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Half Remembered Lines
As If the Last Timeby Michael DoyleMy heart keeps being hauntedBy these half-remembered linesThe ones that are never wantedLike a kiss given as if the last timeHere’s looking at you, kidShe half smiles, keeping it hidThat heartbreak is only an … Continue reading
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Tagged Anticipation, Argue, Beautiful, Believe, Cafe Americain, Change, Chaos, Choice, Complicate, Cost, Deceive, Doubt, Drink, Emotion, Half Rememberd, Half Smile, Haunt, Heart, Heartbreak, Inner Voices, Journey, Kiss, Last Time, Lines, Look, Lost, Luck, Overthink, Poetry and Poems, Trail, Vacation, Want, World, Wounded Lives, Yesterday
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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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Like Wanderers Seeking
Like Wanderers Seekingby Michael DoyleLike wanderers wandering a lovelier wayWe plant the seeds that bring the new daysWith a fullness of dreams filling our heartsWe loosely planned how the days would startBut kept the freedom breathing in and outNever steadfastly … Continue reading
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Tagged Air, Arrive, Better, Breathe, Care, Change, Cold, Curves, Days, Desrve, Doubt, Dream Together, Dreams, Drive, Earn, Family, Flow, Freedom, Future, GPS, Guide, Happen, Heart, Hours, Journey, Late, Myself, Nurture, Plan, Poetry and Poems, Pth, Seeds, Seek, Show, Start, State, Straight Roads, Talk, Wanderer, Way, Wiggle Room, World
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Autumn Seen Starkly
Autumn Seen Starklyby Michael DoyleOctober 2nd and the days are wearing thinI suppose it is true that Winter is coming againThis, then, is the truth of Autumn seen starklyAs the days grow shorter and are seen darklyPoetry captures violent moments … Continue reading
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Tagged Air, Amplify, Ancient Lineage, Autumn, Bend, Blessedness, Blossom, Breath, Change, Childhood, Cold, Collect, Creep, Cycles of Life, Dark, Days, Death, Decadence, Deciduous, Everywhere, Flower, Golden, Heartbeats, Hibernate, Hours, Ice, Knew, Love, Memories, Moments, New, Old Lifee, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Radiance, Reaper, Rearrange, Seep, Simple, Slip, Spin Out, Spring, Stark, Stay, Sunlight, Taces, Thin, Time, Transmute, True Growth, Truth, Universal, Vivid Color, Warnth, Weather, Winter, Wither
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The Black Book Blues
The Black Book Bluesby Michael DoyleA father’s handClutches his son’s bloodMired in the sandClotting in the mudCorruption is as corruption doesSome things never changeIt’s as bad as it ever wasSome things simply rearrangeAn honest man can’t always be niceNot when … Continue reading
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Tagged Bad As It Ever Was, Battles, Black Book, Blues, Broken, Brutal, Burn, Change, Clot, Clown, Corruption, Cost, Danger, Evil, Father's Hand, Good, Grief, Heart, Heartbreak, Hide, Honest Man, Incendiary, Integrity, Lesson, Light, Look, Memories, Mercies, Mercy, Mistake, Mud, None, Nowhere, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Price, Relief, Right, Run, Sand, Shown, Sight, Snare, Son's Blood, Spare, Stranger, Token, Tossed, Truth, Understood, Wink and Nudge, Youth
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Thought For the Day: Civilization Is A Choice. We Get Up Every Morning and Decide To Follow Certain Rules of Decorum and Behavior Because That’s How You Keep Society Together
“Civilization is a choice. We get up every morning and decide to follow certain rules of decorum and behavior because that’s how you keep a society together. We have seen a total breakdown of those norms year after year. It … Continue reading
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Tagged Abandonment, Behavior, Breakdown, Certain Rules, Change, Choice, Civilization, Decide, Decorum, Every Morning, Gary Bauer, Keep, Norms, Society, Standards, Thought For the Day, Time, Together
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Thoughts On A September Morn
Thoughts On A September Mornby Michael DoyleYou can feel it in the airA discernable sense of changeAs you take in the world with careAnd watch the leaves rearrangeSummer comes to its endAs Autumn starts to beginEven before leaves start to … Continue reading
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Tagged Air, Apple Orchard, Autumn, Begin, Bicycle Rider, Blend, Blur, Call, Care, Change, Chili, Cider, Descend, End, Fall, Feel, Football Season, Fuzzy Memories, Glass, Halloween, Handy, Heaven, Hill, Kids, Leaves, Long Lost Friend, Ninth, Pick, Poetry and Poems, Pumpkin's Cand, Rearrange, Reason, Scarecrows, School Year, Seasons, Sense, September Morn, Seven, Sky, Snuggles, Spices, Stove, Summer, Sun Sets, Sunflower, Thought, Thoughts, Trail, Treasure Trove, Treat, Tricks, World
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Thought For the Day: It Is Self-Evident That Language Has Not Bled To Death Through Change
“Prolonged study of the English language leaves me with a conviction that nearly all the linguistic tendencies of the present day have been displayed in earlier centuries, and it is self-evident that the language has not bled to death through … Continue reading
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Tagged Antidote, Bled To Death, Burdensome, Centuries, Change, Conviction, Crudities, Die, Display, Distinctions, English Language, Flourish, Language, Linguistic Tendencies, Present Day, Robert W. Burchfield, Self-Evident, Soften, Study, Thought For the Day, Time, Useful, Vulgarity
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