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Does It Make You Cry?
Does It Make You Cry?by Michael DoyleWhen you’re tired of laughing,Does it make you cry?This life you’ve been living, It turned out to be a lie.When you’ve given all you can,And your best isn’t good enough,Sometimes it’s hard to be … Continue reading
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Tagged Absurdity, All You Can, Animal, Best, Bloodlust, Bluff, Broken Trust, Cause, Certain, Certainty, Coattials, Criminal, Cry, Good Enough, Hard, Heart, Ice, In Place, Insurgency, Justice, Larceny, Laughing, Lie, Life, Live, Man, March, Own Man, Pause, Poetry and Poems, The World, Tired, Urgency
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Saying Nothing In Times of Troubles
Saying Nothing In Times of Troublesby Michael DoyleThe only certainty is it doublesTo be silent in times of troublesAt least, Irish history revealsHow false belief in God stealsThe soul of a broken nationThat is riveting in its salvationThat never quite … Continue reading
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Tagged Anxiety, Atrocity, Blind World, Blood, Broken Nation, Certainty, Chance, Circumstance, Collective Ideoloy, Complexity, Confession, Confident, Conflict, Confusion, Culture's Obsession, Curse, Discern, Disillusion, Divided Nation, Doubles, End, Eye For Eye, Feeling, Fight, Friends, God, Healing, Heroes, History, Holy Ghost, Individual Responsibility, Irish History, Lack of Forgiveness, Lean, Lessons, Lie, Living Novel, Mankind, Misdeed, Moral Conflict, Mud, Mystery, Numb, Passion, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Procession, Pure Drama, Salvation, Say Nothing, Scenes, Silent, Simplicity, Soul, Times of Troubles, Transcend, Trauma, Travesty, Truth, Villains, Why, Wrong, Wrong Convictions
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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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Reality Vs. Constructs
Reality Vs. Constructsby Michael DoyleAn understanding states and instructsThat the “real world” consists of constructsWe all oblige each other to reach an understandingBut to apply this loosely rather than too demandingThis is to say we lie so often to our … Continue reading
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Tagged Apply, Breed, Constructs, Danger, Fantasies, Free, Ghosts, Imagination, Inter-Crossing Boundaries, Intrude, Lie, Loose, Normalacy, Oblige, Past, Poetry and Poems, Real, Real World, Reality, Shackles, Shadows, Stranger, Struggle, Tradition, Understanding, Unreal Things
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Written In Blood and Sin
Written In Blood and Sinby Michael DoyleIn the ship’s dark hull are whispered liesAs slaves and pirates stumble on alibisBroken before the mast and the evil of eyesThe tales told don’t matter in a sea of liesThese are believed in … Continue reading
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Tagged Alibis, Back Street, Blood and Sin, Danger, Dark Hull, Dark Side, Decision, Desire, Destruction, Disputation, Door, Emerge, Evil of Eyes, Fall, Good, Good Book's Instruction, Instruction, Lie, Loyalty, Mayhem, Mischief, Misdeeds, Nassau Town, No Mercy, Oath, Other Side, Path to Destruction, Pirate's Neck, Poetry and Poems, Price, Pride, Quench, Repentence, Reputation, Satan, Sea of Lies, Ship, Slaves and Pirates, Sliver of Hope, Snap, Story End, Strangers, Swallow, Tales Told, The Mast, Trust, Understood, Whispered Lies, Wild Fire, Written
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Owed To America 2024
Owed To America 2024by Michael DoyleMy daughters ask me why is it you cryI think back on history and will not lieToo many brave souls have fought and diedFor us not to have mourned and criedThere was a time when … Continue reading
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Tagged Ages, America, American Nation, Battle, Belief, Believe, Bend Their Knees, Bleed, Blue, Brave, Brave Souls, Cause, Ceaseless, Color, Courage, Cried, Cry, Danger, Daughters, Dedication, Defeat, Despotic Crown, Died, Fear, Fight, Fire, Fought, Freedom, Good, History, Hope, Ill, Imagination, Inspiration, Inspire, Internal Eney, Judgment Day, Justice, Kind, Land, Liberty, Lie, Love, Measure, More, Mourn, Nation, Owed To America 2024, Passing Years, People, Photography, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Red, Rights, Road, Save, Spark, Stand, Stand Tall, Street, Strength, Sweet Land, This Land, Time, Travel, Unbeatable, Values, White
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Growing Vulnerability
Growing Vulnerabilityby Michael DoyleSome fools say that men don’t cryBut let me tell you, that’s just a lieIt’s so hard to express inner truthAnd it’s played that way since youthWe need to get the curtains down and outMoving hard beyond … Continue reading
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Tagged Another, Armor, Better Way, Capability, Cloud, Communication, Cry, Curtains, Doubt, Down and Out, Dust, Essence of You, Excuse, Express, Eyes, Fascination, Fools, Forever, Gone, Grow, Growing, Happy, Hard, Heart, Here, Hype, Inner Truth, Leak, Lie, Look, Love, Lvel, Macho, Men, Move, Moving Hard, Near, Own Way, Pardon, Peek, Place, Play, Poetry and Poems, Process, Reason, Say, Sensitive Type, Shadow of Doubt, Shine, Shine On, Speaking, Stay, Straight Up, Talk, Tell, True Love, Trump Card, Vulernable, Vulnerability, Walk, Way Out, Youth
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Against All Hope
Against All Hopeby Michael DoyleAll alone, by myselfI searched on the shelfFor the words to knowJust how I might growTo start over in this testTo come through with the restIn a crash of my identityI lived my life renewing sincerityThere … Continue reading
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Tagged Against, Alone, Attention, Burn, Come Through, Conspire, Corrupt, Crash, Crowd, Fake, Fire, Fools, Grow, Hope, Humanity, Humility, Identity, Know, Lie, Look Down, Lost, Madness, Mean, Meek, Mercy, Outcasts, Poetry and Poems, Pretension, Search, Self, Shelf, Sincerity, Test, Truth, Unaware, Vanity, Weakest Length, Weakness, Words
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Thought For the Day: Half the Truth Is Often A Great Lie
“Half the truth is often a great lie.” -Benjamin Franklin, statesman, author, and inventor (17 Jan 1706-1790)
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Tagged Benjamin Franklin, Great, Half, Lie, Often, Thought For the Day, Truth
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Thought For the Day: We Swallow Greedily Any Lie That Flatters Us, But We Sip Only Little By Little At A Truth We Find Bitter
“We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.” – Denis Diderot
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Tagged Bitter, Denis Diderot, Flatter, Greed, Lie, Little By Little, Sip, Swallow, Thought For the Day, Truth
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