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The Lies of the Big Switch
The Lies of the Big Switchby Michael DoyleThe urge for a new game was heededAfter the loss of 1865, it was neededThe KKK was founded by Democrats in misappropriationBy Nathan Bedford Forrest and defies explanationThe party of White Supremacy sought … Continue reading
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Tagged 1%, 100 Years Ago, 1865, 1924 Democratic Klan Bake, 200 Years, 60s, 70s Through 90s Years, American Poor, Americans, Antifa and the BLM, Army, Big Switch, Bittersweet Game, Black and White Republicans, Black Dignity, Black Vote, Brutality, Camps, Convention, Cross, CRT School, Defamation, Defies Explanation, Democratic Country, Democratic Elite, Democratic KKK, Democratic Party, Democrats, Demographics, Disarm, Discrete, Easy Prey, Economics, Exclusion, Exploitation, False Charges, FDR, First Movie In the White House, Gamble, Good Proclaimed, Government, Gun Control, Hanging Tree, Henry Smith, Humanity, Hung, Ida B. Wells, Illusion, Injury, Japanese, Jim Crow, Judge and Jury, Just Another, KKK, Know, Less Racist, Lies, Loss, Lynching Crew, More Republican, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Never Proven Real, New Deal, New Game, Old Deal, Patriots, Pawns, Piety, Plain Enough, Play, Poetry and Poems, Political Gears, Politics, Promises Made, Protection, Proven, Race, Racial Integrration, Racism, Racist Again, Racists, Rampant Racism, Remember, Republican, Republican Hands, republicans, Revive, Rosa Parks, Seat, Segregation Camps, Segretation, Senator Tillman, Shaken Fingers, Shifting Blame, Social Good, Southern Exceptionalism, Southern Politics, Southern Prosperity, Southern Schism, Tears, The Birth of the Nation, The Black Code, The Black People, The Black Vote, The Great Society, The Second Amendment, The South, Today, Truth Seekers, Unfair, White Rule, White Supremacy, Wilson's Self-Determiantion, Woodrow Wilson, World War II
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Life Without Light
Life Without Lightby Michael DoyleLife without lightIs the color they died inDarker than nightIs the least of their sinsI can’t say you’ll like thisBut we need to risk regretFor all the world cried amissAt the lost beauty, we must regretSabbath … Continue reading
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Tagged Amiss, Calm, Color, Crimes, Dark, Depravity, Die, Doubt, End, Ends of Our Ropes, Friends, Glow, Graves, Hatred, Hearts, Hell, Hide, History, Hope, Humane, Humanity, Inside, Least, Life, Light, Lost Beauty, Madness, Melt, Never Forget, Night, No Way Out, Pages, Poetry and Poems, Prisoners, Regret, Remember, Risk, Sabbath Candles, Shot, Sin, Someday, Taint, Tears, The Other, Undone, Unfelt, Unifnished, World
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Ghost Story
Ghost Storyby Michael DoyleRemember Remember meMy death Was cold miseryThere is no record At least officiallyBut my lynching Is part of historyI’m cold and alone Without a name on the stonePlease talk to me I need a sort of legacyI … Continue reading
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Tagged Built, Care, Cold and Alone, Connection, Death, Desperation, Division, End, Fate, Forget, Forgotten, Ghost Story, Glory, Heal, Hiding Place, History, Imaginary Friend, Laugh, Legacy, Longing, Lynching, Misery, Official, Pain, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Promise, Reach Out, Record, Regret, Remember, Right, Sacred, Sane, Scare, Sedate, Space, Spirituality, Survival, Talk
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Time Is A One Way Glass
Time Is A One Way Glassby Michael DoyleSometimes time is a one way glassLooking in to take that passIt might be that you’re better than meI guess we’ll just have to wait and seeBut ain’t it sad to feel this … Continue reading
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Tagged Bad, Better, Better Times, Devil Woman, Glass, Inaccuracy, Necromancy, One Way, Pass, Play, Poetry and Poems, Remember, Sad, See, Time, Truth, Wait, Where
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Poinsettia Day 2023
