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In the End (We Die Alone)
In the End (We Die Alone)by Michael DoyleHarsh words are toldSometimes quietly, sometimes boldThere are a million ways to live your yearsBut it’s best when you free your fearsAnte up to stay in the gameWhatever happened or who is to … Continue reading
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Tagged Above Ground, Ante Up, Balk, Best Ability, Best Card, Better, Beyond Our Capability, Blame, Bluff, Bold, Breath, Chin Held High, Chin Up, Desolate Mile, End, Face, Fake, Fears, Forgiving, Found, Friend, Getting Yourself Together, Grace, Hard, Harsh Words, Head Above Water, Hurt, Impartiality, In the End, Joker's Bluff, Keep On Living, Life, Life Is Life, Live, Live Your Years, Living, Loneliness, Loud, Pass, Poetry and Poems, Proud, Push Comes To Shove, Quite Enough, Rusted Glass, Smile, Stability, Surprise, Talk Your Walk, Thanks, Told, Troubles, We Die Alone
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Reflections On the Aftertaste
Reflections On the Aftertasteby Michael DoyleIt was just one of those endless nightsI sat feasting on a garden of fried delightsTurning the channel to hear a bit of debateSurreally hoping to help decide the nation’s fateThere on the stage were … Continue reading
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Tagged Administrative, Aftertaste, Agencies, American Dreams, Americans, Avoid, Blame, Blessing, Channel, Confusion, Countercharges, Curse, Debate, Decide, Desire, Dog, Economy, Elder Abuse, Elected, Endless Nights, Evidence, Falling Up Stairs, Familiarity, Fascism, Forgive, Fried Delights, Garden, Grown Men, Hard To Defend, Haste, Homework, Hostile Charges, Illusion, Kind But Direct, Lashing Out, Lead, Live, Malarkey, Medicare, Memory, Name Calling, Nation's Fate, Our Own Good, Pass, Passive Aggressive, Poetry and Poems, Pointed Fingers, Policies, Prepared, Puppet Master, Reflections, Road, School Children, Seem, Sell, Snarky, Stage, Suit, Surreal, Swallow, Talking Points, They Say, This Land, Truth, Two Minutes, Tyrannical Administration, Understand, Unhelpful, Verdict, Way, Weak
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Calling On God’s Name
Calling On God’s Nameby Michael DoyleIn days like these, we seeThe need to depend on divinityIt’s best that we all recallThat even heroes can topple and fallNow, though the battle feels longerOur brave hearts beat ever strongerFollowing Jesus as our … Continue reading
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Tagged Adversary, Best, Bible, Blame, Brave Hearts, Burning Fires, Call, Calling On God's Name, Christianity, Christians, Dark Moments, Days Like These, Deceit, Defeat, Depend, Divinity, Doubt, Efforts, Eterninty, Even Heroes, Extraordinary, Eyes, Faith, Fall, False Position, Fight On, Final Dominion, Forgotten, Generations, God, God's Children, Good People, Hold Firm, Holy Power, Hope, However Things Look, Insurrection, Jesus, Lift, Longer, Mockers, Poetry and Poems, Ranks, Recall, Reign, Resurrection, Rule of Law, Satan Reigns, See, Stand Tall, Standing Firm, Stout, Strong, The Battle, Through Him, Tremble, True King, Truth of Jesus, Vain, Veneration, Victory, Voice of Victory
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On Bended Knee
On Bended Kneeby Michael DoyleOn bended knee, I see the memoryOf the day and the costI watched you let it beGiving it your dignityIt’s hard to add the costMaking it worseIs I know that bullet was mineIt had my nameBleeding … Continue reading
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Tagged Across, American Liberty, Bended Knee, Blame, Bleeding, Blood, Breath, Bullet, Choose, Cost, Cry, Days, Death, Define, Depend, Dignity, End, Expend, Fight and Die, Forgive, Friends, Full Price, Hard, Hope, Indignantly, Integrity, Lives, Measure, Memory, Mine, Mistakes, Moments, My Name, Nation, Obligation, Poetry and Poems, Politicians, Pray, Protect and Defend, Refuse, Speak, Taken For Granted, The Cost, Toil, Treasure, Verse, Watch, Why, Worse, Your Death
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An Outpouring of Praise
An Outpouring of Praiseby Michal DoyleWith the power to saveYou called me out of my graveI was heavy from sins chainsAnd all of my own efforts were in vainThe day of my salvationCame to change my destinationYour love brought a … Continue reading
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Tagged Atonement, Blame, Broken, Called, Celebration, Chains, Change, Confess, Destination, Fascination, Forever, Glorious Day, Grave, Heart, Heavy, History, Holy Name, Light, Love, My Ways, Mystery, Offer, Outpour, Poetry and Poems, Power, Praise, Remaining Days, Restore, Return, Salvation, Save, Sins, Spoken, Test, The Lord, Tongue, Truth, Words
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Truth of Dust Roads Taken
Truth of Dust Roads Takenby Michael DoyleSome of the deepest truths are told in fictionEspecially those of times of historical frictionPushed into competition over narrowed resourcesInherent conflicts rise as nature takes its coursesSome conflicts come with visible tags of shameWhere … Continue reading
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Tagged Ages, Author, Back, Blame, Certainty, Competition, Conflict, Darkness, Dearth, Death, Deeper Thoughts, Deepest Truth, Depression, Deprive, Desperation, Disappear, Dust Bowl, Dust Road, Fiction, Forward, Hard Times, Harshness, Heavy Vintage, Historical Friction, Humanity, Ignorance and Greed, Lasting Impression, Learn, Nature, Pages, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Prophesy, Resources, Rot, Sin, Strength, Survive, Symbolized, Tags of Shame, Taint, Tears, Tenacity, Truth, Virtue, Wrath
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Modern Russian Violence
Modern Russian Violenceby Michael DoyleAs time moves forward, leaving the 19th century behindOne still needs to understand a measure of the Russian mindThe war crimes in Ukraine will never be the finest hourThe Russian people have experienced as Putin growls … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, Authority, Blame, Broken Dreams, Broken Promises, Brutality, Capacity, Complicit, Contempt, Death March, Destruction, Dystopian, Empire, Identity Politics, Insight, Languish, Loyalty, Merciless Anger, Modern, Nation's Soul, Nightmare, Platonov's Chevengur, Poetry and Poems, Putin, Revolution, Russian, Russian Mind, Same, Soviet History, Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky, Total Despair, Ukraine, Unending Violence, Unholy Beast, Unleased, Utopia, Violence, Vision, War Crimes, Woe
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These Are the Days of Us
Dedicated to my youngest daughter who I very dearly love and very nearly lost two years ago today… These Are the Days of Usby Michael DoyleThese are the days of usI learned this from a childWho gave this wisdom becauseThis … Continue reading
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Tagged ABCs, All the Things, Ascendant, Because, Beguile, Belief, Blame, Burn, Child, Days of Us, Discern, Dreams, Each Other, Faith and Love, Favor, Fist, Fit, Glove, God, Hate, Important, Learrn, Matters, Meaning, My Student, One Another, One Lesson, Play, Poetry and Poems, Put Aside, Real Love, Reprise, Shame, Teach, Theme, Wisdom
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