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Squandering A Golden Goose
Squandering A Golden Gooseby Michael DoyleNewsome wants to lead our nation.What does he offer as inspiration?With the unwarranted swagger of new urbanism,His track record trends toward honest pessimism.Maybe he should reverse California’s ruinTo prove he has some idea of what … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged American Dream, Bible, California, Democratic Greed, Faith, Fire, Gavin Newsome, God, Golden Goose, Inspiration, Nation, New Urbanism, One-Party Scheme, Pessimism, Poetry and Poems, Politics, Public Squalor, Right Track, Ruin, Squander, Track Record, Writing
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Leaving the Night Behind
Leaving the Night Behindby Michael DoyleMay it be the strength of His word, not mineThat my life praises on as it shines.Blessings are here waiting for us to live,And it began as the Lord forgives. I have found that loving … Continue reading
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Tagged Attention, Believe, Bible, Blessings, Christianity, Collapse of Truth, Conversation, Darkness, Destination, Discern, Epidemic of Loneliness, Faith, God, His Word, Ignorance, Intention, Jesus, Light, Live, Loving God, My Life, New Lessons, Night, Pessimism, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Shine, Strength, The Lord, Tribalism
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Dark Sources
Dark Sourcesby Michael DoyleThe optics make me cringe.Almost every newscast is on the fringeIt seems that we’re invited into the conspiracyWhile they really don’t care about historyEveryone vents and is set on blamingIt’s that PR game known as framingTruth, it … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged :Profound, Blame, Captains of America, Care, Complexity, Connective Tissue, Conspiracy, Constitution, Cringe, Dark Sources, Downed, Endangered, Every Night, Explanation, Fleshed Out, Foundation, Framing, Fringe, Gangrene, Groove, Hide, History, Honest Brokers, Huddle, Invitation, Life, Looking In, Media, My Side, Neighbors, Newscast, Nowhere, Objective, Optics, Optimism, Original Sin, Pessimism, Poetry and Poems, Poison, Polluted Air, Power, Public Relations, Quizzically Smile, Roots, Rumors, Runaway, Shots, Society, Souls, Stay, Strategic, Subjective, Systemic Racism, Team, Television, Texts, Truth, Vent, Walls, Your Side
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Nat Turner’s Legacy
Nat Turner’s Legacyby Michael DoyleExceptions seldom make the ruleFoolish thinkers need their schoolThose who dwell on the mysteryOf why so few rose against slaveryIt is a cowardice of cultureThat we cannot afford to nurtureLet’s recall a moment of historyLived by … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, American History, Asunder, Blood and Brutality, Civil War, Country, Cowardice of Culture, Criticism, Death, Destiny, Dignity, Easy Lesson, Education, Equal Opportunity, Exceptions, Experiment, Field, Fight, Foolish Thinkers, Freedom and Liberty, God and Science, Greatest Republic, Hard Road, History, Incendiary, Inspiration, Ironic, Legacy, Liberty, Luxury, Mystery, Nat Turner, Ntion, Nurture, Optimism, Path Forward, Pessimism, Poetry and Poems, Poverty, Promise, Prophecy, Rage, Re;public, Revelation, Revolution, Right, Satisfaction, School, Scourge, Sinners, Slavery, Soul, The Rule, Theology, Victory, Vision, Voice, Wickedness Revealed
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Pass the Torch (This Revolution Is Over)
Pass the Torch (This Revolution Is Over)by Michael DoyleOver the course of many stolid yearsI have listened to a tsunami of tearsOver how socialism turned chevere to chimboThe Land of Grace defiled blow by blowThe Land of the Orchids and … Continue reading
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Tagged Angelic Contrast, Army, Beautiful Land, Bloodbath, Bloody Dictatorship, Bolivar, Bullets, Candidate, Courage, Course, Defiance, Dissent, Done, Economic Mismanagement, Election Cycle, Empanadas, Eternal Spring, False Prosperity, Firm, Flowers, Food, Freedom and Liberty, Gauchos, Greater Loss, Hope, Hours, Imprisoning, Intimidating, Jeopdardy, Jester, Kill, Los Llanos, Madness and Buffoonery, Maduro, Marxist Masks, National Depression, Orchids, Outside, Page, Pass the Torch, People's Will, Pessimism, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Policies, Poverty, Prevail, Promise, recipes, Relent, Reliance, Repression, Reprisals, Revolution, Sing, Socialism, South America, Standing, Step Down, Stolen Crown, Street of History, Sun, Tears, The Poor, Totalitarian Comman, Travel, Tsunami, Tyranny, Venezuela, Withstand, Writing
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Harbor Minds
Harbor Mindsby Michael DoyleLike dolphins on an Aegean journeyBegan the seeds of ancient Greek philosophySome germinating into full-bloomed thoughtOthers leave more room, yet to be soughtOne notion after another brought sight to the blindOne motion after another for the good … Continue reading
