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Tag Archives: Afraid
Tavern Dice
Much of life is lived as though on a roll of the dice. Game of chance and circumstance lived with our best intentions. Tavern Dice by Michael Doyle With a roll of dice A gamble is made For something nice … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Afraid, After, Best Intentions, Broken Melody, Circumstance, Crookedly Weighted, Dare, Deception, Dice, Die, Discard, Evil, Familiar, Fix, Gamble Made, Game of Chance, Laughter, Lies, Life, Lived, Minstel, Name of Heaven, Nice, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Ramble, Roll of the Dice, Same, Score, Seven, Snake Eyes, Tavern, This Game, You and Me
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The Woke Wake Up
There are just ways to advocate against injustice. There are ways that make moving for justice anything but that. Now as these predators are being identified by their own online postings, they curl up into fetal position decrying how unfair … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Acquisitive, Act Just, Advocate, Afraid, All Life Is Sacred, Ambition, American Dream, Another, Arrogant, Avoid Seeing, Basic Right, Be Merciful, Beg Indulgence, Better Self, Better World, Black Hoodie, Broke, Bungle, Burn, Civil Rights, Contribution, Death Culture, Decry, Degreed, Discussion, Divestment, Eat Their Own, Evidence, Fetal, Fetal Position, Fight, Firebombs, Forbearance, Foresight, Fragility, Free Pass, Fruits of Labor, Ghosts, Godless, Ideal, Ignorance, Immortality, Injustice, Inquisitive, Jail, Just Revolution, Justice, Less, Life, Meaning, Media Jungle, Mirror, Morally Broken, Move Foward, No Man, Online, Online Posts, Our Times, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Poorly Educated, Predators, Prevail, Profanity, Protect, Quest, Radicals, Reason, Revolution, Riot, Rock, Rubbish, Ruin, Self Signified, Shock Troops, Society, Speak, Spray Paint, Stab, Stall, Streets, Strife, Think, Tick Tock, Trash Talkers, Truth, Undoing, Unfair, Unfairness, Wake Up, Weak, Woke, Worse Saint, Worthy Investment, Wrong
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Pandemic Confronted
On looking slightly back at a day of visitation with two princesses who mean all the world to me and reflection on the current events of our times. Pandemic Confronted by Michael Doyle What a day to roundly irrational In … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Afraid, Angel, Answer, Bad Joke, Better, Bravado, Bring, Brisk, Calm, Celebrate, Choke, Confess, Confront, Consequence, Covoid 19, Dad, Dancer, Day, Day's End, Deep, Depart, Devil, Diplomatic, Eldest, Embrace, End, Epidemic, Eye, Face, Father, Fear, Fear Monger, First, God, Goodbye, Heart, Hid, Hug, Imperfect, Irrational, Joke, Kill, Know, Last Day, Laugh, Loneliness, Looking Back, Love, Meal, Memory, Pandemic, Photograph, Pi, Poem, Poetry, Recompense, Reply, Revealing, Right, Risk, Round, Saint Patrick's Day, Sarcoidosis, See, Sent Off, Shower, Smile, Soul, Tear, Tell, Together, Trace, Visitation, Warm, Watch, Way, Wordplay
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Ruined Absolution
This poem was meant for December 19, 2019. This is, among other observances, National Emo Day.. So Happy that… In my own confessional, I am struggling a bit these last few days with my upcoming birthday, Christmas almost here and … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Absence, Absolution, Afraid, Angst, Bangs, Beautiful, Brithday, Burn, Care, Chemical Romance, Christmas, Compression, Confession, Confessional, Contemplate, Dark, December 19 2019, Die, Do It Or Die, Embrace, Emotional, Escape, Expression, Fall, Fraught, Glance, Hair, Happy, Hollywood, Human Being, Ink, Inspiration, Intropective, Jet Black, Life, Little Girls, Love, National Emo Day, Nothing, Pain, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pride, Question, Ruin, Savage, Sigh, Silence, Skinny Jeans, Sleeve, Smile, Something, Sonic Attack, Sorrow, Stride, Structure, Sunday, Taste, Tee Shirt, Tenderness, Thin, Think, Violence, Violin, Want, World, Yesterday
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Resurrection (The Monster’s Lament)
