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Hard In the Stumble
Hard In the Stumbleby Michael DoyleIt seems we are all morally inarticulate.It was nothing that I thought to anticipate.I’m holding on to constellations that won’t speak,No matter how much stardust begins to leak.American depression has become today’s obsession.Drugs, alcohol, and … Continue reading
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Stumbling Stones of Salvation
Stumbling Stones of Salvationby Michael DoyleTo deprive the world would be like violence.If preachers were to keep this in their silence,Not allowing the people to hear an explanationAbout God’s grand plan to provide us salvation.With boldness, we speak the word.In … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible, Bold, Christianity, Clarity, Explanation, Faith, God, God's Grand Plan, Gospel, Holy Lecay, Jesus, Poetry and Poems, Preachers, Salvation, Silence, Struggle, Stumbling Stones, The World, Transforative, Violence
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The Promise of Salvation
The Promise of Salvationby Michael DoyleIt took the Lord God Almighty,In all His mercy to save me.I was lost in the wrath of my sin,Losing my way, time and again.I suppose a lesser soul could have tried.I laughed to myself … Continue reading
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Tagged Address, Confession, Cost, Cried, Embrace, Evil's Control, Free, Frozen Mud, God, Gratitude, Healing Soul, Heart, Holy, Holy God, Humbly, In Debt, Joke, Lamb's Blood, Laugh, Lesser Soul, Lord God Almighty, Losing My Way, Lost, Mercy, Midnight Hour, Midnight Stars, My Sin, New Man, New Scars, Paid, Poetry and Poems, Positive, Promise, Promises, Redemption, Rise, Sacrifice, Salvation, Satan's Power, Soul, Stranger God, Undeserved Grace, Victory, Wrath
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Triumphant Circumstance
Triumphant Circumstanceby Michael DoyleI stand triumphant in my dedicationTo the belief in God as a cause for celebration.Death has, indeed, lost its unholy sting.In words of praise, I will continue to sing.The first Adam brought us sin’s death.Christ, as new … Continue reading
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Tagged Baance, Belief, Breath, Cause, Celebration, Christ, Death, Dedication, Embrace, First Adam, Fullness, Garden of Eden, God, Grace, Holy Creation, Jesus, Life, New Adam, Path, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Redemption, Salvation, Sin, Sing, Sting, Triumphant Circumstance, True North, True Worth, Wonder
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Curiously Isolated
Curiously Isolatedby Michael DoyleThe Rockies abruptly pull upward.Away from drifting downward, Not toward the prairie grassSurprisingly, found in this mountain passAn insect flutters blade to blade,Sipping at flowered nectar to persuadeLife to go on as it rearrangesDespite all the inbreeding … Continue reading
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Tagged Calamity, Climate Changes, Coloration, Curiously Isolated Hairstreak, Downward, Drab, Evolutionary Trajectory, History, Insect, Math, Mountain Pass, Nectar, Poetry and Poems, Prairie Grass, River's Edge, Rivers Edge, Science, Splendid Isolation, The Rockies, Upward, Vulernable, Wildfire
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The Guilt and Monstrosity of Luigi Mangione
The Guilt and Monstrosity of Luigi Mangioneby Michael DoyleNews wars say if it bleeds, it leadsIn this nation of monstrous misdeeds,It is really not all that deep,To focus on murder and death is cheap.It’s become symptomatic of modern society,To focus … Continue reading
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Tagged Attitude, Bleeds, Brutality, Cheap, Commodity, Criminal, Defend, Deny, Depose, Fray, Guilt, Guilty, Healthcare Industry, Hope and Optismism, Innocent Death, Laugh, Leads, Lionized, Luigi Mangione, Mean World Syndrome, Media, Meme, Mock, Modern Society, Modern Sociology, Monstrosity, Murder, Murder By Number, News, News Wars, Noble Deed, Norms, Not Guilty, Poetry and Poems, Politics, Pop Culture, Prophets, Purely Evil, Reform, reviews, Robin Hood, Same Breath, Shape, Social Media, Social Nihilism, Societal Vandalism, Substantive Meaning, System's Flaws, Thanatology, Unrepentant, Worth, Writing
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Contamination of Life and Thought
Contamination of Life and Thoughtby Michael DoyleAs a small child, often alone, I usually readThe kinds of books that put thoughts in my head.About lives well lived in their grand nobility,These were filled with love and remarkable purity.To be fair, … Continue reading
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Tagged Beautiful, Beliefs, Bible, Books, Christianity, Contamination, Dignity, Faith, Golden Country, Ideal, Incendiary, Inference, Kindness, Legendary, Life, Life and Thought, Love, Nobility, Poetry and Poems, Purity, Read, Reference, Small Child, Today, Truths, Yesterday
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Revisiting Paul Revere’s Ride
Revisiting Paul Revere’s Rideby Michael DoyleWhen Longfellow wrote of Revere’s rideHe didn’t mean to capture it stride for stride,But to create something of a heroic memoryPut on paper for the sake of American history.It was a clarion call for courage … Continue reading
I’ve Come To Understand
I’ve Come To Understandby Michael DoyleEntombed in my shame,I was lost in my blame.I was afraid to show my face,Until I learned of God’s grace.I thought I knew my place,Hiding in the darkness.I was afraid to show my face,Mine was … Continue reading
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Tagged Afraid, Belong, Blame, Broken, Call, Change, Circumstances, Control, Darkness, Despair, Done Wrong, Entombed, Face, God, God's Grace, Harshness, Healing Hand, Heart, Hide, Lost, Lost and Wounded, My Place, Orphaned, Poetry and Poem, Redemption, Shame, Show, Soul, Touch, Understand
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Poetry Is Simple
Poetry Is Simpleby Michael DoyleShe said writing poems is simple,Just write what you want to say.Then suddenly, it’s simple,Or so the natural-born poets say.They try to give the secret away,As if it were something of the everyday.Yet, what’s missing is … Continue reading
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Tagged Authenticity, Believe, Child's Face, Choked Up, Connection, Everyday, Fighting To Survive, Intrude, Life, Life's Struggles, Lonely Child, Loving Family, Making Food, Missing Clarity, Mother's Embrace, Natural-Born Poet, Negation, Play, Poems, Poetry and Poems, Poverty, Rejection, Say, Secret, Shared, Simple, Sorrow, Stay Above, Thought, Time and Again, Truth, Worse, Writing, Yesterday
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