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Saltwater Traces
Saltwater Tracesby Michael DoyleLooking out from the edge of the ocean’s shoreThere is a vast expanse we’ve yet to exploreWe know so little about our Mother OceanAnd yet, fools like me are filled with devotionLimited as we are by human … Continue reading
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Tagged Baptized, Beginning, Begins, Blood, Board, Breadth, Brutality, Calm, Colors and Emotions, Dance, Devotion, Dip, Edge, Emotion, Ending, Eternity, Explore, Fascination, Feelings, Fools Like Me, Gaze, Graves, Hair, Human Contemplation, Human Perceptions, Humble, Immortality, Know, Length, Life, Limited, Majesty, Mankind, Measure, Moment, Mother Ocean, Ocean, Patches, Perspective, Poetry and Poems, Pounding Waves, Reflective, Reminder, Repeitition, Salt, Saltwater Traces, Sands, Scale, Sea, Shadow, Shallows, Shore, Strength, Sunlight, Sweat, Tears, Time and Space, Toes, Touch, Vast Expanse, Winds, Windswept, Years
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Uncomfortable Truths Sown
Uncomfortable Truths Sownby Michael DoyleUncomfortable truths push forward mortal historyAt times, these must be sown despite the miseryand the writers of the day must dare to openly criticizeAnd question the prevailing order that we must analyzeHowever, winding or twisting the … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Brutality, Cancer's Ideology, Century, Climate, Comfortable Delusions, Courage, Criticize, Crooked, Cruel Truth, Damnation, Discern, Fight, Floating Scum, Fumble, Govenment, Government, Groan, Growth, Hate and Intimidation, Heavens and Hells, Illusion, Impermanence and Death, Last Breath, Learn, Life, Misery, Modesty, Morality, Mortal History, Noisy Few, Paths and Trails, Patriotic, Permanent, Personal Growth, Poetry and Poems, Question, Risen, Simpliciaty, Society, Sown, Stew, Stop, System, Top, Truth, Ugly, Uncomfortable, Writers
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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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The Lies of the Big Switch
The Lies of the Big Switchby Michael DoyleThe urge for a new game was heededAfter the loss of 1865, it was neededThe KKK was founded by Democrats in misappropriationBy Nathan Bedford Forrest and defies explanationThe party of White Supremacy sought … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged 1%, 100 Years Ago, 1865, 1924 Democratic Klan Bake, 200 Years, 60s, 70s Through 90s Years, American Poor, Americans, Antifa and the BLM, Army, Big Switch, Bittersweet Game, Black and White Republicans, Black Dignity, Black Vote, Brutality, Camps, Convention, Cross, CRT School, Defamation, Defies Explanation, Democratic Country, Democratic Elite, Democratic KKK, Democratic Party, Democrats, Demographics, Disarm, Discrete, Easy Prey, Economics, Exclusion, Exploitation, False Charges, FDR, First Movie In the White House, Gamble, Good Proclaimed, Government, Gun Control, Hanging Tree, Henry Smith, Humanity, Hung, Ida B. Wells, Illusion, Injury, Japanese, Jim Crow, Judge and Jury, Just Another, KKK, Know, Less Racist, Lies, Loss, Lynching Crew, More Republican, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Never Proven Real, New Deal, New Game, Old Deal, Patriots, Pawns, Piety, Plain Enough, Play, Poetry and Poems, Political Gears, Politics, Promises Made, Protection, Proven, Race, Racial Integrration, Racism, Racist Again, Racists, Rampant Racism, Remember, Republican, Republican Hands, republicans, Revive, Rosa Parks, Seat, Segregation Camps, Segretation, Senator Tillman, Shaken Fingers, Shifting Blame, Social Good, Southern Exceptionalism, Southern Politics, Southern Prosperity, Southern Schism, Tears, The Birth of the Nation, The Black Code, The Black People, The Black Vote, The Great Society, The Second Amendment, The South, Today, Truth Seekers, Unfair, White Rule, White Supremacy, Wilson's Self-Determiantion, Woodrow Wilson, World War II
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Two Brothers Fight
Two Brothers Fightby Michael DoyleTwo brothers are engaged in a fightOver their father’s founding legacyEach side as if as lost within vanityAs the day that divides the ends of nightDown through the centuriesEach side believes itself the betterRepeating cycles of … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Abandon, Allow, Believe, Better, Better Fate, Better Way, Brutality, Caught Up, Centuries, Chains of Yesterday, Claim, Cling, Coexistence, Construction, Crazy, Darkness, Day, Desert To the Sea, Difference, Disobedience, Divide, Each Side, Endless Cycles, Ends of Night, Every Day, Fallen Stakes, False Histories, Father, Fight, Gaslighting, God's Commands, Hate, Holy Lands, Humanity, Indignity, Land, Legacy, Love, Mercy, Miunderstood, Mutually Caused Destruction, One Side, Other Side, Paths, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Proclaim, Recognize, Repeating Cycles, Result, Sanity, Strength, Truth, Two Brothers, Vanity, Victimhood, Work Toward