Poinsettia Day 2023by Michael DoyleUsually quiet and sometimes reservedSometimes death seems so undeservedIt’s hard to find the words to sayLike on this present Poinsettia DayLife is sad, yet interesting, in processionMoments like these reveal this is not a possessionBut a … Continue reading
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Tagged 2023, Abovee, Accept, Afrar, Angels, Aware, Borrow, Breakdown, Breathe, Bring, Christmas Tale, David, Death, December, Do My Best, Eyes, Family, Filled, First Noel, Flower, Forgiving, Fullness, Gift, Giving, Guitar, Hard, Healing Light, Heart, Heavens, Him, Important, Know, Laughter, Life, Lived, Love, Midnight, Moments, My Life, News, Openly Weep, Plucking Notes, Poetry and Poems, Poinsettia Day, Possession, Procession, Quiet, Remember, Resentment, Reserved, Reveal, Sad, Sad Day, Shepherd, Shining Bright, Sing, Smile, Sorrow, Star, Story, Turn Out Right, Undesvered, Up Close, Wise, Wish, Words
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Revisiting Truth In the Post-Modernist Age
Revisiting Truth In the Post-Modernist Ageby Michael DoyleIt can be said with conviction of feelingThat the ways of God are revealingHere in this mid-DecemberIt seems timely to rememberAll of God’s loving tracesIn all the history of a life’s embracesAre like … Continue reading
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Tagged Atone, Balance, Brain, Broken, Chaos, Clarity, Confusion, Contrition, Conviction, Cost, Destruction, Dysfunction, Faithless, Feeling, Grace, Grace and Truth, Heartless, Heed, History, Human Race, Humanity, Ideology, Illusion, Imposition, Incarnation, Jordan, Law andTruth, Lean-In, Loving Traces, Meaning, Memorial, Mercy, Mid-December, Neighborhood, Nihilism, Optimism, Poetry and Poems, Poison, Post-Modernist Age, Preacher, Question, Reason, Rebellion, Relativism, Remember, Revealing, Revisit, Righteous Path, Seduce, Shadow, Stones, Struggle, Teach, Teacher, The Law, The lost, the Word, Truth, Ways of God
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Jake LaMotta’s Blackened Blues
Jake LaMotta’s Blackened Bluesby Michael DoyleWith the pressure of coal refractiveIn a life hard lived and extractiveA diamond’s aspects glitter in their huesThe Bronx Bull lived his blackened bluesWhen out of the ring, his prowess was as abusiveAs his desire … Continue reading
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Tagged Abusive, Aspects, Blackened, Blues, Born, Brown Down, Bruises, Caged Canary, Champion, Cheers, Coal, Contest, Crown, Cure, Currency, Desire, Destiny, Elusive, Endure, Extractive, Feel, Fight, Footwork, Found, Go Down, Hard Life, Harm, Hues, Jabs, Jake LaMotta, Jeers, Journey, Kock Out, Life, Life Hard Lived, Love, Night After Night, No Good Answers, Outrun, Parade, Poetry and Poems, Pressure, Prowess, Punch, Pursuit, Push Beyond, Refractive, Remember, Ring, Shadow Box, Shakespearian Quest, Sing, Sir Olivier, Soured Life, Sugar Ray, Tears, The Bronx Bull, The Raging Bull, Treadmill, Unknown, Walls, Wish, Wonder, Years
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Held Like A Dream…Let Go
Held Like A Dream…Let Goby Michael DoyleLife can make me wearyDropping me down until I’m tearyClinging to the edges as we sail into the nightIt’s as if we only have lanterns for lightAfter the day’s journey, makes us tireCome warm … Continue reading
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Tagged A Million Years Ago, Ability To Give Life, Blood, Case, Cliing, Do or Die, Dream, Dropping Me Down, Edges, Eyes, Feet, Ferry, Fire, Hands, Haunted, Held, Her, Hold, Journey, Lanterns, Let Go, Light, Meant, Memory, Night, Onward, Other Side, Past, Poetry and Poems, Remember, Run, Sail, Tears, Teary, Tire, Travel, Weary, Why, Yesterday
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Thought For the Day: Remember, We All Stumble, Every One of Us. That’s Why It’s A Comfort To Go Hand In Hand
“Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.” – Emily Kimbrough, author and broadcaster (23 Oct 1899-1989)
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Tagged All, Comfort, Emily Kimbrough, Everyone, Hand In Hand, Remember, Stumble, Thought For the Day, Us, Why
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 