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Jurassically Mundane
Jurassically Mundaneby Michael DoyleFinally caving in I’m watching the showWith my daughters whispering clues to knowIn hushed tones, I try not to be curtAs I insist on giving out my spoiler alertA sense of wonder has left the buildingBut I … Continue reading
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Tagged Adversary, Beaut, Bust, Clues, Conspiracy, Corporate Greed, Curious, Curt, Cynicism, Daffodils, Daughters, Destination, Dinosaurs, DNA, Dulle, Empty Vessel, Enemy, Fallen Kingdom, Genetic Manipulation, Hunger, Hushed Tones, Ignoble, Jurassic, Locusts, Manipulation, Movie, Mundane, Plot, Poetry and Poems, Real Life, Revealing, Sense of Wonder, Shoulders of Genuis, Show, Smile, Spoiler Alert, Tragedy, Trampled, Under Foot, Understood, Vapid Trust, Veloiraptor, Watch
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What It Takes To Be A New Yorker
What It Takes To Be A New Yorkerby Michael DoyleIt used to be that all it took was a remembranceOf what used to be and now is turned into encumbranceSummoning a piece of the city that used to existWhen what … Continue reading
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Tagged Amnesia, Asps, Battle, Cynicism, Dawn, Encumbrance, Epiphany, Exist, Fate, Final End Date, Grief, Heartbreak, Living Legacy, Memory, Mourning, New Yorker, New Yorkers, Pandemic, Persist, Poetry and Poems, Remembrance, Skyline, Street, Takes, Tomorrow, Twin Towers, Warning, Whispers
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Self Awareness Penned In Resurrection
Self Awareness Penned In Resurrectionby Michael DoyleA dull cubicle’s existence jabsLeaving the feel of bruising hopelessnessPondering the future’s uncertaintyLife’s lemons squeezed with a twist of darknessIt’s an endlessly looped sense of stuckTrapped inside a mental simulationWith crushing inertia’s dominant luckSetting … Continue reading
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Tagged Adoration, Backward, Bliss, Charm, Chemistry, Clickbait, Corporate World, Creativitiy, Cubicle, Cynicism, Darnkness, Disarm, Distraction, Emotional Hooks, Exhaustion, Existence, Foundation, Free Agency, Hoplessness, Inertia, Intense, Introspection, Legacy, Looped, Lore, Mental Simulation, Millennials, Pen, Philosophy, Poetry and Poems, Pretenses, Provocative, Reboot Culture, Resurrection, Savagery, Self Awareness, Sentimental, Slate, Stain, Stake, Torment, Treadmill, True Affection, Uncertainty, Unending Din
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Entering the Afterlife
Started watching the point of origin series of Star Trek series with the girls. The one that is more or less the prequel for the whole thing. Got this out of the first episode: Entering the Afterlife by Michael Romani … Continue reading
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Tagged Advent, Afterlife, Ankle Deep, Beginning, Beyond the Stars, Chase, Communication, Complexity, Conflict, Creed, Cynicism, Dim, Dream, Dreams, Each Day, Empathetic, Enter, Explanation, Explore, Faith of Heart, Forward, Found, Freed, Going Boldly, Gound, Have Not Been, Hope, Humanity, Imprint, Interpretation, Langauge, Larger, Mass Perfection, Name of Honor, New Challenges, New Generation, New Worlds, Onward, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Problematic, Problems, Proceed, Prospects, Push Forward, Reaching Out, Right Direction, Seems, Simplicity, Space, Speak, Spirit of Man, Star Trek, Swim, Victories
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A Western Noir
Tonight’s short poetry workshop combined the genre’s of cowboy poetry and film noir. I went into it unaware we weren’t supposed to combine both.. soooo.. I did just that anyhow. A Western Noir by Michael Romani I was riding through … Continue reading
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Tagged Black hat, Boot Hil, Cynicism, Danger, Desert, Desperado, Film Noir, High Noon, Horse, Jester, Kiss, Miss Kitty, Murder, Narrative, Optimism, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Post Master, Preacher, Samauri, Sheriff, Six Gun, Stranger, Town Drunk, Western
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Seeds of Totalitarianism Dispersed
Generally speaking, we as a people stand for liberty and all its intendent duties and responsibilities. In this day and age, there has been an increasing move toward surrendering liberties for what we have latched onto as security, be it … Continue reading
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Tagged Absurd, Belief, Clever, Connotation, Cynicism, Deception, Difference, Double Speak, False Nuance, False Positive, God, Help, Language, Liberty, Matters, Morbidity, Myth, Orwellian, Perverse, Photography, Poem, Poetry, Possible, Provocation, Reality, Resolution, Society, Tactics, Totalitarianism, Truth, Tyranny, Understanding, Version, Willful Amnesia
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Truth In All Ill Repute
Truth In All Ill Repute by Michael Romani Arguments in the guise of truth Set a bad example for our youth The world has tilted off its axis The question left, I have to ask is When we’ve broken this … Continue reading
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Tagged Arguments, Bad Example, Complexity, Constructs, Cynicism, Gossip, Hope, Hues, Leadership, Moral Relativity, Pessimism, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Sea Change, Social Contract, Social Distortion, Society, Weaponized Facts
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