes fartherWe must walk away from things of enmityKeeping united to love in all its entiretyLife does come with things that painDespite … Continue reading
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Tagged Attention, Bruised Heel, Choices, Contemplation, Contrain, Cross, Devil, Enmity, Faith, Fall, Family, Feel, Fight, Fragility, Hell, Integrity, Level, Liberation, Life, Love, North Star, Pain, Patterns, Poetry and Poems, Promises of Truth, Purpose, Real, Reconiliation, Redemption, Right Intention, Rules, Same Lap, Scripture, Serpent, Service, Steps, Stomp, Swinging For the Fence, Tasks, Track, Trust, Understand, United, Vain
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Stay the Course
Stay the Courseby Michael DoyleStanding rooted in our visibilitySeeing beyond our vulnerabilityLead out in example of God’s flowIs the only star we should followShifting hearts torn from GodInto doubts that are feeling oddJealously looking with envious eyesThough we know from … Continue reading
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Tagged Conversation, Doubts, Envy, Face, Family, Follow, God, God's Flow, God's Plans, Heavenly Father, Hold, Humility, Jealous, Journey, Juggle, Learn, Meaning, Moments, Odd, Poetry and Poems, Prodigal Child, Rooted, Shifting Hearts, Slipping and Falling, Squander, Star, State of Grace, Stay the Course, Torn, Traces, Treasures, Unwise, Visibility, Vulnerability
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Between Sleep and Awake
Between Asleep and Awakeby Michael DoyleBetween asleep and awakeIs the recounting ofEvery single mistakeSome deeper than othersSome of hate, some of loveAll of which are heartbreakThey sent me to fight in warI went out a well-trained beastAnd yet somehow I … Continue reading
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Tagged Awake, Between, Brash, Brokenness, Colors, Darkness, Deep, Deeper, Demon, Fight, Harshness, Hate, Heartbreak, Hero, Love, Mistake, More, Outspokenness, Poetry and Poems, Recounting, Repressed Years, Seep, Sleep, Soul, Stagger, Struggle, Tears, Utterance, War, Well-Trained Beast, Wish
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Stand Real
Stand Realby Michael DoyleEvery day it’s the same gameGoing out of our way to avoid blameWe need to live with boldnessInstead of living this lie, they’ve sold usComing up short, just to fall into graceThis is the holiness, that I … Continue reading
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Tagged Advice, Battle Is Done, Blame, Boldness, Bread, Construction, Contortion, Desire, Destruction, Disbelief, Drive, Embrace, Grace, Grief, Identity, Immediacy, Insecurity, Integity, Manipulation, Moment of Grace, Poetry and Poems, Price, Prove, Purity, Real, Same Game, Satisfaction, Score, Situation, Social Distortion, Sold, Valuable, Vulnerable
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Pretender or Contender
Pretender or Contenderby Michael DoyleDrawing on song lyrics in my dayMakes life special in its own wayThe singer is my daughter, and she’s on fireAs legends are made to grow and conspireA life led in three-part inspirationWe all know the … Continue reading
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Tagged Appetites, Baptism, Best, Bread, Breakthrough, Capable, Connection, Conspire, Contemplation, Contender, Continuity, Daughter, End, Fire, Friend, Hunger, Immersion, Jesus, Legends, Perspiration, Poetry and Poems, Pretender, Raised Awareness, Regret, Resistance, Satan, Singer, Song Lyrics, Special, Spirit, Stone, Striking Foot, Strong Feeling, Susceptible, Temper, Temptation, Tempter, Test, Three Part Inspiration, Tired, Ultimate Truth
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