Tag Archives: Duality

The Queen of Bones Takes Her Throne

The Queen of Bones Takes Her Throneby Michael DoyleTwo children live as sparks of duality,Two sparks born to burn through eternity.The blood and bones entwine with no enmity,Walked past the bewitching hours of mortality.Pagan horrors linger with dark secrets known,These … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: It’s Always Wise To Seek the Truth In Our Opponents’ Error, and the Error In Our Own Truth

“It’s always wise to seek the truth in our opponents’ error, and the error in our own truth.“– Reinhold Niebuhr, in the Forward of The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness  (1944)  — The man who really did … 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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Citizens: Me and You

Citizens: Me and Youby Michael DoyleI. This nation was born under the authorityBlessed into birth by God’s wise dignityAs one filled with freedom and libertyGiven to us, not by government, but God’s divinityWe, this republic, are born by providenceThat all … Continue reading

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The Eye of the Storm

The Eye of the Stormby Michael DoyleTo find the eye of the passing storm in life’s wildernessIs to find quiet hope in the chaos approached in the stillnessWhere the arts find our attention despite all life’s distractionsThe place where somehow … Continue reading

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Between the Uncomfortable Truths

Between the Uncomfortable Truthsby Michael DoyleIn the uncomfortable truths there were connectionsNothing compared to her open, honest reflectionsOn those things often very difficult to sayShe never paid much mind to bringing controversy to the dayPerhaps it is that she truly … Continue reading

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Imaginary Friend

Imaginary Friendby Michael DoyleIn the eternal sense of voiceThat I believed was a choiceA deviance disguised as free willIs but an illusion and was never realI made up my imaginary friendThat one on whom I could dependTelling myself faith was … Continue reading

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Pragmatic Inferences

Pragmatic Inferencesby Michael DoylePragmatic inferencesHave all the meaningTo communicating As a human beingSystematic rulesTo all that we are sayingLaid outLike cards that we are playingGarden pathsOf quiet accidentShow a mapOf living inside this incidentWe fill out and inOur partial perceptionsBlind … Continue reading

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Reflections on Dorian Gray V: Immortality Revealed

Reflections on Dorian Gray V: Immortality Revealedby Michael DoyleArt imitates life as life imitates artMasquerading in the wantonness of the heartIt’s a fearful discovery of the monster withinThat while we don’t understand, causes us to sinActing in the the brazen … Continue reading

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Filthy Habits

It seems to me that most of humans have a little duality in our nature.  I could be wrong.  I often am. Filthy Habits by Michael Romani The beast seeks the dark The angel seeks the light The physician said … Continue reading

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