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Tag Archives: Pain
The Quiet Colors
The Quiet Colorsby Michael DoyleAs the quiet colors Of the midnight hour Starts to come to closeAs the quiet colors Of the midnight hour Starts to come to closeI feel as lonely as the pain insideTortured to my soul, and … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Abandoned, Above Water, Aks, Bluff, Broken, Broken Cross, Call, Close, Confuse, Cross, Crucified, Damaged Control, Dead, Deep, Done, Drown, Father, Feel, From the Inside, Going On, Hang, Head, Hide, History, Inside, Job, Killing Me, Lonely, Look Into My Eyes, Mercy, Midnight Hour, Misery, No Longer Know Me, No Right To Complain, Nobody's Son, Nowhere to Hide, Overwhelm, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Pull, Pulled, Quiet Colors, Reach, Realize, Reminded, Rot, Satan, See, Soul, Sould, Stand, Strings, Strong Enough, Teeth, The Lord, Too Much, Tortured, Wrong
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The Secret Woes of Regret
The Secret Woes of Regretby Michael DoyleKept silence about better daysAre still remembered for the better waysWe once so happily lived inBefore the days of blood and drunken sinsWe clean the ship’s hull on the beachTo gain that extra knot … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Attention, Beach, Better Days, Better Way, Better Ways, Blind, Blood, Breach, Dead Men, Died, Dread, Dreams, Drunken Sins, Fair Weather, Faith, False Promises, Forget, Friends, Gamble, Gold, Happy, Honor, Integrity, Intention, Knot, Legendary, Lied, Life, Loss, Men, Misdeed, Mystic Power, November's Rain, Pain, Pirate, Pirates, Plunder, Poetry and Poems, Prevails, Ramble, Regret, Remember, Require, Secret, Ship's Hull, Silence, Strong Wind, Suffering, Tales, Tears, Truth, Woe, Yesterday
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Happy Mother’s Day 2024!
I wish all the mothers out there the happiest and holiest Mother’s Day! This is your day that God and this nation have set aside to honor all it means to be a mother. Thank you for making that choice! … Continue reading
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged 2024, Certainty, Choice, Deeply Loved, Dream, God, Happy Mother's Day, Honor, Means, Memory, Miss, Pain, Safe, Set Aside, Thank you, This Nation, Thought For that Day, Wonderful, Your Day
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An Enduring Contemplation of Pain
An Enduring Contemplation of Painby Michael Doyle The things endured on that Day of PainWould drive most of us beyond insane360 strikes with a nail-ended whipWould be enough to make anyone lose grip Next the crucifixion with its degradationWas a … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged 360 Strikes, Asphyxiation, Atonement, Beyond Belief, Christianity, Comfort, Contemplation, Crucifixion, Day of Pain, Degradation, Done, Endure, Essence, Evident, Explain, Faith, Friends, God, Grip, Hope, Insane, Isolation, Jesus, Mortal Sins, Nail-Ended Whip, Openly Express, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Presence, Problems, Son, Sorrow, Suffer, Suffering, Understand, Verse, Worse
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Happy Death Day!
Happy Death Day!by Michael DoyleSplitting hangover starts the dayAgain and again in instant replayYou’re certain you have been here beforeFrom what’s seen, you don’t need thinking any moreDespite appearances, you won’t feel better tomorrowYour two choices are either fear or … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Again and Again, Alley, Answers, Appearance, Before, Beleated, Better, Broken Dreams, Cause, Celebration, Certain, Coming Apart, Curtain, Dead, Death, Delirium, Despite, Disorder, Equilibrium, Fear, Hangover, Happy Death DAy, Head, Hurt, Idiocy, Instant Replay, Invitation, Kissed, Last Breath, Leave, Life, Life Grinds, Lucky, Missed, Pain, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Run, Sanity, Seams, Search, Seen, Self, Shelf, Sorrow, Think, This Day, Through, Tomorrow, Two Choices, Universal
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No Cause To Weep
No Cause To Weepby Michael DoyleThere is in life’s turning awayLike that of a new day’s dawningThe sort of thing in a man’s wayOf time spent sipping lemonade under the awningUntil that day, when life simply slips awayAnd the miracle … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Afraid, Awning, Beautiful, Belonged Together, Called Him Home, Children, Day, Death, Done, Embrace, End, Enjoyed, Fight, Final Say, Her Name, Hold His Hand, Holding Him Closer, Honest Man, Journey, Known, Last Breath, Left, Lemonade, Life, Life's Strife, Lived, Lives, Loneliness, Love, Love's Timeless Seam, Loved Her, Madness, Man's Way, Memories, Miracle of Love, New Day's Dawning, No Cause, No Cause To Weep, No Longer, No Longer Thre, One Night, Pain, Passed Peacefully, Peace, Peaceful Dream, Poetry and Poems, Quietly Care, Reasons To Live, She, Simple Life, Sleep, Slips Away, Smile On His Face, Souls, Strain, Survived, Take and Give, Time Spent, True Love Shown, Turning Away, Two Into One, Understand, Ways of Sadness, Weep, Wife, Years Ago, Young Boy
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Thought For the Day: The Pain Passes But the Beauty Remains
“The pain passes but the beauty remains.” -Pierre-Auguste Renoir, artist [responding to Matisse on why he painted in spite of his painful arthritis] (25 Feb 1841-1919)
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Beauty, Pain, Pass, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Remain, Thought For the Day
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Left Behind
Left Behindby Michael DoyleThere is a coziness to all our liesWhispers the darkness in this monster’s eyesThere is peace in settling the scoreVengeance knows the warmth of its pourLike a blended whiskey that burns down slowSo is our lack of … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Alienation, Angel, Anger, Awareness, Beginning, Blended Whiskey, Brimstone and Sulfur, Burn, Cause, Consciousness, Cozy, Creation, Cure, Darkness, Death, Descendants, Design, Desire, Dream, Dwell, Equal, Escape, Exist, Eyes, Fight, Fractional Lineage, Fumbles, Future, God's Favor, God's Will, Heaven's Door, Hell, Humanity, Hunger, Imagination, Isolation, Jesus, Know, Lack of Wisdom, Law, Left Behind, Lesser Beings, Lies, Linear Time, Little More, Living God, Lucifer, Misguided Past, Monster, Odds, Pain, Peace, Pentinents, Persist, Perverse, Poetry and Poems, Pour, Pride, Purgatory, Reincarnation, Requisite Saor, Rest, Satan, Score, Self-Created, Selfishness, Sin, Slow, Sorrow, Soul, Spiritual Synapses, Sublime, Subtle, Suffer, Test, Time, Universe, Vengeance, Warmth, Whisper, Win
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Innocence Born
Innocence Bornby Michael DoyleA child is born into this world innocentDespite the ways that can make a life diffidentThere is no wrong this child has doneYet, hatred ends its love before it’s begunHowever the killers guilt is framedThere is no … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Adequate, Age, Begun, Born, Caused, Child, Child's Death, Community, Defend, Defense, Diffident, Done, Ended, Framed, Good, Good Reason, Good Soul, Guilt, Hatred, Immunity, Innocence, Killers, Killing Season, Know, Lies, Life, Love, Monstrosity of Man, Named, No Reason, No Wrong, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Pretense, Rain, Restored Value, Spoken, Suffered, Wash Away, Ways, World
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