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Tag Archives: Play
Bumping Up Against
Bumping Up Againstby Michael DoyleBumping up against the edgesToes reaching out over the ledgesThe quest is given up for the idealAs we learn to settle for the realThe higher grounds are out of boundsAs we seek to find further soundsThat … Continue reading
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Tagged Belief, Better Off, Bleed, Boundaries, Bumping Up Against, Chaos and Contradiction, Choice, Clock, Dedication, Deeper Truths, Despite, Dreams, Edges, Expectation, False Starts, Fear, Find In Our Hearts, Further Sounds, Ghost, Guitars, Hear, Heartbreaks, Higher Grounds, Hours, Ideal, Idols, Ignorance, Incidental Heathens, Lack, Learn, Ledges, Love, Mistakes, New Paths, Note By Note, Out of Bounds, Pain Cuts, Play, Poetry and Poems, Pretense, Quest, Reading, Real, Rest, Sense, Settle, Someone Else, Test, Toes, Turn Back, Voice, Wilderness, Wish
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We Manage To Stand
We Manage To Standby Michael DoyleSunset captures fear’s reflectionAs the kitten meanders in the right directionUnhungry and not seeking some timid mouseBut rather the warmth of the familiar houseOnce the hunter, now the preyThe game of life has danger in … Continue reading
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Tagged Chase, Company, Danger, Drift, Familiar House, Fear, Flood, Fortune, Game of Life, Hunter, Kitten, Manage, Meander, Misery, Mouse, Play, Poetry and Poems, Prey, Reflection, Right Direction, Stand, Sunset, Survival, Sympathy, Trampled Underfoot, Unhungry, Wamth, Water's Flow
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Silently Feeling
Silently Feelingby Michael Doyle In this world that shifts and shattersMiracles happen most when they don’t matterIt feels a bit like cosmic confusionBut it’s really just a humbling illusionAll these thoughts of constant intrusionCome in layers of complex conclusionsEven these … Continue reading
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Tagged Always, Beautiful, Better Places, Bleed, Body, Breaking Hard, Complex Conclusions, Constant Intrusion, Cosmic Confusion, Dead, Edge, Embrace, Escape, Fake, Feel, Four Leaf Clover, Good Sign, Hate, Humbling Illusion, Kiss, Layer, Lose Control, Loss, Lost, Love, Makers, Matter, Miracles, Missed, Moments, Need, Nightscape, Ocean Shore, Our Own Days, Our Own Way, Over, Play, Poetry and Poems, Pseudo-Messiah, Push On, Redefine, Said, Separate, Shatter, Shift, Silently Fading, Silently Feeling, Soul, Sustain, Takes the Place, Thoughts, Trick of the Tale, Wait, Want, Way, Wonderful, World
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Thought For the Day: Jazz Is the Only Music In Which the Same Note Can Be Played Night After Night But Differently Each Time
“Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.” – Ornette Coleman
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Tagged Different, Each Time, Jazz, Music, Night, Ornette Coleman, Play, Same Note, Thought For the Day
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Moments Like John Muir
Moments Like John Muirby Michael DoyleSometimes, the city’s too many facesIt makes me dream of faraway placesWhere my heart can fade into the nightTraces of beauty replace blinding lightTimes in the wilderness are best for meSometimes, it’s a matter of … Continue reading
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Tagged Beauty, Best Moments, Blinding Light, Body and Soul, Bouquet, Build, City, Clarity, Cool Streams, Country, Dirt Paths, Doorway, Dream, Face, Faraway Places, Forest, Glens, Good, Good Tidings, Heal, Heart, Hidden Country, Jagged Edge, John Muir, Moments, Mountain Peaks, Mountains, Necessity, Night, Passing Days, Peace, Pines, Play, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Restore, Return, Sanctuary, Scent, Seek, Shaken, Sincerity, Stay, Strife, Stroll, Times, Trace, Unmistaken, Wilderness, Wildflowers, Wilds, Woods
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Lost Plot
Lost Plotby Michael DoyleEverywhere I look, it seems forgotIs it just me, or have we lost the plotI feel it in the murderous laughterThe distant thunder is lost but chases afterSociety’s fracturing psyche is in traumaAs wordlessly we watch all … Continue reading
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Tagged Alive, Architecture, Around, Atonal, Audience, Bursting Seams, Children, Cohesive Whole, Consideration, Cry, Debussy, Declarative, Drama, Dreams, Dreamscape Logic, Embrace, Ethereal, Everywhere, Fail, Fantasy, Forgot, Found, Freud, Future, Hallucination, Harmony, Hold Onto, Hope, Horror, Humanity, Impression, Laughter, Look, Look Around, Lost, Melody, Murderous, Narrative, Neglect, Nose Dive, Passing Days, Play, Plot, Poetry and Poems, Psyche, Quietly Spoken, Retrospect, Rhapsody, Share, Society, Soul, Structure, Summation, Surface, Surrealism, Swim, The Present, Thunder, Trauma, True, Vision, Watch, Weird, Wordless
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Long Gone Phrases (Phases of Yesterday)
Long Gone Phrases (Phases of Yesterday)by Michael DoyleI’m not sure where this story should beginIt doesn’t matter – the color of your skinAnd what you care to believeMatters not as much as you don’t deceiveThere are jokes enough to not … Continue reading
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Tagged Begin, Believe, Blame, Choose Better, Color of Your Skin, Complete, Could Be, Deceive, Deserve, Disappear, Discerned, Door, Earned, Fate, Fear, Hate, Hear, Jokes, Learn, Life, Long Game, Long Gone, Neglect, No Place For You Here, Ordinary People, Our Way, Phases, Phrases, Play, Poem, Poetic, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Possible, Recall, Remember, Respect, Same, Say, Should Be, Story, Surname, Think, Tribes and Types, Unique
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Facedown With Mediocrity
Facedown With Mediocrityby Michael DoyleIn every town and in every cityWe find challenges met with mediocrityThese are the moments of losses takenAnd near certainty of a world wanting and mistakenFor some, this is hard to be faced head onWhile others … Continue reading
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Tagged Act, Actors, Alright, Bad Science, Break, Challenges, Chice, City, Compassion, Confidence, Conscience, Defiance, Desist, Diffidence, Dragged Into the Light, Easy, Excellence, Facedown, Force, Forge, Get In the Way, Gone, Hard, Hard to Know, Head-On, Hellion, Impressed, Life, Loss, Loud, Mediocrity, Mistaken, Must, New Day, Out of Fashion, Path, Play, Poetry and Poems, Push the Boundaries, Reasons, Resist, Role, Salute, Say, Seasons, See, Simple, Study, Stuffed Ballot Boxes, Sunglight, Suppressed, Tied UP, Tow, True Hearts, Trust, Unanswered Questions, Victories, Voice, Walking Shaodow, World, Youthful Rebellion
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Beautifully Amazed
Beautifully Amazedby Michael DoyleWe paint a life seen togetherCertain that our blessings are betterAs we talk into the nightBefore we know it, it’s the morning lightLearning things of complexityAs we break it down into simplicityLife can be overly demandingBut it … Continue reading
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Tagged Aloud, Amaze, Astound, Beautiful, Better, Blessings, Break It Down, Care, Certain, Complexity, Demanding, Dreams, Eyes, Know, Learn, Life, Look, Love Is Blind, Make, Moments, Morning Light, New Traditions, Night, Paint, Play, Poetry and Poems, Quiet Moments, Realize, Rendition, Safe, Share, Shared, Show, Simplicity, Space, Talk, Together, Understanding, Vision, Words, Your Ways
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