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Standing Together
Standing Togetherby Michael DoyleIn the face of recent brutalityIt’s hard to remain in our humanityBut lean-in we must in accountabilityHere in the last days to our best abilityGod calls for us to be boldPutting aside timidity, since the days of … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Ability, Accountability, Belief, Believe, Believers, Bold, Brutality, Community, Days of Old, Deceived, Doubt, Face, Faith, Family, God, Grief, Hands, Help, Honor, Humanity, Join, Joy, Know, Last Days, Lean-In, Linked, Must, One Community, Open Prayer, Poetry and Poems, Remain, Rise Up, Standing Together, Timidity, Together, Trust
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Jeering At the Past
Jeering At the Pastby Michael DoyleToo often, society burns with fireForgetting virtue for forms of desireProgression is found in cinders burningAll of the lessons, we keep relearningBrigands scoff at things of the pastLaughing at those things that didn’t lastAnd believing … Continue reading
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Tagged Acts of Cruelty, Answer, Attitude, Believe, Brigands, Brings, Brutality, Burning, Burns, Cancer, Cinders, Common Mistakes, Confuse, Consume, Desire, Discarded Hopes, Dreams, Fire, Flesh, Foot, Forget, Guess, Heart, Intensity, Inventory, Jeer, Last, Laugh, Lessons, Love, Measure, Mettle, Mistakes, Out of Control, Passion, Past, Pedal, Piasnissimo, Poetry and Poems, Presnt, Progression, Regrets, Relearning, Scary Thing, Sensitivity, Society, Soul, Strenght, Subterfuge, Superiority, Time, Virtue, Wonder, World, Youth
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Gentleman George
Gentleman Georgeby Michael DoyleIt took a lifetime to forgeThe humility of Gentleman GeorgeWith his best fights fought on his kneesHe is God’s child and aims to pleaseOnce a lion, then a lamb, in doing all thingsHe only gave his second … Continue reading
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Tagged Aim, American Flag, Best Fight, Born Again, Bout, Boxer, Bring, Brutality, Comeback, Dedicate, Dignity, Forge, Frazier, Friend, Friends, Fumble, Gentleman George, George Foreman, God, God's Child, Gold Medal, Humility, Jamaica, Jesus, Jungle, Knees, Lamb, Last Breath, Legendary, Lifetime, Lion, Locker Room, Mercy, Mike Tyson, Morer, Muhammed Ali, Near Death, Nervous Tension, Olympics, Pack A Punch, Please, Poetry and Poems, Punch, Recall, Record, Rope-A-Dope, Sunshine Showdown, Tall, Teach, Tenacity, The Ring, True Man, Very Best, Won, Zaire
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The Fight For Nobility
The Fight For Nobilityby Michael DoyleTo fight for nobilityOften causes many to loseIn life’s lack of sensibilityWhich comes though we refuseThe Spanish InquisitionHad its inglorious powerThat it used without hesitationTo rule any given hourMadmen and poetsHave much in commonEven when … Continue reading
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Tagged Believe, Best, Born To Die, Broken Dreams, Brutality, Cause, Common, Confuse, Cure, Dare, Death, Desire, Destination, Dreams, Fight, Fool, Give, Grasp, Hesitation, Hour, Idle Talk, Inglorious Power, Judge, Knight, Life, Live, Lived, Lose, Madmen and Poets, Mirror, Moments, Nobility, Noble and True, Plain, Poetry and Poems, Pose, Prevail, Proverbs, Question, Real, Reality, Rebuild, Refuse, Rule, Seem, Sensibility, Test, The Spanish Inquisition, Truth, Why, Youth
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For Harry Belafonte (RIP: 3/1/27 – 4/25/23)
For Harry Belafonte (RIP: 3/1/27 – 4/25/23)by Michael DoyleUsing song as a tool for transformationHis soundtrack helped to change the nationNow Belafonte has died at the age of ninety-sixHis life having affirmed the need of too much to fixSo many, … Continue reading
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Tagged Affirm, Affirmation, Ballad, Banality, Banana Boat, Better World, Birth, Black Man, Brutality, Bucket, Carribean, Change, Claypso Beat, Colors, Confirmation, Fix, Freedom, Front, Harry Belafonte, Hesitation, Hint, How Low, Inclusive, Injustice, Island, Joy, Joyful Mix, Jump In the Line, Liberty Bell, Life, Limbo, Linger, Melody, Mississippi Goddamn, Musical Life, Nation, Ninety-Six, Paradise, Poetry and Poems, Popstarr, Price, Question, Ransom, Recalled, Representation, Revolutionary, Rhymes, Ride, Risk, Song, Sountrack, Stride, Tangle, Tool, Transformation, Vision, Whole, Window, Winds, Work Songs, Wrongs
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