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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The Sweetest Fragrance
The Sweetest Fragranceby Michael DoyleEvery curve, every gleam, every sightHer words were a whisper in the nightCharms awaken my soul as she blazedMy heart on fire, I stood amazedThe depth of her soul was uncharted kindnessIt was crystal clear despite … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazed, Beauty, Blaze, Blindness, Bubble Baths, Charm, Comforting Dreams, Crystal Clear, Curve, Darkness, Depth, Dream, Eyes, Fragrance, Gleam, Heart On Fire, Kindness, Known, Life Rearranged, Muse, Night, Poet's Life, Poetry and Poems, Revealed, Saffron, Sight, Signficance, Skies, Smile, Smiling Queens, Soul, Spark, Stars, Sweet, Truths, Unknown, Whisper, Wind of Change, Words
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Hills and Valleys to Die On
Hills and Valleys To Die Onby Michael DoyleStretching my SUV across the Greater Ohio ValleyI see what my travels bring closer to meHere in what were once considered idle spacesAre the dreams that leave me etching their tracesThe displacement is … Continue reading
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Tagged Borders, Bullets, Complexity, Debt, Die On, Displacement, Dreams, Ghosts of the Past, Greater Ohio Valley, Harmony, Hills, History, Idle Spaces, Iroquois, Muse, Mystic Dance, Poetry and Poems, Shadow, Short Story, Silver Tongues, SUV, Traces, Travel, Valleys, War Cry, Wilderness, Writing
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An Angel Imperfectly
An Angel Imperfectlyby Michael DoyleIn protection from life’s adversity An angel spread his wings imperfectlyKnowing that life has limited mercyTo protect us from the things of historyMore profound than deep, I hear the river flowSomewhere beside where life’s garden growsA … Continue reading
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Tagged Affliction, Angel, Debris, Endured, Future, Garden, History, Humanity, Imperfect, Nurture, Poetry and Poems, Protection, River, Winds
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A Nation’s Passion Play
A Nation’s Passion Playby Michael DoyleFrom our earliest days, when we dwelt in caves,We have tried to understand what it is that savesOur rarest sentiments are served up like a delicacyThese are questionable as we define principled libertyIt is a … Continue reading
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Tagged Betrayed, Childish Illusions, Civilized Country, Complexity, Condemnation, Delicacy, Earliest Days, Empathy, Freedom, Great Escape, Hard, Hard Road, Nation, Passion Play, Poetry and Poem, Principled Liberty, Saves, Sentiment, Shame, Slavery, Sympathy, Understnd, Wisdom
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Due North
Due Northby Michael DoyleIn these daysWhen everything has gone frothyIn a million waysWe need those around to be worthyThat’s who my friend had always beenThe one I knew was good for the winEver since back in high schoolI knew her … Continue reading
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Tagged Alright, Always Been, Answer, Beat It, Brave, Calm, Cancer, Challenge, Come Hell or High Water, Concentration, Connected, Crisis, Days, Degree of Fascination, Demeanor, Due North, Facebook, Feel, Focus, Friend, Frothy, Glide, Good For the Win, Hallway, High School, Is, Joyous Laughter, Keep Things Real, Kept Cool, Lie On My Lips, Lifetime Past, Look, Lord, Lost Track, Million Ways, Mindfulness, More Than Fair, My Friend, Nobody's Fool, Paddleboarder, Peace, Perspective, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Progress, Reconnected, Reflective, Same As the Last, Same Smile, Searching For An Answer, Sigh, Simple, Smile, Soul, Stalled, Stay Still, Stride, Style, Surreal, Tear, Test, Time, Traded Quips, True North Star, Water, Wherever, Words, Worthy, Yesterday
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