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Blood Path of the Samurai
Blood Path of the Samuraiby Michael DoyleYou’re not just going to leaveA beheaded man on the ground?She asked in what I believeIs her shocked voice soundYou don’t see that everydayBut that, my dear, is the samurai’s waySmall men snuff out … Continue reading
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Tagged Assume, Beheaded, Blood, Correction, Decided, Derided, Doom, Faces, Fate, Hidden Places, Hour, Light, Path, Poetry and Poems, Powers, Promise, Prophesy, Reflection, Safe, Samurai, Secret, Snuff, Spill, Tale
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Club Handy
Club Handyby Michael DoyleEvery showman is a tricksterA sophisticated and tragically hipsterLeaving the girls with smiles on their facesMoving them deeply with his tracesIt’s a carnival of scamPutting on the ritualistic glamWith bated breath ready to flyAs heartbreak paints the … Continue reading
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Tagged Bated Breath, Blues, Carnival, Club Handy, Colonel, Danger, Dirty and Gritty, Faces, Flow, Girls, Glam, God Given Gifts, Heartbreak, High Class, Hipster, King, Life On the Road, Mama's Eyes, Merchandising, Mesmerize, Misunderstood, Money, Monkeys, Poetry and Poems, Riffs, Scam, Sell, Shady Past, Shaken Hips, Show, Showman, Smiles, Sophisticated, Tale, Traces, Trickster, Whispers
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A Cry for Uvalde
A Cry for Uvaldeby Michael DoyleSomewhere beyond a world of feelingIs the way of knowing healingThese are the times for being an exampleThe differences made will be ampleFighting not with fists but with prayerPeeling back the onion of life, layer … Continue reading
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Tagged Actions, Alone, Ample, Beautiful Souls, Behind, Belief, Best Fights, Blame, Bullied, Burnt to the Ground, Candlelight, Community, Cornerstone, Cruelly Dealt, Cry, Cuentas, Dead, Differences Made, Dificil, Disease, Dreams, Every Day, Every Single Day, Example, Faces, Faith, Families, Fault Is His, Favorite Songs, Feeling, Felt, Fight the Good Fight, Fighting, Grief, Gut Wrenching Torments, Hand of Lucifer, Healing, Humbled Cry, Hundreds, It Didn't Have To Be His Choice, Knees, Know, La Muerte de Los Ninos, Layer, Lifted A Hand, Lifting Our Voices, Lives, Loss, Love, Loved Ones, Matters, Memories, Mi Apoyo, Momento, Moments, Morning, Mourning, Nation, Night, Not With Fists, Noticia, Onion of Life, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Prayers, Question Why, Rebuild, Sabes, Safe, Salvador Ramos, School, Sense, Shakes and Shatters, Shamed, Silently Erected, Sin, So Be It, So It Will Be Done, Sorrow, Survive, Survivor's Guilt, Tears, Thursday, Times, Torture, Traces, Tragedy, Transcend, Trust Falling, Twenty-One Crosses, Used Their Voice, Uvalde, Vigils, Viviendo, Walk, Warnings, Wicked Ways, Wounds, Years
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Hymn To the 2020 Christmas Star
Hymn To the 2020 Christmas Starby Michael Doyle 2020 has been a year soul revealingCovid and larceny were ever stealingAny hope for semblance of hopefulnessDenying any hint of serenity and bliss We cried and wondered out of hopeTrying our best … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020, Abide, Above Us, Advent, Angels, Baby Child, Bad Day, Beacon, Bliss, Blossom, Bow, Bright, Broken Hearts, Burn, Cherish, Christmas Day, Christmas Star, Comfort, Cope, Covid, Cry, Darkness, Deny, Embrace, Faces, Faith, Fallen, Far, Form, Found, Function, Giving Love, Glory to God, Good Will, Grace of God, Great Conjunction, Heavens, Herald, Hint, Hints, Holy Light, Hope, Hopefulness, Hymn, Joy, Jupiter, Larceny, Lean, Loom, Manger, Memories, Moments In Time, Morning, Most of Us, Near, Never Second Best, News, Night, Our Test, Peace On Earth, Perish, Poetry and Poems, Prevail, Rearrange, Revealing, Right, Saturn, Semblance, Serenity, Shadows, Share, Shine, Sing, Skies, Sky, Soul, Spiral, Spirits, Star, Stealing, Strange, Subside, Sweet Sorrow, The Christmas Star, The Lord, Think, Tonight, Truth, Try Our Best, Virgin Birth, Whisper, Wish It Away, Wishing, Women and Men, Wonder, Wondrous, Year
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The Solace of Life’s Magnitude
The Solace of Life’s Magnitudeby Michael DoyleI’ve never quite decided the tragedyIn the inches of life’s comedyIt’s all just another way to dieQuite laughable in how it brings another cryThere in the bullet that’s firedIs the bang up finish that … Continue reading
