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And Then Came the Final Fall (For Ozzy)
And Then Came the Final Fall (For Ozzy)by Michael DoyleFacing the music as it begins to playI, in my pulpit of one, begin to pray.Lost within my sense of inconsolable dreams,I take comfort in the prophet’s endless screams.Time went on, … Continue reading
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Tagged Black Sabbath, Blizzard of Oz, Call, Comfort, Crazy Train, Dark Night, Demons, Depression, Extremists, Final Fall, Hell, Hex, Hitching A Ride, Home, Homicidal, Inconsolable Dreams, Mature, Music, Nurture, Ozzy Osbourne, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Pouring Rain, Pray, Prince of Darkness, Prophet, Pulpit, Puzzle, Randy Rhoads, Regret, Shouting At the Devil, Singer, Song, Sreams, Urgency, Vain, Western Dessert
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Sympathy
Sympathyby Michael DoyleThe pains that we endureFor the things that we want.We know there’s no cure.For the dogs that won’t hunt.Sleep it offThat’s what they say.Give us a cough,Then, drink it away.We gotta be who we gotta be,That’s always kinda … Continue reading
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Tagged Cure, Enure, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Sleep, Sympathy, Troubled, Want
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In the Snows of France
In the Snows of Franceby Michael DoyleDoc was a medicRunning from hole to holeThere wasn’t a foxWho didn’t know his soulThe Germans kept comingWith machine guns drummingSounding off in the darkest nightThe 101st prayed for the morning lightA little drip … Continue reading
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Tagged 101st Airborne, Amaze, Battle, Brave, Company, Dead Men, Doc, Dreams, End, Falling Snow, Foxhole, France, Friends, Grace, Half-Alive, Hard Rain, Hold On, Hope, Kill and Die, Know, Lucky, Machine Guns, Man, Medic, Medics, Morning, Morphine, Mortar Rounds, Night, Numbered Days, On the Move, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Rememver, Secret, Shelling, Snow, Soul, Surgeon, Survive, The Boys, Virgin, Wounded, Young Man
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To Love Like Swans
To NadinKatrin: To Love Like Swansby Michael Doyle Our love is like the love of swansMy love, you are always in my heartWe may now swim separate pondsBut in our hearts, we are never apart It hurts when I can’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Above, Always, Apart, Awake, Behind, Blind, Break Apart, Complication, Dance, Distancce, Don't Matter, Done, Dreams, Every Day, Eyes, Forever, Forever Love, God, Heart, heartbeat, Hearts, His Stars, Hold, Hurt, Invincible, Long Run, Look, Love, Love of Swans, Moonbeams, Morning's Rise, My Arms, My Soul, No Good, On my Own, Our Love, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Recognize, Savage Pain, Separate Ponds, Shatter, Start, Stone, Swans, Swim, The one, The World, Without You, Your Eyes
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Christmas and Its Dysfunctions
Christmas and Its Dysfunctionsby Michael DoyleLife around Christmas can be crazyThough the reasons why can feel hazyThe story of Christmas continues on and onIn versions of dreams from just beyondBut with family, it comes togetherWith every improvised verse, it just … Continue reading
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Tagged Aggravaation, Better, Beyond, Bruised Knees, Christmas, Christmas Lights, Conjunction, Crazy, Crazy Nights, Dreams, Drink, Dysfunction, Family, Fights, Glory, Guitar, Happy Christmas, Hazy, Holiday Lights, Holidays, Improvised Verse, Jesus, Kissed, Love, Missed, Open Invitation, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Romance, Sealed, Small Talk, Smile, Stars, Story, Strings, Strum, Superstar, Together, While, Window, Wounded Keys
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A Broken Family Finds Healing
A Broken Family Finds Healingby Michael DoyleEmotions are relational in graceAs we love others in our embraceWe’re all dysfunctional as we striveIn God’s family, we will surviveEnriched by the joy that we shareIn every moment that we show we careLiturgical … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham, Advent, Belief, Bible, Broken Family, Broken Heart, Canaan, Care, Craziness, Deep Meaning, Descendants, Dysfuncational, Embrace, Emotions, Extraordinary, Faith, Family, Family Tree, Geneology, God, God's Call, God's Family, Grace, Greatest Story, Healing, History, Human Being, Importance, Impression, Intention, Jesus, Joy, Liturgical, Love, Nation, Ordinary, Pain, Passages, Path, Poetry and Poems, Proximity, Relational, Salvation, Set Apart, Strive, Survive, The Church, The Law, Theology, Times, Traces, Truth, Unfold, Vain, Wisdom, World's Breeze
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To Stay Alive In All Seasons
To Stay Alive In All Seasonsby Michael DoyleWe give up our courageTrying hard to discourageOurselves or any othersAmong those we call our brothersBut not a single John Wayne aspirationWould save Pearl Harbor or our nationThe men present mostly fought to … Continue reading
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Tagged A Thousand Images, All Seasons, Aspiration, Attack, Belly Crawling, Bitter Memories, Boys, Brave Men, Breath, Brothers, Burn, Competing Reasons, Courage, Courage and the Dead, Cry, Dark Stain, December 7th, Dire, Discourage, Earn, Expected, Fire, Fought, Ghosts, Great War, Heart, Hide, History, Infamy, Insane, John Wayne, Learn, Lessons, Make It Home Tonight, Memorial, Men, Modern-Day Cowboys, Nation, No Glory, Ourselves, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Real War, Reality, Remain, Return, Sadness, Scars, Seasons, Situation, Sleeping Giant Awoken, Smoke, Spoken, Start, Stay Alive, Story, Stumble, Survive, Survivors, Talk, Tears, The USS Arizona, Tragic Day, Turn Out Right, Unsuspected, Walk, World
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