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Tag Archives: Darkness
A Star Wars Lesson In Liberty
May 4th has become, for some, a day of tribute to Star Wars as “May the 4th Be With You” day. When the day passed recently, it gave me some cause to think about how we around the planet … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Ambiguity, Anakin, Bad, Black and White, Civil Liberties, Continues, Darkness, Darth Vader, Democracy, Empire, Enchained, Evil, Father Time, Good, Jedi, Learn, Lesson, Liberty, Man, Manipulation, May 4th, May the Fourth Be With You, Means, Moral, Old, People, Photograph, Plain Sight, Poem, Poetry, Power, Quest, Reel, Republic, Security, Shallow, Silver Screen, Soul, Spool, Star Wars, Steal, Story, Sublime, Trilogy, Truth, Useful Tool, Watch
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Awed By Living
Life is for the living. Let’s do it well! Awed By Living by Michael Doyle Counting the things of needed gratitude Instead of too often taking an attitude At and of those things of circumstance Forgetting to realize each moment’s … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Ask, Attitude, Awe, Awesomeness, Blessed, Blind, Bliss, Blissfulness, Blunder, Bright, Bring Downs, Bumper Sticker, Chance, Child, Circumstance, Cliche, Count, Cut, Dare, Darkness, Destroy, Drag, Dreams, Embrace, Endurance, Engaged, Enjoy, Erase, Forget, Gratitude, Gravity, Harshness, Headfirst, Ignore, Large, Life, Light, Living, Mentality, Miss, Moment, Moments, More, Need, Often, Openness, Photograph, Platitude, Poem, Poetry, Pretend, Race Race, Reach, Realize, Right, Sacred, Second Guessed, Sentimentality, Smiles, Soar, Spontaneous, Well, Wonder
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A Life In Size
The saga of Dracula continues: A Life In Size by Michael Doyle In the dark castle hangs her face A painting of the sunlight he once embraced Hidden within were passages of a maze Guarded from the sun that continues … Continue reading
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Tagged Artist, Belief, Blame, Blaze, Blessing, Blood, Broken, Castle, Cave, Creatures of the Night, Cryptic, Darkness, Dead, Death, Devil, Dracula, Eat, End, Ending, Evil, Eyes, Face, Faith, Glow, Good, Gory, Guard, Guess, Hang, Hope, Hunger, Immortal, Immortality, Know, Language, Life, Light, Love, Loveless Marriage, Lucifer, Maze, Monster, Mortal, Pain, Painting, Passage, Photograph, Poem, Poet, Poetry, Quest, Roof, Safety, Saga, Save, Secret, Shock, Sight, Size, Sky, Story, Sun, Sung, Sunlight, Taste, Time, Touch, Truth, Understood, Undone, Unspoken, Vampire, Warmth
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Holding Hands With the Sun
Falling in love with art is an intimate construction within ourselves expressed both outwardly and inwardly. Holding Hands With the Sun by Michael Doyle An experience of the narrative Doodles swirled in declarative Filling out the feels An imaginative look … Continue reading
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Tagged Abstraction, Advocacy, After All, Art, Awake, Bottom, Call, Clear, Complicity, Construction, Darkness, Declarative, Destruction, Detection, Distraction, Doing, Doodle, Escape, Experience, Exquisite, Fall, Fantasy, Feels, Fill, Glacier, Granted, Hands, Heed, Hold, Hope, Humanity, Imaginative, Improvement, Intimate, Life, Light, Look, Lost, Love, Melt, Mirror, Moment, Movement, Moving, Narrative, Noise, One, Photograph, Poem, Poet, Poetry, Positive Sight, Precious, Rant, Reality, Reel, Reflection, Rope, Scrawl, Secret, Simple, Simplicity, Sun, Thinking, Unknown, Voice, We, World, You and Me
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To Become A Knight
To be a knight is to be a servant for the country and its people. To Become A Knight by Michael Doyle The darkness is coming There’s no use in running Ruthlessly conquering as it comes It brings us to … Continue reading
