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Tag Archives: Complexity
A Truth Told
A Truth Toldby Michael Doyle Trapped within lies within liesA truth illuminates under artificial skiesAnd the pain makes for the better manIt’s a script a believer can understand Meant, as it is, to make us believeThough written so carefully as … Continue reading
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Tagged Alive, Anguish, Answer, Artificial Skies, Beginning, Believe, Better Man, Breaking My Heart, Broken Life, Cancer, Clever, Complexity, Construct, Construction, Deceive, Dexterity, Eggs, Faith, Fools, Forgiving, Found, Frames Per Second, Game, Illusory, Imporbable, Lies, Living, Mass Destruction, Meant, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Real, Reflection, Reveals, Revolt, Rules, Script, Self-Destruct, Start, Trapped, Truth, Truth Told, Understand, Vault, Win
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In the Tomes of Humanity
In the Tomes of Humanityby Michael DoyleAlgorithms of simplicityMakeup humanity’s complexityWith habits easy enough to understandAs the madness takes over as plannedMost waiver between love and prideSometimes this happens to coincideThen there are the exceptions irreducibleThat’s what’s become of the … Continue reading
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Tagged AI, Algorithms, Brave Souls, Broken Bodies, Choice, Codices, Coincide, Competitive Advantages, Complexity, Contemptible, Cost, Countless, Coup, Death, Doom, Exceptions, Face Off, False Promises, Final Battle, Garden, Habits, Humanity, Keeping, Last Breath, Libraries, Lost, Love, Madness, Mankind, Overcomes, Pain, Planned Obsolescence, Precipice, Price, Pride, Real Life, Recall, Sacred Door, Simplicity, Smile, Tomes, Truth, Understand, Victories, Villainies, Volumes, Waiver, Warrior's Voice, Weeping, Winner Take All, Wise Mother, Worth
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Shadowboxing
Shadowboxingby Michael DoyleShadowboxing with my egoHiding from whispers of an echoWhen cleansing of sin is neededAnd common sense is not heededThere are dangers in complexityRaw feelings rough in their simplicityI just need to hold on to the sunriseVisions that bleed … Continue reading
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Tagged Beautiful Soul, Bleed, Cleansing of Sin, Common Sense, Complexity, Danger, Demons Dwell, Echo, Ego, Grow, Hid, Hurt, ID, Inferno, Innocence of Childhood, Jaded Past, Killing Me, Let Go, Living Hell, Lose Control, Love, Making, Mistakes, Must, Pain Inside, Past Trauma, Poetry and Poems, Pool of Blood, Raw Feelings, Shadow Boxing, Simplicity, Sunrise, Swept, Taking, Trust, Uncertainty, Whisper, World, Wound, Wounded Parts
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Elephants Mourn Their Dead (Happy the Elephant)
Elephants Mourn Their Dead (Happy the Elephant)by Michael DoyleNo freedom, no libertyNo right to fundamental dignityHappy the Elephant pays the costAnd the decision it seems is lostThere will be no sanctuaryPersonhood has been denied capacityRegardless of intelligence, elephants are thingsSubstantially … Continue reading
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Tagged "X", Ability, Aesthetic, Arbritary, Autonomy, Beauty, Capacity, Chattel, Complexity, Cost, Dead, Decision, Dissent, Dominant Tusked, Elephants, Empathy, Factors, Family, Forehead, Freedom, Full Recognition, Fundamental Dignity, Given Hand, Happy the Elephant, Human Beings, Humanity, Intelligence, Language, Legal Reasoning, Liberty, Love, Majestic Giants, Memory, Mirrors, Mourn, Nonverbal, Personhood, Picky Eaters, Poetry and Poems, Points of Similarity, Present, Recognize, Refinement, Rejected, Sanctuary, Science, Self, Sentient Beings, Solitary Confinement, Talking, Things, Things Unsaid, Understand, Unfeeling, Walking, Words, World, Zoo Enclosures
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Weren’t Those the Teenaged Years?
