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Grace In This World of Darkness
Grace In This World of Darknessby Michael DoyleIn this world of darknessWe often find too much harshnessAnd not enough faith and loveThat we are told is given from heaven aboveThe Lord has paid our costIn redeeming us from being lostTo … Continue reading
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Tagged Blood, Conquer, Cost, Dare, Death, Everyday, Faith and Love, Found, God's Will, Grace, Harshness, Heaven Above, Heaven Bound, Holy Name, Joy, Keep It Real, King, Last Breath, Life, Lost, Love, Majesty, One True Path, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Proclaim, Redeem, Reign, Rise, Salvation, Same, Saved, Savior's Name, Shame, Smiles, The Lamb, The Lord, Told, Trinity, Us, Way, World of Darkness, Worthy
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Mean Streaks and Misgivings
Mean Streaks and Misgivingsby Michael DoyleWhen the Colt has turned to rustAnd all that’s left is to swallow the dustThe desert plays tricks on a man’s mindAs he looks over his shoulder at what’s left behindWar is war and won’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Amend, At Last, Blind, Blindness, Body, Bury, Carry, Catch Up, Cost, Cure, Desert, Dust, Ease, Eke Away, Endure, Eye For An Eye, Find, Forget, Gun Hand, Heart, Labyrinth, Left Behind, Living Days, Mean Streak, Memories, Mental Maze, Mind, Misgiving, More, Our Ways, Past, Persistence, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Price, Regret, Resistance, Revenge, Ripped Free, Rust, Settle, Shaken, Shoulder, Soul, Soul's Rot, Start, Sun, Taken, The Days, Things Done, Tricks, Tricks of Mind, Truce, Truth, Turns Out, War, Whiskey, Wounded, Wounds
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There’s Been A Little Damage
There’s Been A Little Damageby Michael DoyleThere’s been a little damage to my eyesBut that’s the cost to all that I’ve seenAs with a brave heart ready for the sunriseThere have been so many places that I’ve beenThe experts say … Continue reading
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Tagged Been, Blind, Brave Heart, Cost, Damage, Dead, Encouragement, Estimate, Experts, Eyes, Fade, Find, First To Admit, Guess, Heartbreaks, Heavy, Joy, Larger, Life, Manage To See, Mistakes, Much Less, Not Seen Everyday, Okay, Places, Poetry and Poems, Pushing On, Quite Nice, Quite Right, Report, Seen, Seen Along the Way, Sight, Somehow, Strong, Sunrise, Sy, Travesty, Vascular Enchroachment, Wrong
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Free From the Inside
Free From the Insideby Michael DoyleRemembering when I was lostThankful for how you paid the costGetting me across the great divideSetting me free from the insideYou took away my wretched prideSetting me free from the insideThree days blind until that … Continue reading
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Tagged Across, Blood, Cost, Darkness, Free, God, Good, Great Divide, Hardness, Inside, Life, Lost, Loving Light, Night, No Limit, Paid, Poetry and Poems, Pride, Remember, Right, Rolled, Shine, Sight, Sky, Son, Stone, Stumble, Sve, Taught, Thankful, Thanks, Three Days Blind, Understood, Walking Me Back, Wrong
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Revisiting Truth In the Post-Modernist Age
Revisiting Truth In the Post-Modernist Ageby Michael DoyleIt can be said with conviction of feelingThat the ways of God are revealingHere in this mid-DecemberIt seems timely to rememberAll of God’s loving tracesIn all the history of a life’s embracesAre like … Continue reading
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Tagged Atone, Balance, Brain, Broken, Chaos, Clarity, Confusion, Contrition, Conviction, Cost, Destruction, Dysfunction, Faithless, Feeling, Grace, Grace and Truth, Heartless, Heed, History, Human Race, Humanity, Ideology, Illusion, Imposition, Incarnation, Jordan, Law andTruth, Lean-In, Loving Traces, Meaning, Memorial, Mercy, Mid-December, Neighborhood, Nihilism, Optimism, Poetry and Poems, Poison, Post-Modernist Age, Preacher, Question, Reason, Rebellion, Relativism, Remember, Revealing, Revisit, Righteous Path, Seduce, Shadow, Stones, Struggle, Teach, Teacher, The Law, The lost, the Word, Truth, Ways of God
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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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Living In Gentleness
Living In Gentlenessby Michael DoyleOpen-armed and opened-handed to receiveI live by that which I believeLooking with godly eyes is part of worshipLived within our loving relationshipsGentleness takes intention to live outBut it is harder still to live withoutWe must not … Continue reading
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Tagged Allow, Believe, Carved, Compassionate, Cost, Dignity, Display, Gentleness, Godly Eyes, Heal, Humility, Hurt, Intention, Kill, Kind, Live, Live Out, Live Without, Living, Loving Relationships, Open Armed, Poetry and Poems, Power, Receive, Say, Unthinking, Words Spoken, Worship
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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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Of All Things Valued
Of All Things Valuedby Michael DoyleLike pieces arranged on the chessboardThe Man from La Mancha bears his swordPrince or pawnbroker, there is trade for madnessBut only the type that perpetually leads to sadnessThe battle with evil and giants cannot compareWith … Continue reading
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Tagged Affection, All Things, Approach, Battle, Because, Believe, Best, Born, Challenge, Chess Board, Compare, Contest, Cost, Days of Old, Disillusioned, Distinguished, Emblems, Errant Knight, Eternal Brothers, Evil, Fair, Garment, Giants, Good Knight, Hem, Joined, Kiss, Language, Lost, Love, Madness, Ores, Pawnbroker, Peasants, Pieces, Poetry and Poems, Precious Sacrament, Prince, Sadness, Say, See, Stolen, Sword, The Man From La Mancha, Token, Trade, True Gold, Truth, Useless, Valued, You and Me
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In A Declaration of War
In A Declaration of Warby Michael DoyleTitans are unleashed in a visionDreamed without the requisite precisionTo dare to say what it really meansThis then is the way of such types of dreamsKing Hyperion seeks to rule over mankindBut as with … Continue reading
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Tagged Aim, Angels, Benevolence, Blind, Chaos, Conquest, Contend, Cost, Dare, Declaration of War, Degrees of Violence, Demands, Depth, Desperation, Dream, Dreams, End, Eons, Eyes, Fatality, Folly, Hades, Heaven, Heed, Holy Flame, Immortality, Kind, King Hyperion, Lost, Madness, Mankind, Means, Mercy, Name, Need, Oracle, Poetry and Poems, Precision, Priest, Reign of Gods, Sadness, Salvation, Separation, Sibylline Monastery, Strength, Test, Time, Titans, Tread, Tyrant, Virgin Oracle, Vision, War
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