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Tagged Aegean Journey, Aegean Sea, Answer, Believe, Best, Blind, Complexity, Curious Monkeys, Dancers, Dolphins, Express, Foundation, Germinate, Greek Philosophy, Harbor Minds, Hearth, Ideas, Initiation, Interaction, Joined Together, Knowledge, Luagh, Mankind, Mirth, Motion, Notion, Optimism, Pessimism, Phoenicians, Poetry and Poems, Quest, Question, Reliability, Room, Seeds, Sight, Simplicity, Sought, Spirit of Transaction, Systematic Thought, Thirst, Thought, Travel, Unafraid, Waves, Whisper, Words, World of Thoughts, Worms With Wings
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The Magnificence of Significance
The Magnificence of Significance by Michael DoyleFrom the beginning, we have the visionWe might lack in our precisionBut we know what we’re going forFaith is the kindness that opens the closed doorIn all the paths we are shownWe look back … Continue reading
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Tagged Arose, Authority, Baton, Beginning, Biblical Verse, Billy Graham, Character, Christ, Christianity, Circumstances, Closed Door, Created, Cross, Details, Done, Ears To Hear, Eden, Embrace, Eyes To See, Face, Faith, First, Generosity, Gnosticism, God, Grown, His Blood, In the Name of, Interwoven, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Kindness, Know, Lack, Magnificence, Open, Palestine, Paths, Pessimism, Poetry and Poems, Post-Modernism, Poverty, Precision, Purpose, Redemption, Reveal, Serpent, Service, Shown, Significance, Spoken, Stay, Steadfast, Sucession, Supremacy, Teach, Temptation, Thirst, Three Days, Universe, Victory, Vision
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Standing At the Brink
Standing At the Brinkby Michael DoyleThis age of prevailing ill-liberalismBreeds little but despair and pessimismThere’s a breakdown in our societyThat has brought us into a time of anxietyOnce beautiful cities have turned into blightIt seems we are falling into our … Continue reading
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Tagged Addiction, Age, Anxiety, Beautiful Cities, Birth, Blight, Breakdown, Breed, Brink, Changes, Civil War, Common Good, Connect, Constitutino, Continuity, Darkest Night, Decide, Democracy, Despair, Destined, Divide, Dustbin, Eco-Theology, Economic Deicsions, Edge, Electronic Distraction, Elite, Fail, Future, Historical Inevitability, History, Hope, Ill-Liberalism, Leaders, Lost, Misunderstood, Mob Rule, Nation, New Humanity, Next, Oligarchy, Order and Stability, Ordinary People, Overturn, Pessimism, Pharmaceutical, Plumbing Project, Poetry and Poems, Pollution, Ponzi Schemes, Poor, Prevail, Priority, Progressive Empathy, Recovery, Recreation, Result, Riddle, Schools, Society, Solution, Stand, Student Loans, The People, Threat, Time, True Progress, Tyranny, Wept, Yesterday's Debt
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Rewarming Miracles On the Street
Rewarming Miracles On the Streetby Michael DoyleI don’t want to seem to be too contraryOr an old-fashioned grump who is orneryBut does it seem creativity is stuck on repeatIs anyone questioning the miracle of any streetHollywood’s latest contributions seem derivative … Continue reading
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Tagged Abusive, Acceptance, Angst, Believe, Blessings, Burst, Capable, Care, Charm, Christmas, Conceive, Conservaive, Contest, Contrary, Creativity, Crumbs, Deceive, Derivative, Destroy, Discern, Dissastisfaction, Dream, Embrace, Epidemic, Face, Fairy Tales, Fantasy, Festival, Forget, Formula, Good, Grump, Hallmark, Harm, Heart, Heartbreak, Hollywood, Immense, Joy, Jurassic, Kindness, Kris Kringle, Layers of Complexity, Learn, Lessons, Life, Lost, Love, Loyalty, Magic, Masks, Miracles, Money, Music, Ornery, Parade, People, Pessimism, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Question, Regret, Repeat, Repentance, Rewarm, Season, Secret, Share, Story, Streets, Stuffed Away, Teach, Toys, Trace, Trade, Tragic, Treasure, Treat, Truth, Understood, Yesterday
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Chanukah and Antisemitism
In solidarity with the Jewish people around the globe on this first night of Chanukah! Chanukah and Antisemitismby Michael DoyleIn what should be a quiet season filled with optimismIt is hard to feel life without a bit of pessimismStill, menorah … Continue reading
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Tagged #MeToo, Antistemitism, Base Urges, Beasts of Satan, Bediviled Resistance, Belief, Brave, Brotherhood, Burning Bush, Celebration, Chanukah, Coexist, Conflict, Courage, Cowards, Dignity, Divine Light, Dull Coldness, Elie Wisel, Encourage, Fate, Fear, Festival of Lights, Forces of Intolerance, Freedom, Friends, God's Presence, Grief, Hand In Hand, Hate-Filled, Heaer, Hopeless, Indivisible, Jewish Obligation, Jewish People, Joy and Sorrow, Judaism, Just End, Late, Light, Light Each Candle, Manipulated, Miracle, Monrah, Neutrality, Oil Burning, Oppressed, Oppressed People, Oppressor, Optimism, Peoples of Faith, Persevereance, Perverse, Pessimism, Plight, Poetry and Poems, Pride, Prominent, Quench, Rabbi, Rededication, Relief, Sanctuary, Season, Shamash, Shield and Comfort, Side By Side, Sihine, Silence, Solidarity, Speak, Stand Firm, Stand United, Stay Alive, Survive, Survivors, Take Side, Temple, Tormented, Tormentor, Trace, Truth, Unspeakable Hate, Victim, Visibility, World and Universe
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