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Category Archives: Poetry and Poems
Pressure Put On Coal
Pressure Put On Coalby Michael DoyleLike a herd of deer comes crashing inFalling like a gift from the skyFalling like snowflakes as it’s Christmas againAnd the angels sing their hallelujah replySnow clouds form again and yet there is no snowStill, … Continue reading
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Every Day Is A Gift
Every Day Is A Giftby Michael DoyleUp in the sky, Santa is comingAcross the roofs, reindeer are runningThe gift of love is wrapped up in youDreamily finding your heart so trueA Christmas song comes to mindAs every day is a … Continue reading
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Tagged A New Gift, Always Be Mine, Blessed, Christmas Song, Dream, Dreaming Of, Every Day, Every Way, Fairy Tale, Fill My Days, Find, Gift, Gift of Love, Given, Glow, Mind, Morning, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Precious Sight, Reindeer, Roofs, Santa, Shine, Sky, Soul Shift, Stars, To Be Your Man, True, Truth, Turning Out So Right, Wak, Wrapped In Love, Wrapped Up In You, You Can, Your Arms, Your Eyes, Your Heart
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Great Things Come Unexpected
Great Things Come Unexpectedby Michael DoyleI have found in lifeThat it’s not to be neglectedTo say only that sometimesGreat things come unexpectedOpportunity sometimes fallsRight into our lapsAnd when that chance callsWith its rings or its rapsIt’s the only answer that … Continue reading
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Tagged Accident, Better Days, Calls, Chance, Confide, Falls, Forget, Found, Give, Great Things, Heaven Sent, Hide, Into Our Laps, Let Heaven Guide Us, Life, Live To Learn, Lives Well Lived, Neglected, Only Answer, Opporutnity, Our Ways, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prove, Provident, Raps, Really Meant, Rings, Run, Sometimes, Teach, Tell, Time To Time, Truly Live, Unexpected, Won't Regret
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In Gratitude For Santa’s Spirit
In Gratitude For Santa’s Spiritby Michael Doyle”Dear Santa”, that’s how it all beganSealed with love as only a child canWhat he wanted most of all was familyThat and a meaningful Christmas treeHe grew up endlessly chasing a little cheerIn the … Continue reading
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Tagged Appreciation, Badgered, Beaten Down, Began, Blues, Busy, Cheer, Child, Christmas, Christmas Cheer, Christmas Tree, Commericialization, Crown, Days, Dear Santa, Disappear, Dizzy, Dreams, Elves, Endlessly Chasing, Expectations, Family, Fascination, Frenzied, Give Me Give Me, Gladness, Gloves On, Going Through the Motions, Gratification, Gratitude, Greed, Happy News, Here and Now, Hustle and Bustle, Important Thing, Jaded World, Jingle, Joy, Joyfully, Magic, Meaning Got Lost, Meaningful, Never Allow, Never Be Allowed, New York City, North Pole, Not Just Once Upon, Notions, Our Children, Overworked, Photographs, Platitude, Poem, Poetry, Press On, Real Meaning, Reflection, Remember, Remember What Matters, Santa, Sealed With Love, Season's Greetings, Shatter, Snow, Spirit, Spirit of Christmas, Stress, Suit Up, Tale, Tinsel, To Be Gone, Top of the World, Unsatisfied, Whole, World Apart, Year After Year, Yesterday
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In the Truth of Poetry
In the Truth of Poetryby Michael DoyleLife, it seems in as far as it is reachableIs filled with those moments that are teachableOne of the most powerful of lessons to learnIs the ability to quick study, determine and discernA poem … Continue reading
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Tagged Being, Certainty of Knowing, Choose Between, Cryptically Fractured, Dark Tango, Deeply, Determine, Disappear, Discern, Evoke, Fear, Fills, Final Cost, Firm, Goodness, Home, Honest Handshake, Images, Incite, Increase, Integrity, Journey, Lessons To Learn, Life, Light, Lost, Love and Fear, Means, Moments, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Poetry Calls, Powerful, Quick Study, Reachable, Reality, Resistance, Return, Seen, Seen Before, Shake, Teachable, Tortured Souls, Truth, Tyranny, Virtual, Words Form, Writing, Wrong From Right, You and Me
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Finally Stilled
Finally Stilledby Michael DoyleWe dance our danceWhispering our romanceUnder the Milky WayFinding tomorrow every dayIn every touch that we shareFinding truth revealed in careKnowing loneliness in our absenceFinding need for each other’s presenceSome say love is a form of weaknessThey … Continue reading
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Tagged Absence, Absurd Fools, All Doubt, Allow, Beginning, Belong, Beside me, Care, Certainty, Dance, Dreams, End, Every Day, Final, Finally, For Each Other, Guitar, Loneliness, Loud, Love, Milky Way, Need, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Presence, Quietness, Reveal, Romance, Share, Song, Speak This, Stars, Still, Strong, Tomorrow, Touch, Truth, We, Weakness, Whisper, Your Heart
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Petra Reexamined
Petra Reexaminedby Michael DoyleThere is an ancient city in which Nabataeans dweltThat is more carved than could be thought of as builtThis city of beauty and wonder is a World Heritage siteIt belongs to all of humanity by our noble … Continue reading
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Tagged Ancient City, Aqueducts, Architecture, Astound, Beauty, Birthright, Carved, Cliffside, Desert, Engineering, Examine, Exuberance, Fine Detail, Gorge, Humanity, Luxury, Nabataeans, Narrow Canyon, Nomads, Oasis, Perfection, Petra, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Safety, Scale, Sculptured, Trade Network, Trade Routes, Wadis, Water, Wonder, World Heritage Site
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Wounds Let In the Light
Wounds Let In the Lightby Michael DoyleThey say our wounds let in the lightI don’t know if it’s by experience or second lightBut something about this notion is wound tightAnd from what I have seen, perhaps they’re rightThe worst wound … Continue reading
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Tagged Bear, Believed, Better Selves, Born, Clear, Comfort, Dead, Deeply Understood, Defend, Enter, Experience, Fatality, Fate, Forced Wrong, Give Almost Anything, Guilt, Immortality, Innately Good, Innocent, Lane, Life, Light, Little Left, Moral Injury, Mortality, Name, No Going Back, Notion, Ourselves, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Right, River, Same, Sear, Second Light, Seen, Self-Confessed, Shame, Sin, Smoke Clears, Soul, Stood, To Return, War's End, Worst Wound, Wound Tight, Wounds
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What Is Jeopardy?
What Is Jeopardy?by Michael DoyleIt’s a strange thing, pop culture’s popularityI, among the many, revered moments of JeopardyPredictably catchy theme played on hesitationAs each of us hoped we just might have the questionThat matched the answer showing up on the … Continue reading
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