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In the Solitude of Darkness
In the Solitude of Darknessby Michael DoyleTo the degree that I do not fearI am powerful enough to persevereI say this with a heavy-hearted sighAs my soul fixes its intellectual eyeThe love and rage that exists inside meHave become the … Continue reading
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Tagged Beast, Beginning, Bitter Instinct, Change, Consolation, Creativity, Darkness, Depravity, Design, Destination, Divine, Dreams, Ending, Explore, Extinct, Fallen Angel, Fear, Harshness, Heart, Heart of Desire, Howl, Intellectual Eye, Knees, Level, Lie, Life, Love, Love and Rage, Malignant Devil, Misery, Outstretch, Persevere, Philosophy, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Sigh, Snarl, Solititude, Solitude, Soul, Understand, Wickedness, Wild Seas and Regions, Work, World's Secrets, Wounded Hand
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The Naughty List
The Naughty Listby Michael DoyleWhen the truth’s told even in the best of timesA heart should beware of the easiest rhymesKeeping an eye out for the details of the DevilIs best because we know he’s never on the levelThere’s a … Continue reading
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Tagged Because, Best, Best of Times, Beware, Bright Lights, Careful, Christmas, Christmas Magic, Coca-Cola Santa, Contest, Crass Commericalism, Dark Side, Decorations, Details, Devil, Display, Doubt, Eye Out, Fights, Forgotten, Heart, Hustle and Bustle, Level, Modern Age, Parades, Poetry and Poems, Point of View, Pray, Question, Real Reason, Reason For the Season, Rhymes, Room Enough, Teasin', The Naughty List, Time Enough, Told, Too Bad, Tragic, True, Truth, Wish
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A Question of Theology
A Question of Theologyby Michael DoyleIt’s an interesting tug-of-warOne in which we watch the scoreWhy didn’t the Archangel slay the Devil?Instead, God chose to keep things more levelThe question isn’t just one of simple theologyBut crucial in understanding God’s divinityGod’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Archangel, Atrocities, Brim Stone, Choice, Cities, Contend, Crucial, Defense, Devil, Divinity, End, End Times, Faith, Fallen Angels, Fight, Genuine, God, Heaven, Hell, Kingdom, Level, Lucifer, Mercy, Poetry and Poems, Pretense, Price, Promise, Question, Score, Soul, Theology, Tug-of-War, Vanquish, Voice, Wait, Wisdom
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Turning the Tables
Turning the Tablesby Michael DoyleCome on now; be on the levelThe details between God and the DevilAdd up to a fuzzy sort of mathWhere we humans stumble on the pathSometimes the thoughts spin our headsAnd we sink into slouch, pretending … Continue reading
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Tagged Deceitifulness, Details, Devil, Doze, Foot, Fuzzy, God, Human, Level, Math, Pain, Path, Poetry and Poems, Pride, Self-Chosen, Slouch, Stumble, Table, Thoughts, Toes, Turn
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In Full Stomp (On Satan’s Head)
In Full Stomp (On Satan’s Head)by Michael DoyleLift the cross and trust in the FatherThough the steps seem sometimes fartherWe must walk away from things of enmityKeeping united to love in all its entiretyLife does come with things that painDespite … Continue reading
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Tagged Attention, Bruised Heel, Choices, Contemplation, Contrain, Cross, Devil, Enmity, Faith, Fall, Family, Feel, Fight, Fragility, Hell, Integrity, Level, Liberation, Life, Love, North Star, Pain, Patterns, Poetry and Poems, Promises of Truth, Purpose, Real, Reconiliation, Redemption, Right Intention, Rules, Same Lap, Scripture, Serpent, Service, Steps, Stomp, Swinging For the Fence, Tasks, Track, Trust, Understand, United, Vain
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The Sphinx of Legacy
The Sphinx of Legacyby Michael DoyleIn the mystery of the sphinxIs the ancient mystery that linksTo secret rooms of love and wisdomIt brings release like keys to the kingdomSome are kept prisoner by this lureWhile others believe this is the … Continue reading