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Tagged All, Awaken, Become, Blame, Boy, Brave, Burn, Call, Can, Come, Conquer, Consign, Country, Crush, Cunning, Darkness, Day, Destruction, Devour, Do, Eyes, Far, Fate, Fight, Fire, Flame, Found, Ground, Heart, Heed, Hero, Hold, Hour, Instincts, Knees, Knight, Knighthood, Knock, Learn, Lesson, Lust, Martial Styles, Mind, Need, Noble, Numb, Pass, People, Photograph, Please, Poem, Poetry, Power, Prepare, Prophecy, Protector, Rider, Role, Run, Savage, See, Servant, Servant of God, Sign, Soul, Spread, Start, Straight, Surplus, Survive, Take, Trial, True, Unholy, Warrior, Way, Weak, Will, Word, World, Zero
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Set’s Legacy
A continuing look at Egyptian myth: https://flic.kr/p/rkrr2Y Set’s Legacy by Michael Doyle Only a mad man would steal Those things that a god would conceal Two bridges rigged with traps Cloaked in the veil of mystery wraps All power is … Continue reading
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Tagged Anubis, Banks, Blaze, Blind, Border, Breath, Bridges, Cheat, Clever, Cloak, Conceal, Darkness, Dead, Deal, Death, Deceive, Deception, Deed, Defy, Descend, Ear, Egyptian, End, Eternal, Evil, Eyes, Fame, Fates, Forgiving, Friends, God, Grace, Harshness, Heart, History, Immortality, Journey, Labyrinth, Legacy, Light, Living, Love, Lovers, Mad Man, Mortality, Mystery, Myth, Nile, Nine Gates, Obelisk, Order, Path, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Pray, Proclaim, Reverence, Secret, Set, Skies, Smile, Speak, Steal, Strong, Sun, Thousand, Trap, Truth, Two, Undone, Veil, Whisper, Wish, Wound
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Set’s Blinding of Horus
Egypt has some fascinating legends from long ago. Some get slightly retold as time goes on. Set’s Blinding of Horus by Michael Doyle Few know the whole of the story A tale needed in all of its glory In a … Continue reading
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Tagged Attempt, Bad Reputation, Beasts, Black, Blind, Bow, Cause, Chase, Coronation, Creation, Darkness, Desert, Destiny, Detail, Doubt, Egypt, Family, Fate, Fight, Foolish, Glory, Gods, Gratitude, Heart, History, Horus, Immsrse, Isolation, Just, Keep, King, Know, Legacy, Legend, Less, Love, Man, Manifest, Mankind, Nation, Negation, Night, Nile, Nimble, Noble, Osiris, Own, Papyrus, Paradise, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Poor, Promise, Raise, Righteous, Rule, Rumor, Salvation, Self-Glory, Set, Shake, Sing, Sky, Slay, Song, Story, Strife, Struggle, Surrender, Tale, Tender, Test, Throne, Time, Toast, Token, Transformation, Tremble, Unholy, Vain, Wealth, Weep, Weight, Willow, World, Worship, Wrought
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Heirlooms In the Shadows
Haunted graveyards anyone? Heirlooms In the Shadows by Michael Doyle Where there is wanton violence There is always fear in that place You can feel it in the silence That permeates darkness in that space Standing there with the coffin … Continue reading
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Tagged Air, Believable, Bleak, Bury, Chance, Coffin, Crime, Crypt, Dance, Darkness, Dead, Death, Devil, Evil, Family Secret, Fear, Grave, Graveyard, Haunt, Heard, Heirloom, Horror, Ignorant, Inconceivable, Incur, Jewelry, Know, Locked Away, Many, Mausoleum, Moonlight, Night, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Pretend, Price, Promise, Regret, Respect, Save, Shadow, Silence, Stride, Told, Truth, Unfold, Violence, Welcome
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Thought For the Day: Praise God That Believing Souls Give Light In Darkness, Comfort In Despair
“Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.” – William Shakespeare
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Believe, Comfort, Darkness, Despair, God, Light, Praise, Soul, Thought For the Day, William Shakespeare
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