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Persistence
Persistenceby Michael DoyleWe create our locked prisons by choiceWhere our creatures find their voiceThe point of origins might be our schoolOr wherever we learned life’s rulesWindow shopping as we were thenPursuing our visions and our sinsPaying our price as we … Continue reading
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Healing the Brokenness
Healing the Brokennessby Michael DoyleWe are all part of the brokenness of humanityWe must seek to bravely move into responsibilityBeing part of the solution, to relieve our strifeBy lessening our own sins in this thing we call lifeThe Garden of … Continue reading
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Tagged Blame and Shame, Blame Shifting, Brokenness, Capable, Conflict, Contemplation, Dominion, Eyes, Fix, Garden of Eden, Heal, Humanity, Lean'In, Life, Losing Game, Planks, Poetry and Poems, Redemption, Resolve, Responsibility, Responsible, Scapegoating, Sin, Solution, Strife, Stuggle, Thrive, Work
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The Static of Electricity
The Static of Electricityby Michael DoyleFrom the dark agesAre turned the pagesLit with electricityIn its spark of majestyIt fills up the nightWith the brilliance of lightThough dark only moments beforeElectricity conquered this forevermoreWhile another cup of coffeeBrings the morning timeSeeing … Continue reading
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In Healing Hymn
In Healing Hymnby Michael DoyleTo be human is to fantasizeMore than can be seen with naked eyesWorried about what ghouls might beAfter death’s last-breath tragedyWe keep our eyes on what is nextAnd all the riddles that do connectCaught in our … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrogance, Bittersweet, Blasphemy, Breath, Burn, Bury, Climb, Conceal, Courage, Cure, Death, Desceration, Die, Dream, Endure, Fadeaway, Faithlessness, Fantasize, Flowers, Fluidity, Ghouls, God, Grave, Grow, Heal, Health and Sickness, Heart, Heartbreak, Heaven's Gate, Hesitation, Human, Hymn, Know, Lives, Lullaby, Measure, Memories, Mortal Love, Mountain, Mourn, Mystic, Naked Eyes, Offense, Pockets of Desolation, Poetry and Poems, Pursue, Question, Remembered, Resurrection, Riddles, Sacred Reason, Save, Sin, Sorrow, Sympathy, Timid Souls, Tomorrow, Tragedy, Treasure, Yesterday
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The Artful Conflict
The Artful Conflictby Michael DoyleHumanity is invariably drawn to the good fightAnd it is unorthodox when it is brought to lightThat a southpaw stance taken can bring true valueTo all of us sinners, even me and youBlessed are the peacemakers … Continue reading
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A Mother’s Wrath (A Ghost Story)
A Mother’s Wrath (A Ghost Story)by Michael DoyleFor her, forever started in 1673With what once was a happy familyA child was left alone wanderingWith love disturbed and ,wonderingFor three hundred yearsLost inside a veil of tearsThere is no safety in … Continue reading
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Tagged Anger, Bittersweet, Candlelight, Child, Cries, Deaht, Destroy, Disturbed, Drowned Heart, End, Forever, Ghost Story, Happy Family, Harm, Innocence, Mirror, Nightmares, Poetry and Poems, Safe, Safety In Numbers, Scream, Silently Shrieking, Slumbers, Sorrow, Third Eye, Three Hundred Years, Veil of Tears, Violent, Wander, Widow, Wondering, Yesterday and Tomorrow, Yeterday
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Waking To the Smell of Coffee
Waking To the Smell of Coffeeby Michael DoyleWhat if life could be seenBy every single human beingPut out as if a streaming movie?Would we still want to be you and me?Or is this an awful possibilityAnd we’d want to buy … Continue reading
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Pain Enters the Building
Pain Enters the Buildingby Michael DoylePain enters the buildingIt comes with the never-yieldingBut instead, putting your all into the gameWhether you lose or gain 15 minutes of fameSometimes conflict comes with painSometimes you ride the rails, barely saneYou give your … Continue reading
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