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Does It Make You Cry?
Does It Make You Cry?by Michael DoyleWhen you’re tired of laughing,Does it make you cry?This life you’ve been living, It turned out to be a lie.When you’ve given all you can,And your best isn’t good enough,Sometimes it’s hard to be … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Absurdity, All You Can, Animal, Best, Bloodlust, Bluff, Broken Trust, Cause, Certain, Certainty, Coattials, Criminal, Cry, Good Enough, Hard, Heart, Ice, In Place, Insurgency, Justice, Larceny, Laughing, Lie, Life, Live, Man, March, Own Man, Pause, Poetry and Poems, The World, Tired, Urgency
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Disaster Spoken
Disaster Spokenby Michael DoyleBelow the frozen leavesRests the haunting memory.The nocturnal strains man believesAre what makes for our only certainty.I’m a shattered soul of Autumn’s grief,And the blood of faith stains my soul.My black tears of love knows no relief,Here … Continue reading
Seasons Lived
Seasons Livedby Michael DoyleLife comes and goesDefined in seasonsIt has its reasonsAs our life sowsThat which we reapComes with joy that we’ll keepKeeping goodness as our laneHoping all the others try to do the sameStepping forward into the greatnessWe know … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Adversity, All Due Appreciation, Belong, Biblical Stewardship, Blind, Blind Spots, Broken Feels, Cause and Effect, Certainty, Comes and Goes, Conversation, Correction, Correctly, Days, Destination, Direct, Discipline, Divinity, Every Sesnse, Eyes, Familiarity, Family, Filters of Pain, Forward, Genuine Community, God, Goodness, Greatness, Heal, Heresy, History, Intentional Prayer, Joy, Keep, Last Days, Lies, Life, Limit, Live Right, Logical Song, Long Road, Looking Ahead, Love, Manage, Mankind, Measure, Open Eyes, Open Minds, Optimism, Poetry and Poems, Polarity, Pressure, Question, Reap, Reasons, Rebuke, Recognize, Relationally, Schism, Seasons, See, Serve, Sexuality, Sin, Social Institutions, Sow, Stand Firm, Strong, Study God, Theology, Truth, Unblemished, Victory, Ways, Worldly Ways
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Saying Nothing In Times of Troubles
Saying Nothing In Times of Troublesby Michael DoyleThe only certainty is it doublesTo be silent in times of troublesAt least, Irish history revealsHow false belief in God stealsThe soul of a broken nationThat is riveting in its salvationThat never quite … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Anxiety, Atrocity, Blind World, Blood, Broken Nation, Certainty, Chance, Circumstance, Collective Ideoloy, Complexity, Confession, Confident, Conflict, Confusion, Culture's Obsession, Curse, Discern, Disillusion, Divided Nation, Doubles, End, Eye For Eye, Feeling, Fight, Friends, God, Healing, Heroes, History, Holy Ghost, Individual Responsibility, Irish History, Lack of Forgiveness, Lean, Lessons, Lie, Living Novel, Mankind, Misdeed, Moral Conflict, Mud, Mystery, Numb, Passion, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Procession, Pure Drama, Salvation, Say Nothing, Scenes, Silent, Simplicity, Soul, Times of Troubles, Transcend, Trauma, Travesty, Truth, Villains, Why, Wrong, Wrong Convictions
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Life Under the Black Sail
Life Under the Black Sailby Michael DoyleUnder the black sailIt’s hard to trustBut if you’re to surviveYou find you really mustIn this world There is always doubtBut it’s never acknowledgedOr often talked aboutThis is a placeWhere among the plans conceivedAnd … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Acknowledged, Another, Black Sail, Certainty, Conceived, Conspiracy, Dance, Doubt, Exciting, Find, Gold, Half-Believed, Hard, Inviting, Lifee, Must, One Chance In Three, Pirate, Place, Plans, Poetry and Poems, Pursuit, Survive, Tales, Talked About, Told, Trust, Truth, Urgency, World
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Happy Mother’s Day 2024!
I wish all the mothers out there the happiest and holiest Mother’s Day! This is your day that God and this nation have set aside to honor all it means to be a mother. Thank you for making that choice! … Continue reading
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged 2024, Certainty, Choice, Deeply Loved, Dream, God, Happy Mother's Day, Honor, Means, Memory, Miss, Pain, Safe, Set Aside, Thank you, This Nation, Thought For that Day, Wonderful, Your Day
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A Huntington Beach Memory
A Huntington Beach Memoryby Michael DoyleThe sand in my shoesHolds a Midas shadowOver time passages and windowsOf all these memories and bluesMy eyes rise to the timeless skiesWhen certain songs on the radio playThis, then, is no real disguiseFor the … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Accurate, Al Stewart, Appreggiated, Arts, Blues, Certainty, Charade, Clinker, Closer To the Heart, Coming, Crescendo, Daydreams, Days, Disguise, Done, Echo, Ending, Eyes, Forget, Girls, Got Away, Guitars, Held, Highway One, History, Huntington Beach, Illusion, Jam, Left Behind, Lot To Say, Memories, Memory, Midas, Mind, Old Song, Play, Poetry and Poems, Present, Radio, Radio Charts, Regret, Remember, Sand, Shadow, Shoes, Songs, Straightened, Sunshine, Time Passages, Timeless Skies, Verses, Wheels of Confusion, Windows, Wonder
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Just Beyond Possible
Just Beyond Possibleby Michael DoyleHowever much it seems to be implausibleThe risk is taken to push beyond probableThough sometimes this makes you culpableAt times, you must push just beyond possibleIt is for the good of every profitable companyThat we risk … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Accept, Action, All Paths, Articulation, Begun, Beyond, Bold, Canonical, Certainty, Company, Conceivable Theology, Culpable, Done, Earth, Elder Statesmen, Failure, First Turn, Godly Reality, Good, Hazard, Hesitation, Imagination, Implausible, Innate Good, Knowledge, Magic, Mysteriouis, Poetry and Poems, Possible, Pray, Probable, Profitable, Prophecy, Push, Question, Risk, Science, Sometimes, Supernatural, Systems, Technology, Tragic, Understood, Unknowable
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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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