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Tag Archives: Nightmares
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
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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
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Well Donne, Spirits In the Night
Well Donne, Spirits In the Nightby Michael Doyle To Donne’s feigned scorn the murderer was deadOnly to reappear as an apparition inside his headAll the spiritualism to be had inside one’s bedFrom the nightmares and seances, and things said The … Continue reading
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Tagged Air, Answers, Apparition, Bed, Beg Questions, Black Cat, Bridge of Light, Cat's Meow, Chains, Connect, Dead, Died, Donne, Fantasy Faire, Feet, Floating Table, Floor, Ghostly, Groans, Haunted Houses, Head, Hope, Host, Human Beings, Ignore, Impression, Inivisible, Last, Lived and Died, Murderer, Neglect, Night, Nightmares, Passages, Past, Peek, Poetry and Poems, Puzzled, Quizzical, Respect, Seances, Seekers of Truth, Seen, Sorrows, Spirits, Spiritualism, Wandering Guests, Week, Wish
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Sins of My Father Remembered
Sins of My Father Rememberedby Michael DoyleShadowed in doubtTrapped within rootsOn a planet ringed by orbitalsSeeking, search for any way outLooking for any solution that contributesToward escaping the controlsIn the Hotel NevermoreIs a bottle of tearsFor all the lost waysWatch … Continue reading
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Tagged Ambitions, Atone, Bad, Binary Code, Bottle, Carry, Cashed In, Clickbait, Confide, Core, Days, Debts, Doubt, Dreams, Drop, Emptiness, Empty Years, Escape, Father, Feet, Fit, Good, Gorgonized, Ground, Honor, Horror, Hotel, Hours, Hypnotized, Knowledge, Living, Lost Ways, Moments, My Father's Shoes, Nevermore, Night, Nightmares, Planet, Poetry and Poems, Pours, Promises Made, Purest Love, Remember, Roots, Sarcasm, Screams, Search, Seldom Shared, Shadow, Shot Glass, Sins, Sins of My Father, Snares, Society, Solution, Soul, Stone, Suppressed, Tears, Thoughts, Trapped, Views, Whiskey, Wit
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An Appetite For Destruction
An Appetite For Destructionby Michael DoyleI awoke with a startled coughWondering how it was, I drifted offThe Mad Hatter’s world is no longer pretenseAs I awoke to a world of nonsenseThere were poets denying use of rhymeAs though that were … Continue reading
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Tagged Appetite, Appetite for Destruction, Awoke, Bad Grammar, Card Games, Clever, Cough, Crime, Cutaways, Dare To Rhyme, Deny, Destruction, Doom and Gloom, Dreams, Drifted Off, Dull Hand, Face, Fireside Poets, Ghosts of Yesterday, Gives Way, Happiness, Human, Life, Mad Hatter, Nightmares, Nonsense, Nothing to Say, Past Time, Paste Overs, Pleasing, Poet, Poetic Way, Poetry and Poems, Pretense, Question, Reality, Reconstruction, Repeat and Rinse, Rhyme, Totality, Understand, Unpleasant, Wonder, Wordsmith
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Just Like Hollywood
Just Like Hollywoodby Michael DoyleEvery baby truly belongsEven in the world of wrongsDreams turn into nightmaresIn this world filled with caresSometimes maybe it’s alrightTo know what’s worth the fightAnd maybe love is one of thoseThat would be one those we … Continue reading
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Tagged Alright, Baby, Belongs, Came Here To Win, Cares, Chose, Dreams, Eyes, Good, Hard Knock Lives, Hearts, Hold On, Hollywood, Lift Up, Love, Nightmares, No Good, Play It Out, Poetry and Poems, Push Back, Push Us Down, Put It Together, Run, Say Goodnight, Song, Strong, Those, Throwing the Towel In, Tight, Truth, Victor's Crown, World, Worth the Fight, Wrongs
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Na/GloPoWriMo #4: Closed For Renovation
Closed For Renovationby Michael DoyleWith a startled turnLife became the strangeWith a subtle twist of fateSuddenly, plans became small changeLearning how to simply liveOur best moments in isolationAll across our land we wished to giveAs if it was all closed … Continue reading
