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Red Hot Queen
Red Hot Queenby Michael DoyleShe would tell her kingOf her fanciful desire to ruleWhile she’d laughingly singAbout beaches and poolsAnd he would look in her eyesAnd without semblance of doubtHe would smile and realizeThat they might work it outSo long … Continue reading
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Tagged Beaches, Beguile, Crown, Desire, Doubt, Eyes, Flower, Frown, Happiness, He, Her Kiss, His Side, King, Laugh, Life, Long Live the Queen, Look, Movie Scene, Need, Photograph, Played Out, Poem, Poetry, Pools, Pride, Queen, Reach, Realize, Red Hot, Rule, Semblence, She, Sing, Smile, Title, Vital, Work It Out
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Capture the Flag
Capture the Flagby Michael DoyleThere you are with your mind scatteredHaving fought hard for what is said matteredNone of this means all that much to youJust another bit of life to go throughLike rats caught in Skinner’s mazeYou watch the … Continue reading
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Tagged Bit of Life, Capture the Flag, Cold and Lonely, Daze, Do, Encourage, Eyes On the Prize, Fight, Find Out, Flag, Fought Hard, Gaze, Go Through, Matter, Maze, Means, Mind, Much, Must, Old Rag, Pack of Lies, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Rats, Realize, Reveal, Scatter, Seen, Shadow Plays, Sink, Skinner, Taint, Tatter, Tire, Tribe, Trust, Watch
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Last Chance
Life goes on despite having someone mouth off doesn’t it? Last Chance by Michael Doyle Tell me now, Do you have the cognizance That you might somehow Understand the fruits of consequence And when God speaks to you Dropped like … Continue reading
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Tagged Acknowledging Your Lies, Agitation, Before It's Too Late, Calling Me Names, Cease and Desist, Cognizance, Consequence, Created Your Stardom, Display, Easy To Understand, Enough of Your Lies, Failed the Test, Forget, Former Friend, God Speaks, Greedy, Have Your Confession Recordd, Hurting Others, I Know Who You Are, I Won't Allow It To Go On, Insanity, Instead of Lies, Known By God, Lame, Language, Last Chance, Life, Life Goes On, Love, Make Your Own Path, Mouth Off, Not A Game, One Plus One, Or Tell It To the Judge, Own Hand, Photograph, Please Stop, Poem, Poetry, Politely, Prayed For you, Realize, Revealed, Seeds, Shown, Sign Your Name, Somehow, Sown, Stayed For you, Stone Cold, Stop Pretending, Tell Me, Tell Truth, Ton of Bricks, True Self, Understand, Use, Vanity, Walking Right Over Me, Widely Known, You Lose, You On Record, You're to Blame, You've Gone Too far, Your Games, Your Indiscretions
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Theatrical Dawg Bones Thrown
However much the director whines that he’s only got 2 1/2 hours to present his hip hop distortions of American history and however much he manages to make his errors rhyme and dance match the music’s time, I don’t appreciate … Continue reading
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Tagged 1619 Project, All Life Is Sacred, All Lives Matter, America, American History, Anyone, Believe, Blackfaced, BLM, Cancel Culture, Catching Lightning In A Bottle, Come A Time, Complex, Contribution, Create, Cull, Debate, Disguise, Distortion, Elevate, Equality, Errors, Evangelists, Fallacious, Falsehoods, Falsity, Feet, Fight, Flip Side, Founders, Frederick Douglass, From the Beginning, Fundamentals, Glory, Great Story, Hamilton, Heart and Soul, Heritage, Hip Hop, History, Holding True, Image, Immigrants, Immigration, Joy, Justice, Land of Mine, Less of a History, Lies, Martin Luther King Jr, Marxism, Marxist, Mediocrity, Misconceived, Miscreant, Musical, Narrative, Nation, Norm, Notions, NPR, Opposed, Outright Mockery, Path, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pop Culture, Presupposed, Principles, Racist Pride, Rap, Realize, Recall, Reflective, Repercussions, Reserve Racism, Revolution, Rhyme and Dance, Rock the Streets, Ruin, Seen As, Set Loose, Shame, Shine, Society, Speaking In Terms, Spotlight, Study, Stupdendous, Theater, Transform, Trap, Travesty, Truth, Well Rehearsed, Youth
