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The Details on Liberty Street

The Details On Liberty Streetby Michael DoyleMortality beats a heavy drum in perspective.Memories of past conversations are kept respectiveOf all the years that have since come and gone.Only the night herself can say when to move on.The sharing of souls … Continue reading

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The Influence of Pulp Fiction

The Influence of Pulp Fictionby Michael DoyleScience fiction without a snarkDidn’t just materialize out of the darkIn 1926, Hugo Gernsback, without a lot of gloryCame to publish the first Amazing StoriesFrom the cover of this first, we might knowThe Hugo … Continue reading

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Just One More Psychotic Break

Just One More Psychotic Breakby Michael DoyleCosmic horror played the killing schoolThat taught the writer of chilling ghoulsThis was the bogeyman’s secret in his tombThat rose up from the barren gothic wombThis was where a dark demon became a faceless … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: Once You Hear the Details of Victory, It Is Hard To Distinguish It From A Defeat

“Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.” -Jean-Paul Sartre, writer and philosopher (21 Jun 1905-1980)

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What Our God Does

What Our God Doesby Michael DoyleLooking at what God has doneWe become baptized in the SonThe details have some meaningIn burying the wrong of our beingStepping into being taken into a new lifeWe take on the peace by putting away … Continue reading

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The Magnificence of Significance

The Magnificence of Significance by Michael DoyleFrom the beginning, we have the visionWe might lack in our precisionBut we know what we’re going forFaith is the kindness that opens the closed doorIn all the paths we are shownWe look back … Continue reading

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Time and Illusion

Time and Illusionby Michael DoyleWalking through life’s many milesI count my wins by my smilesSome might think I’ve been abusedBut mostly, I stand amusedAll the countless false chargesDesigned by enemies to somehow enlargeThe bad things I’ve sometimes doneIn the end, … Continue reading

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The Original Wild Child

The Original Wild Childby Michael DoyleOver pizza. we swung from vine to vineThese laughing daughters making the timeTo watch a remake of Tarzan this Saturday nightEach smile a moonbeam of their father’s delightWe talk as we watch Africa’s original feral … Continue reading

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The Naughty List

The Naughty Listby Michael DoyleWhen the truth’s told even in the best of timesA heart should beware of the easiest rhymesKeeping an eye out for the details of the DevilIs best because we know he’s never on the levelThere’s a … Continue reading

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Turning the Tables

Turning the Tablesby Michael DoyleCome on now; be on the levelThe details between God and the DevilAdd up to a fuzzy sort of mathWhere we humans stumble on the pathSometimes the thoughts spin our headsAnd we sink into slouch, pretending … Continue reading

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