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Cursed Fate
Once upon a not so long ago, even words spoken could get you accused of all sorts of things. Now it’s a new sort of dogma that we have to conform to or pay a wicked price. Funny isn’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Banal, Blame, Cause, Challenge, Charge, Clever, Contempt, Cunning, Curse, Deception, Deprive, Deveiver, Device, Dogma, Dream, Evil, Fate, Fire, Flames, Glower, Grow, Guilty, Head, Hell, Honest, Ill Manner, Innocent, Inspire, Judgment, Know, Men, Moral, Nightmare, Outlaw, Photograph, Pity, Poem, Poetry, Power, Pretty, Price, Said, Scheme, Shame, Sharp, Slip of Tongue, Smil, Theive, Thought, Tongue, Trial, Undone, Weary, Wicked, Word, Young
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Heirlooms In the Shadows
Haunted graveyards anyone? Heirlooms In the Shadows by Michael Doyle Where there is wanton violence There is always fear in that place You can feel it in the silence That permeates darkness in that space Standing there with the coffin … Continue reading
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Tagged Air, Believable, Bleak, Bury, Chance, Coffin, Crime, Crypt, Dance, Darkness, Dead, Death, Devil, Evil, Family Secret, Fear, Grave, Graveyard, Haunt, Heard, Heirloom, Horror, Ignorant, Inconceivable, Incur, Jewelry, Know, Locked Away, Many, Mausoleum, Moonlight, Night, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Pretend, Price, Promise, Regret, Respect, Save, Shadow, Silence, Stride, Told, Truth, Unfold, Violence, Welcome
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Love Suffers Long
Based in part on 1 Corinthians 13:4-5: Love Suffers Long by Michael Doyle The greatest thing is the truest love Not superficial love but the real love That love which God gives to us all The kind of love needed … Continue reading
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Tagged Apostle, Bible, Blood, Christ, Contest, Corinthians, Cross, Death, Deliver, Faith, Fate, Forgiven, Glory, God, Great, Heaven, Home Church, Jesus, Lifee, Long, Love, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Real, Recall, Sacrifice, Sin, Suffer, Superficial, Test, The Law, the Word, True, Victory
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An Indictment of the 20th Century
We have lived through the bloodiest and cruelest century of mankind’s history. God surely must be crying. An Indictment of the 20th Century by Michael Doyle Einstein insisted God did not play with dice While other insisted God needed no … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, Advice, Blood, Breakdown, Breath, Calamity, Certainty, Change, Civility, Claim, Clash, Communism, Cruel, Cry, Culture, Destruction, Diametric, Dice, Dim, Disorder, Einstein, Face, Fascism, Function, Genocide, God, Good, History, Homocide, Humanity, Indictment, Legacy, Level, Litany, Lives, Mankind, Mayhem, Modernity, Morality, Need, New, Old, Opposition, Outrage, Pandemic, Pessimism, Photograph, Pillars, Poem, Poetry, Prospect, Revolutionaries, Sense, Sensibility, Socialism, Society, Souls, Tearful, Travesty, Twin, World War Two
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New Music For A Troubled Century
A sort of brief start of a look into 20th neo-classical/art music: New Music For A Troubled Century by Michael Doyle All music was once new it seems There’s no accounting for esoteric dreams One fifth of the way through … Continue reading
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Tagged 21st Century, Abandon, Account, Age, Babble On, Babylon, Beethoven, Belief, Belong, Blend, Castaway, Century, Change, Composer, Comprehension, Contemporary, Cost, Dream, Esoteric, Expression, Familiarity, God, Harmony, Heart, Heat, Heaven, Him, Hyper-Drive, Inclination, Insinuation, Lift, Look Back, Lost, Melody, Mind Numbing, Music, Musician, Mutilate, Neo-Classical, New, Pace, Personal Signature, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Purpose, Rate, Reflection, Rest, Revolution, Sear, Self Expression, Service, Singer, Society, Song, Soul, Spiritual, Standard, Strange, Style, Symphonic, Tear, Tension, Test, Tonal, Tonality, Trouble, Voices
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So Much Sky
Ever been out in the middle of wilderness and realized the vastness of the universe and the smallness of humanity? So Much Sky by Michael Doyle So much sky That a person might get lost In a freedom one cannot … Continue reading
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Tagged Alliance, Brilliance, Buy, Compromise, Cost, Destiny, Empty, Fear, Freedom, Gold, Hidden, Humanity, Infamous, Journey, Lost, Overflown, Overgrown, Perplex, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Poverty, Promise, Quicksand, Reconnaissance, River, Sky, Small, Universe, Vanity, Vast, Verity, Wilderness
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Jamestown Remembered
I had the opportunity as a child to live in Virginia for a time. There were three cities we visited in some sort of historical triangle: Jamestown, Williamsburg and Yorktown. It would not be wrong to believe that viewing … Continue reading
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Tagged Birth, Born, Bounty, Colony, Crown, Dedication, Every Man, Fair, Free, Free Nation, History, Hundred Acres, Jamestown, Land, Majesty, New World, Old World, Opportunity, Perspiration, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Remember, Rise, Sea, Tempest, Virginia, Virginia Company, Williamsburg, Yorktown
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Pandemic 2020
The days are dark but we will get through this. Pandemic 2020 by Michael Doyle Mass graves mark the passing through Of the last major outbreak of flu There are not moments relegated to history But a devastating part of … Continue reading
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Tagged Again, Answer, Arc, Atheist, Breath, Bring, Clock, Computation, Contamination, Covoid 19, Cure, David, Day, Defy, Desperate, Devestate, Endure, Fail, Fataility, Fatal, Flaw, Flu, Global, Goliath, Hard, History, Hope, Human, Human Welfare, If, Immunity, Immunization, Incubation, Infinite, Knees, Life, Light, Mass Graves, Mistake, Moments, Monster, Mortality, Mutation, Mystery, Novel, One, Outbreak, Pandemic, Pass, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Potential, Pray, Rapid, Real, Research, Reveal, Rise, Risk, Say, Sling, Tick, Truth, Universal, Variation, Virus, Warfare, When, Worse
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Crawled From the Crypt
Does anyone remember a very old television show, Dark Shadows? When I was a kid, they tell me I would cut through the woods after school let out instead of taking the bus and run some 3.5 miles to catch … Continue reading
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Tagged Acts, Adage, Attrition, Bleed, Chain, Clever, Cloak, Cost, Crawl, Crypt, Curious, Dark, Dark Shadows, Door, Doors, Doubt, Fate, Grandfather Clock, Graveyard, Habit, Limits, Lock, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Push of the Pull, Reborn, Reveal, Seal, Secret, Silence, Sledge Hammer, Sorrow, Strong will, Threat, Tomorrow, Tremble, Trouble, Truth, Truth Seeker, Vain, Wept, Wish, Yesterday
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