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Loneliness Prevails
Loneliness Prevailsby Michael DoyleAcross the world exists a billion private hells.It is a place where loneliness prevails.The struggle is with interpersonal trust and vulnerability.Alienation pervasively crushes the human commnunity.Each of our hearts silently cries out for more.Hoping that those we … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: One Ought Every Day At Least, To Hear A Little Song, Read A Good Poem, See A Fine Picture, and, If It Were Possible, To Speak A Few Reasonable Words
“One ought every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship
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Tagged "One ought every day at least, and, Every Day, Fine Picture, Hear, if it were possible, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Ought, Poem, Possible, Read, read a good poem, Reasonable Wods, Reasonable Words, See, see a fine picture, Song, Speak, Wlhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
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One True Love
One True Loveby Michael DoyleIn understanding your painIt makes it quite plainYou are all that means anything to meThe worthy answer to my questions for meYou fill up my mindLike nothing else I findThese are the secrets we revealFeeling like … Continue reading
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Tagged All, All Else, Antidote, Blame, Control, Despite, Everything, Filled With Love, Find, Flame, Free, Happily, Held Above, Hope, Jealousy, Life, Life's Confusion, Love, Mean, Meant, Mind, Most, My Thoughts, One True Love, Pain, Plain, Poem, Poems, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Poison, Question, Reveal, Run, Secrets, Soul, Spark, Steal, Stumble, Toast, Understand, Unjust Illusion, Worthy Answer, Your Love
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All the Wicked Men (A Dickinson Poem For Peace)
All the Wicked Menby Michael Doyle So many times I have searched for peaceLooking for peace in the farawayAll the wicked men – have thoughts of warAs the Centre of their Maps – Myself a struggled slacker- set out to … Continue reading
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Tagged All, Center, Centre, Emily Dickinson, Foreign Shores, Greed, Hopeless, Let Go, Love, Many Times, Maps, Peace, Poem, Poetry and Poems, Prove, Safe Harbors, Search, Slacker, Stay, Thoughts of War, Wicked Men
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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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In This Love’s Connection
In This Love’s Connectionby Michael DoyleWhat’s it going to be likeThe moment that we touchWhen the electricity reveals usWill it be too muchWhen you think of meWill I feel it in my soulWe know that it’s supposed to beAs my … Continue reading
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Tagged Believe, Bow, Box, Calling, Connection, Constellations, Decision, Desire, Direction, Down To the Wire, Dreams, Electricity, Falling, Feel, Feeling, Fire, Free, Froever, Give, God, God's Power, Grace, Hand, Heart, Hide, Higher, Hour, Imagine, Inside, Less Than Clever, Life, Live, Long, Love, Love's Connection, Meant, Meet, Moment, Poem, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Reach, Reveal, Rock, Roll, Shake, Shaking In My Boots, Soul, Strong, Supposed To Be, Surprised, Think, Touch, Truth
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Blind Eye Curiosity Collection
Blind Eye Curiosity Collectionby Michael DoyleEvery traveler is a hero in their own storyImperialists and kleptomaniacs after a slice of gloryCulturally misappropriating cultures for the takingCollecting treasures boxed away to the point of breakingContesting the pragmatic bounds of lopsided sentimentsAs … Continue reading
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Tagged All Roads, Atrocity, Blind Eye, Bloodline, Break, Collect, Collection, Consistency, Contest, Cousin, Culture, Curiosity, Deserved, Destruction, Edges, excerpt, Familiarity, Fiction, Fuzzy Math, Hero, Humanity's Throne, Imperialists, Kleptomaniacs, Misapprorpiate, News, Obvious Question, Poem, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Pragmatic Bounds, Pth, Purposes, Relvant, Self Correction, Sentiment, Slice of Glory, Steal, Story, Storyline, Theft, Traveler, Underserved, Us Versus Them, Western Tradition, Woven
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For Sierra (At Age 14)
For Sierra (At Age 14)by Michael DoyleThough sometimes now, I have to squint To get the clue of what it is you meantThis poem is for you as you reach 14Growing into one of my favorite human beingsWhether it’s building … Continue reading
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Tagged Abstraction, Age 14, Amaze, Believe, Bigger and Lesser Things, Bolder, Breath, Building, Capable Mind, Care, Child, Clue, Coding, Conceive, Confidently, Confusing, Confusion, Day Passes, Daze, Dreams, Favorite Human Being, For Sierra, God, Grapple, Grow, Have Your Say, Head-On, Hesitation, Hold, Illusion, Impressive, Issues, Meant, Never Lost, Older, Parts of You, Path, Poem, Poetry and oems, Pray, Proud, Questions, Reach, Robots, Safe, Share, Sometimes, Squint, Standing Your Ground, Talk, Time and Day, Vote, World
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