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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
Posted in Poetry and Poems
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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Crossing Over From Greenpoint
Crossing Over From Greenpointby Michael DoyleMy crossing over from Greenpoint into the cityEvery day was had via subway and was not prettyAnd it was different for a Californian manYet, there was no other way into ManhattanAt least, not that made … Continue reading
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Tagged Bronx Zoo, brooklyn, Buzz, California, Central Park, Complexity, Coney Island, Crossing Over, Ferry, Food After Midnight, Friendliness, Getting Lost, Greenpoint, Horse-Drawn Cariage, Hospitable, Hospital, Hot Dogs, Little Oddessa, Manhattan, Memories, Morning Until Night, Neon Lights, New York City, Open Hearts, Photography, Poetry and Poems, Sights, St. John's, Sublime, Subway, Sunday, Transit System, Travel, Williamsburg
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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
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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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First Principles: Humanity Has Won Its Battle. Liberty Now Has A Country.
“Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.”– Marquis de Lafayette — This quoted excerpt from a letter from Marquis de Lafayette shortly after Yorktown captures the triumph of the human spirit in achieving freedom and establishing our … Continue reading
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Tagged American Republic, Battle, Completed Work, Complexity, Country, Degrees of Freedom, Economic Disparity, First Principles, Freedom, History, Human Spirit, Humanity, Individuals, Liberty, Marquis de Lafayette, Modern Times, New York Times, Perpetual Pursuity, Politics, Reference, Revolutionary War, Social Inequality, Understanding, United States of America, Work In Progress
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In the Shadows
In the Shadowsby Michael DoyleThe beginning was an image of allA modern miracle held in mystified aweUntil life’s illusion lost its intensityAnd the desire for death grew in complexityThe face of horror pulls at mankindAs though in this darkness we … Continue reading
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Tagged All, Angst, Audience, Awe, Beginning, Big Bang, Blood, Book of Satan, Charmingly Perverse, Children of the Night, Claw, Complexity, Creation and Destruction, Damnation, Darkness, Death, Desires, Diabolical Forces, Eternal Punishment, Face of Horror, Fear, Gasp, Good and Evil, Halloween, Image, Imagination, Immorality, Intensity, Joined, Leaves, Life's Illusion, Mankind, Mephisto, Metropolis, Mirrored Twin, Modern Miracle, Need, Night, Persevere, Plays For Laughs, Poetry and Poems, Power of Light, Protection, Proximity, Read, Rise, Rotting Glory, Salvation, Shadow, Shadows, Spirit of Darkness, Story, Substance, Talisman, Tears, The Crucifix, Together, Tread, Universe
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Giving Our Best Attitude
Giving Our Best Attitudeby Michael DoyleWe find our safety and securityIn what brings us true libertyTo live our lives as we want to beThis is the path of living freeWe pass some things on as a legacyThe Bible reflects this … Continue reading
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Tagged Best Attitude, Bible, Books of the Law, Childlike Attitudes, Christianity, Complexity, Faith, Family Rules, Forward, Fredom, Future, Give, God, God's Ways, Gratitude, History, Jesus, Legacy, Living Free, Love Letter, Myster, Path, Poetry and Poems, Real Good, Relationship, Rules and Guidance, Safety, Securit, Servants of God, Teach, The Bible, True Liberty, Understood, Unit, Worship
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Dinkʼinesh
Dinkʼineshby Michael DoyleIn mankind’s efforts to stand uprightTurning from darkness toward the lightWe’ve contended a few bones along the wayJust enough really for the right to sayFrom tree dwelling to learning to walkOn two legs, we became positioned to talkChipped … Continue reading
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Tagged Abyss, Ark, Backs, Bishop books, Bones, Chains of Changes, Chaos, Chipped bones, Complexity, Consequence, Darkness, Dignity, Dink'inesh, Dinosaur Bones, Faithful, Fallen Apart, Footprints, Found, Fragments, Glassy Eyes, God and Angels, God's Place, Haunted, Hidden Costs, Holy Persons, Humanity, Impossible Monsters, Judgement Day, Leaps of Fancy, Learn, Legendary, Light, Loss, Lost, Lucy, Mankind, Map, Obsolesence, Odd, Old Truth, Poetry and Poems, Profound, Religion, Religiosity, Repentant Sinners, Road Home, Science, Sentiments, Society's Transformation, Tales, Talk, Throne, Throwing Away, Tree Dwelling, Truth, Twenty First Century, Two Legs, Upright, Walk, Whisper, Whole Heart, Wink, Wonder, Wood
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