Weren’t Those the Teenaged Years?by Michael DoyleThe teenaged yearsOf Saturday night solitudeWas a parade of smiles and tearsAnd many dramasWaiting to intrudeInto the happiness that cameAnd that provided the frameIn moments of ShakespeareThat kept us awakeMaking us braver than our … Continue reading
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Tagged Along the Way, Awake, Bless, Bolder, Brave, Broken Hearts, Choosing, Complexity, Confide, Contemplative, Dramas, Each Step, Edge, Edit, False Starts, Fear, Fight, Frame, Garden Variety, Good, Happiness, Hesitations, Hide, Human Beings, Inquisitive, Intrude, Issues, Losing, Million Ways, Moments, Negatives, Older, Passing By, Poetry and Poems, Positive, Questions, Saturday Night, Secrets, Seen, Shakespeare, Sigh, Smiles and Tears, Solittude, Souls, Take, Tears, Teenaged Years, Thinking, Thought, Tissues, Unseen, Walks, Wars of Love, Wobble, World, Younger Days
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On Mother’s Day 2022
On Mother’s Day 2022by Michael DoyleWe’re here in celebration of no otherThan the holy names of our mothersAt this time of blessed worshipWe raise up this sacred relationshipLet’s bring it in intimate conversationShared love in its happy intimationGiven the power … Continue reading
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Tagged Anxiety, Blessed Worship, Celebration, Children, Complexity, Contentment, Delay, Full Attention, God, Grace, Gratification, Happy Intimation, Hesitate, Holy Names, Imperfect, Instruction, Intimate Conversation, Learned, Love, Mother's Day 2022, Mothers, No Control, Parenting, Persist, Poetry and Poems, Power, Praise, Present, Raise, Resentment, Right Intention, Sacred Relationship, Season, Serving As Example, Shared Love, Simplicity, Stay, Sunrise, Surprises, Theology, Uncertainty, Urgency
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The Importance of the Word
The Importance of the Wordby Michael DoyleIn this roll of yearsSoftly past the flowing tearsI think on words soughtTo connect the dot-to-dotThe words in mindI seek and sometimes findThat words are cultureAnd culture is the we nurtureSlipped into this elasticityIs … Continue reading
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Tagged Beginning, Being, Bond, Breath, Community, Complexity, Connect, Cousin, Crumble, Culture, Death, Define, Display, Dot-To-Dot, Elasticity, Find, Float Over, Flowing Tears, God, Grumble, Importance, Knowledge, Me, Meaning, Mumble, Nurture, Occurred, Odd, Past, Played, Poetry and Poems, Politely, Ponds, Quest, Refine, Roll of Years, Seal, Seek, Sense, Sleep, Slip, Sought, Sudden, Symbol, Table, the Word, Theories, Think, Thirst, Thought, Words, Words In Mind
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Layers of Emotion
Layers of Emotionby Michael DoyleOur hearts hold feelings deeper than oceansIt’s up to us to manage our own emotionsThe heart of the matter is that hearts matterYet, we must do this or our lives might shatterFeelings are so very hard … Continue reading
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Tagged Abuse, Acceptance, Action, Admonition, Articulation, Aspire, Collective Scars, Complexity, Compulsive, Deceive, Decide, Desire, Devil, Discipline, Division, Drama, Dysfunction, Emotion, Emotional Atrophy, Emotions, Essence, Exaggeration, Explain, Express, Expression, Falsity, Feeling, Foothold, Gentle, God, Harmony, Healthy, Heart of the Matter, Hid, Humble, Impessive, Insensitivity, Inside, Inspiration, Invitation, Jesus, Know, Layer, Life's Test, Loaded Statements, Love, Manage, Motion, Ocean, Old Selves, Pain, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Problematic, Rebuke, Receive, Remedy, Representation, Repress, Sensuality, Shatter, Spiritual, Strife, Thirst, Truth, Unity, View, Walking In God's Ways, Youth
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Artful In Implication
Artful In Implicationby Michael DoyleAll art is broad in its implicationBut tell me please the explanationAs today’s surrealism perks making us illWhile twisting everyday into a monstrous chillUnsettling images of disquieting sensoryExperiences abound here at the end of historyBeyond the … Continue reading
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Tagged Artful, Borders, Challenge, Charm, Comission, Complexity, Distortion, Distraction, Explanation, External, Fantasies, Feeding Frenzy, Freedom, History, Humor, Hypnotism, Imagination, Implication, Integrity, Legacy, Mercy, Needed Voices, Poetry and Poems, Portion, Pressure, Private Horrors, Process, Psychic Aumoatism, Radically Concomformist, Regimes, Represemtation, Repressive, Role, Serve, Slice, Surrealism, Thirst For Power, Truth, Violence Into Violation, Visual
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