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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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Reflections In Darkest Times
Who should we turn to in these times if not God? Reflections In Darkest Times by Michael Doyle In these days of riotous insurrection I find myself quietly in my reflection Spending moments silently alone Needing love to be as … Continue reading
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Tagged Alone, Anticipation, Chorus, Country, Dark Times, Family, Find, God, Hard, Health, Heart, Insurrection, Keep, Know, Legend, Live Life, Love, Love In Action, Mercy, Mind, Mindful, Moment, Need, Participation, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Poverty, Prayer, Prayerfully, Presence, Reflection, Richness, Riot, See, Silent, Song, Sparkle, Steadfast, Stone, Strike Up, Strong, Tenderly, Thankful, Turn To
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Life Taken By Slice
Life is filled with events that beg for good photographs that capture their essence. Next in the series on photography and photograph composition. Life Taken By Slice by Michael Doyle Birthdays, weddings and holidays Special occasions in a million ways … Continue reading
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Tagged Beautiful, Being, Bind, Birthday, Blow the Candles Out, By Slice, Cake, Candid, Caption, Capture, Catch, Colors, Count, Detail, Details, Don't Stop the Action, Drama, Draws In, Emotions, Essence, Events, Every Angle, Face, Fade Into Night, Find, Fly On the Wall, Force, Glasses Raised, Glorious Moments, Good Times, Grab, Hard, Holidays, Homework, Humans Being, Impossible To Replace, Life, Life Goes By, Life's Events, Light, Long Exposure, Main Dish, Meaning, Moments, Moments of Joy, Most, Neglect, Nothing, Photograph, Photographs, Photos, Poetry, Presents, Remember, Respect, Round of Drinks, Satisfaction, Saving Aside, Scout Out, Seasoning, Seen, Sight, Slice By Slice, Soak, Something, Spark, Special Occasions, Spice, Stolen Kiss, Stop Time, Stuck In Mind, Stuff of Life, Sublime, Surmise, Surprise, Swirls, Takes, The Best of Life, Thought, Tie, Toast, Wedding, Whisper, Wish, Wonderful
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The Temptation of Wanting Another’s Share
Based in part on Exodus 20:17: The Temptation of Wanting Another’s Share by Michael Doyle It’s hard to be content in comparison Always measuring yourself on what is done By others when your race is your own Only to be … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, All, Another's, Bait, Better, Brother, Comparison, Content, Contentment, Course, Covet, Desire, Discontentment, Do, Done, Door, Eve, Exodus, Fact, Faith, Fall, Far, Forbidden, Friends, God's Throne, Had, Hand, Happy, Hard, Have, Heart, Instead, Keep, Keep Your Eyes, Look, Measure, More, No Further, Offer, Others, Paul, Photograph, Pleasure, Poem, Poetry, Providence, Race, Reverence, Rich, Run, Safe, Satisfaction, Self, Serpent, Service, Set, Share, Sin, Sister, Snare, Soul, Star, Stem, Tempt, Temptation, Treasure, True, Truth, Want, Well, Wise, You, Your Own
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Tribalisms of Empathy
Society’s kindness has gone markedly down as we tend to polarize and communicate online via social media more. It’s sort of sparking a lot of interest, particularly in these times of social isolation, in getting folks to begin dialoging … Continue reading
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Tagged Act, Acts, All In This Together, Amibition, Angry, Anonymity, Best, Better, Biology, Blindness, Bold, Break Down, Brutal, Burn, Challenge, Clues, Cold, Communicate, Communication, Community, Concern, Connection, Contagion, Control, Decline, Dehumanization, Dialog, Difference, Diminish, Direction, Disconnect, Edge, Empathy, Face to Face, Fear, Feelings, Fluid, Forget, Forward, Genes, Gradient, Hard, Harsh, Heart, Heredity, Human, Impersonal, Inference, Inhibition, Isolation, Kindness, Know, Life, Loss, Marsh, Meanness, Mirror, Morass, Nation, Need, Nuance, Pain, Photograph, Physiology, Poem, Poetry, Points of View, Polarize, Prevalence, Reality, Realm, Refine, Remove, Rise, Sad, Selfishness, Social Isolation, Social Media, Society, Spark, Startle, Sympathy, Text, Together, Tribal, Trust, Umbrella, Voice, Voices, Walk, Wobble, World
