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Slightly Out of Tune
Softly Out of Tuneby Michael DoyleThe piano plays slightly out of tuneThe preacher is drunk, crazy as a loonA voice whispers hello old friendThe bemused look hints at the endLife is one continuing negotiationIt seems a program of collaborationIt is … Continue reading
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Tagged Ashes, Bemused, Brave Enough, Cards, Collaboration, Conceal, Dealer, Decisions, Door, Drunk, End, Free Will, Heresy, Illusions, Irony, Life, Loon, Masquerade, Matters, More, Negotiation, Old Friend, Played, Poetry and Poems, Preacher, Regrets, Scorched Earth, Secrets, Skeletons In Closets, Skill Sets, Slight, Tatters, Tune, Victory, Visions of Dreams, Whisper
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Take the Dice and Roll
Take the Dice and Rollby Michael DoyleEvery choice that we makeCould be the wrong oneMake it anyhow!The best shot we takeCould miss the targetTake it anyhow!Wrong or rightIf you couldn’t live with youIf you didn’t do as you mightDo what … Continue reading
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Tagged Anyhow, Best Shot, Bluff, Choice, Dice, End, Eyes, Find, Good Enough, Groove, Known, Life, Live, Make It, Might, Miss, Need To Do, Poetry and Poems, Right Move, Roll, Rolling Up Our Sleeves, Stare, Take It, Target, Unconcerned, Wrong One, Wrong or Right
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The End of Everything
The End of Everythingby Michael DoyleBeware of a woman’s scornAnd the wrath that followsYou’ll find more than halo tornWhen descending into those hollowsCrippling revenge bring no justiceEuripides puts tragedy into practiceFinding that stronger than a lover’s loveThere are wounds incurable … Continue reading
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Tagged Avalanche, Begins, Betrayals of Life, Beware, Bitten, Blood, Bring, Cajole, Children, Crippling Revenge, Death, Embittered Women, End, End To Everything, Endure, Euripides, Everything, Evil Mind, Fatal Schism, Fits, Foolish, Fruitless, Gods, Greater, Grief, Halo, Hate's Bottomless Cup, Heaven, Hollow, Honeyed Words, Human, Incurable, Jason, Killed, Love, Lover's Hate, Lover's Love, Mortal, Mud, No Justice, Perverse, Poetry and Poems, Pour, Practice, Price, Quest, Roll, Sense, Shake, Soul, Thoughts, Torn, Tragedy, Twist of Fate, Universe, Wisdom, Woman's Scorn, Wounds, Wrath
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Planting Churches
Planting Churchesby Michael DoyleAs we look around on these troubled daysWe’re living through chaosIn a million different waysWe’re wishing for the innocenceWe once knew in times beforeWhen godly people lived as in in His presenceNow it seems life moves in … Continue reading
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Tagged Answers, Anxious Eyes, Before, Chaos, Church, Concerns, Conversion, End, Faith, Faith of A Mustard Seed, Forget, Fulfilled, Generation, God's Plan, Godly People, Great Comission, Heart, Ill Omen, Innocence, Lend, Minister, Plant, Planting Churches, Poetry and Poems, Presence, Puzzle, Questions, Reconnection, Revitalize, Silent Prayer, Souls, Surive, Times Before, Trials, Troubled Days, Ways, Whole, Wish, Wonder, Wrong Direction
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Into Something More
Into Something Moreby Michael DoyleStrive and fight for a better lifeFinding believed in utopia was naughtBut disappointment with hints of strifeIdeals purchased with bloodied tears soughtOnly to find these too lacking in the endAnd while life goes on, we cannot … Continue reading
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Tagged Affliction, Ancient, Beauty, Better Life, Cancer, Change, Comic Opera, Connection, Correction, Darkness, Disappointment, Dripping Poison, End, Faith, Flittering By, Follies, Foreign Shore, Full Circle, Gain, Grasp, Happiness, Hear, Humor, Hypocrisy, Ideals, Jaded, Judgment, Lack, Life Goes On, Light, Lives, Mercy, Mirror, Passing By, Penitent, Plead, Poetry and Poems, Poor, Prayers, Prevail, Purity of Reason, Pursuits, Repent, Right, Season, Society, Something More, Sought, Storied Legacy, Strange, Strife, Suffering, Tale, Trend, True, Trust, Utopia, Views, Voices, Yesterday
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First Principles: If the Provisions of the Constitution Can Be Set Aside By An Act of Congress, Where Is the Course of Usurpation To End?
“If the provisions of the Constitution can be set aside by an Act of Congress, where is the course of usurpation to end? The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but the stepping-stone to others, … Continue reading
Reflections On Dorian Gray, Pt VIII: Reality’s Seams
Reflections On Dorian Gray, Pt VIII: Reality’s Seamsby Michael DoyleThere on that snow fallen black of nightIn an alley filled with guilt’s blightDorian fears the tell of tongue wagged taleThat pursues him to the gates of HellThere are dreadful things … Continue reading
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Tagged Alley, Ancient Danger, Attic Door, Begin Again, Begun, Black of Night, Blight, Burning Fire, Chain, Change, Closeness, Confession, Conspire, Corruption, Creep, Daughter, Dead Rat, Death, Deceptive, Decrepit, Delusion, Demand, Desire, Done, Dorian Gray, Dreadful Things, Dream, Edge of Death, End, Evil, Father, Final Breath, Final Price, Final Say, Fire, Forlorn, Gates of Hell, Ghastly, Hope, Innocence, Innocent Man, Intoxication, Intrusion, Kiss Away Moment, Locked Away, London, Mortal Sin, Only Friend, Paid, Penny, Poetry and Poems, Priest, Purity, Putrify, Real, Reality's Seams, Reflections, Secret Key, See, Sin, Snow, Strange, Stranger, Subway, Tarnished History, Tongue Wag, Train, Traps, Truth, Tunnel, Wake, Whisper, Wind
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First Principles: The Instrument By Which It (Government) Must Act Is Either the Authority of the Laws or Force. If the First Is Destroyed, the Last Must Be Substituted
“The instrument by which it [government] must act are either the AUTHORITY of the laws or FORCE. If the first be destroyed, the last must be substituted; and where this becomes the ordinary instrument of government there is an end … Continue reading
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Tagged Act, Alexander Hamilton, Authority, Destroy, End, First Principles, Force, Government, Instrument, Laws, Liberty, Ordinary Instrument, Substitute
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Come To the End
Come To the Endby Michael DoyleYou want me to take you seriouslyAs you glare at me furiouslyWith your arms around the guyI caught you with before my replyYou flame me by way of “fuck you” balloonAs I advert my eyes … Continue reading
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Tagged Arms, Balloon, Best, Cards, Caught Up, Come To An End, Comedy, Dream, End, Evidence, Fable, Fantasy, Feigned Hurt, Flame, Focus, Furious, Glare, Guy, Heart, Heights, Holding On, Hurt, James Dean, Legendary, Lesson Learned, Majesty, Mean, Mediocrity, Might-Have-Beens, Mind, Poetry and Poems, Relevance, Relevancy, Remember, Reply, Serious, Table, Tragedy, True Friends, True Words, Truth, Verbally Punch, Whens
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 