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Echo Chambered
Echo Chamberedby Michael DoyleI’ve tried to fit inBut here we are againSo many interested in the echoChambered and not the ebb and flowTo me, I find a lot to think onAs I watch life’s tides flowToo little time for arguing … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged A Lot to Think On, Antique, Argue, Conspiracy, Constitution, Doesn't Really Matter, Easy To Shoot, Ebb and Flow, Echo, Enemy, Except For Your Way, Here We Are Again, Interest, Life's Tides, Long As the Target Isn't You, Mystery, Open Ended, Picking Targets, Poetry and Poems, Questioning, Remind, Revolution, Rule of Law, Shatters, Society, Too Little Time, Tried To Fit In, Wide Open, Without Depth, Yesterday
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Deepest Roots
Deepest Rootsby Michael DoyleCast about with questioning looksThere’s much to be learned from great booksWhen we unlock our dulled hesitationsAnd dare to ask the great questionsAlthough the human spirit is quite flappableIt doesn’t take a lot to realize, we are … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Ask, Cannot Shake, Cast About, Dare, Decisions, Determine, Determined, Determining Our Course, Essence of Things, Fallen Sage, Flappable, Fragile Youth, Fullest Passion, Goethe, Grasping, Great Books, Great Questions, Hestitations, Human Spirit, Incalculable Ways, Learn, Life Should Be Lived, Love of Life, Old Age, Passing Days, Pleasure of Fashion, Poetry and Poems, Private Resolution, Questioning Look, Realize, Revolution, Searching, Set Fast, Shaken As It Is, Sorrow, Spoken Aloud, Stirring, Straws, Tomorrow, Truth, Unconquerable, Unlocked, Werther, Wise, Youth
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First Principles: War Is When the Government Tells You Who the Bad Guy Is. Revolution Is When You Decide That For Yourself
” War Is When the Government Tells You Who the Bad Guy Is. Revolution Is When You Decide That For Yourself” – Benjamin Franklin
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Tagged Bad Guy Is, Benjamin Franklin, First Principles, Government Tells You, Revolution, War, When You Decide, Who, Yourself
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Arcade Mania
Arcade Maniaby Michael DoyleRemembering back to the 80s whenI couldn’t wait to put another quarter inA video star in the dark arcadeWas a revolution ready madeMy spaces were invaded rows at a timeWhen I wasn’t watching ectoplasmic slimeAtari-ized as we … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged 1980s, Again and Again, Ages, Appeal, Arcade, Atari, Bangles, Boom, Bounce, Bundle, Bust, Concept, Continuoous, Crown, Cuteness, Dark, Depths, Design, Doubt, Electronic, Etoplasmic, Evolution, Flow, Forgot, Game, Glitz, Glow, Gone, Good Times, HIgh Scores, Hungry, Ignore, Impossible, Invade, Kings, Leverage, Magic, Mania, Moved On, Neglect, New Tricks, PacMan, Patterns, People, Photograph, Pizza, Play, Poem, Poetry, Quarter, Ready Made, Recall, Refine, Relic, Remember, Revelation, Revere, Reverse Engineering, Revolution, Rows, Saucy, Shot, Sketch, Slice, Slime, Society, Space, Speculate, Starcade, Strategy, Technology, Theories, Tilt, Trust, Urge, Video Star, Visualize, Wait, Walls, Women, World Changing
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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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The Woke Wake Up
There are just ways to advocate against injustice. There are ways that make moving for justice anything but that. Now as these predators are being identified by their own online postings, they curl up into fetal position decrying how unfair … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Acquisitive, Act Just, Advocate, Afraid, All Life Is Sacred, Ambition, American Dream, Another, Arrogant, Avoid Seeing, Basic Right, Be Merciful, Beg Indulgence, Better Self, Better World, Black Hoodie, Broke, Bungle, Burn, Civil Rights, Contribution, Death Culture, Decry, Degreed, Discussion, Divestment, Eat Their Own, Evidence, Fetal, Fetal Position, Fight, Firebombs, Forbearance, Foresight, Fragility, Free Pass, Fruits of Labor, Ghosts, Godless, Ideal, Ignorance, Immortality, Injustice, Inquisitive, Jail, Just Revolution, Justice, Less, Life, Meaning, Media Jungle, Mirror, Morally Broken, Move Foward, No Man, Online, Online Posts, Our Times, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Poorly Educated, Predators, Prevail, Profanity, Protect, Quest, Radicals, Reason, Revolution, Riot, Rock, Rubbish, Ruin, Self Signified, Shock Troops, Society, Speak, Spray Paint, Stab, Stall, Streets, Strife, Think, Tick Tock, Trash Talkers, Truth, Undoing, Unfair, Unfairness, Wake Up, Weak, Woke, Worse Saint, Worthy Investment, Wrong
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Thought For the Day: The Woke But Godless, the Arrogant But Ignorant, the Violent But Physically Unimpressive, the Degreed But Poorly Educated…Are History’s Ingredients of Riot and Revolution
“The woke but godless, the arrogant but ignorant, the violent but physically unimpressive, the degreed but poorly educated, the broke but acquisitive, the ambitious but stalled—these are history’s ingredients of riot and revolution.” – Victor Davis Hanson
