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Truth of War
Truth of Warby Michael DoyleMost of the world’s problems start with warIt’s a noteworthy thing that it takes moreThen dreamy words offering a shallow victoryTo come out on the winning side of historyMany a fool has believed themselves betterWhen cooler … Continue reading
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Tagged Arms, Begun, Breath, Brilliance, Choose, Cooler Head, Creep Up, Depths, Done, Dream, Equally Sad, Fight, Fight Hard, Fool, Fought, Hell, History, Journey, Legacy, Lesson, Lessons Learned, Lose, Luck, Mirror, No One Wins, Poetry and Poems, Price, Problem, Reflection, Reliance, Review, Roulette Wheel, Rush of Exuberance, Shallow Victory, Sin, Slow Drag of Death, Struggle, Tragic, Truth, Truth of War, Victory, Wages of War, War, Well-Earned, Winning Side, Won, World, Wounded
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New Life Reborn
New Life Rebornby Michael DoyleThe new life rebornKnows its miseryCommon sense would mournThis loss of such historyAs a life lived in painThere are questions that strainA thousand cuts into our moralityAre the price of approaching immortalityLike pawns on chessboard gamesWe … Continue reading
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Tagged Common Sense, History, Immortality, Loss, Misery, Morality, Mourn, New Life, Pain, Poetry and Poem, Price, Reborn, Strain, Thousand Cuts
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Like Souls Rising From the Dead
Like Souls Rising From the Deadby Michael DoyleHidden symbols press the conscienceAnd then denies the separation of scienceFrom the spirituality of all things trueThis is independent of a fearful point of viewMorals only tend to get in the wayOf moments … Continue reading
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Tagged Anger, Asp, Blasphemous Prayers, Block, Born, Clasp, Company, Conscience, Consequence, Cosmic Strife, Craven World, Cursed, Damned, Darkness, Dead, Divine, Engrave, Eternal Fire, Evil, Fallen Angels, Fear, Godless, Greed, Hand, Harness, Hellish Choir, Hidden Symbols, Hidden Truth, Knowledge, Life, Lightning, Majesty, Mire, Mirror, Morals, Mother Nature, Names, New Day, New Life, New Meaning, Night, Outshine, Pain, Palmistry, Past Light, Phoenix Rises, Poetry and Poems, Point of View, Price, Rise, Sacred Veil, Satan, Science, Separation, Souls, Spirituality, Stranger, Sun Rise, Sympathy, True, Undone, Winter Storm, Wish, Womb
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Witches Brew
Witches Brewby Michael DoyleIn the shroud of fog, we find the doorAnd knock on it, hoping yet to exploreHidden secrets are lost behind smoky eyesBut it’s the kind of secret that is hard to disguiseWhat sort of secrets would it … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Advice, Advocation, Best, Better Good, Bright, Chase, Command, Courage, Darkness, Debate, Demands, Different Eyes, Discern, Disguise, Door, Eager, Elude, Encourage, Essence, Evidence, Experience, Experts, Explore, Fell, Fog, Follow, Forge Ahead, Forgive, Friend to Man, Good, Greatness, Hard Times, Heart, Heartbreaks, Hesitate, Hidden Secrets, Horrid Outcomes, Hostility, Humble, Ignorance, Inquiring Minds, Know, Lean, Lesser Minds, Light, Lived, Loving One Another, Mind, Minds, Misunderstood, Mystery, New Day, Open, Orthodoxy, Past Mistakes, Poetry and Poems, Pretense, Price, Providence, Recluse, Refuse, Search, Secret, Share, Sharpen, Shine, Should, Shroud, Smoky Eyes, Sought, True Humanity, True Leaders, Unafraid, Understand, Vanity, Witches Brew, Would
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Persistence
Persistenceby Michael DoyleWe create our locked prisons by choiceWhere our creatures find their voiceThe point of origins might be our schoolOr wherever we learned life’s rulesWindow shopping as we were thenPursuing our visions and our sinsPaying our price as we … Continue reading
