Flickr Photos
Category Archives: Poetry and Poems
Dollar Days
Dollar Daysby Michael DoyleHere in the noonday’s faded hazeStuck in the cheap seats of dollar daysDaydreams wear a sense of modestyThat sneaks in past our integrityThere are poems written as confessionalAt the realization that no one is specialNo more special … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Cheap Seats, Chronicle, Confessional, Daydreams, Dicksenian, Dollar Days, Found, Haze, Hearts, Intebrity, Modesty, Noonday, Our Part, Poems, Poetry and Poems, Realization, Special, World
Leave a comment
Redemption In the Law
Redemption In the Lawby Michael DoyleIn God’s love, like a symphonyThe Book of Romans feeds the communityComplete in its fullness and integrityIt teaches history and theologyProdigals are welcomed to this storyAs we reveal the depth of God’s gloryKnees are bowed … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Bad, Bible, Broken Patterns, Challenges, Christianity, Community, Complete, Confession, Consciousness, Corrrect, Courage, Define, Depth, Encourage, Faith, Foundation, Friend, God, God's Glory, God's Love, Good, Grace, Grow, History, Holy Relationship, Integrity, Jesus, Love, Missed Mark, Moral Law, No Quarter, Poetry and Poems, Prodgials, Redemption, Revelation, Sin, Soul, Symphony, The Law, Theology, Truth, Understood, Unvarnishedd
Leave a comment
Bob Dylan’s Blues
Bob Dylan’s Bluesby Michael DoyleBob Dylan’s tangle was a lot more than blueIts effect has had a multi-generational hueHis music, writing, and lyrical poetryHas etched its way into the best of historyMost of us take part in shallow walk-on rolesThere … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Arrival, Bell Tolls, Blessed, Blood On the Tracks, Blues, Bob Dylan, Chimes, Context, Destiny, Electrified, Etch, Folk Reborn, Folk Tradition, Freedom, Heard, History, Home, Lasting Impression, Left Alone, Lives, Lyrical Poetry, Mr. Tambourine Man, Multi-generational Hue, Music, Poetic Expression, Poetry and Poems, Respect, Shallow, Success, Survival, Tangle, Walk-On Role, Worn, Writing
Leave a comment
The DJ Adds the Bassline
The DJ Adds the Basslineby Michael DoyleLay the basics downTo wear the DJ crownDo you feel meThe drip reveals meChurch bells ringIt’s a banger thingAnd you can’t come homeUntil you’re solid as a stoneThe DJ adds the basslineSealing it into … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Banger, Basics, Bassline, Blackmail, Church Bells, Compel, DJ, Drip, Feel, Home, Poetry and Poems, Pump, Real Time, Said, Sealing It, Solid As A Stone, Tracks, Work In Progress
Leave a comment
Weight To Words
Weight To Wordsby Michael DoyleIn these, the end of daysI think of a million waysWe needed to attach weight to wordsAnd all of the misdeeds occurredLife’s constant motion gets the best of meWhen I think of all that might yet … Continue reading
Damaged Memories of An Indiana Tornado
Damaged Memories of An Indiana Tornadoby Michael DoyleOminous clouds are captured in a photographThat suggests thunderclaps as the Devil’s laughAs lightning strikes down on a Hoosier cornfieldForked-tongued, it speaks of devastation revealedCracked wood is tossed across the creek’s bendAs a … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Clouds, Cracked Wood, Damaging Winds, Debris, Devastation, Devil's Laugh, Fallen Trees, Flooded Road, Forked-Tongued, Fragments of lives, Hoosier Cornfield, Human Voice, Indiana, Lightning, Long Growl of Wind, Memories, Photograph, Poetry and Poems, Symphony of Survival, Thunder claps, Trapped, Wind
Leave a comment
My Final Victory Won
My Final Victory Wonby Michael DoyleMy soul has no place to hideAs I face the night and rideRolling away that stoneWherever I am, I’m not aloneBurning ashes spread with the windBlown hot until the endPraying that things turn aroundMy feet … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Alone, Attitude, Blown Hot, Burning Ashes, Care, Complete, Done, Earthly Treasure, Face, Final Victory, Fixed, Forever, Freed, God, Gratitude, Greed, Heaven, Heavenly Treasure, His Control, Human Being, Jesus, No Place To Hide, Offer, Owe, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Pray, Recall, Replete, Ride, Secure, Seen, Solid Ground, Songs, Soul, Stone, Tainted Soul, Thankful, The Night, True Pleasure, Wind, Won, Worth
Leave a comment
In A Time of Flux
In A Time of Fluxby Michael DoyleTheory and practice belong togetherIf international relations are to be betterThese are pivotal times to seeFilled with dread and promise for you and meThose who talked of an end to historyWere blinded to the … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Aggression, Alternative, Attacks, Balance, Brutality, Claws, Conflict, Conversation, Decide, Declarative, Democratic Nations, Discern, Divide, Dread and Promise, Dynamics, Elements, End To History, Existence, Failure, Full Change, Idealism, Integrity, International Relations, Multipolar, Narrative, National Sovereignty, Nations, Neighbors, Optimism, Order, Persistence, Perspective, Pivotal Times, Place, Poetry and Poems, Political Mystery, Power, Power Vacuum, Renegotiation, Rule of Law, Russia, Ruthless Regression, Sovereignty, Spheres of Interest, Stand Together, The United Nations, The World, Theory and Practice, Threaten, Time of Flux, Trace, Tyrants, Ukraine, Value Space, Velvet Gloves, Western Civilization, Western Ways, World War II, Yalta
Leave a comment
To Live In the Law
To Live In the Lawby Michael DoyleWalked into the doctrines of controversyThere is a stiff challenge without heresyDown through God’s good agesThere are debates that readily rageThe dialog should be had with all humilityGracefully admitting a bit of grace and … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Adjustment, Ages, Bible, Bonds, Challenge, Christianity, Conscience, Context, Contradictions, Controversy, Debate, Demanding, Dialog, Direction, Discernment, Doctrines, Expectation, Failed Understanding, Faith, Filters and Perceptions, Forgive, Fruit, God, God's Story, Grace and Mercy, Heresy, Humility, Jesus, Law, Live, Marriage, Martin Luther, Poetry and Poems, Rage, Root, Shades of Glory, The Law, Universal, Widow
Leave a comment
Bumping Up Against
Bumping Up Againstby Michael DoyleBumping up against the edgesToes reaching out over the ledgesThe quest is given up for the idealAs we learn to settle for the realThe higher grounds are out of boundsAs we seek to find further soundsThat … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Belief, Better Off, Bleed, Boundaries, Bumping Up Against, Chaos and Contradiction, Choice, Clock, Dedication, Deeper Truths, Despite, Dreams, Edges, Expectation, False Starts, Fear, Find In Our Hearts, Further Sounds, Ghost, Guitars, Hear, Heartbreaks, Higher Grounds, Hours, Ideal, Idols, Ignorance, Incidental Heathens, Lack, Learn, Ledges, Love, Mistakes, New Paths, Note By Note, Out of Bounds, Pain Cuts, Play, Poetry and Poems, Pretense, Quest, Reading, Real, Rest, Sense, Settle, Someone Else, Test, Toes, Turn Back, Voice, Wilderness, Wish
Leave a comment
ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 