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Tagged Alive, Allow, Another Way To Die, Balance, Bleed Out, Breath, Bullet, Chase, Coincidences, Collide, Comedy, Conspiracy, Conspire, Crash, Cry, Daily, Desperate, Doubt, Embrace, Faces, Finish, Fire, Full Stop, Hard, History, Hold, Impossible To Fake, Inches, Last Inning, Laugh, Life, Living, Lock of Hair, Loud, Magnitude, Marvel, Mystery, Pain, Pass, Photograph, Picked Lock, Poem, Poetry, Pride, Questions, Reason, Scratch, Search, Secrets, Sentimental, Shroud, Slow To Heal, Solace, Surrender, Take It, Tragedy, Wound, Wounds
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Dr. Seuss With No Excuse
Two weeks in aka Day 14 of Na/GloPoWriMo 2020 and the challenge prompt today is: “to think about your own inspirations and forebears (whether literary or otherwise). Specifically, I challenge you today to write a poem that deals with the … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020, Alone, Amaze, Appreciate, Band, Be You, Beautiful, Beauty, Best, Best Part, Birds, Books, Breeze, Brim, Care, Certainty, Child, Childhood, Classical Guitar, Cleanliness, Complexity, Confess, Conformity, Creation, Crime, Daughters, Decades, Dignity, Diligence, Discern, Dr. Seuss, Drift, Drum, Dust, Enormity, Excuse, Explore, Eyes, Faces, Fear, Fired, Fit In, Flexibility, Forgot, Future, Girls, Godliness, Grammar, Gratitude, Grow, Heart, Hearts, Hell, Ill, Imagination, Indulgence, Influence, Inspiration, Inspire, Joy, Keys, Large Town, Laugh, Learn, Lessons, Life, Little Bears, Loose, Lorax, Love, Lyrics, Man, Messed Up, Messy, Military Man, Moon, More We Know, Musical, Mystery, Na/GloPoWriMo, Neil Pert, Noose, Numb, Open, Pages, Perplexity, Photograph, Places, Poem, Poetry, Poets, Read, Reading, Rhymes, Right Attitude, Right Life, Right Size, Rules, School, Second Guess, Self Pity, Sell, Shakespeare, Shut, Small Town, Soul, Speak, Speck, Stand Out, Stumble, Teachers, Throw Out, Tired, Toys, Trees, True, Two, Two Angels, Ukulele, Vibration, View, William Blake, Wise, Wonderful, Woods, Word Play, Words, World, You
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New Day Begun
A trend in the 21st century is finding ever increasing value in team and cohesion working in collaboration to finding needed solutions. While I’ll never devalue the power of one, I think there is also much merit in working together. … Continue reading
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Tagged 21st Century, Affirmation, Begun, Belong, Choice, Co-Creator, Cohesion, Collaboration, Connection, Conversation, Direction, Everyone, Faces, Find, Fragments, Gentle, God Flow, Imagination, Incantation, Integration, Know, Lace, Merit, Mingle, Mix Tape, Moments, Multi-Verse, New, New Day, Notes, Participate, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poetry, Power of One, Random, Ring, Roots, Safe, Small Talk, Solution, Song, Strength, Tingle, Together, Universe, Value, Vibration, Voice, Yes
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Pig Faced Penelope
Inspired by a movie shared with someone very special to me as a movie that is very special to her… Pig Faced Penelope by Michael Romani A slap on the face to high society Trapped on trappings of notoriety The … Continue reading
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Tagged Audacity, Care, City, Distraction, Embrace, Escape, Expose, Faces, False, First Edition, Hate, High Society, Indignity, Integrity, Life, Lights, Missed Point, Night, Notoriety, Penelope, Photograph, Pig Faced, Plastic Veneer, Playroom, Poem, Poetry, Pretty, Priceless, Run, Secret, Self-Love, Shallow, Shame, Slap, Surface, Tale, Test, Trap, Truth, Vain, Youth
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Each In Our Part
Started attending a new church today. It’s related to a church I enjoyed very much in California. Today, they had two of the children work together to recite Romans 12:6. That was a pretty awesome verse to commit to memory. … Continue reading
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Tagged Acknowledge, Act, Body, Church, Communion, Contribute, Day, Death, Embrace, Face, Faces, Forgiven, Friend, Glorify, God, Grace, Heaven, Holy, Human Race, Jesus, Memory Verse, Part, Perfected Love, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Precious, Remind, Response, Romans 12:6, Sacrifice, Sanctify, Savior, Signifigance, Sin, Suffice, Together
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