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Moments In Joe Rogan’s Mind
Moments From Joe Rogan’s Mindby Michael DoyleLife is the near-death experienceIn which you always stay aliveThe truth of this is felt by preferenceEven when uncertain that you’ll surviveThe backhand data feels a little missingBut no matter how, it feels a … Continue reading
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Tagged Actualization, AI, Anti-Woke, Backhand Data, Brave New World, Chinese, Conscience, Covid, Critical, Dead Bodies, Dismiss, Door, Driverless Cars, Equal Jokes, Fair Folks, Forgive, Forgot, Full-Bore Reality, Gender, Generation, Genetic Memory, Give, God, Joe Rogan, Know, Language, Life, Mankind, Maybe, Mirrors, Missing, Moments, Monkeys, Near Death Experience, Poetry and Poems, Pre-Civilization, Preference, Punchline, Real alues, Science, Smile, Standards, Stay Alive, Survive, Take, Trip To Mars, Truth, Uncertain, Walk, Weird
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The Painful Reality of Perfectionism
The Painful Reality of Perfectionismby Michael DoyleThere is a need to face eventuallyWhether painful or not, the realityThat however much we have optimismThere is no such thing as perfectionismAt least so much as actually be perfectThere is only really the … Continue reading
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Tagged Accept, Analysis, Attitude, Bearable, Best Ways, Burdens, Capable, Correct, Crack, Creation, Crush Your Soul, Daughters, Days, Destroy, Door, Embrace, Encouragement, Error, Eventually, Father, Fear, Foolish, Honest Face, Humility, Illuminate, Imperfection, Incapable, Light Gets In, Need, Nothing, Optimism, Pain, Paralysis, Perfect, Perfectionism, Poetry and Poems, Practiced Failure, Pretend, Push, Reality, Restrain, Self-Correction, self-improvement, Self-Solitude, Share, Sing, Something, Song of Life, Time Enough, Trace, Truth, Truth of Life, Unachievable, Uncertainty, Urgency, Well Being, World
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Long Gone Phrases (Phases of Yesterday)
Long Gone Phrases (Phases of Yesterday)by Michael DoyleI’m not sure where this story should beginIt doesn’t matter – the color of your skinAnd what you care to believeMatters not as much as you don’t deceiveThere are jokes enough to not … Continue reading
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Tagged Begin, Believe, Blame, Choose Better, Color of Your Skin, Complete, Could Be, Deceive, Deserve, Disappear, Discerned, Door, Earned, Fate, Fear, Hate, Hear, Jokes, Learn, Life, Long Game, Long Gone, Neglect, No Place For You Here, Ordinary People, Our Way, Phases, Phrases, Play, Poem, Poetic, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Possible, Recall, Remember, Respect, Same, Say, Should Be, Story, Surname, Think, Tribes and Types, Unique
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Reality Bytes On An Earlier Hillbilly Sandwich
Reality Bytes On An Earlier Hillbilly Sandwichby Michael DoyleCounterculture shined through the city’s veilGiving a glimpse of Eden through the fires of HellHarsh in its repressive bits of curdled adviceDreamers managed to paint their fleeting paradiseThe torches of an artistic … Continue reading
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Tagged Advice, Apocalyptic Noise, Bliss, Bytes, Chocolate Cherry Coffee, City, Clever, Counterculture, Dark Star, Different, Distraction, Door, Dreamers, Dreams, Eden, Ending, Falling In Love, Fear and Greed, Fires of Hell, Focus, Forever, Future, Glimpse, Happiness, Harsh, Hillbilly, Irreverent, Know, Knowing All, Lack, Life, Miss, Narcissistic Ego, Nurture, Pages, Paradise, Poetry and Poems, Presumptions, Read, Reality, Reborn, Sacred Cow, See, Serenity, Strife, The Enlightened, Torches, Veil, Vision, Waking, Words
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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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Thought For the Day: Everybody Needs His Memories. They Keep the Wolf of Insignificance From the Door
“Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.” – Saul Bellow, writer, Nobel laureate (10 Jun 1915-2005)
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Tagged Door, Everybody, Insignificance, Memories, Needs, Saul Bellow, Thought For the Day, Wolf
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I Surrender
I Surrenderby Michael DoyleFaith comes from hearingAnd learning to loveIt’s not from fearingBut following heaven aboveHolding the doors open wideWe know God always stands besideHis followers, as we lift our hands in praiseThis is the faith flowing from our daysIt’s … Continue reading
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Tagged All My Days, Breath, Darkest Night, Days, Door, Everywhere, Extol, Faith, Fear, Flow, Follow, Follower, Go, God, God's Purposes, Good, Guiding Light, Hands, Hear, Heaven, His Services, I Surrender, Know, Learn, Lift, Lifting My Hands, Live, Lord Jesus, Love, My Very Life, Open, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Promise, Sacrifice, Song, Soul, Stands Beside, Surrender, Sweet and Tender, Theology, Understood
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The Something Better
The Something Betterby Michael DoyleWe all need our person we can go toIt’s the heart and soul of me and youSomeone to fit in with who we areThe seventh string on a six-string guitarWe share ourselves molded like clayTo find … Continue reading
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Tagged Acceptance, Art, Beautiful Smile, Become, Believe, Beyond, Clay, Common, Connections, Deceived, Different, Door, Equally Weighed, Fit, Focus, Forever Stay, Foward, Go To, Guitar, Heart, Heart and Soul, Hidden, Hold Tight, Laugh, Little Details, Love, Me and You, Mold, Moments, More, Multiple Choices, Need, Never Leave, Our Person, Poetry and Poems, Received, Repentance, Reverent, Right, Share, Silent Prayers, Small Voices, Something Better, Souls, Speak, Stars, Style, This Time, Tight, Together, What's Real, Wish
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Witches Brew
Witches Brewby Michael DoyleIn the shroud of fog, we find the doorAnd knock on it, hoping yet to exploreHidden secrets are lost behind smoky eyesBut it’s the kind of secret that is hard to disguiseWhat sort of secrets would it … Continue reading
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Tagged Advice, Advocation, Best, Better Good, Bright, Chase, Command, Courage, Darkness, Debate, Demands, Different Eyes, Discern, Disguise, Door, Eager, Elude, Encourage, Essence, Evidence, Experience, Experts, Explore, Fell, Fog, Follow, Forge Ahead, Forgive, Friend to Man, Good, Greatness, Hard Times, Heart, Heartbreaks, Hesitate, Hidden Secrets, Horrid Outcomes, Hostility, Humble, Ignorance, Inquiring Minds, Know, Lean, Lesser Minds, Light, Lived, Loving One Another, Mind, Minds, Misunderstood, Mystery, New Day, Open, Orthodoxy, Past Mistakes, Poetry and Poems, Pretense, Price, Providence, Recluse, Refuse, Search, Secret, Share, Sharpen, Shine, Should, Shroud, Smoky Eyes, Sought, True Humanity, True Leaders, Unafraid, Understand, Vanity, Witches Brew, Would
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