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She Seemed Familiar
The challenge was to write a poem similar to a haiku that had an element of irony. What in life these days is not ironic? She Seemed Familiar by Michael Doyle She seemed familiar Until we started talking We … Continue reading
The Mystery of Crow
Another inspired by the blues I listened to on my road trip today. I have to say, while there are scenic road trip guides, this is the first time I’ve driven the beautiful country roads of Morgan and Monroe … Continue reading
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Tagged Allusion, Bangles, Begin, Blossom, Blues, Blues History, Carolinian, Change, Country Roads, Crow, Dance, Dark Delight, Divine, Everything, Fly, Friends, Groove, Heartbreak, High, Indiana, Life, Mastery, Meet, Memories, Mountain, Mystery, Night, Nothing, Oriole, Outshone, Pages, Pass, Passion, Path, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Purity, Rearrange, Remember, Rhythm, Road Trip, Self Assured, Shadow, Smokey Joe, Something, Songbird, Soul Shake, Sparkle, Sugar Cane, When, Whirlwind, Window
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Slow Like A Mule
Blues and fusion offers it’s own kick of long solos filled with hot licks. But in all of this, there is that groove and it punches slow like a mule. No one threw those punches better than Betty Davis. Slow … Continue reading
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Tagged Betty Davis, Blues, Boogie, Born, Celebration, Choice, Critics, Deep, Difference, Disappear, Disenchant, Enigma, Falling Light, Fear, Full Truth, Funk Queen, Fusion, Genteel, Get It On, Gift, Gone, Heart, Heavy, Inclusive, Keep, Keeping It Real, Legend, Liberation, Life, Long Legged, Loose Goose, Mojo, Mule, Music, Mystery, Night, Note, Offer, Photograph, Place, Poem, Poetry, Polish, Queen, Raven, Raw, Reclusive, Reign, Reverence, Ring, Road, Show, Sirens, Slap Down, Slow, Soul Sacrifice, Space, Starlight, Steamy Night, Told, Tome, Tree, Walk, Watch, Whiskey Courage
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Given the Dickens I’ve Known
Show of hands, who has read Charles Dickens in their lives? Who in the last 30 years? Yet, he stands as perhaps the greatest novelist in the English language. It almost scares me to know that I had read five … Continue reading
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Tagged Adventure, Alley Ways, Breach, Century, Charles Dickens, Childhood, Clarity, Classes, Common Cause, Days, Debt, Decade, Endure, English, Hope, Imprisonment, Industrial, Lawyer, Life, Masses, Misery, Morality, Novelist, Photograph, Poem, Poet's Corner, Poetry, Reaches, Sentimentality, Severity, Society, Society's Contract, Squalor, Strife, Struck, Struggle, Tales, Westminster Abby
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All That Mistaken Jazz
In this day and age, there is so little convention of civility that is kept and each indiscretion perhaps leads further to those things that act in concert to break down society. All That Mistaken Jazz by Michael Doyle Conversations … Continue reading
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Tagged All, Alone, Animal Magnetism, Avoidance, Broken, Civility, Convention, Conversation, Desperate, Dignity, Dreams, Felt Deeply, Fit, Focus, Heart of Stone, Hesitation, Hidden, Host, Importance, Indiscretion, Jazz, Life, Live, Losses, Mistake, Most, Past, Phase, Photograph, Phrase, Poem, Poetry, Pragmatism, Price Paid, Privacy, Question, Quit, Random Chance, Sad, Sake, Seldom, Shattered, Society, Space, Spoken, Treasure, Trite, Voice, Want, Whimper, Winners, Words
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Today and Always
Six months ago today, I met my love dressed in the guise of an elf with a high interest in photography, kindness in her heart, beauty in her soul, endowed with a laugh that woke the core of my soul … Continue reading
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Tagged All Days, All Things, Always, Amaze, Attention, Beats, Beautiful, Beauty, Beyond Words, Bless, Brand, Breath, Cherish, Day We Met, Depend, Devoted, Dreams, Elf, End of Days, Falling Star, Far, Girlfriend, Happiness, Happy, Happy Anniversary, Heart, Hope, In All Ways, Joy, Keeper, Kindness, Laugh, Life, Love, Love You, Love You Always, Magic, Memory, Met, Moments, Never Find, Never Giving Up, Nice, Once, Partner, Photograph, Pledge, Poem, Poetry, Priceless, Promises, Proud, Reason, Right Intention, Season, Six Months, Spark, Spice of Life, Thanks, This Day, True, Turn Around, Twice, Wish, Wishes Came True, Wonderful, You
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Depths of Despair
How much sadness can one little girl’s heart hold? More than the number of angels that can dance on the head of an infinite pinhead. Depths of Despair by Michael Doyle In the depths of despair Her life out of … Continue reading
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Tagged Against, Alone, Angels, Anguish, Bed, Bleakness, Candle, Closed Door, Dance, Darkness, Decision, Defeat, Depths, Despair, Disrepair, Draw, Eat, Fallow, Fears, Feeling, Field, Found, Hard Heart, Head, Heart, History, Hold, Ignore, Legacy, Life, Little Girl, Lump, Night, Out of Control, Path, Photograph, Pity, Plight, Poem, Poetry, Reel, Sad, Sadness, Sill, Spin, Swallow, Synch, Tears, Thoughts, Throat, Uncomfortable, Will, Window
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Basket Case Blues
Dedicated to many a victim of the music industry who thought themselves gods only to wake up suddenly finding differently… Basket Case Blues by Michael Doyle With your name up in the bright lights Enraptured by a million neon nights … Continue reading
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Tagged Addiction, Alibi, Alone, Amuse, Angel, Arrive, Awoke, Basket Case, Big Lie, Blues, Comfort Zone, Confess, Contortion, Courage, Disgrace, Dreams, Gardens, Gods, Home, Inner Child, Itch, Leather and Lace, Less, Life, Lights, Masterpiece, Million MIles, More, Music Industry, Mystery, Name, Neon Nights, Own, Paper, Photograph, Pliable, Poem, Poetry, Predilection, Real, Rock Bottom, Scarlet, Seems, Social Distortion, Therapy, Unreliable, Victim, Wake Up, World
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