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America Unbroken
America Unbrokenby Michael DoyleTime comes at us with brutality,Not caring at all about our humanity.Every second comes with its own rush.The weakest of us feels the crush.Cutting through the skin to the inside,Until it takes every part of our pride.That’s … Continue reading
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Tagged 9-11, America Unbroken, Anxiety, Brutality, Care, Complexity, Crush, Faith, History, Humaity, Inside, September 11, Twin Towers, Twin Twoers, Writing
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Subversive of Conformity
Subversive of Conformityby Michael DoyleSame likes same, in the interest of conformity.But do we stop to consider the vast enormity?What is the outcome of unquestioning loyaltyIn a nation and world prone toward brutality?However infantile, an attack on orthodoxyLeaves a lasting … Continue reading
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Tagged Blasphemy, Brutality, Conformity, Enormity, Faith, God, Infantile, Interest, Jesus, Land of the Free, Loyalty, Orthodoxy, Philosophy, Poetry and Poems, Politics, Question, Subserviion
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In Moving Pictures
In Moving Picturesby Michael DoyleDrawing on our life’s experienceThere are characters of preference.They serve as molds of imagination.So much of life is pure improvisation.The charm that got us byAs we hustled to give life our try.The shots of the frame-by-frameAre … Continue reading
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Tagged Artistry, Behind, Blow By Blow, Brilliance, Brothers, Brutality, Bullets, Characters, Charm, Chemistry, Cinematic Magic, Dalliance, Deep Dive, Differently, Divine Spark, Draw, Experiment, Fashion of Truth, Feel, Fifty Years, Frame, Friendship, Game, Glory, Grown, Heart, Humility, Hustle, Imagaination, Improvisation, Inspiration, Knights, Known, Life, Life's Experience, Light, Light From Dark, Lights, Love, Mind, Mold, Moving Pictures, Night, Okay, Poetry and Poems, Preference, Pushing Forward, Real, Reverently, Score, Shots, Sin, Sixteen, Spirituality, Story, Switchblade Knife, Visceral, Well, Writing
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The Guilt and Monstrosity of Luigi Mangione
The Guilt and Monstrosity of Luigi Mangioneby Michael DoyleNews wars say if it bleeds, it leadsIn this nation of monstrous misdeeds,It is really not all that deep,To focus on murder and death is cheap.It’s become symptomatic of modern society,To focus … Continue reading
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Tagged Attitude, Bleeds, Brutality, Cheap, Commodity, Criminal, Defend, Deny, Depose, Fray, Guilt, Guilty, Healthcare Industry, Hope and Optismism, Innocent Death, Laugh, Leads, Lionized, Luigi Mangione, Mean World Syndrome, Media, Meme, Mock, Modern Society, Modern Sociology, Monstrosity, Murder, Murder By Number, News, News Wars, Noble Deed, Norms, Not Guilty, Poetry and Poems, Politics, Pop Culture, Prophets, Purely Evil, Reform, reviews, Robin Hood, Same Breath, Shape, Social Media, Social Nihilism, Societal Vandalism, Substantive Meaning, System's Flaws, Thanatology, Unrepentant, Worth, Writing
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Of War and Valor
Of War and Valorby Michael DoyleThe things of this world come in complexity.What some face causes others frayed anxiety.When we versify in earnest, we find the truth.It can be as frustrating as an elder as it was in youth.It was … Continue reading
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Tagged Anxiety, Brutality, Citizen Soldiers, Complexity, Confront, Counter-Oopinions, Desparate, Divided Nation, Duty, Earnest, Ends, Explanation, Fight, Friends, Frustrateion, Hike, Humanity, Idealism, Libht, Poetry and Poams, Sacrifice, See, Truth, Valor, War, World
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In A Time of Flux
In A Time of Fluxby Michael DoyleTheory and practice belong togetherIf international relations are to be betterThese are pivotal times to seeFilled with dread and promise for you and meThose who talked of an end to historyWere blinded to the … Continue reading
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Tagged Aggression, Alternative, Attacks, Balance, Brutality, Claws, Conflict, Conversation, Decide, Declarative, Democratic Nations, Discern, Divide, Dread and Promise, Dynamics, Elements, End To History, Existence, Failure, Full Change, Idealism, Integrity, International Relations, Multipolar, Narrative, National Sovereignty, Nations, Neighbors, Optimism, Order, Persistence, Perspective, Pivotal Times, Place, Poetry and Poems, Political Mystery, Power, Power Vacuum, Renegotiation, Rule of Law, Russia, Ruthless Regression, Sovereignty, Spheres of Interest, Stand Together, The United Nations, The World, Theory and Practice, Threaten, Time of Flux, Trace, Tyrants, Ukraine, Value Space, Velvet Gloves, Western Civilization, Western Ways, World War II, Yalta
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First Principles: I Hate War As Only A Soldier Who Has Lived It Can, Only As One Who Has Seen Its Brutality, Its Futility, Its Stupidity
“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Tagged Brutality, Dwight D. Eisenhower, First Principles, Futility, Hate, Live, Soldier, Stupidity, War
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Fiery Cinders
Fiery Cindersby Michael DoyleHourglass sands spell tales of brutalityWhispering that most pirates keep their humanityThat is until they can only no longer see fitWhich mostly comes down to the matter of profitIn these moments, and when it’s a Hell of … Continue reading
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Tagged Alive, Bravado, Brutality, Captain, cinder, Dead Men, Die, Escape, Fiery Cinders, Fit, Hell, Hourglass Sands, Humanity, Jolly Rogers, Last Man, Less-Than-Clever, Loose Lips, Moments, Never, Pirates, Plan, Plundering Pirates, Poetry and Poems, Prize, Profit, Sea, Strictly Logic, Survive, Tale, Tales, Watch Change, Whisper, Witnessing Eyes
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