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Separate Lives
Separate Livesby Michael DoyleWhat we know is so littleAnd we’re feeling stuck in the middleIt’s said that is a perfect scoreFor life; we still want morePlaying chutes and ladders in the corporateFrom the outside, it seems something desperateThere’s some room … Continue reading
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Tagged Accomplishment, Category, Chutes and Ladders, Company Policy, Consignment, Coporate, Coporations, Credence, Decide, Desperate, Done, Evidence, Feeling, Finished, Friends, Honesty, Improvement, Informal Chatting, Know, Life, Little, Lives, Management, Mandated, Manual, Means To the Ends, Microdata, More, New Life, Outside, Perfect Score, Picket Fences, Piracy, Poetry and Poems, Pose, Priaccy, Question, Question One, Replacement, Rule, Scatttergories, Separate Lives, Separated, Stuck In the Middle, The Great Divide, Wait, White Walls, Workaday World, World
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Born Into This World
Born Into This Worldby Michael DoyleWe are born into this wounded worldIn which we see the need for improvementIt often feels as if we’re hurledBecoming ourselves is our greatest accomplishmentGrasping for the bits and pieces we can findThat which which … Continue reading
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Tagged Accomplishment, Beauty of Tomorrow, Becoming Ourselves, Behind, Bits and Pieces, Blind Faith, Books On Shelves, Born, Coming Years, Crowd, Culture, Dare, Desperate, Discontent, Discover, Drowning Surface, Ears, Eccentric Opinions, Essential, Eyes Above, Fallacies, Feel, Find, Fools, Gambit, Grasp, Grievous, Harshest Critics, Humble Beginnings, Hurled, Improvement, Into This World, Love, Ourselves, Poetry and Poems, Potential, Sorrow, Stumble, The Best, Vulturess, Wartmth, Whisper, World's Embrace, Wounded, Written Script
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To Keep Growing
To Keep Growingby Michael DoyleIn the first end, we objectifyWhat we were once taught to deify But being nothing but the average manWe still seek to do the best we canWe get so very much wrongTrying to model ourselves and … Continue reading
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Tagged Average Man, Belong, Best We Can, Better Sort of Man, Bias, Brother, Change Our Ways, Deify, Desperate, Do and Say, Each Step, Equality, Error, Father, Feeling, Find, First End, Foothold, Forward, Get It Right, Greater Truths, Growing, Imprinted Ways, In the End, Keep, Keep Growing, Knowing, Learning, Life Lived Well, Long Way, Longing, Love, Lover, Meaning, Misunderstand, Model, Nothing, Objectify, Poetry and Poems, Rearrange, Repent, See, Seek, Shame, Sins, Standing, Strong, Taught, Toward, True Society, Wrong
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Inside the Temple
Inside the Templeby Michael DoyleThe mercy of God fills the heartOf the blessed souls that will departBut as the light fades, the night grows longFor the sake of the fight, make the coffee strongIt might be hours; it might be … Continue reading
I’ll Always Take Your Call
I’ll Always Take Your Callby Michael DoyleRipped apart deep inside my DNAFinding the scary part is the last biteWhen suddenly, I run short of what to sayAnd my wildest dreams hold me through the nightSomewhere in the geometry of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Abstract, Always, Apprehensive, Beeline, Behind, Bitter Respite, Boundaries, Breath In, Breath Out, Bridge, Catch Your Fall, Chase, Condescension, Conviction, Dark Tendency, Despair, Desperate, Different Tempos, Direction, DNA, Do It AGain, Dread, Edges, Elasticity, Facts, Feeling, Finish Stong, Geomtry, Hands In Mine, Heat of It, Holding On, Hollow Comfort, Hope, Implore, Infinite, Jester, Jump, King, Less Than Clever, Letting Go, Live and Learn, Lives Lessons, Melts Away, Moments, My Love Runs Deep, Never Leave You, Nighttime, Offer, Photograph, Place, Plasticity, Poem, Poetry, Prevail, Rare, Refuse To Drown, Remember, Return, Ripped Apart, Run Short, Say, Scary Part, See Beyond, Shadows Creep In, Shriek, Silent, Silver Lining, Society, Song, Spin, Superficiality, Take Your Call, Terror, Through the Night, Unruly Mind, Waiting Out, Wildest Dreams, Worse, Wrap, Zig Zag
