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Tag Archives: Backs
Dinkʼinesh
Dinkʼineshby Michael DoyleIn mankind’s efforts to stand uprightTurning from darkness toward the lightWe’ve contended a few bones along the wayJust enough really for the right to sayFrom tree dwelling to learning to walkOn two legs, we became positioned to talkChipped … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Abyss, Ark, Backs, Bishop books, Bones, Chains of Changes, Chaos, Chipped bones, Complexity, Consequence, Darkness, Dignity, Dink'inesh, Dinosaur Bones, Faithful, Fallen Apart, Footprints, Found, Fragments, Glassy Eyes, God and Angels, God's Place, Haunted, Hidden Costs, Holy Persons, Humanity, Impossible Monsters, Judgement Day, Leaps of Fancy, Learn, Legendary, Light, Loss, Lost, Lucy, Mankind, Map, Obsolesence, Odd, Old Truth, Poetry and Poems, Profound, Religion, Religiosity, Repentant Sinners, Road Home, Science, Sentiments, Society's Transformation, Tales, Talk, Throne, Throwing Away, Tree Dwelling, Truth, Twenty First Century, Two Legs, Upright, Walk, Whisper, Whole Heart, Wink, Wonder, Wood
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First Principles: The General Spread of the Light of Science Has Already Laid Open To Every View the Palpable Truth, That the Mass of Mankind Has Not Been Born With Saddles On Their Backs
“The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready … Continue reading
Posted in First Principles
Tagged Backs, Born, Favored Few, First Principles, Grace of God, Legitimate, Light of Science, Mass of Mankind, Palpable Truth, Ride, Saddle, Spread, Thomas Jefferson, View
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On the Futility of Revenge
On the Futility of Revengeby Michael DoyleLife it seemsBeyond its dreamsIs a transitory questionBest approached with hesitationCareful of curtains hungEqually as so with songs unsungAbout the wrongs we wish to avengeFor such things bring their own revengeOften these cut both … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Avenge, Backs, Curtains, Danger, Darkness, Days, Dreams, Duel, Friends, Futility, Gone, Good Intent, Hesitation, Honor, Life, Light, Lost, Move On, Petty Acts, Poetry and Poems, Points Scored, Poison, Restore, Revenge, Songs, Stranger, Transitory Question, Wall, Wrong, Wrongs
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Thunder Road
Robert Mitchum wrote and starred in a movie way back in the 1950s that spoke to the ways of moonshiners and their dispute with the Revenue men. It touched on many topics that each could be made their own poems. … Continue reading
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Tagged Back Woods, Backs, Breeze, Code, Drive, Family, Honor, Living, Mile, Moon, Moonshine, Obstacle, Old, Persistence, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Remnant, Robert Mitchum, Scrapple, Tale, Tax, Thunder Road, Trees, Unforgiving, Veteran, Whippoorwills, Wink
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