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Held In Silence
Held In Silenceby Michael DoyleDarling, I’ve learned to love youBut somehow hate you moreDarling,I could never be without youBut trust me, I know the scoreThe traces may be coldFrom the fenced goods soldAll the secrets circled roundTo the treasures; they … Continue reading
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Tagged Answers, Darkness, Darling, Don Quixote, Fenced Goods, Found, Grieving Widow, Harshness, Hate, Held, Hope, Light, Lonely Mother, Love, Night, Poetry and Poems, Pray Alone, Right, Score, Scream, Secrets, Sense, Silence, Squeeze, Startlled, Traces, Trust, Understand, Violence, Without
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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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Between Sleep and Awake
Between Asleep and Awakeby Michael DoyleBetween asleep and awakeIs the recounting ofEvery single mistakeSome deeper than othersSome of hate, some of loveAll of which are heartbreakThey sent me to fight in warI went out a well-trained beastAnd yet somehow I … Continue reading
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Tagged Awake, Between, Brash, Brokenness, Colors, Darkness, Deep, Deeper, Demon, Fight, Harshness, Hate, Heartbreak, Hero, Love, Mistake, More, Outspokenness, Poetry and Poems, Recounting, Repressed Years, Seep, Sleep, Soul, Stagger, Struggle, Tears, Utterance, War, Well-Trained Beast, Wish
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Shadowboxing
Shadowboxingby Michael DoyleShadowboxing with my egoHiding from whispers of an echoWhen cleansing of sin is neededAnd common sense is not heededThere are dangers in complexityRaw feelings rough in their simplicityI just need to hold on to the sunriseVisions that bleed … Continue reading
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Tagged Beautiful Soul, Bleed, Cleansing of Sin, Common Sense, Complexity, Danger, Demons Dwell, Echo, Ego, Grow, Hid, Hurt, ID, Inferno, Innocence of Childhood, Jaded Past, Killing Me, Let Go, Living Hell, Lose Control, Love, Making, Mistakes, Must, Pain Inside, Past Trauma, Poetry and Poems, Pool of Blood, Raw Feelings, Shadow Boxing, Simplicity, Sunrise, Swept, Taking, Trust, Uncertainty, Whisper, World, Wound, Wounded Parts
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Every Day With You
Every Day With Youby Michael DoyleIn every way, people try to push apartIn all the ways that break our heartsIt’s one in a million who stay the courseInstead of changing out that tired horseToo many dreams they just fall apartIn … Continue reading
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Tagged Actions, Break Our Hearts, Change, Clarity, Days, Desperate Souls, Drag, Dream, Dreams, Ever True, Every Day, Every Way, Fall Apart, Gone Wrong, Hazy, Hear, Holding Your Hand, Horse, I Want To LIve, I Will Always Give, Jester's Crown, Keep Me Sane, Late Into the Night, Love, Never Depart, One In A Million, Poetry and Poems, Push Apart, Say, See, See Your Soul, Stay, Stay the Course, Talk, Things That You Do, Touch Your Heart, Towards That End, Upside Down, World Gone Crazy, You, You and I, You're My One Hundred, You're the One
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Oblique Stare
Oblique Stareby Michael DoyleI looked up in an oblique stareUpward into that cold ceilingFighting with God in my prayerHoping that my wish would be prevailingTwo daughters stood near by my sideI was not ready to leave behindAnd to my Lord, … Continue reading
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Tagged Adore, Another Day, Behind, Brave, Cold Ceiling, Confide, Cry, Daily Meditation, Deserve, Die, Fight, Forgiven, Given, God, Hear Me, Love, Medication, Mercy, My God, My Life, My Lord, Oblique Stare, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Prevail, Question, Respect, Take My Life, Thankful, Time, Two Daughters, Understood, Wish, Year Later, Yours
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Elephants Mourn Their Dead (Happy the Elephant)
Elephants Mourn Their Dead (Happy the Elephant)by Michael DoyleNo freedom, no libertyNo right to fundamental dignityHappy the Elephant pays the costAnd the decision it seems is lostThere will be no sanctuaryPersonhood has been denied capacityRegardless of intelligence, elephants are thingsSubstantially … Continue reading
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Tagged "X", Ability, Aesthetic, Arbritary, Autonomy, Beauty, Capacity, Chattel, Complexity, Cost, Dead, Decision, Dissent, Dominant Tusked, Elephants, Empathy, Factors, Family, Forehead, Freedom, Full Recognition, Fundamental Dignity, Given Hand, Happy the Elephant, Human Beings, Humanity, Intelligence, Language, Legal Reasoning, Liberty, Love, Majestic Giants, Memory, Mirrors, Mourn, Nonverbal, Personhood, Picky Eaters, Poetry and Poems, Points of Similarity, Present, Recognize, Refinement, Rejected, Sanctuary, Science, Self, Sentient Beings, Solitary Confinement, Talking, Things, Things Unsaid, Understand, Unfeeling, Walking, Words, World, Zoo Enclosures
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On A Friendship
On A Friendshipby Michael DoyleFriendship is like a storyA melody that catches and belongsThere in the ways of trustIs a love that grows as it mustChildren play at their gamesWe play our own, just the sameBelieving in things hard to … Continue reading
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Tagged Believe, Belongs, Better, Carry, Catches, Celebrated, Children, Conceive, Eludes, Eyes, Friendship, Games, Intrudes, Life, Lights, Load, Love, Lve, Melody, Must, Peace, Play, Poetry and Poems, Purgatory Road, Rudeness, Same, Search, Skies, Sparkle, Story, Together, Travel, Trials, Walk, Ways of Trust, World's Wonders
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