Tag Archives: Face

Something About Respect

Something About Respectby Michael DoyleIt was a different lifeA different sceneLife was toughAnd the streets were meanLife was about respectAsking for the something better to be hadWas maybe a bit too much to expectBut the beauty seen could make him … Continue reading

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Let’s Please Honor Veterans Day 2023!

Have you hugged your veterans today? Trust me, we appreciate it! To Be A Veteran Is…by Michael DoyleI And so many of my sisters and brothers We Signed our names to the blank check that we would serve for the … Continue reading

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The Singularity of the Immersive

The Singularity of the Immersiveby Michael DoyleThe virtual offers its trailing breadcrumbsPushing forward into spaces where the mind numbsThrough the effort of examining its potential The path walked has become quite consequential This platform of mixed media is greater than … Continue reading

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Standing Together

Standing Togetherby Michael DoyleIn the face of recent brutalityIt’s hard to remain in our humanityBut lean-in we must in accountabilityHere in the last days to our best abilityGod calls for us to be boldPutting aside timidity, since the days of … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: The Fingers of Your Thoughts Are Molding Your Face Ceaselessly

“The fingers of your thoughts are molding your face ceaselessly.” -Charles Reznikoff, poet (31 Aug 1894-1976)

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In My Darkest Times

In My Darkest Timesby Michael DoyleIn my darkest timesWhen I’m all out of rhymesYou hold me in your holy palmKeeping me safe and calmYou pulled the Savior out of His graveWith all you are and do to saveJesus, you’ve always … Continue reading

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For Your 16th Birthday

For Your 16th Birthdayby Michael DoyleThe hours are past and moved into the nightI was blessed by a day that you made brightA day before your actual birthday but beautifulIt was a celebration of how you’re so wonderfulSweet daughter of … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: The Man Dies In All Who Keep Silent In the Face of Tyranny

“The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.” -Wole Soyinka, playwright, poet, Nobel laureate (b. 13 Jul 1934)

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Thought For the Day: Authority Has Every Reason To Fear the Skeptic, For Authority Can Rarely Survive In the Face of Doubt

“Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.” – Robert Lindner (1914-1956)

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The Spaces Between

The Spaces Betweenby Michael DoyleIn all the paradigms that are shiftedThe moral compasses that have driftedThe zeros, the ones, and those in-betweenAfford the perfected moments as human beingsWould it only be that all things of clarityWere as equal and equitable … Continue reading

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