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Tag Archives: Reality
Totality and Doom
Totality and Doomby Michael DoyleYesterday, the moon blotted out the sunIn the same way, it has frequently doneThe people traveled from miles aroundHoping they would see something to astoundTheir weary minds at least for a little whileSome came to be … Continue reading
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Tagged Apocalypse, Appear, Astound, Bits and Pieces, Blood Moon, Bloom, Blot, Certain, Change, Chaos, Clever, Close Lips, Comfort, Conspiracies, Corner, Crowd, Cultural, Dandeliions, Darkness, Days, Devil's Comet, Die, Doom, Doomsayer, End, Faith, Familiar, Fear, Forever, Happy, Internet, Lear, Lives, Magical, Miles, Moon, Odd, Panic, Path of Totality, Poetry and Poems, Prediction, Prophecies, Reality, Regret, Religious, Resilient, Signficant, Signs, Sky, Smile, So Much for, Speak, Startled, Strong, Sun, Taught, Thinker, Totality, Travel, Trouble, Vibe, View, Wait, Watch, Weary Minds, Whisper, Wrong, Years, Yesterday
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A Rebellion Begins In Questions
A Rebellion Begins In Questionsby Michael DoyleSome seek truth with hesitationWhile others cannot form the questionsOften, answers arrive with simplicityUntangled as these are from the world’s complexityFaith belongs aside it’s sister, reasonComplementing each within its seasonEach tempers the other as … Continue reading
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Tagged Answer, Beckoning Question, Begin, Blend, Boundaries, Complement, Complexity, Control, Conversation, Cultivation, Day One, Define, Destination, Doubt, Earth, Education, Elements, Existence, Faith, First Questions, Flavor, Focus, Form, Garden of Eden, God's Good Purposes, Grand Design, Grow, Hesitation, Hint, Humanity, Journey, Know, Page One, Poetry and Poems, Protect, Question, Questions, Ragged Souls, Reality, Reason, Rebellion, Relationship, Room, Savor, Season, Seek, Serpent, Shape, Simplicity, Sky, Spiritual, Temper, Travel, Truth, Universe, Untangled, Why
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Sparked Distraction
Sparked Distractionby Michael DoyleAll the world is extraordinaryThere is so much to seeIn every moment and all actionsThere is the spark of distractionHopefully and creativelyYour safety is found in beautyAs you go out into the world to seeAll there is … Continue reading
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Tagged 21st Century, Beauty, Belong, Best Light, Birthday Candle, Box, Breadcrumbs, Cancer, Candle Lights, Capturing Life, Clear, Comedy, Connection, Continue, Creative, Cry, Curiousity, Darkness, Death, Degree, Distance, Doubt, Dramedy, Eventuality, Every Moment, Existential, Extradordinary, Fallen Tear, Film, Final Answers, Fork, Fullest, Future, Generation, Gratitude, Grow, Heavens, Heavens Above, History, Hopeful, Imagination, Implausible, Impossible, Inspiration, Known, Last Breath, Learn, Left Behind, Letting Go, Little Smiles, Live Love, Living Gods, Lock, Look, Love, Majesty, Matters, Miarcles, Mournful Look, Nightmares, Nowhere, Once, Pain, Path of Life, Pay, Penance, Poetry and Poems, Real, Reality, Rebirthed, Records, Road, Safety, Scourge, Sensation, Shatter, Short or Long, Songs, Sorrow, Sparked Distraction, Stay, Stride, Struggles, Surreal, Take Care, Tears, Terror, There, Tomorrow, Torment, Touch, Travel, Whisper, Worthy
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The Bones of Rock-N-Roll
The Bones of Rock-N-Rollby Michael DoyleThe bones of rock-n-roll flowed through with authorityIn the American zeitgeist that Frank Zappa made legendarySpinning tales from hippies to yuppies in a vast conspiracyIt became tragically hipper as it grew to become legendaryHe was … Continue reading
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Tagged Authority, Avantagarde, Bawdiness, Blank-Eyed Habits, Bones, Brok, Cales, Conformity, Curnch, Encourage, Fee Speech, Flamboyant, Flimsy Values, Frank Zaapa, Frivolity, Funk Infected, Hipster Guile, Hues, Humor, Hypocrisy, Lady Justice, Lyricism, Melody, Morality, Musical Tales, Narrative, Naughtiness, Percision, Poetry and Poems, Preach, Rabbit-Hole, Reach, Reality, Rock-n-Roll, Satirize, Sleeping Woke, Smile, Society, Spotlight, Style, Surreal, Television, Truthful Comedy, Urban Scensters, Vibraphone, Whine, Wounded Coil, Zeitgeist
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Searching For Signals
Searching For Signalsby Michael DoyleTrying to save our soulsIn the messes we makeSpinning out of controlThough all of our mistakesPressing out from the undergroundTo be just who it is that we areA part of all that we have foundIn the … Continue reading
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Tagged Better Living, Blind, Bluff, Caught, Chemicals, Circle, Class, Clever Thought, Dadaism, Despair, Destination, Devil, Dialog, Enough, Far, Feeling, Fog, Found, Hint, History, Identity, Life, Lyrical, Make, Meaning, Mess, Mind, Mistake, Mystery, Observation, Obsolescence, Optimism, Out of Control, Painting, Path, Poetry and Poems, Position, Possibility, Preconception, Reality, Saint, Save, Search, Self-Deception, Signals, Souls, Underground
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The High Water of Monumental Delineation
The High Water of Monumental Delineationby Michael DoyleI know I’m not the only one who confessesA life filled with crashes and messesHappening as you wait for the snapper in the last frameTo laugh a little and not feel so lameAll … Continue reading
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Tagged Cheer, Clear, Confess, Delineation, Design, Errors, High Water, Knock, Lame, LandMines, Language, Last Frame, Laugh, Mess, Opportunity, Poetry and Poems, Punchlines, Reality, Second Chance, Second Glance, Short Distance, Smile, Snapper, Travel
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Thought For the Day: The Hollow Men: Between the Idea and the Reality, Between the Motion and the Act, Falls the Shadow
“The Hollow Men: Between the idea / And the reality / Between the motion / And the act / Falls the shadow.” – T.S. Eliot, poet (26 Sep 1888-1965)
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Tagged Fall, Hollow Men, Idea, Motion, Reality, Shadow, T.S. Eliot, Thought For the Day, Way
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Thought For the Day: What We Are Seeking Is An Experience of Being Alive, So That Our Life Experience On the Purely Physical Plane Will Have Resonance With Our Innermost Being and Reality
“I Think That What We Are Seeking Is An Experience of Being Alive, So That Our Life Experiences On the Purely Physical Plane Will Have Resonances With Our Own Innermost Being and Reality, So that We Actually Feel the Rapture … Continue reading
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Tagged Being Alive, Experience, Feel, Innermost Being, Joseph Campbell, Life Experiences, Physical Plane, Pure, Rapture, Reality, Resonance, Seek, Think, Thought For the Day
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