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Facedown With Mediocrity
Facedown With Mediocrityby Michael DoyleIn every town and in every cityWe find challenges met with mediocrityThese are the moments of losses takenAnd near certainty of a world wanting and mistakenFor some, this is hard to be faced head onWhile others … Continue reading
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Tagged Act, Actors, Alright, Bad Science, Break, Challenges, Chice, City, Compassion, Confidence, Conscience, Defiance, Desist, Diffidence, Dragged Into the Light, Easy, Excellence, Facedown, Force, Forge, Get In the Way, Gone, Hard, Hard to Know, Head-On, Hellion, Impressed, Life, Loss, Loud, Mediocrity, Mistaken, Must, New Day, Out of Fashion, Path, Play, Poetry and Poems, Push the Boundaries, Reasons, Resist, Role, Salute, Say, Seasons, See, Simple, Study, Stuffed Ballot Boxes, Sunglight, Suppressed, Tied UP, Tow, True Hearts, Trust, Unanswered Questions, Victories, Voice, Walking Shaodow, World, Youthful Rebellion
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Come To the End
Come To the Endby Michael DoyleYou want me to take you seriouslyAs you glare at me furiouslyWith your arms around the guyI caught you with before my replyYou flame me by way of “fuck you” balloonAs I advert my eyes … Continue reading
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Tagged Arms, Balloon, Best, Cards, Caught Up, Come To An End, Comedy, Dream, End, Evidence, Fable, Fantasy, Feigned Hurt, Flame, Focus, Furious, Glare, Guy, Heart, Heights, Holding On, Hurt, James Dean, Legendary, Lesson Learned, Majesty, Mean, Mediocrity, Might-Have-Beens, Mind, Poetry and Poems, Relevance, Relevancy, Remember, Reply, Serious, Table, Tragedy, True Friends, True Words, Truth, Verbally Punch, Whens
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Schweitzer’s Legacy
Schweitzer’s Legacyby Michael DoyleWhat if it wasThat we’re not meant for strifeBut rather, insteadTo live in reverence for life?Would we really needTo argue the unnecessary whyOf who decidedThe creation of the hippopotami?Or, is it quite enoughTo know that we’ve a … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Schweitzer, Amoral Drive, Approached, Argue, As If We Have never Discerned, Awe, Biggest Lesson, Blown Free, Caging In, Cheap Attempts, Cherish Life, Considered, Creation, Creativity, Deny Humanity, Dicing Atoms, Divinity, Dug Out Canoe, Echo, Enfeebled Terror, Ethically Needed, Ever Outward, Failing, Forgotten, Forms, Free Spirits, Good and Evil, Goodness, Hatefilled, Hippopotami, Inattention, Innocents Die, Instruction, Inward, Its Own Debate, Keep, Last Remaining Tear, Late Great, Learn From History, Legacy, Lessons Unlearned, Life, Mediocrity, Mindless, Modern History, More Deliberate, Moving and Reaching, Need, Never Be Allowed, Not Be Mastered By Techno;logy, Not By Thoughtfulness, Not Meant For Strife, Our Destruction, Our Own Gods, Our Own Mass Destruction, Paint of Error, Persist, Perversity, Poetry and Poems, Pretending At Wisdom, Principled, Probably Someone Else, Quest To Become, Quite Enough, Reactivity, Recall, Remembering Reverence, Retain Our Control, Right To Exist, Schweitzer, Someone Say, Spawned, Splashed, Stand In the Way, Story Played, Strength, Taught, Technology, There's No Way Out of Here, Thought I Heard, Truth of All, Vacuous Chat, We, What If It was, Who Decided, Why, Wiped Away, Wiser
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Theatrical Dawg Bones Thrown
However much the director whines that he’s only got 2 1/2 hours to present his hip hop distortions of American history and however much he manages to make his errors rhyme and dance match the music’s time, I don’t appreciate … Continue reading
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Tagged 1619 Project, All Life Is Sacred, All Lives Matter, America, American History, Anyone, Believe, Blackfaced, BLM, Cancel Culture, Catching Lightning In A Bottle, Come A Time, Complex, Contribution, Create, Cull, Debate, Disguise, Distortion, Elevate, Equality, Errors, Evangelists, Fallacious, Falsehoods, Falsity, Feet, Fight, Flip Side, Founders, Frederick Douglass, From the Beginning, Fundamentals, Glory, Great Story, Hamilton, Heart and Soul, Heritage, Hip Hop, History, Holding True, Image, Immigrants, Immigration, Joy, Justice, Land of Mine, Less of a History, Lies, Martin Luther King Jr, Marxism, Marxist, Mediocrity, Misconceived, Miscreant, Musical, Narrative, Nation, Norm, Notions, NPR, Opposed, Outright Mockery, Path, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pop Culture, Presupposed, Principles, Racist Pride, Rap, Realize, Recall, Reflective, Repercussions, Reserve Racism, Revolution, Rhyme and Dance, Rock the Streets, Ruin, Seen As, Set Loose, Shame, Shine, Society, Speaking In Terms, Spotlight, Study, Stupdendous, Theater, Transform, Trap, Travesty, Truth, Well Rehearsed, Youth
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On Objectivity No. 2
The recent encounter between CNN reporter Acosta and the Presidential Press Secretary Sanders is only one of many contemporary signs that objectivity and professionalism of the press has gone by the way side. My response to this and the nearly … Continue reading
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Tagged Capability, Character, Class, Fail, Fair Society, False Equality, Going Along, Mediocrity, Objectivity, Off-Key, Oppressed, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pretense, Professionalism, Prosper, Question, Results, Second Guess, Speaking Up, Standards, Truth, Unjust
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Traces of Life’s Wind
Traces of Life’s Wind by Michael Romani In my imitation I find my mediocrity In my originality I find the divinity Or, at least a spark That brings me to rest Touching the sublime When I am put to test … Continue reading
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Tagged Creative, Divinity, Eyes, Imitation, Laughter, Love, Mediocrity, Paradox, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reconcilation, Spark, Sublime, Tears, Test, Traces of Life's Wind, Viritue, Wisdom
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