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In the Complexity of This World
In the Complexity of This Worldby Michael DoyleAnger and other toxic emotionsCan linger with all their commotion.All of these feelings are indwelling,And are in our control. God willing.We grow up as boys in the hood,But the hope is that we … Continue reading
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Tagged Appreciation, Boys In the Hood, Commotion, Complexity, Control, Depth, Feelings, God Williing, Hope, Indwelling, Meaning, Mr. Rogers, Opportunities To Grow, Poetry and Poems, Saint, Snapshot, Step, Talked, The Bible, Toxic Emotions, Understood, Walked, Words
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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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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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To Be A Woman
To Be A Womanby Michael DoyleIt would be false to paint tranquility.A woman’s world is one of complexity.Phrased in its phases, it takes a distortionist.To be a woman is to be a contortionist.In the push-and-pull world of always there,It’s plain … Continue reading
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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Dire Consequences
Dire Consequencesby Michael DoyleBack breeding and use of DNA sequenceWithout thinking of possible consequencesSeems so easily at our potential expenseThat I struggle to make it make any senseYes, what we have lost was wonderfulAlmost all of it has been something … Continue reading
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Tagged Adversity, Apex Predator, Aspiration, Back Breeding, Balanced Diversity, Beasts, Beautiful, biodiversity, Climate Change, Complexity, Conservator, Considrations, Dark, Dire Consequences, Diseasee, DNA Degradation, DNA Sequence, Encroashing, Face, Genetics, God, Greater Care, Habitat Loss, Health, Intention, Jurassic Park, Man and Nature, Mankind, Misunderstood, Nation, Philosophy, Planetary Health, Poaching, Possible Consequence, Potential Expense, Protect and Ease, Rearange, Recompense, Restore, Science, Sense, Spirt of God, Struggle, Trace, Unintended Consequence, Unleash, Wonderful
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Hills and Valleys to Die On
Hills and Valleys To Die Onby Michael DoyleStretching my SUV across the Greater Ohio ValleyI see what my travels bring closer to meHere in what were once considered idle spacesAre the dreams that leave me etching their tracesThe displacement is … Continue reading
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Tagged Borders, Bullets, Complexity, Debt, Die On, Displacement, Dreams, Ghosts of the Past, Greater Ohio Valley, Harmony, Hills, History, Idle Spaces, Iroquois, Muse, Mystic Dance, Poetry and Poems, Shadow, Short Story, Silver Tongues, SUV, Traces, Travel, Valleys, War Cry, Wilderness, Writing
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A Nation’s Passion Play
A Nation’s Passion Playby Michael DoyleFrom our earliest days, when we dwelt in caves,We have tried to understand what it is that savesOur rarest sentiments are served up like a delicacyThese are questionable as we define principled libertyIt is a … Continue reading
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Tagged Betrayed, Childish Illusions, Civilized Country, Complexity, Condemnation, Delicacy, Earliest Days, Empathy, Freedom, Great Escape, Hard, Hard Road, Nation, Passion Play, Poetry and Poem, Principled Liberty, Saves, Sentiment, Shame, Slavery, Sympathy, Understnd, Wisdom
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Dark Sources
Dark Sourcesby Michael DoyleThe optics make me cringe.Almost every newscast is on the fringeIt seems that we’re invited into the conspiracyWhile they really don’t care about historyEveryone vents and is set on blamingIt’s that PR game known as framingTruth, it … Continue reading
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Tagged :Profound, Blame, Captains of America, Care, Complexity, Connective Tissue, Conspiracy, Constitution, Cringe, Dark Sources, Downed, Endangered, Every Night, Explanation, Fleshed Out, Foundation, Framing, Fringe, Gangrene, Groove, Hide, History, Honest Brokers, Huddle, Invitation, Life, Looking In, Media, My Side, Neighbors, Newscast, Nowhere, Objective, Optics, Optimism, Original Sin, Pessimism, Poetry and Poems, Poison, Polluted Air, Power, Public Relations, Quizzically Smile, Roots, Rumors, Runaway, Shots, Society, Souls, Stay, Strategic, Subjective, Systemic Racism, Team, Television, Texts, Truth, Vent, Walls, Your Side
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