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Desperately Seeking True Intelligence
Desparately Seeking True Intelligenceby Michael DoyleHas AI come to save usFrom our worst folly?Or will it oversee us?And diminish temper finally?We stand on the vergeOf killing each other with the urgeWith the need to seek to accomplishThe last of what … Continue reading
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Tagged AI, Contradiction, Desparate, Folly, Intelligence, Poetry and Poems, Soul, Tradition
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No Better Than This
No Better Than Thisby Michael DoyleThe warrior culture has its code.It gives respect as it is owed.Cobra wine is part of that culture.What doesn’t kill you is bound to nurture.The misperception of too much laxityIs meant to foster creativity.It’s all … Continue reading
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Tagged Aces and Eights, Better, Cobra Wine, Code, Creativity, Fate, Nurture, Poetry and Poems, Respect, The Deadman's Hand, Warrior Culture
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Every Dog Hunts
Every Dog Huntsby Michael DoyleThere are a lot of lessons we learnWalking through fire, hoping not to burn.There is much that we presumeIn training so that we will not be consumed.There are times that all there is, is the space.It’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Burn, Change, Connection, Death, Every Dog, Fire, God, Grace, Hunt, Lesson, Odds, Poetry and Poems, Presumption, Space, Train, Wheels Up, World
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Lizzy Borden III: Seduced By Blood, It Begins
Lizzy Borden III: Seduced By Blood, It Beginsby Michael Doyle”Dandelion tea helps with the clotting,”Said the maid to Lizzy, pleasantly nodding.The phenomena of Victorian senaualityOvercomes the shame of banality.As it were in this ‘Little Death’,A death that leaves the maiden … Continue reading
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Tagged Blood, Death, Little Death, Lizzy Borden, Maiden, Poetry and Poems, Seduction, Sensuality, Victorian Age
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Lizzy Borden II: Black Cat History
Lizzy Borden II: Black Cat Historyby Michael DoyleHowever well rehearsed the day,Things happen as they do along the way.Old habits and gestures don’t hold sway.However much it is that some might say.There are expectations for pleasantryThat are no match for … Continue reading
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Tagged Black Cat, Expectations, Gentility, Habits and Gestures, Hiatory, Lizzy Borden, Pleasantry, Poetry and Poems, Reality, Rehearsal, Savagery
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Mercy Overshadows All
Mercy Overshadows Allby Michael DoyleLooking around in comparison,And experiencing what I’ve done and not done,To be honest, there’s grace in my history,And I have relied a lot on mercy.I feel a lot of loving kindness my wayWithout hessed, I wouldn’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible, Christianity, Comparison, Experience, Faith, God, Grace, Hessed, History, Honesty, Jesus, Kindness, Love, Mercy, Overshadow, Poetry and Poems, Sown
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Unbreaking the Broke
Unbreaking the Broke by Michael DoyleAll victories carry costs incomparable.Some of these are blatantly unbearable.Still, battles against monsters must be wonIf the worst evil is to become undone.Cartel leaders order innocents to death,Without pause, in a sinful breath.Signaling death warrants … Continue reading
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Tagged Battle, Break, Broke, Cartel, Cost, Death, Death Lords, Death Warrant, Evil, Grave, Monster, Poetry and Poems, Sinful Breath, Vice, Victory, Words
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Truth In Lies: Lizzie Borden I
Truth In Lies: Lizzie Borden Iby MichaelDoyleThe worst kind of monsterHides just beneath the norm.To the untrained eye,It’s a very human form.They feel benign and harmless,Even if, just a bit charmless.Until the curtain pulls backAnd all hope turns to sheer … Continue reading
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Tagged Human Form, Lies, Lizzy Borden, Monster, Norm, Poetry and Poem, Truth
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Friendships Adulting
Friendships Adultingby Michael DoyleMoving to the next new neighborhood.Among the things best to be understood,Is that while friendship preserve,A new way of life has a lot to maybe fear.Each region has it’s own peculiar wayAnd there are things we learn … Continue reading
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Tagged Adulting, Fear, Friendship, Get Along, Learn, Life, Moving, Neighborhood, Peculiar Way, Poetry and Poems, Preserve, Region, Understood
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To Get Back Up Again
To Get Back Up Againby Michael DoyleWhether it was noblerIn word or in deed,Never knowing if I’d get olderFrom my worries, I was freed.One moment in its delay,It could turn my world upside downAnd nothing I could sayWould turn around … Continue reading
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Tagged Deed, Focus, Free, Get Back Up, Hurt, Moment, Noble, Older, Poetry and Poems, Say, Truth, Uncertain, Unhealthy, Word, World, Worry
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