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Tagged Belong, Bone, Choice, Create, Creature, Dreams, Experience, First Level, Further, Good God, Hungry, In the Beginning, Knowledge, Learn, Life's Food, Life's Rules, Lock, Mercy, Mock, Moved Along, Own, Persistence, Poetry and Poems, Point of Origins, Price, Prisons, Pursue, School, Sharpen, Sins, Stay Alive, Survive, Test, Visions, Voice, We, Will, Window Shopping, Wisdom
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The Black Book Blues
The Black Book Bluesby Michael DoyleA father’s handClutches his son’s bloodMired in the sandClotting in the mudCorruption is as corruption doesSome things never changeIt’s as bad as it ever wasSome things simply rearrangeAn honest man can’t always be niceNot when … Continue reading
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Tagged Bad As It Ever Was, Battles, Black Book, Blues, Broken, Brutal, Burn, Change, Clot, Clown, Corruption, Cost, Danger, Evil, Father's Hand, Good, Grief, Heart, Heartbreak, Hide, Honest Man, Incendiary, Integrity, Lesson, Light, Look, Memories, Mercies, Mercy, Mistake, Mud, None, Nowhere, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Price, Relief, Right, Run, Sand, Shown, Sight, Snare, Son's Blood, Spare, Stranger, Token, Tossed, Truth, Understood, Wink and Nudge, Youth
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A Question of Theology
A Question of Theologyby Michael DoyleIt’s an interesting tug-of-warOne in which we watch the scoreWhy didn’t the Archangel slay the Devil?Instead, God chose to keep things more levelThe question isn’t just one of simple theologyBut crucial in understanding God’s divinityGod’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Archangel, Atrocities, Brim Stone, Choice, Cities, Contend, Crucial, Defense, Devil, Divinity, End, End Times, Faith, Fallen Angels, Fight, Genuine, God, Heaven, Hell, Kingdom, Level, Lucifer, Mercy, Poetry and Poems, Pretense, Price, Promise, Question, Score, Soul, Theology, Tug-of-War, Vanquish, Voice, Wait, Wisdom
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Thought for the Day: Courage Is the Price That Life Exacts For Granting Peace. The Soul That Knows It Not, Knows No Release From Little Things
“Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things.” – Amelia Earhart, aviator (24 Jul 1897-1937)
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Tagged Amelia Earhart, Courage, Know, Life, Little Things, Peace, Price, Release, Soul, Thought For the Day
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The Restraint of Humility
The Restraint of Humilityby Michael DoyleThere is no doubt about where I place my treasureThis truth is notable beyond all measureIntroduced into a life of loving sacrificeAnd this Father’s Day is filled with peace, not strifeIt is said that snow … Continue reading
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Tagged Affirmation, Ambassadors, Blessed, Bridge the Gaps, Building of Bridges, Cast Aside, Church, Cross, Curious Matter, Defend, Deity, Destiny, Discussed, Edge, Embrace, Eyes, Faith of Our Fathers, Family, Father's Day, Freedom, Gain, Glorification, God's Glory, Grace, Heaven, Humanity, Humility, Incarnation, Justice, Legacy, Life, Love and Truth, Loving Sacrifice, Lure of Sin, Measure, Mercy, Multicultural, Multidenominational, Multigenerational, Mystery, New Creatures, No Doubt, Open Hearts, Path, Peace, Peacemakers, Poetry and Poems, Precision, Pretentious Preferences, Price, Pride, Principled Process, Real Unity, Reconcile, Reconciliation, Restraint, Revelation, Rightly Friended, Sake, Salvation, Sanctification, Scope of Vision, Snow Melt, Sparks, Spirit, Spiritual Journey, Story, Strife, Theology, Thirst, Three Stages, To-Die-For Beliefs, Treasure, Truth, Tyranny, Unfolding Story, Well-Worn Heart
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