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All Life Is Sacred
Perhaps I repeat myself in saying that elevating one skin tone or sex over another is as wrong as having the first offense kept in place. Love and respect for each other is what is needed. All lives are sacred. … Continue reading
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Tagged Aggrieved, All Belong, All Life Is Sacred, All Life Matters, Another, Appalling, Ask, Bad Decision, Before, Believe, Bend Knee, Better Way, Betterment, Black Lives Matter, Brother, Burn, Children, City, Confess, Construction, Created All Equal, Creed, Deceive, Deference, Derision, Destruction, Dr. King, Elevate, Emblazon, Engrave, Equal Before the Law, Equality, Fascism, Fight, Firmament, Fought, God, Hell, Him, Hurt, Ill Afford, Inclusion, Injustice Toward All, Injustice Toward Any, Late, Learn, Lesson, Love, Lucifer, Mean, Meaning, Name of Love, Need, Not Good, Not Hate, Not Made Better, Offend, One Over the Other, Outrageous, Past Wrongs, Path, Permanent, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Positive, Pretend, Repeat, Replace, Respect, Reverence, Sex, Sister, Skin Tone, Society, Sought, Story, Strive, Tear Down, The Father, Things, Understand, Understood, Us For Them, Vicious, Wall, Ways, Well Disguised, Will, Win, Window, Wrong
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The Journey Back
Things of memory have the worth of time revealed in the quiet moments of our hearts. The Journey Back by Michael Doyle Somewhere in a cup of coffee Is the reflection that is memory Somehow a photograph starts to show … Continue reading
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Tagged Back, Broken, Burdens, Childhood, Children, Coffee, Confusion, Cruel, Crush, Dance, Disappointments, Every Day, Fanciful Hopes, Fantastic Schemes, Find, Firm, Forgot, Given, Graveyard, Half Measure, Hearts, Hope, Humility, Idleness, Illusion, Journey, Kin Is Kin, Know, Left Behind, Lies, Little Things, Living Dreams, Love, Memory, Mind, Open, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Practical, Pretend, Prove, Quiet Moments, Reflection, Remind, Reveal, Show, Skin, Spoken, Strong, Times, Treasure, Trouble, True Love, Truer Words, Truth, Utility, Warm, Wishing It So, Words, Worth, Yesterday, Youth
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Dragged Into the Streets
Thinking a lot on education and civilization and why and how there seems to be quite a bit of confusion as to how each is allegedly to work out. Fairly serious stuff and yet how can a person not … Continue reading
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Tagged Ability, Alienation, Ancient, Avoid, Backside, Bad Advice, Belong, Bowl, Capable, Chase, Civility, Civilization, Confusion, Convenience, Convenient, Cruelty, Curious, Darkness, Days, Deal, Desire, Different, Done, Doubt, Drag, Drink, Education, Fish, Flag, Gin, God, Good, Happy, Head, Humor, Interest, Lazy, Life, Luck, Manage, Mentally, Miserable, Monkeys, Moral Courage, Mortals, New Life, None, Now, Ought, Photograph, Pit, Poem, Poetry, Pretend, Problems, Puzzles, Raps, Reverent, Run Away, Sail, Set Out, Sink, Sit, Solemn, Somehow, Sought, Street, Struck, Sun, Taught, Tell Me, Then, Think, Thought, Time, Trappings, Tree, Turn, Tutor, Unteachable, Want, Wince, Wish, Wonder, Workings, Wrong, You
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Awed By Living
Life is for the living. Let’s do it well! Awed By Living by Michael Doyle Counting the things of needed gratitude Instead of too often taking an attitude At and of those things of circumstance Forgetting to realize each moment’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Ask, Attitude, Awe, Awesomeness, Blessed, Blind, Bliss, Blissfulness, Blunder, Bright, Bring Downs, Bumper Sticker, Chance, Child, Circumstance, Cliche, Count, Cut, Dare, Darkness, Destroy, Drag, Dreams, Embrace, Endurance, Engaged, Enjoy, Erase, Forget, Gratitude, Gravity, Harshness, Headfirst, Ignore, Large, Life, Light, Living, Mentality, Miss, Moment, Moments, More, Need, Often, Openness, Photograph, Platitude, Poem, Poetry, Pretend, Race Race, Reach, Realize, Right, Sacred, Second Guessed, Sentimentality, Smiles, Soar, Spontaneous, Well, Wonder
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The Art Garden Was Swinging
Day 21 of Na/GloPoWriMo 2020, has the optional prompt of taking a bit of poetry in a foreign language and based on the sound of the lines themselves attempting to write a poem of some sort even if it becomes … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020, Art Garden, Attitudes, Dizzy, Door, Dutch, Fit, Foreign Language, Gangs, Garden, Hotel, Jelly, Kitten, Met, Mirror, Na/GloPoWriMo, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pretend, Rock, Sound, Swing, Taffy, Tell, Track, Valley, Walk, Wink, Wonder, Work, Zone
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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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Game of Hearts
Some say the grass is always greener. I don’t. Game of Hearts by Michael Doyle Don’t make my heart Into another game of homes Or, you’ll soon see me depart I’d rather just be alone I’ve seen the trades made … Continue reading
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