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Tagged Aged, Alone, Another Tale, Arrive, Been, Better Off Dead, Buried, Burn, Cheat the Devil, Clever, Close To Home, Coded Memory, Core, Crumbs of Dreams, Cure, Death, Depths, Drifting Along, Easy As A Rhyme, Echoes, Face, Flames, Forever, Free Flow, Glory, Goldfish In A Bowl, Grace, Heads, Hope, Human Beings, In the End, Keys to the Kingdom, Last Person, Last Sunset, Lasting Legacy, Lasting Regret, Leave, Legacy, Level, Link, Long Goodbye, Love and Wisdom, Lure, Marking Time, Meet, Met, Mirror, More Is the Pity, Mystery, Play the Game, Play With Fire, Plumb, Poetry and Poems, Pray For Grace, Remembers You, Riding Hard, Rinse and Repeat, Room Enough, Secret Rooms, Shadows, Shivers, Sorrow, Sphinx, Stay Alive, Throne, To the Bone, Today, Tombstone, Tomorrow, True, Unscathed, Visitors, Wandered Far, Watches, We All Die, Where
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In the Sweetness of Money
In the Sweetness of Moneyby Michael DoyleThe band leader says, “One, two..”And the band knows what to doEspecially slick with his brand new shoesFilled as he is with his particular viewsStepping it up to make it betterIn the harmony of … Continue reading
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Tagged Back Luck, Band, Band Leader, Better, Can't Tell A Fool Nothing, Chart, Crooked Smile, Dance, Desire, Devil, Face, Found, From the Heart, Funny, Harmony, Headlines, Heritage, History, Leftovers, Level, Leverage, Ma Rainey, Misonstrue, Money, Moves, Nailing, New Shoes, Particular, Patent Leather, Piper's Price, Poetry and Poems, Reverent, Right, Sake, Selling Souls, Selling Voice, Set On Fire, Simple, Solid Choice, Something, Sound, Stew, Stomp, Strung Up, Sweetness, Sweetness of Money, Temple, Tight, Whispered Tales, Wicked Ways
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The Dreamwork of Nightmares
In these dark times when it is so hard to be optimistic, can anyone be blamed for having nightmares? But what then are these? The Dreamwork of Nightmares by Michael Doyle Even still as we grow and mature We find … Continue reading
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Tagged Actuality, Alarm, Arrival, Bad, Believe, Blame, Bodily Defect, Books, Brain, Caverns, Clean, Clear, Complete, Context, Contortion, Curtain, Dark Side, Dark Times, Demons, Depression, Derision, Desire, Distortion, Division, Dream, Dreams, Dreamwork, Each, Endure, Erupt, Fear, Find, Fire, Flood, Fulfillment, Full Color, Fuzzy, Ghost Written, Gods, Graceless, Greet, Grow, Hide, Human Nature, Impression, Impure, Irony, Layer, Level, Live Out, Masterpiece, Mature, Measure, Mind, Moments, Monochromatic, Multiplicity, Naked, Needless, Nightmare, Nightmares, One, Optimistic, Pages, Photograph, Play Out, Poem, Poetry, Pride, Psyche, Reality, Rebound, Rehearse, Repression, Responsibility, Sanitize, Scenes, Scripts, Seem, Self, Self Justified, Shelves, Significance, Soul, Stages, Suffer, Suitable, Suppression, Survival, Thoughtless, Trigger, True, Undone, Unpack, Us, Warp, Way, Wish, Wishes
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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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A New Nation Born Pt I
In a continuing cycle on America, we look at the Revolutionary War through England’s defeat at Yorktown: A New Nation Born Pt I by Michael Doyle Let’s have no sense of delusion The united states were but illusion Or, perhaps … Continue reading
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Tagged Allusion, America, American Crisis, Army, Bolder, Brith, British Crown, Certainty, Change, Character, Christmas Eve, Colonial, Common Sense, Confusion, Continental Congress, Contribution, Credible, Cross, Dawn, Defense, Delaware, Delusion, Discontent, Dues, Encourage, England, Even, Exhaustion, Fabric, Family, Fragility, Fragmentation, French, General, George Washington, Glory, Hard Times, Hessians, Hope, Landing, Lead, Legacy, Length, Level, Lost, Loyalty, Nation, Navy, New, Odds, Offensive, Pay, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Position, Rag Tag, Revolutionary War, Saratoga, Society, Staten Island, Story, Strength, Summer Soldier, The World Turned Upside Down, Thirds, Thomas Paine, Thrust, Tilt, Triumph, Truth, United States, Valley Forge, Van Steuben, Victory, War, Weak, Will, Winter, Words, Yorktown
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