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In A Still Sleeping Place Inside My Head
The for the fourth day of NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo 2020 is: “…to write a poem based on an image from a dream”. … and so I did…. In A Still Sleeping Place Inside My Head by Michael Doyle The feeling comes … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020, Above, Again, Angels, Another, Beauty, Become, Begun, Below, Beyond, Black, Bold, Bring, Center Point, Chance, Chorus, Circumstance, Connect, Count, Cover, Dance, Dancing, Dark, Deep, Dissonant, Dominion, Dread, Dream, Dreamers, Drift, Drop, Energy, Evil, Experience, Fear, Feeling, Flow, Foe, Friend, God, Happen, Happiness, Hard, Head, Hope, Hunt, Image, Integration, Intimacy, Jacked, Join, Lame, Learn, Level, Life, Light, Live, Marry, Mask, Merge, Mermaid, Mind, NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo, Numb, One, Photograph, Place, Poem, Poetry, Purpose, Reach Out, Real, Red, Reel, Relevancy, Revealing, Rip, Run, Sadness, Seal, Sing, Sleep, Slumber, Someday, Soul, Still, Supreme, Swirl, Syncrhonization, Tear, Thought, Times, Twilight, Undone, Unreal, Urgency, Vivid, Walk, Waltz, Want, Wax, White, Wild Card, World, Wormhole
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Pandemic 2020
The days are dark but we will get through this. Pandemic 2020 by Michael Doyle Mass graves mark the passing through Of the last major outbreak of flu There are not moments relegated to history But a devastating part of … Continue reading
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Tagged Again, Answer, Arc, Atheist, Breath, Bring, Clock, Computation, Contamination, Covoid 19, Cure, David, Day, Defy, Desperate, Devestate, Endure, Fail, Fataility, Fatal, Flaw, Flu, Global, Goliath, Hard, History, Hope, Human, Human Welfare, If, Immunity, Immunization, Incubation, Infinite, Knees, Life, Light, Mass Graves, Mistake, Moments, Monster, Mortality, Mutation, Mystery, Novel, One, Outbreak, Pandemic, Pass, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Potential, Pray, Rapid, Real, Research, Reveal, Rise, Risk, Say, Sling, Tick, Truth, Universal, Variation, Virus, Warfare, When, Worse
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Finding Our Time In Waiting
Based in part on Philippians 2:13: Finding Our Time In Waiting by Michael Doyle Patience in waiting is hard to do I wonder if it’s the same for you Yet, waiting reminds us of our need For God as the … Continue reading
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Tagged Away, Best, Contrary, Cross, Done, Energy, Failure, Find, Foot, Gain, Glory, God, Hard, His, Intermission, Intervention, Know, Loss, Necessary, Need, One, Our, Part, Patience, Philippians, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Realize, Reclaim, Regather, Relationship, Renew, Sacred Heart, Story, Success, Time, Tremble, Turned, View, Wait, Wonder
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Bestest Friend
I was watching a bit heralding the advent of computers and all that has happened in so short a time. It’s true and it’s fascinating. But how long do you think it took me to think of the flipside? … Continue reading
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Tagged AI, Anyone, App, Architectural, Artificial Intelligence, Assembly Language, Best Friend, Choose, Circles, Click and Drag, Comic Book, Computer, Confess, Danger, Decision, Demis, Design, Determination, Discern, Domain, End, Execution, Gamer, Google, Hard, Imagination, Intention, Laugh, Left Behind, Little, Machine, Mankind, Mess, Mind, Mine, Minutes, More, One, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Presentation, Quantification, Refuse, Resilience, Self-Gratification, Temptation, Trust, Virtual, Virtual Lag, Web, Will, Your, Zero
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