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Children Jumping Shadows
Children Jumping Shadowsby Michael DoyleI listened to a whisper barely heardAbout separating myself from the herdIt wasn’t the desire to stand outAs much as it was living in worldly doubtI look around me, unable to truly seeWhat difference each can … Continue reading
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Tagged Ashes, Begged Question, Better, Cast Out by Life, Children, Continent's Strife, Darkened Night, Desire, Difference, Dreams, Fallen, Fast Forward, Felt, Few, Glacial Melt, Gurus, Handful of Pixels, Heard, Herd, Hope, Hunger, Hungry Children, Jump, Myelf, Oceans, Poetry and Poems, Reach, See, Separate, Separately, Shadows, Shallows, Sorrow, Stand Out, Struggle, Sunlight, Together, Tomorrow, Unknown, Whisper, Worldly Doubt, Worn-Out Shoes, Yesterday
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First Principles: Do Not Spoil What You Have By Desiring What You Have Not; Remember That What You Now Have Was Once Among the Things You Only Hoped For
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.” – Epicurus
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Tagged Desire, Epicurus, First Principles, Hoped For, Now Have, Once, Remember, Spoil
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Written In Blood and Sin
Written In Blood and Sinby Michael DoyleIn the ship’s dark hull are whispered liesAs slaves and pirates stumble on alibisBroken before the mast and the evil of eyesThe tales told don’t matter in a sea of liesThese are believed in … Continue reading
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Tagged Alibis, Back Street, Blood and Sin, Danger, Dark Hull, Dark Side, Decision, Desire, Destruction, Disputation, Door, Emerge, Evil of Eyes, Fall, Good, Good Book's Instruction, Instruction, Lie, Loyalty, Mayhem, Mischief, Misdeeds, Nassau Town, No Mercy, Oath, Other Side, Path to Destruction, Pirate's Neck, Poetry and Poems, Price, Pride, Quench, Repentence, Reputation, Satan, Sea of Lies, Ship, Slaves and Pirates, Sliver of Hope, Snap, Story End, Strangers, Swallow, Tales Told, The Mast, Trust, Understood, Whispered Lies, Wild Fire, Written
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Reflections On the Aftertaste
Reflections On the Aftertasteby Michael DoyleIt was just one of those endless nightsI sat feasting on a garden of fried delightsTurning the channel to hear a bit of debateSurreally hoping to help decide the nation’s fateThere on the stage were … Continue reading
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Tagged Administrative, Aftertaste, Agencies, American Dreams, Americans, Avoid, Blame, Blessing, Channel, Confusion, Countercharges, Curse, Debate, Decide, Desire, Dog, Economy, Elder Abuse, Elected, Endless Nights, Evidence, Falling Up Stairs, Familiarity, Fascism, Forgive, Fried Delights, Garden, Grown Men, Hard To Defend, Haste, Homework, Hostile Charges, Illusion, Kind But Direct, Lashing Out, Lead, Live, Malarkey, Medicare, Memory, Name Calling, Nation's Fate, Our Own Good, Pass, Passive Aggressive, Poetry and Poems, Pointed Fingers, Policies, Prepared, Puppet Master, Reflections, Road, School Children, Seem, Sell, Snarky, Stage, Suit, Surreal, Swallow, Talking Points, They Say, This Land, Truth, Two Minutes, Tyrannical Administration, Understand, Unhelpful, Verdict, Way, Weak
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Into A Pirate’s Tomorrow
Into A Pirate’s Tomorrowby Michael DoyleIt’s a rough pirate’s world out thereWhen words spoken spill into loose fearMobs, it seems, are as easily turnedAs pirate shanty towns are easily burnedJust as melancholy on the azure wavesAre the boarding plans that … Continue reading
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Tagged Adventure, Allow, Allure, Azure Waves, Battle, Boarding Plans, Burn, Consternation, Desire, Fade, Fantasy, Fear, Fire, First Thrust, Forgot, Grave, Half-Broken, Heart, History, Improvisation, Into, Melancholy, Mobs, Pirate, Pirate King, Pirate's Lot, Pirates, Pistol, Plans Made, Plunder, Poetry and Poems, Power, Ragtag World, Shanty Towns, Tattle, Timeless Hour, Tomorrow, Travel, Treasure, Turn, Understood, Winced, Wonder, Words, World, Zig and Zag
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The God of You and Me
The God of You and Meby Michael DoyleWe are joined here in voiceWe are gathered here by choiceCalled together in His nameCalled together by the one without blameWe call out in the Holy SpiritWith a mighty desire to hear itAll … Continue reading
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Tagged All the Things, Call Out, Called Together, Cause, Choice, Control, Cry, Desire, Echo, Fill, Found, Fulfillment, Gather, God, God of Me and You, God's Love, Hear It, Hearts, Heaven, Holy Spirit, In His Name, Joined, Joy, Joy and Sorrow, Know, Manna, Needed To Be Said, One Without Blame, Poetry and Poems, Rejoice, Remind, Share, Show, Soul, Sound, Spiritually Fed, Through Him, Today As Tomrrow, Victory's Crown, Voice, You and Me
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In This Love’s Connection
In This Love’s Connectionby Michael DoyleWhat’s it going to be likeThe moment that we touchWhen the electricity reveals usWill it be too muchWhen you think of meWill I feel it in my soulWe know that it’s supposed to beAs my … Continue reading
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Tagged Believe, Bow, Box, Calling, Connection, Constellations, Decision, Desire, Direction, Down To the Wire, Dreams, Electricity, Falling, Feel, Feeling, Fire, Free, Froever, Give, God, God's Power, Grace, Hand, Heart, Hide, Higher, Hour, Imagine, Inside, Less Than Clever, Life, Live, Long, Love, Love's Connection, Meant, Meet, Moment, Poem, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Reach, Reveal, Rock, Roll, Shake, Shaking In My Boots, Soul, Strong, Supposed To Be, Surprised, Think, Touch, Truth
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Spare Me the Homilies
Spare Me the Homiliesby Michael DoyleWhen it happens thatSomeone needs to stay behindIt’s just a natural factThat it is usually my kindIt’s not thatWe are somehow not afraidIt’s just a natural factWe understand the plans madeOur aim is maybe a … Continue reading
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Tagged A Bit Crazy, Aim, Consumed, Desire, Downtrodden, Dreams, Eyes, Families, Free, Give, Given All, Happens, Higher, Homilies, Live, Live To Fight Another DAy, Love, Natural Fact, Not Afraid, Not That, Pay, Payment, Plans Made, Poetry and Poems, Price, Rejoice, Return, Safety, Say, Sorrow, Spare Me, Stay Behind, Surpass, Those Who Yet Live, Thoughts, Tomorrow, Understand, Usually My Kind
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