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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
Posted in Poetry and Poems
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
Posted in Poetry and Poems
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
Posted in Poetry and Poems
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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The Rejected Man Stumbles
The Rejected Man Stumblesby Michael DoyleThe rejected man stumbles back into the darknessFilled as he has become by this life’s harshnessHe had been helpful and knowledgeable in his waysAnd though ill-tempered, he was useful in his daysScience, too, is useful … Continue reading
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Tagged Aberration, Abomination, Acceptable, Accountable, Afraid, Anger, Appointed Stations, Argument, Arrogance, Blame, Blindness, Cautionary Tale, Challengers, Cloud, Consensus, Consicence, Cruelty, Darkness, Dedication, Differently, Disgrace, Diviine, Encourage, Enmity, Experts and Tyrants, Fortunetellers, Free, Full Moon, Governance, Harshness, Honest Peson, Ill-Tempered, Immune, Impertinence, Imposition, Infidelity To God, Inner Voices, Insurmountable, Intemperance, Knowledge, Last Words, Learn, Learned Positions, Lessons, Majority, Monster, Mystery, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Position, Prejudices, Proud, Pursuit of Truth, Question, Questions, Rage, Reject, Rejected Man, Remedy, Rule, Science, Seek, Shame, Shine, Sources, Status Quo, Steadfast, Struggle, Stumble, Swallow, Systeem, Tame, Test, Throne, Tongue, Tranquil, Travail, True Solutions, Trust, Undaunted, Undermine, Unkindness, Useful, Venomous, Vulnerability, Ways, Well, Wise Voice, Yoke, Young
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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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Tagged Act, AI, Allow, Attack, Aware, Axe, Better, Blame, Buffoons, Build, Buy, Capture, Careful, Categorically, Change, Chapter and Verse, Choice, Choose, Coffee, Compromise, Computers and Phones, Confront, Contract, Daft, Define, Devices, Dignity, Ding and Slight, Done Away, Entire System, Errant, Favor, Fictive Level, Final Deal, Front-Door, Full-Flow, Gamed, Gone, Good, hands and Minds, Hate, Human Being, Images, Integrity, Lack, Laugh, Legacy, Legitimacy, Life, Litigous, Lived, Lives, Madhouse, Mesmerized Engagement, Modern Age, Monster, Name, Natural Fact, Okay, Ought, Pages, Paramenters, Parts and Portions, Person, Poetry and Poems, Portray, Possibility, Proud, Real, Rearrange, Reclaim, Reclaimed, Refuse, Reveal, Right, Rights, Roles, Scenes, See, Selective, Self-Written, Shreds, Smell, Star, Streaming Movie, Suffer, Take Our Lives Back, Tell, Terms and Conditions, Think, Thought, Truth, Vices, Victims, Victor's Crown, Wake, Want, Well-Lived, Williing, Wish, World, Worse, You and Me
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Forbidden Fruit
Forbidden Fruitby Michael DoyleLove of witchcraft presents the evidenceThat the ability to influence is no coincidenceAs they open up evil, door by doorAnd find a craven audience wanting moreThe portal to desires some wish to exploreOpen up to all, beginning … Continue reading
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Tagged Amuse, Audience, Beginning, Blame, Charade, Charm, Child's Play, Children, Coincidence, Contract, Craven, Danger, Delicious, Desire, Device, Door, Door By Door, End of Days, Engage, Enslave, Evidence, Evil, Explore, Forbidden Fruit, Freedom, Fright, Game, Grandmaster, Ground Floor, Hidden, Holy Advice, Ignore, Influence, Innocence, Intuit, Knock, Lie, Light, Lost, Masses, Messengers, Multiple Ways, Night, Perceive, Pleasurable, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Portal, Question, Run, Scatter, Secret, Shadow, Sudden, Task, Taste, Treasure, Witchcraft, Wonder
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His Cure
His Cureby Michael DoyleJehovah by nameHe takes our blamePurified in praiseBringing light to our daysHis is the peaceThat wins from sin, our releaseGiving us our freedomIn the name of His KingdomHe who has set the starsAllowing us healing from our … Continue reading
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Tagged Action Verbs, Blame, Broken, Correction, Cure, Days, Empty Words, Fear, Freedom, Gardens, God, Graves, Heal, His Cure, His Path, Humanity, Jehovah, Kingdom, Light, Love, Mourning, Name, Only Way, Pain, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Pure, Release, Ressurection, Scar, Sin, Spoken, Stars, Steady and Sure
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The Mothman Cometh
The Mothman Comethby Michael DoyleGraceful yet frighteningI saw him by lightening With two red eyes glaringI couldn’t help staringPleading his wild eyed mysteryA part of West Virginian historyThis mysterious sort of beingThat the moonlight might bringA chilling whisper finds its … Continue reading
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Tagged Being, Blame, Breath, Bring, Cornfield, Courage, Danger, Death, Doom, Fear, Feeling Lost, Fog, Frightening, Game, Glare, Graceful, History, Late Night, Moonlight, Mothman, Mysterious, Mystery, Outrun, Poetry and Poems, Prank, Red Eyes, Run, Sight, Span, Spell, Stare, Stranger, Talons, West Virginian, Whisper, Wings
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