Halloween Poem #10: Resurrection (The Monster’s Lament) by Michael Romani I cannot speak in denial Though my very soul is on trial Looking back on all of my days Sometimes unspeakable in my ways There are so many things I … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Afraid, Alone, Anew, Beauty, Believe, Bound, Broken, Cast, Conceive, Cost, Cruell, Darkness, Day, Deniall, Depllorable, Detail, Devil, Different, Done, Duty, Find, Forget, Frail, Harshness, Hell, Home, Honor, Human Being, Imperfect, Inside, Lament, Lost, Love, Man, Meaning, Monster, Never, Path, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Pride, Rage, Regret, Resurrection, Scar, Soul, Spoken, Time, Trial, Turn, Wak, Wander, Ways
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Pick Up Sticks
Canines and mankind have a relationship that has recently been discovered to be much older than thought for most of my life. The estimate I heard today on an audiobook about animal behavior placed this friendship back over 100,000 years … Continue reading
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Tagged Afraid, Apache, Bag, Boy, Brave, Canine, Coyote, Creatures, Cry, Dark, Evil, Fear, Harshness, Hell, Howl, Illusion, Innocent, Light, Lucifer, Mankind, Night, Petroglyph, Photograph, Pick Up, Poem, Poetry, Satan, Shade, Sinner, Sky, Sticks, Sunlight, Tale, Trick, Wall, Winner, Wolf
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In Memory of 9/11
We must never forget what extremists brought on this day We must always linger on the troubles that come humanity’s way We must also never forget that we are all the children of God And that God would have us … Continue reading
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged 9/11, Ache, Acts, Afraid, America, Ashes, Beacon, Betteer, Blind, Brave, Brazen, Break, Breathe, Cherish, Children, City on the Hill, Come Together, Day, Dreams, Example, Extremists, Fight, Forget, Founders, Freedom, Future, God, God's Will, Hands, Heart, Help, Humanity, Kindness, Liberty, Love, Loving, Madmen, Memory, Nature, Need, New, New Life, Nurture, Patriot, Peace, Remember, Seek, Shine, Strifee, Thought For the Day, Tolerate, Trouble, Words
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Rabbit In A Snow Storm
In Winter, a bunny will take calculated risk to get supper. This is despite knowing the cold winds and snow. This is done despite knowing others are hungry too. Life can be like that… Rabbit In A Snow Storm … Continue reading
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Tagged Afraid, Best, Breath, Breathe, Bunny, Climb, Cling, Cold, Comfort, Death, Dreaming, Eyes, Faith, Find, Fix, God, Hero, Hesitation, Hurt, Ideas, Jester's Crown, Killing Me, Laugh, Little Girls, Meaning, Nero, Never, New Norm, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Rabbit, Sing, Sleep, Snow Storm, Snowy Skies, Struggle, Things, Tomorrow, Warm, Will Power, Winter, Words
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Darkness In Sight
In the end times, there will be shadows that walk among us whose sight will inspire fear, hopelessness and much darkness by their mere sight. Are you ready to take this test and come out alright? I hope so. … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Afraid, Banality, Black, Breaking News, Canary, Catastrophe, Chorus, Dark, Endgame, Eyes, Float, Forgiver, Holy, Humanity, Ignore, Lack, Lonely, Lunch, Mock, Paint, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Ravage, Real, Right, River, Run, Sacred, Savage, Self Pity, Shadow, Sight, Snark, Strung Out, Surrender, Tear, Truth, Walk, Wine, Wisdom
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Daily Prompt – Curtain
Drawn deep from the pits of hell Is the watcher behind the half veil Blown in the night air like a curtain Never knowing his prey for certain Older than house he haunts More wicked than those he taunts The … Continue reading
Posted in Photographs & Memories
Tagged Afraid, Beasts, Children, Curtain, Daily Prompt, Drawn, Haunt, Hell, Horror, House, Imagination, Light Switch, Night, Prey, Taunt, Torment, Veil, Watcher, Wicked
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