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Poinsettia Day 2023
Poinsettia Day 2023by Michael DoyleUsually quiet and sometimes reservedSometimes death seems so undeservedIt’s hard to find the words to sayLike on this present Poinsettia DayLife is sad, yet interesting, in processionMoments like these reveal this is not a possessionBut a … Continue reading
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Life As We Wear It
Life As We Wear Itby Michael DoyleIt is one thing to feign ignoranceAnd another to protest our innocenceThis is especially true when it can be shownThat the facts in dispute are easily knownIf we’d only question what it is that … Continue reading
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Tagged Act, Answer, Can Do, Fundamental, Ignorance, Innocence, Jigsaw, Known, Life, Need, Poetry and Poems, Powers In Check, Question, Recognized Authority, Should, Should Do, Sky, Sufficient, True, Understood, Wear
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Revisiting Truth In the Post-Modernist Age
Revisiting Truth In the Post-Modernist Ageby Michael DoyleIt can be said with conviction of feelingThat the ways of God are revealingHere in this mid-DecemberIt seems timely to rememberAll of God’s loving tracesIn all the history of a life’s embracesAre like … Continue reading
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Tagged Atone, Balance, Brain, Broken, Chaos, Clarity, Confusion, Contrition, Conviction, Cost, Destruction, Dysfunction, Faithless, Feeling, Grace, Grace and Truth, Heartless, Heed, History, Human Race, Humanity, Ideology, Illusion, Imposition, Incarnation, Jordan, Law andTruth, Lean-In, Loving Traces, Meaning, Memorial, Mercy, Mid-December, Neighborhood, Nihilism, Optimism, Poetry and Poems, Poison, Post-Modernist Age, Preacher, Question, Reason, Rebellion, Relativism, Remember, Revealing, Revisit, Righteous Path, Seduce, Shadow, Stones, Struggle, Teach, Teacher, The Law, The lost, the Word, Truth, Ways of God
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Searching For Truth (On A Yellow Brick Road)
Searching For Truth (On A Yellow Brick Road)by Michael DoyleSearchers after truth seek hidden meaningsOn whatever road traveled as human beingsThoughts and actions shape the emotionsStuffed within a wicker basket of devotionWhen looked at properly and with interpretationThere is so … Continue reading
Like A Dickens Ghost
Like A Dickens Ghostby Michael DoyleA distant streetlight offers illuminationA secret peek inside a dreamer’s imaginationSuddenly, the curtain is pulled asideAnd you can see inside where the demons hideFunny as it is as to what each day bringsAs we chase … Continue reading
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Tagged 3d, Angels, Curtain, Demons, Dickens, Dirty, Elves, Feel, Figures of Speech, Flirty, Ghost, Golden Rings, Heart, Heaven, Heaven Sent, Illumination, Intent, Interactive, Mischievious, Pipers, Play Nice, Poetry and Poems, Price, Real, Street Light
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Chanukah and Antisemitism
In solidarity with the Jewish people around the globe on this first night of Chanukah! Chanukah and Antisemitismby Michael DoyleIn what should be a quiet season filled with optimismIt is hard to feel life without a bit of pessimismStill, menorah … Continue reading
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Tagged #MeToo, Antistemitism, Base Urges, Beasts of Satan, Bediviled Resistance, Belief, Brave, Brotherhood, Burning Bush, Celebration, Chanukah, Coexist, Conflict, Courage, Cowards, Dignity, Divine Light, Dull Coldness, Elie Wisel, Encourage, Fate, Fear, Festival of Lights, Forces of Intolerance, Freedom, Friends, God's Presence, Grief, Hand In Hand, Hate-Filled, Heaer, Hopeless, Indivisible, Jewish Obligation, Jewish People, Joy and Sorrow, Judaism, Just End, Late, Light, Light Each Candle, Manipulated, Miracle, Monrah, Neutrality, Oil Burning, Oppressed, Oppressed People, Oppressor, Optimism, Peoples of Faith, Persevereance, Perverse, Pessimism, Plight, Poetry and Poems, Pride, Prominent, Quench, Rabbi, Rededication, Relief, Sanctuary, Season, Shamash, Shield and Comfort, Side By Side, Sihine, Silence, Solidarity, Speak, Stand Firm, Stand United, Stay Alive, Survive, Survivors, Take Side, Temple, Tormented, Tormentor, Trace, Truth, Unspeakable Hate, Victim, Visibility, World and Universe
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Strategic Calculation
In remembrance of December 7, 1941: Strategic Calculationby Michael DoyleIt was a risk based on a strategic calculationThat brought the Japanese to their evaluationDecember 7, 1941, will live on in its infamyTaking its place within our nation’s memoryIt was a … Continue reading
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Tagged Accuracy, Allow, American, American Ways, Better Days, Clock, December 7 1941, Evaluation, Fabled Moment, Fester, Folly, Forgotten, Friendly Toward All, Historic Perspective, Infamy, Isolation, Japanese, Just About Right, Learn, Lessons, Mad, Malice, Military Negligence, Nation's Memory, Ominous Dread, Poetry and Poems, Preparation, Ready for Fight, Reflective, Rotten, Slender Logic, Sting, Strategic Calculation, Stronger, Tragic Day, Wrath, Yardstick
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The Naughty List
The Naughty Listby Michael DoyleWhen the truth’s told even in the best of timesA heart should beware of the easiest rhymesKeeping an eye out for the details of the DevilIs best because we know he’s never on the levelThere’s a … Continue reading
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Tagged Because, Best, Best of Times, Beware, Bright Lights, Careful, Christmas, Christmas Magic, Coca-Cola Santa, Contest, Crass Commericalism, Dark Side, Decorations, Details, Devil, Display, Doubt, Eye Out, Fights, Forgotten, Heart, Hustle and Bustle, Level, Modern Age, Parades, Poetry and Poems, Point of View, Pray, Question, Real Reason, Reason For the Season, Rhymes, Room Enough, Teasin', The Naughty List, Time Enough, Told, Too Bad, Tragic, True, Truth, Wish
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The Bones of Rock-N-Roll
The Bones of Rock-N-Rollby Michael DoyleThe bones of rock-n-roll flowed through with authorityIn the American zeitgeist that Frank Zappa made legendarySpinning tales from hippies to yuppies in a vast conspiracyIt became tragically hipper as it grew to become legendaryHe was … Continue reading
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Tagged Authority, Avantagarde, Bawdiness, Blank-Eyed Habits, Bones, Brok, Cales, Conformity, Curnch, Encourage, Fee Speech, Flamboyant, Flimsy Values, Frank Zaapa, Frivolity, Funk Infected, Hipster Guile, Hues, Humor, Hypocrisy, Lady Justice, Lyricism, Melody, Morality, Musical Tales, Narrative, Naughtiness, Percision, Poetry and Poems, Preach, Rabbit-Hole, Reach, Reality, Rock-n-Roll, Satirize, Sleeping Woke, Smile, Society, Spotlight, Style, Surreal, Television, Truthful Comedy, Urban Scensters, Vibraphone, Whine, Wounded Coil, Zeitgeist
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