Flickr Photos
Tag Archives: Lost
Dreams and Voices
Dreams and Voicesby Michael DoyleThe real truth revealed in the nightRevels in its parts brought to lightEven those that sear and hurtBringing the mind in focus, fully alertPretending to give an ounce of careAbout all the divisiveness laid bareIt is … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Alibi, Choices, Cost, Deep Inside, Details, Device, Different, Divisiveness, Doubt, Dreams and Voices, Essence, Facades, Faith, Focus, Freedom, Haunt, Hid, Hidden Secrets, Hope, Hunter and Prey, Hurt, Laugh, Legends in Their Own Minds, Light, Lost, Ounce of Care, Play, Poetry and Poems, Real Truth, Reverent, Saviors, Shade, Thoughtless and Crass, Underestimate, Voices, Wrong Decisions
Leave a comment
Thought For the Day: The Only Sure Weapon Against Bad Ideas Is Better Ideas. The Source of Better Ideas Is Wisdom.
“Books won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better … Continue reading
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Alfred Whitney Griswold, Always, Bad Ideas, Banned, Better Ideas, Books, Burn, Censor, Ideas, Inquisitor, Jail, Long Run of History, Lost, Only, Source, Sure Weapon, Thought For the Day, Wisdom
Leave a comment
Muted In Discovery
Muted In Discoveryby Michael DoyleMuted, frightened screamOverheard on the data streamStill recovering from Covid isolationUnable to leave the habitationFiltering fragments in questionFeelings born in their hesitationCrimes hint at interpretationThere is something lost in this conceptionThinking in terms of last exclusionThere … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Code, Conception, Covid, Crimes, Data Stream, Discovery, Exclusion, Fear, Feelings, Filter, Fragments, Habitation, Hard, Hesitation, Interpretation, Intrusion, Isolation, Left Behind, Light, Lost, Means, Mind, Muted, Mystery, Nightmares, Overheard, Plain Sight, Poetry and Poems, Question, Recover, Scream, Seen, Thinking, Troubles, Troubling Thoughts, Truth, Unseen, Wake
Leave a comment
Nihilistic Stumble Grumble
Nihilistic Stumble Grumbleby Michael DoyleLife in all its historiesIs filled with a million mysteriesThings that might have gone betterWritten and unwritten, letter by letterWe find ourselves filling up the holesTrying to bring comfort to our soulsStepping in an avalanche pulling … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Avalanche, Best, Better, Comfort, Conquer, Detail, Dull Surprises, Frowns, God, Heartbreaks, History, Holes, Inner Demons, Letter, Life, Lost, Mistakes, Mortal Man, Mystery, Nihilistic, Pain, Passing the Test, Peace, Puzzle, Rear View, Reveal, Secret Plan, Smiles, Souls, Stumble Grumble, Thrill By Thrill, Troubled, Veneration, Will, Wish the Best, World
Leave a comment
Thought For the Day: When Old Words Die Out On the Tongue, New Melodies Break Forth From the Heart
“When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.” – Rabindranath Tagore, poet, philosopher, author, songwriter, painter, educator, composer, Nobel … Continue reading
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Die Out, Heart, Lost, New Melodies, Old Tracks, Old Words, Rabindranath Tagore, Reveal, Thought For the Day, Tongue, Wonder
Leave a comment
The Magic of Hope, Part I
The Magic of Hope, Part Iby Michael DoyleIn all of the hustled hassleOf a snow-blanketed sense of seasonLife is oft lived like an air-castleFilled with whimsy decorated with reasonA good Christmas is worked uponAnd not just a state-of-mindJust as soon … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Air-Castle, Approach, Articles, Atomic Particles, Bear, Believing, Best Company, Blessed, Blessing, Bliss, Brave, Busy, Cheerful, Children, Christmas, Company, Cozy, Crisis, Danger, Destination, Elves, End of the Rope, Everywhere, Feet, Floorboards, Forget, Gentle Reminder, Giants, Girl, Half-Forgotten, Happiness, Hassle, Hear, Heart, Incentive, Journey, Knowing, Lost, Lurk, Magic of Hope, Magic of Snow, Making Ends Meet, Miserable, Nestled, Nightmare, Noise, Nordic Forest, Persevere, Place, Poetry and Poems, Poor, Purity, Read, Reason, Reclaim, Regret, Relief, Sacred Quest, Season, Secret Village, Silver Moon, Skies, Snow, Snowing, Speaking Without Words, Special Part, State-of-Mind, Story, Sympathy, Talked, Top Shelves, True Glory, Truth, Tune, Twinkle, Two Kind Words, Universe, Vapors, Walked, Warm Memory, Whimsy, Woods, Year
Leave a comment
A Perspective of Identity
A Perspective of Identityby Michael DoyleIdentityMulti-facetedYet abstractIntegral Stated with trustCrucial To communicationEssentialTo humanity’s explanationPervasive In every social interactionAn accelerated Mix of culture in transitionDiscussed amongst us allLike Babel’s great fallA conception in definitionDeveloped in competencyOr lost in the incendiarySocial categoryPersonal … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Abstract, Accelerate, Allegory, Babel, Communication, Competency, Comprise, Conception, Crucial, Definition, Destruction, Discuss, Elusive, Eseential, Heritage, Humanity, Identity, Incendiary, Inclusive, Integral, Lost, Mix of Culture, Multi-Faceted, Personal, Perspective, Poetry and Poems, Reflective, Self-Deception, Shy, Social Category, Social Construction, Social Interaction, Social Norm, Speak, Time, Transition, Trust, Unique, View, Warm, Who Am I?
Leave a comment
In A Dissonance Theory
In A Dissonance Theoryby Michael DoyleWhat if…What if is the beginningAs good as any beginningOr so it often seemsThe waking is stuff of dreamsAnd dreams bring as much truthAs that which we are toldAll the bill of goods that we … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Address, Beginning, Bill of Goods, Conception, Cost, Create, Diamond, Discomfort, Dissonance Theory, Dreams, Flow, Freedom, Illusions, Imagination, Inside, Intrusion, Limit, Live Stream, Lost, Maze, On Demand, Panned, Paradigm, Personal History, Poetry and Poems, Point, Questions, Real Worth, Set Free, Success, Told, Truth, What If, Within
Leave a comment
Reflections on Dorian Gray V: Immortality Revealed
Reflections on Dorian Gray V: Immortality Revealedby Michael DoyleArt imitates life as life imitates artMasquerading in the wantonness of the heartIt’s a fearful discovery of the monster withinThat while we don’t understand, causes us to sinActing in the the brazen … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Above, Addiction, Art, Artist, Beautiful, Best Promises, Blame, Dance, Dare, Darkness, Depravity, Die, Discovery, Dorian Gray, Doubt, Dream, Duality, Enthralled, Evil, Eye, Eyes, Fatal, Fell, Gift, God, Heart, Hope, Idols, Ignore, Imagine, Immortality, Impulse, Impurity, Intended, Lechery, Life, Lost, Masquerade, Medication, Monster, Monsters, More, Naked, Painting, Poetry and Poems, Premeditation, Reflections, Repulse, Sacrifice, Scars, Scream, Sin, Slippery Slope, Stars, Tell Tale Signs, Temptation, The World, Transform, Treachery, Ugliness, Understand, Wantonness, Whim, Wickedness, Wonderful
Leave a comment
