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Oscar Night Without A Fright
Oscar Night Without A Frightby Michael DoyleHollywood tries to get one thing right,How to survive the Oscar night without a fright.Celebrities don’t walk the red carpet zoneWithout Armani on a tightrope of their own.Harnessing star power to openly conspire, Giorgio … Continue reading
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Tagged #MeToo, Celebrity, Choice, Death, Design, Expression, Fashion, Fright, Giorgio Armani, Hollywood, Inspiration, New Ideas, Open Conspiracy, Oscar Night, Poetry and Poems, Red Carpet, Voice
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Hula Memories
Hula Memoriesby Michael DoyleThe modern age has its share of complexity.But not enough to warrant Hawaiian anxiety.The sacred duty held with great veneration,Is the sacred duty felt by each generation.Hula is the language of the Hawaiian heart.It has remained so … Continue reading
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Tagged Ancestors, Art, Beauty, Call and Response, Chant, Choice, Complexity, Connection, Courage, Dance, Dancers, Direction, Express, Fear, Feel, Found, Generation, Gourd, Grave, Ground, Guard, Harmony, Hawaiian Anxiety, Heart, Heiau, Heritage, Hula, Language, Loosen the Key, Love, Memory, Million Stars, Modern Age, Move, Musician, Night, Peace, Pig Roast, Poetry and Poems, Polynesian, Postion, Real, Return Home, Sacred Duty, Save, Slack Key Guitar, Spirituality, Step, Strife, Symbolic, Tale, Temple Stone, The Islands, Travel, Ukuleles, Unison, Way of Life, Writing
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Voice Sang Soft
Voice Sang Softby Michael DoyleYour voice sang softly like a melody.It’s hard to say what it did to me.Then and there from the very start,Your love was gentle, blooming in my heart.Your smile might be your special power,As it captivated … Continue reading
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Tagged Begun, Belong, Better, Blindness, Bloom, Blow, Born, Choice, Complete and Strong, Distant Seasons, Everybody Knows, Eyes, Feel, Fire of Love, Flower, Forever, From, Future, Gentle, Glow, Grateful, Heart, Hearts Beat, Kind Words, Kindness, Life, Linger, Love, Magic, Melody, Miracle, Music, Night, Night Breeze, One, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Power, Pray, Reason, Right, Same, Sang, Smile, Soft, Starlit Sky, Start, Together, Unforgettable, Voice, Walk, Words, Worlds, Writing, Your Love
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Humanity’s Eclipse
Humanity’s Eclipseby Michael DoyleIt seems worthy of recallThat none of us has a crystal ball.We might want to see what’s next,But the best we have is what connects.Will it be humanity’s eclipse – As we fall before a robot apocalypse?Or … Continue reading
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Tagged AI, Artificial Intelligence, Artist, Arts, Capable, chatgpt, Choice, Complicity, Connect, Creative, Crystal Bal, Dues, Eclipse, Efficient, Electricity, Embrace, Enchancement, Exist, Fate, Fear, Feeling, Fire, Fools, Future, Humanity, Indirect, Indulge, Inevitable, Lean, Luddites, Machine, Mankind, Messiness, Mistake, Next, Nurture, Open Doors, Organic Goo, Partners, Perfect, Poetry and Poems, Predictive Alogorithms, Primordial Ooze, Replace, Replacement, Resist, Robot Apocalypse, Superlative, Technology, Tools, Wall, Wayside, Writer, Writing
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Face Painted As Comedy
Face Painted As Comedyby Michael DoyleFrom herder of cats to herder of men,The voice of confusion thinks itself Zen.Thirty years of perverted energyHas produced something akin to synergy.In this passage of marbled historyAre the layers of false controversy That have … Continue reading
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Tagged Alone, America, Change, Choice, Comedy, Comfortably Numb, Confusion, Controversy, Die, Energy, Face Paint, Falure, Gravity, Grounded, History, Laughter, Levity, Masquerade, Neurosis and Anexiety, Original Ideas, Own, Passage, Pink Floyd, Poetry and Poems, Polite Society, Proud, Question, Rearrange, Reply, Rough Crowd, Sketches, Static, Success, Synergy, Talk, Total Sum, Voice, Walk, Zen
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First Principles: Providence Has Given To Our People the Choice of Their Rulers, and It Is the Duty, As Well As the Privilege of Our Christian Nation To Select and Prefer Christians For Their Rulers
Almost all nations have peace or war at the will and pleasure of rulers whom they do not elect, and who are not always wise or virtuous. Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is … Continue reading
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Tagged Choice, Christian Nation, Christians, Duty, Elect, First Principles, Interest, John Jay, Nation, Peace, Privilege, Providence, Rulers, Select and Prefer, The People, Virtuous, War, Will and Pleasure
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In Full Identity
In Full Identityby Michael DoyleSee your pathAnd stay your course.Let’s do the math,And you’ll find the resource.Let no one get between happinessOr caring for your own needs.These images bring life’s bliss.It allows your soul to be freed.It’s a part of … Continue reading
Father In A Modern World
Father In A Modern Worldby Michael DoyleBeing a father who is generationally removedLeaves very little feeling that life has improved. The world is spinning, and it feels blurredWhen I think of the changes that have occurred.I watch my daughters rooting … Continue reading
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Tagged Aspiration, Believe, Blur, Broken Nations, Career, Change, Choice, Cradle, Daugvhters, Father, Feelling, Generationally Removed, Improved, Life, Modern World, Occur, Poetry and Poems, Relationship, Spin, Struggle, Voice, World
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Bumping Up Against
Bumping Up Againstby Michael DoyleBumping up against the edgesToes reaching out over the ledgesThe quest is given up for the idealAs we learn to settle for the realThe higher grounds are out of boundsAs we seek to find further soundsThat … Continue reading
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Tagged Belief, Better Off, Bleed, Boundaries, Bumping Up Against, Chaos and Contradiction, Choice, Clock, Dedication, Deeper Truths, Despite, Dreams, Edges, Expectation, False Starts, Fear, Find In Our Hearts, Further Sounds, Ghost, Guitars, Hear, Heartbreaks, Higher Grounds, Hours, Ideal, Idols, Ignorance, Incidental Heathens, Lack, Learn, Ledges, Love, Mistakes, New Paths, Note By Note, Out of Bounds, Pain Cuts, Play, Poetry and Poems, Pretense, Quest, Reading, Real, Rest, Sense, Settle, Someone Else, Test, Toes, Turn Back, Voice, Wilderness, Wish
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