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Slightly Out of Tune
Softly Out of Tuneby Michael DoyleThe piano plays slightly out of tuneThe preacher is drunk, crazy as a loonA voice whispers hello old friendThe bemused look hints at the endLife is one continuing negotiationIt seems a program of collaborationIt is … Continue reading
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Tagged Ashes, Bemused, Brave Enough, Cards, Collaboration, Conceal, Dealer, Decisions, Door, Drunk, End, Free Will, Heresy, Illusions, Irony, Life, Loon, Masquerade, Matters, More, Negotiation, Old Friend, Played, Poetry and Poems, Preacher, Regrets, Scorched Earth, Secrets, Skeletons In Closets, Skill Sets, Slight, Tatters, Tune, Victory, Visions of Dreams, Whisper
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Speck of Dust
Speck of Dustby Michael DoyleThis speck of dust on which we restIs the speck of dust that is our testUnwritten laws frame our mindsAnd what is left when we no longer findThat the laws written serve us wellAnd that we … Continue reading
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Tagged Alive, Beauty, Bound, Century, Come Apart, Create, Dare To Love, Dream, Eon, Find, Flawlessly Broken, Fragile, Hand In Hand, Hope, Know, Learn, Live, Mind, More, Never Die, Our Lives, Pain, Pain and Misery, Poetry and Poems, Rest, Serve Us Well, Simply Survive, Speck of Dust, Star, Tale, Test, Tragedy, Truth, Unwritten Laws, Words Spoken
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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
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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
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Thought For the Day: The More Laws, the Less Justice
“The more laws, the less justice.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC)
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Tagged Justice, Laws, Less, Marcus Tullius Cicero, More, Thought For the Day
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Christeaster Christians
Christeaster Christiansby Michael DoyleChristeaster ChristiansWithout real meaningTwice a yearFind their way homeChrister ChristiansIn their presence beingBubbled in their tearsFeel lost and aloneMiracles prayed forWithout believingFind their own wayHitting hard without courageThere must be moreDespite the deceivingCan it be felt todayLived … Continue reading
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Tagged Above, Believe, Christians, Christmas, Courage, Deceive, Declare, Easter, Encourage, Endure, Find, God, Hitting Hard, Home, Hope, Live Again, Love, Meaning, Miracles, More, Pass, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Presence, Pure, Square, Steps, Surrender, Tears, Today, Twice, Way
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Thoughts On Dorian Gray
Thoughts On Dorian Grayby Michael DoyleTextured as it is in prescienceAre those things outside of scienceAmong these is the legend of Dorian GrayOf which there is much yet to sayImages that stick through flesh like a knifeSliced cleanly through the … Continue reading
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Tagged Artist, Bacchanalian, Bad Memories, Beauty, Call, Closed Doors, Clown, Commonsense, Crime, Deal, Death, Devil's Altar, Diabolical, Distract, Dorian Gray, Drink Up, Duty, Fair Trade, Flame, Flesh, Folly, Forever, Forgotten Scenes, Frolic, Games, Heart of Life, Hellfire Club, Human, Images, Introduce, Jest, Knife, Legend, Lesson, Life, London Town, Looks, Lost Moment, Memory, More, Nail, Open Door, Party, Philsopher, Pity, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Prescience, Pretense, Price, Reach, Say, Science, Seeker, Seen, Sermon, Shame, Sin, Sketches, Slice, Sould, Sympathy, Tea, Textured, Thoughts, Time, Truth, Vanity, Victorian Days, Ways of Darkness, Worse Dreams, Young
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Pushed and Pulled
Yesterday, September 27, 2021, was the last day of prescribed cardiac rehab. They tell me that I am doing excellently. The only admonishment given was that I should keep in mind not to work out as hard as my spirit … Continue reading
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Tagged Admonishment, Allow, Bluff, Brought, Cardiac Rehab, Caught, Change, Do Good, Enough Is Enough, Every Inch of Ground, Every Struggle, Excel, Excellence, Feel, Found, Grown, Habits of A Lifetime, Hard, Heed, Higher Ground, Hope, Less, Life, Little More, Live, Live Another Day, Living, Making of Life, Misunderstood, Moderately, More, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Pull, Push, Range, Reach, Road, Seek, Seldom, Shore, Shown, Spirit, Strain, Strive, Sufficiency, Taught, Teach, Time
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If I Have More to Live
If I Have More to Liveby Michael Doyle If I have more to liveI would live it with youIf I have more love to giveMy love, I would love you If I get to live any moreI want to live … Continue reading
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Tagged All of the years, Any More, Being, Day, Day Complete, Days, Dream, Friends, Half Smile, Hidden Tears, I Would Love You, Learning, Life, Live It With You, Living, Lovers, Might, Miss, More, More Love To Give, More To Live, My Arms, My Love, Never End, One More Kiss, Poetry and Poems, Real, See, See me, Seem, Share, Thank you, You, Your Smile, Your Ways
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Thought For the Day: Nothing Is More Desirable Than To Be Released From An Affliction, But Nothing Is More Frightening Than To Be Divested of A Crutch
“Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.” – James Baldwin (1924-1987)
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Tagged Affliction, Crutch, Desirable, Divest, Fright, James Baldwin, More, Nothing, Release, Thought For the Day
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