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Having Heard the Warning
Further reflections on my eldest daughter turning 13: Heaving Heard the Warning by Michael Doyle On Saturday night as I kissed you into sleep There was a part of me that wanted to keep This moment forever as a sacred … Continue reading
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Tagged Adult, All Good, All of Your Charms, All of Your Days, Always Been, Beautiful, Blue, Blur, Born, Bow, By Example, By-Word, Camera's Eye, Catch You Safely, Change, Childhood, Come, Crystal, Cuddle, Daughter, Do All Things, Each Moment, Each Year, Enchant, Every Word, Eyes, Fade, Fear, First, First Beams, First Light, Five More Years, Forever, Given, Go, God, Goodbye To Childhood, Greatest Gift, Greatest Truth, Happy, Hard To Write, Having Heard, heartbeat, Hello, Hid Behind, Hold My Hand, Human Beings, I Will Be there, If You Stumble, Just A Bit, Keep, Kissed, Known To A Man, Label, Last, Let Go, Let You, Life Can Be Tough, Life's Story, Little Girl, Lived, Living, Look Forward, Looked Up, Loving His Daughter, Magical, Measure, Memories, Moment, More Precious, More To Me, Morning, Most Favorite, My Arms, My Heart, North Star, Not Easy, One of My Two, Part, Part of Me, Persevere, Photography, Play, Poem, Poetry, Realize, Realm, Reflection, Revere, Sacred Prayer, Sacred Treasure, Sad, Sail Into, Saturday Night, See Me Cry, Sleep, Smile, Society, Some Young Man, Soulful, Special, Sunday, Sunrise, Teaching You, Teaching You To live, Tears In My Eyes, Tears of Love, The Days Have Passed, The Warning, To Let Go, To Let Me Know, Turning 13, Unafraid, Uncharted Territory, Understand, Warning, Watch the Movie, Watched, Were, Within, Words, Wrapped, You Are, You Love Me, You Ought, Young Heart, Young Lady, Your Father, Your Own
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Learning To Do the Math
2nd poem from the work shop: Learning To Do Math by Michael Doyle She spoke eloquently of her calculations While I sat mystified; musing on the math That is found in music and in so much art Wondering how it … Continue reading
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Tagged Anyone Else, Art, Blind Man, Calculations, Cat, Consistent, Dark Room, Eloquent, Error, Fact, Fascinate, Found, Heart, Learn, Little, Math, Middle, Muse, Music, Mystified, Persistent, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Realize, Replace, Schrodinger, Search, Simply, Smarter, Something Else, Spoke, Theory, There, Truly, Two Ways, Understanding, Wonder, Wondering, Work Shop, Workable
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Back Chat of Eternal Insomnia
So many of us spend countless hours into the we hours of the night staving off the limited hours until the morning light. Insomnia and its accompanying sleep exhaustion have claimed many of us and leading into less good than … Continue reading
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Tagged Anxiety, Apartment, Audacity, Bed, Believe, Belong, Burn, Change, Chat, Clock, Company, Complexity, Connect, Control, Countless Hours, Cup of Coffee, Data, Do, Drone, Empty, End, Eternal, Eyes, Feel, Fellowship, Flex, Fog, Forget, God, Gone Wrong, Gothic, Gravestone, Gray, Guile, Hours, Humanity, Indignity, Infernal, Insomnia, Insomniacs, Keep, Late, Left Behind, Life, Lose, Lost Souls, Maniacs, Mind, Mistake, Mystical, Need, Night, Numb, Odd, Photograph, Piercing Mind, Poem, Poetry, Realize, Reasonable, Red, Relationships, Restoration, Rise, Rooftops, Seek, Shimmer, Sleep, Sleep Exhaustion, Sleeplessness, Slice, Sorrow, Sour, Surge, Tide, Time, Toast, Today, Tomorrow, Too Little Time, Torments, Tortured Souls, Trace, Unwilling, Virtual, Wake Up, Will, Words, World Peace, Yourself
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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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