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Long Time, No Talk
Long Time, No Talkby Michael DoyleThough the Lord is my shepherdI think you know, Lord, that it’s inferredThat though I should not, yet I doIt’s been a long time since I’ve talked to youStanding as I am amidst life’s mysteryWondering … Continue reading
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Tagged Adjustment, Alone, Anchor, Attitude, Best, Daily, Deep Conversation, Demands, Desperate, Do, Eyes, Face to Face, Father, Fill, Grace, Gratitude, Harmony, Heal, Heart, Infer, Inquisition, Keep Things Real, Know, Life, Long Time, Lord, Marvel, Melody, Mind, Mystery, Need, No Talk, Open, Pass, Passes, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Polite Society, Prodigal Son, Propriety, Questions, See, Shepherd, Time, Too Late, We, Welcome, Yet
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The Solace of Life’s Magnitude
The Solace of Life’s Magnitudeby Michael DoyleI’ve never quite decided the tragedyIn the inches of life’s comedyIt’s all just another way to dieQuite laughable in how it brings another cryThere in the bullet that’s firedIs the bang up finish that … Continue reading
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Tagged Alive, Allow, Another Way To Die, Balance, Bleed Out, Breath, Bullet, Chase, Coincidences, Collide, Comedy, Conspiracy, Conspire, Crash, Cry, Daily, Desperate, Doubt, Embrace, Faces, Finish, Fire, Full Stop, Hard, History, Hold, Impossible To Fake, Inches, Last Inning, Laugh, Life, Living, Lock of Hair, Loud, Magnitude, Marvel, Mystery, Pain, Pass, Photograph, Picked Lock, Poem, Poetry, Pride, Questions, Reason, Scratch, Search, Secrets, Sentimental, Shroud, Slow To Heal, Solace, Surrender, Take It, Tragedy, Wound, Wounds
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All That Mistaken Jazz
In this day and age, there is so little convention of civility that is kept and each indiscretion perhaps leads further to those things that act in concert to break down society. All That Mistaken Jazz by Michael Doyle Conversations … Continue reading
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Tagged All, Alone, Animal Magnetism, Avoidance, Broken, Civility, Convention, Conversation, Desperate, Dignity, Dreams, Felt Deeply, Fit, Focus, Heart of Stone, Hesitation, Hidden, Host, Importance, Indiscretion, Jazz, Life, Live, Losses, Mistake, Most, Past, Phase, Photograph, Phrase, Poem, Poetry, Pragmatism, Price Paid, Privacy, Question, Quit, Random Chance, Sad, Sake, Seldom, Shattered, Society, Space, Spoken, Treasure, Trite, Voice, Want, Whimper, Winners, Words
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Like Mercury Colliding
It’s day 16 of NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo, 2020! What’s the challenge you ask? “…to write a poem of over-the-top compliments. Pick a person, place, or thing you love, and praise it in the most effusive way you can. Go for broke … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020, Andalusian, Angel, Car, Challenge, Coffee, Coincide, Collide, Compliment, Cream, Cry, Curl, Daily, Days, Desire, Desperate, Divine, Down, Dream, Empty, Eyes, Fate, Fire, Glam, Glammer, Goddess, High, Horse, Love, Mercury, Mine, NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo, Noise, One, Over-the-Top, Photograph, Plenty, Poem, Poetry, Pride, Reasons, Ride, Sky, Sledge Hammer, Source, Spam, Spammer, Speak, Stage Struck, Stars, Straight Up, Sun, Tears, Tire, Toes, Top of the World, Volumes, Waited, Why, Wire, Wise, Without, Wonder, Word
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