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…Maybe Tomorrow…
…Maybe Tomorrow…by Michael DoyleTomorrow isn’t really about tomorrowSo much as it about avoiding sorrowThe kind that grows, and we borrowWhen we’re struck deep in our marrowWaiting for the moment’s opportunityWe push forward to relentlessly Filled with the confidence of dreamsThat … Continue reading
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Tagged As We Go, Avoid, Borrow, Choose, Confidence, Dreams, Grow, Marrow, Maybe, Moment, Movie of Our Life, Narration, Opportunity, Play, Poetry and Poems, Preparation, Relentlessly, Scenes, Screen, Show, Sorrow, Struck, Tomorrow
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The Sabotage of Daily Life
The Sabotage of Daily Lifeby Michael DoyleIn the masquerades we playLost in ourselves, day after dayThe connecting dots bring our lossesRide the back of our carried crossesAll the unforeseen circumstancesThat come from life’s dancesAs we seek our first and second … Continue reading
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Tagged Beauty, Champagne, Change, Choose, Connecting Dots, Cross, Daily Life, Dance, Day-After-Day, Decay, Delay, Devotion, Emotion, Entirety of Life, Expressions, Gone, Hands, Impressions, Lose, Losses, Lost In Ourselves, Masquerades, Move On, Open Minds, Pay Our Dues, People, Play, Poetry and Poems, Reprise, Sabotage, Stepped-Up Games, Surprises, Survivable, Time, Time AfterTime, Unforeseen Circumstances, Win Or Lose
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The Lies of the Big Switch
The Lies of the Big Switchby Michael DoyleThe urge for a new game was heededAfter the loss of 1865, it was neededThe KKK was founded by Democrats in misappropriationBy Nathan Bedford Forrest and defies explanationThe party of White Supremacy sought … Continue reading
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Tagged 1%, 100 Years Ago, 1865, 1924 Democratic Klan Bake, 200 Years, 60s, 70s Through 90s Years, American Poor, Americans, Antifa and the BLM, Army, Big Switch, Bittersweet Game, Black and White Republicans, Black Dignity, Black Vote, Brutality, Camps, Convention, Cross, CRT School, Defamation, Defies Explanation, Democratic Country, Democratic Elite, Democratic KKK, Democratic Party, Democrats, Demographics, Disarm, Discrete, Easy Prey, Economics, Exclusion, Exploitation, False Charges, FDR, First Movie In the White House, Gamble, Good Proclaimed, Government, Gun Control, Hanging Tree, Henry Smith, Humanity, Hung, Ida B. Wells, Illusion, Injury, Japanese, Jim Crow, Judge and Jury, Just Another, KKK, Know, Less Racist, Lies, Loss, Lynching Crew, More Republican, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Never Proven Real, New Deal, New Game, Old Deal, Patriots, Pawns, Piety, Plain Enough, Play, Poetry and Poems, Political Gears, Politics, Promises Made, Protection, Proven, Race, Racial Integrration, Racism, Racist Again, Racists, Rampant Racism, Remember, Republican, Republican Hands, republicans, Revive, Rosa Parks, Seat, Segregation Camps, Segretation, Senator Tillman, Shaken Fingers, Shifting Blame, Social Good, Southern Exceptionalism, Southern Politics, Southern Prosperity, Southern Schism, Tears, The Birth of the Nation, The Black Code, The Black People, The Black Vote, The Great Society, The Second Amendment, The South, Today, Truth Seekers, Unfair, White Rule, White Supremacy, Wilson's Self-Determiantion, Woodrow Wilson, World War II
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Time Is A One Way Glass
Time Is A One Way Glassby Michael DoyleSometimes time is a one way glassLooking in to take that passIt might be that you’re better than meI guess we’ll just have to wait and seeBut ain’t it sad to feel this … Continue reading
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Tagged Bad, Better, Better Times, Devil Woman, Glass, Inaccuracy, Necromancy, One Way, Pass, Play, Poetry and Poems, Remember, Sad, See, Time, Truth, Wait, Where
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In A Parisian Crowd
In A Parisian Crowdby Michael DoyleThe French soul Is wrapped around500 year old plumbingLike a lump of coalOn a Christmas dayIt has its significanceAnd at times its magnificenceBut there’s something to sayFor finding other, better waysAnd even the naughty findIt … Continue reading
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Tagged Acquit, Better Ways, Brazen, Breaks Your Fall, Bridge, Christmas Day, Clueless, Coal, Contribution, Controversy, Crowd, Faux Culture, French Soul, French Way, Gaze, Guilty, Habit, Heresy, Honest, Joke, Knife, Lonely, Magnificence, Nude, Numb, Paris, Parisian, Play, Plumbing, Poetry and Poems, Politically Incorrect, Quit, Rightful Place, Say, Significance, Solution, Sranger, Talk, Truth, Wrap
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Thought For the Day: A Body of Clay, A Mind Full of Play, A Moment’s Life — That’s Me
“A body of clay, a mind full of play, a moment’s life — that’s me.” – Harivansh Rai Bachchan, poet (27 Nov 1907-2003)
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Tagged Body, Clay, Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Lifee, Me, Mind, Moment, Play, Thought For the Day
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These Are the Days of Us
Dedicated to my youngest daughter who I very dearly love and very nearly lost two years ago today… These Are the Days of Usby Michael DoyleThese are the days of usI learned this from a childWho gave this wisdom becauseThis … Continue reading
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Tagged ABCs, All the Things, Ascendant, Because, Beguile, Belief, Blame, Burn, Child, Days of Us, Discern, Dreams, Each Other, Faith and Love, Favor, Fist, Fit, Glove, God, Hate, Important, Learrn, Matters, Meaning, My Student, One Another, One Lesson, Play, Poetry and Poems, Put Aside, Real Love, Reprise, Shame, Teach, Theme, Wisdom
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Something About Respect
Something About Respectby Michael DoyleIt was a different lifeA different sceneLife was toughAnd the streets were meanLife was about respectAsking for the something better to be hadWas maybe a bit too much to expectBut the beauty seen could make him … Continue reading
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Tagged Backrow, Beauty, Bluebird, Catch My Fall, Champions, Content, Desire, Despearation, Different Life, Doubt, Drag, Expect, Face, Fall, Flirt, Glad, Had, Heartbreak, Life's Games, Made, Making Love, Mean, Melancholy, Mistake, Moment, Night, Nothing At All, Picture Show, Play, Poetry and Poems, Proverbial, Rainbow, Respect, Scene, Seen, Shadows, Something, Something Better, Stand, Streets, The Way, The World, Tough, Unafraid
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Other Side of Hell
Other Side of Hellby Michael DoyleThis isn’t meant to discourageBut sometimes, true courageIs found on the other side of HellWhen your eyes have seen enough to dispelAny notion that peace can be foundThrough the taking of lives in warAnd when … Continue reading
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Tagged Act, Affliction, Answer, Any, Bleed, Chase, Cuts Deep, Discordant Chords, Discourage, Dispel, Do Not Fight, Dread, Every Drop, Expense, Eyes, Fact, False Bravado, Form, Found, Hands, Heart, Hell, Ignore, Know, Life, Lives, Lonesome Trail, Multiple Choice, Notion, One Bullet, Other Side, Others, Peace, Plant, Play, Poetry and Poems, Power, Reflection, Repeated, Rest, Reveal, Road, Scared Cause, Seeds, Seen, Shadows, Sickened, Sorrow, Soul, Stand, Story, Sudden, Swords, Test, Test of First Light, Told, Tomorrow, Too Many, True Courage, Truth, Veteran, War, Windows
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