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Tagged Across Our Land, American Lands, American Nation, Ask, Behind Closed Door, Belief, Best Moments, Better World, Children, Closed, Closed for Renovation, Corona, Count, Courage, Dedicatino, Dreaming, Each New Day, Easter Day, Experience, Fate, Find A Way Through, Gifted, Given Up, God's Love, Grief, Grip, Isolation, Kept In the Distance, Left Alive, Lessons Learned, Life, Lifted, Lived Safest, Lives, Living Without Masks, Lost Its Footing, Loved Friends, Meaning, Minimal Resistance, More, Na/GloPoWriMo, Never See This Again, Nightmares, No Longer Closed, One Another, Our Freedoms, Packing Up, Photograph, Plans, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Recall, Renovation, Road Trip, Safer, Semi-Legendary Plans, Simply Live, Six Foot, Small Change, Spring, Sprung, Startled Turn, Strange, Subtle Twist, Surreal, Tossed Aside, Turned Inward, Turning Toward, Un-Rung, Viral Horror, Write About
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A Dagger’s Breath
The last in the classic retelling of a classic werewolf tale: A Dagger’s Breath by Michael Doyle Everywhere the deceived heart searches for clues Bits of treachery displayed in all of its hues You can hide it all within a … Continue reading
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Tagged Ask, Aware, Banks, Bestial Pride, Big Eyes, Bitten, Blood Moon, Breath, Brutality, Chains, Christ, Clue, Complain, Confide, Courage, Cross, Curse, Dagger, Dagger's Breath, Darkness, Daughter, Deceived, Destiny, Devil's Daughter, Die, Ears, Errors, Father, Fears, Feel, Foggy, Goodbye, Hatred, Heart, Hero, Hide, Hues, Invincible, Lake, Lies, Loss, Love, Mask, Mortality, Nightmares, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Protect, Questions, Reins, Safe Passage, She, Sheer Terror, Silver, Simple, Slain, Soul Shake, Sunrise, Tale, Tears, Teeth, Treachery, Unholy, Vain, Veins, Verse, Want, Watch, Werewolf, Winter, Woken, Wolf
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Sure Hand of the Devil Dealt
The surest hand the Devil’s ever dealt is the deceit blotted out into the dark of night… Sure Hand of the Devil Dealt by Michael Doyle The bell tolls out into the black of night So little is seen in … Continue reading
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Tagged Ancestors, Awaken, Bad Dreams, Bell, Bell Tower, Black of Night, Bought, Candle, Cast, Child, Conceal, Cost, Crucifix, Danger, Darker Things, Deal, Dealt, Destiny, Devil, Diabolical, Dice, Door, Embrace, Face, Feeling, Felt, Flicker, Footsteps, Generation, Hand, History, Howl, Hurt, Inspection, Know, Less, Light, Locked, Locked Door, Lost, Lurk, Masque, Mind, Night, Nightmares, Old Village, Past, Persistence, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Present, Prison, Protection, Real, Reason, Reget, Reward, Saint, Search, Seen, Shadow, Shatter, Sins, Sky, Slam, Stab, Startle, Submerge, Sure, Surest Hand, Toll, Truth, Urge, Veneration, Vision, Wall, Ward, Whisper, Winds
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To Escape the Warren
More or less dedicated to A Watership Down: To Escape the Warren by Michael Doyle In the beginning Rabbit gained his tricks There on the path of winning Played out like a guitarist’s licks Each to have their meaning Captive … Continue reading
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Tagged A Watership Down, Beginning, Blood, Borne, Brother, Burning Hot, Caged Existence, Captive, Card, Change, Come, Cross the Road, Danger, Dare, Ear, Escape, Feaer, Fear, Few, Fire, Flee, Freedom, Gain, Gamble, Gather, Good, Haste, Head, Hear, Live Life, Meaning, Moment, Moment to Waste, Mud, Needed, Neglect, Nightmares, Path, Pesevere, Photograph, Played Out, Plead, Poem, Poetry, Question, Rabbit, Rules, Safety Net, Schools, Something Coming, Storm, Story Tellers, Taught, Think, Told, Tricks, Warren, Ways, Willingness, Win, Wire, Woods
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