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Dropping the Wrong Attitude
Dropping the Wrong Attitudeby Michael DoyleTaking a deep breath with communityA moment to bring this to realityEvery day lived in our true measureLiving dignified even under pressureCrossing the valley of well-renown despairApproaching Gethsemane, the place of whereBeauty and brokenness are … Continue reading
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Caught In the Fracture of Distraction
Caught In the Fracture of Distractionby Michael DoyleThe present generation’s grab for screensIs like a plague sucking life and it demeansBy going to extremes to get enough attentionThe attention seekers lose right intentionThis constant indiscretion shapes our fateIf we do … Continue reading
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Tagged Attention, Attention Economy, Attention Wars, Bores, Caught, Control, Destroyer of Souls, Distraction, Embrace, Experience, Extremes, Fate, Fracture, Indiscretion, Insurgency, Intimate Currency, Lost In Place, Plague, Poetry and Poems, Present Generation, Right Intention, Screens, Social Media, Sucking Life, Too Late, Turn Back, Worthiness
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Stirred Up In Recipe
Stirred Up In Recipeby Michael DoyleIt is hard to be ecstaticAbout a man who acts erraticNor is there a thrill in Bernie’s weekendThat gives anyone a reason to pretendThat we have any reason left to be reverentAbout just choosing something … Continue reading
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Tagged After, Anywhere, Believe, Bernie, Best Choices, Better Days, Choose, Comedians, Conspiracy, Corrected, Craven, Day-To-Day, Democracy, Depiction, Different, Dire, Directed, Disaster, Disrespectful, Ecstatic, Erratic, Face, Fiction, First Time, Graven, Grim, History, Laugh, Left, Look, Man, Mystery, Outcomes, Poetry and Poems, Point, Pray, Pretend, Prospects, Reason, Recipe, Republic, Reverent, Safe Place, Say, Situation, Solution, Stirred Up, Stranger, Thrill, Truth, Weekend, Wiling, Wire, Work Out, World, Worse
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Short Form Poetry Workshop: Zejel Duel of Recitation
As is known, from time to time, I attend a long running short form poetry workshop. I went back there tonight and learned of a poetic form called the Zejel. What is a Zejel? • Spanish poetic form likely an … Continue reading
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Tagged ACcompany, Beauty, Belong, Doubt, Drunkard, Duel, Flow, JoinIn, Lebanese, Lout, Magic, Means, Metric, Midsong, Poetic Duel, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Proper Poetry, Quatrain, Recitation, Rendition, Short Form Poetry Workshop, Sing, Song, Stanza, Tambourine, Tercet, The People, Troubadour, Two Poets, Zejel
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The Slow Crawl
The Slow Crawlby Michael DoylePushing past the slow crawl of another dayEdged to darkness and I begin to prayTo a god that I feel unsure ofBut who has a sense of humor disguised as loveDeath is a way out of … Continue reading
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Tagged All I Loved Died, All of My Thoughts, Alone, Another Day, Authentic, Beach, Being, Blessing, Brutality, Change, Contend, Curse, Darkness, Daze, Death, Deeply, Deeply Feel, Disguise, Edge, End, Failed Humanity, Flow, Given heart, God, Grains, Heal, Heart, Honest, Humor, Immortality, Learn, Lessons, Life, Love, Math, Maze, Mercy, Naught, Need, Path, Pits, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Pushing Past, Reach, River, Scars, Seen, Slow Burn, Slow Crawl, Staring Deep, Stone, Straighter Course, Stranger, Twisted, Undeserving, Unsure, Waking Up, Wish, Worse
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Dropping the Stones
Dropping the Stones of Judgmentby Michael DoyleDemonstrating the Bible in our livingLet it be seen by what we’re givingBaptism as immersion brings its witnessIn how it serves to model our fitnessTo stand anew in our public affirmationIt’s a way of … Continue reading
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Tagged Affirmation, Baptism, Bible, Devotion, Drop, Embrace, Eyesight, Humility, Immersion, Insight, Language of Hate, Loving, Ministry, Model, One Another, Poetry and Poems, Salvation, Service, Stones, Surface, Theology, Witness
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Standing Against Gender Identity Ideology
Standing Against Gender Identity Ideologyby Michael DoyleI.Warnings from the churchRight the bell of genderAn articulated realityOr a decision capriciously madeAre women to have rightsOr does post-modernist MarxismErase these differences based on secrecyPropelled into an intercultural revolutionFracture of family and identityQuestions … Continue reading
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Among the First Casualties
Among the First Casualtiesby Michael DoyleAmong the first casualties of warIs the promise that love will live onAnd if something goes wrong, lovers will love moreThe white heat of passion burns until it’s goneA touch, a line, a singular traceA … Continue reading
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Tagged Among, Borne, Broken Hearts, Burn, Comfort, Embrace, Fallen, Fear, First Casualties, Forget, Heart, Hide, Hope, Left Behind, Line, Linger, Lingering Memory, Live On, Love, Lovers, Mind, Mustache, Okay, Paassion, Poetry and Poems, Pretend, Promise, Reflections, Regret, Scars, Stars, Touch, Trace, Void, War, White Heat, Wish, Wounded Heart, Wrong
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A Morning’s Meditation
A Morning’s Meditationby Michael Doyle As in the beginning it is nowAs it will ever be yet somehowThough dead in sense from sinIf Christ is in us, we are born again Through the spirit living in eachWe are risen again … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham's Oath, Beginning, Blessed, Bliss, Born Again, Bottomless Mercy, Bringing Hope, Christ, Compassion and Relief, Consolers, Contemplation, Covering Hate, Darkness, Dead, Deceive, Despair, Explanation, Fear, Giving, Grief, Holiness, Hope, In Us, Instruments, Light, Love, Meditation, Meet, Morning, Now, Passing Ages, Path, Persevere, Poetry and Poems, Point of Need, Prayer and Meditation, Prophets, Read, Receive, Redemption, Right, Risen, Sacred Sign, Sages, Salvation, Scriptures, Sense, Sin, Somehow, Spirit Living, Stand Firm, Teach, Walk In the Light, Wisdom, Worthy
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El Shaddai
El Shaddaiby Michael Doyle He is my refuge of my safetyIn how I put my trust in theeKeeping my peace and trustIn He who is always just El Shaddai quietly advancesIn all of life’s circumstancesAll of the world makes us … Continue reading
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Tagged Advance, Circumstances, El Shaddai, Fortress, Heavens Above, Holy Words, Inspired, Just, Life, Lord, Need, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Read, Refuge, Sacred Love, Safety, Strength, Tall, Tired, Trust, Walk, We, Wilderness, World
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