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Poinsettia Day 2023
Poinsettia Day 2023by Michael DoyleUsually quiet and sometimes reservedSometimes death seems so undeservedIt’s hard to find the words to sayLike on this present Poinsettia DayLife is sad, yet interesting, in processionMoments like these reveal this is not a possessionBut a … Continue reading
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Tagged 2023, Abovee, Accept, Afrar, Angels, Aware, Borrow, Breakdown, Breathe, Bring, Christmas Tale, David, Death, December, Do My Best, Eyes, Family, Filled, First Noel, Flower, Forgiving, Fullness, Gift, Giving, Guitar, Hard, Healing Light, Heart, Heavens, Him, Important, Know, Laughter, Life, Lived, Love, Midnight, Moments, My Life, News, Openly Weep, Plucking Notes, Poetry and Poems, Poinsettia Day, Possession, Procession, Quiet, Remember, Resentment, Reserved, Reveal, Sad, Sad Day, Shepherd, Shining Bright, Sing, Smile, Sorrow, Star, Story, Turn Out Right, Undesvered, Up Close, Wise, Wish, Words
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Life As We Wear It
Life As We Wear Itby Michael DoyleIt is one thing to feign ignoranceAnd another to protest our innocenceThis is especially true when it can be shownThat the facts in dispute are easily knownIf we’d only question what it is that … Continue reading
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Tagged Act, Answer, Can Do, Fundamental, Ignorance, Innocence, Jigsaw, Known, Life, Need, Poetry and Poems, Powers In Check, Question, Recognized Authority, Should, Should Do, Sky, Sufficient, True, Understood, Wear
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(Questions of Life) However Inspired
(Questions of Life) However Inspiredby Michael DoyleHowever it was inspiredLife came to be firedSparked a billion years agoAnd continued on in its flowThough no man was there Science believes it clearNeurons appeared 400,000 year agoBut who can truly know?From the … Continue reading
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Tagged Better Days, Better Ways, Billion Years, Billion Years Ago, Brink, Brought Together, Courage, Darkness, Debate, Disbelief, Drink, Feeling the Fools, Fired, First Cause, Flashpoints, Flow, Formation, Full-Tilt, Gift, God, Handcuffed, Hands, Information, Inspired, Least Hesitation, Life, Losing Position, Lucy, Major Fail, Mature, Mother Nature, Near Miss, Necessary, Neurons, Pause, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Predators, Primordial, Question, Questions, Sad, Science, Smackdown, Splash, Stare, Think, Thought, Through, Time, Traction, Transition, Turned Out Better, Two Neurons, Warning, Wonder
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First Principles: It Should Be Your Care…To Elevate the Minds of Our Children and Exult Their Courage…If We Suffer Their Minds To Grovel and Creep In Infancy, They Will Grovel All Their Lives
“It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and … Continue reading
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Tagged Abhorrence of Injustice, Activity, Ambition, Capacity, Children, Courage, Cre, Creep, dd, Eelevate, Excel, Faculty, Family, First Principles, Grovel, Growth, Habitual Contempt, Industry, Infancy, Inhumanity, John Adams, Life, Lives, Love, Meanness, Minds, Nature, Poetry, Virtue
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On Which Life Depends
On Which Life Dependsby Michael DoyleWe play games aimed to pleaseAs we touch and you teaseShowing me your personal spacesAnd touching me with your tracesThese linger inside my mindYours is the touch that I’ve wanted to findI am in a … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, Begins, Blur, Close, Connection, Depends, Emotions, Ends, Everything, Explore, Fear, Feelings, Forget-Me-Nots, Games, Heat, Life, Linger, Melt, Mind, Night, Paces, Passion, Personal Spaces, Please, Poetry and Poems, Practicality, Presence, Reflection, Sensuality, Stumble, Summer, Tease, Touch, Traces, Understanding, Walk Through
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Each Moment’s Thankfulness
Each Moment’s Thankfulnessby Michael DoyleIn this world folded into blindnessToo many have forgotten kindnessI think it begins with gratitudeLooking on the world with right attitudeBefore this, there is the participationThat slowly seeps into relaxationPeace comes with every breath takenAllowing this … Continue reading
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Tagged Allow, Appreciation, Begin, Blindness, Bliss, Breath Taken, Connect, Eaase, Each Breath, Each Moment, Exhale, Feeling, Find, First Filled, Fold, Forgotten, Gratitude, Happiness, Human Being, Kindness, Know, Life, Look, Loving Embrace, Meant To Be, Meant To See, Moment, Now, Pace, Participaion, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Relaxation, Right Attitude, Seeing, Self-Made, Shaken, Shoulders and Body, Simple, Slow, Somehow, Strife, Tension, Thankful, Thankfulness, Too Many, Way Out, World
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Jake LaMotta’s Blackened Blues
Jake LaMotta’s Blackened Bluesby Michael DoyleWith the pressure of coal refractiveIn a life hard lived and extractiveA diamond’s aspects glitter in their huesThe Bronx Bull lived his blackened bluesWhen out of the ring, his prowess was as abusiveAs his desire … Continue reading
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Tagged Abusive, Aspects, Blackened, Blues, Born, Brown Down, Bruises, Caged Canary, Champion, Cheers, Coal, Contest, Crown, Cure, Currency, Desire, Destiny, Elusive, Endure, Extractive, Feel, Fight, Footwork, Found, Go Down, Hard Life, Harm, Hues, Jabs, Jake LaMotta, Jeers, Journey, Kock Out, Life, Life Hard Lived, Love, Night After Night, No Good Answers, Outrun, Parade, Poetry and Poems, Pressure, Prowess, Punch, Pursuit, Push Beyond, Refractive, Remember, Ring, Shadow Box, Shakespearian Quest, Sing, Sir Olivier, Soured Life, Sugar Ray, Tears, The Bronx Bull, The Raging Bull, Treadmill, Unknown, Walls, Wish, Wonder, Years
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Coming Back Again
Coming Back Againby Michael DoyleIn the killing schoolI met my limits and wonThat is life’s only ruleTo never be done – There’s a storm insideThat burns like a fireSomewhere beyond the walls of prideIt flows like a river of desirePushing … Continue reading
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Tagged Again, Beyond, Blackest Night, Blocking Out, Burn, Capable, Coming Back, Desire, Determination, Edge, End, Eyes, Feelings, Fight, Find, Fire, Gain, Inside, Killing School, Ledge, Life, Limits, Moving Beyond, Never Be Done, Only Rule, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Possible, Pride, Prize, Push, River, Storm, Sunrise, Walk
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