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Category Archives: Poetry and Poems
Na/GloPoWriMo Day 1: Distorted Images
Na/GloPoWriMo* Day 1: Distorted Imagesby Michael DoyleI’ve learned in lifeTo keep each distortionThat brings me strifeIn their due proportionSeeing as clear as possibleDoing what I can to be capableTo do away with what’s improbableAnd live my best life as inescapableLooking … Continue reading
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As It Is With the Moon Above
As It Is With the Moon Aboveby Michael DoyleIn all the suffering behind poetryIt plays out deeply as if in melancholyIt’s a pouring out of love and painSomething lettered and yet still in vainSunshine and spring are simply a prefaceFor … Continue reading
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Kept In A Hillside Perspective
Kept In A Hillside Perspectiveby Michael DoyleI’ve heard a lot of jokesAbout being close to inbredIt’s the kind of a thingThat rolls around in my headOver and over againPlaying a memory’s allusionAgainst something, I can’t defendAs I have been searching … Continue reading
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Well Seasoned Days
Seasoned Daysby Michael DoyleMay your daily conversationFilled as it is with God’s graceBe one of spiritual connectionAnd welcoming to God’s embraceSeen in the faces of the pastIs the dreamers of vast legacySeizing the days that would not lastBut knowing each … Continue reading
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Never Enough of You
Never Enough of Youby Michael DoyleI didn’t know what I was afterUntil I heard your sweet laughterI hadn’t a clue what I was missingUntil you and I were kissingNever felt a hand that felt so rightUntil you were holding mine … Continue reading
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Tagged A Few More Smiles, All About, Clue, Days Like This, Deeply, Didn't Know, Dreamy Eyed, Each Memory We Build, Each Other's Faces, Every Moment, Every Turn of Events, Everything Will Be Alright, Felt A Hand, Filled With Love, Find You, Finding, Grab On Tight, Heard, Hold Me Close, Holding Mine, Hope, I Can Never Get Enough of You, Island Girl, Just Being You, Keep the Count, Kind of Kindness, Kiss By Kiss, Kissing, Love You, Missing, Moments So Precious, More and More, My Friend, My Lady, Mystified, Need My Smile, Never Enough of You, Never Replace, Our Story, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Quite the Road, Return, Seems, Seen Eyes, So Beautiful, So Right, Soar, Spend, Sworn, Telling Me, Thread By Thread, Tight, Traveling, Unraveling, What I Was After, Woke, Wonderful, Wonderful Things You Do, Worth While, You and I, You'll Always Love Me Too, Your Sweet Laughter
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Salt and Light
Salt and Lightby Michael DoyleWe need with loving greetingTo return to uplifting prayer meetingsStep by step, we can find God againIt starts by sharing God’s love with friendsIt’s in improving our Godly relationshipThat we can and will improve our governmentFinding … Continue reading
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Tagged Act, America, Banished, Be the Light, Determined, Difficulties Increase, Do What Is Needed, Each of Us Together, Embrace, Face of Hate, Find God Again, Flourishes, Follow, Friends, God Will Guide, God's Love, Godly Relationship, Great Commission, Greatness, Improve, Improve Our Government, Improvement, In Prayer, Jesus Movement, Last Days of Prophecy, Letting God, Light, Love, Love of Misery, Loving Evil Over Good, Loving Greeting, Make It Right, Me and You, Moment of Opportunity, Morality, Nation Lurches, National, Need For God, Our Churches, Our Mission, Our Opportunity, Poetry and Poems, Prayer Meetings, Press Ever On, Rampant, Right, Salt, Sharing, Sin, Spirit Pours Out, Step By Step, Tell Us, These Days, Tocqueville, Uplift, Use Us
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A Little Bit of Empathy
A Little Bit of Empathyby Michael DoyleThe relationship is about youAnd then again, it’s about meIt’s about our step into divinityDo we love our God flawlessly?It’s about the work yet to be doneIt’s about God’s love poured out to everyoneLet’s … Continue reading
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Tagged 50 Years, About Me, Accursed Grief, Advances, All of the Others, All That Is Holy, Allowing God, Another Great Awakening, Awaken, Back, Belief's Beauty, Calamites, Decline, Divinity, Empathy, Encouragement, Family, Felt, Find, Find Our Salvation, Finding Our Way Back, Flawlessly, From Bondage and Back, From Its Perversion, God, God's Voice, God's Love, Good Book, Gospel, Grow, Humble Ourselves, Interdependent, Is Needed, Keeping True, Lack, Life Dealt, Little Bit, Live Holy, Lives' Conversion, Losing Our Liberty, Loss, Loss of God, Love Our God, Meeting Together, Necessary Decision, No Longer Drowning, Not Strife, Our Step, Passion, Peace of Love, Poetry and Poems, Poured out, Pray, Prayer, Public Display, Pushed Out of Our History, Relationship, Restore, Revive, Sacred Community, Sacred Duty, Sanctity, Save Our Society, Save the Nation, Sea of Apathy, Seeking God's Love, Serve In Our Belief, Serving, Sisters and Brothers, Step Forward, Stripped, Technology, The Church, Theology, There Is No Liberty, Thrive, Toward, True Revival, Truly Heeded, Two Hundred Years, Waters of Our Life, What We Need, When We Look, Without God's Laws, Work, Yet To Be Done, You
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Echoes of A Dolphin’s Life
Echoes of A Dolphin’s Lifeby Michael DoyleSynchronized sleepingFrom danger keepingHalf brained and one eyedThe pod keeps from being surprisedFollowing the secrets of mysteryA familiar echo explores the seaAs a whale’s song is heard in the distanceAnd against curiosity, there is … Continue reading
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