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The Shaman’s Missing Chord
The Shaman’s Missing Chordby Michael DoyleThe struggle for life’s force,The mystery in seeking its source,Blazed as Morrison’s eyes glow.On what side would we learn to know.It’s easier to scare an audience,Portraying the figure of scorn and diffidence.Twirling into a dance … Continue reading
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Tagged Ascent, Audience, Blaze, Boots, Born, Breaking Waves, Celebration, Character, Colonnade, Describe, Diffidence, Distance, Endless Passages, Energy, Eyes, Half-Alert, Hurt, Imagery, Jim Morrison, Know, Life's Force, Lizard King, Miss, Missing Chord, Muddy Canals, Mystery, Pattern, Poet and Madman, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Puzzle, Quest, Scare, Scorn, Secret Graves, Sentiment, Shaman, Sing, Source, Stars, Struggle, Surrealistic Images, Sword, The Doors, Treasures, Twirl, Unresolved, Vision, Writing
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Love and Heartbreak (From the Lens of Gen Z)
Love and Heartbreak (From the Lens of Gen Z)by Michael DoyleIt’s not worth a second glanceThis pathos of modern romanceGen Z is alright to join the danceBut a steady love has blown its chanceRoll the bones and place the betNine … Continue reading
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Tagged Artifice, Bet, Bliss, Care, Chance, Codependence, Complicate, Dance, Dependent, Dysfunctional, Gen Z, Hate, History, Independence, Lense, Love, Love and Heartbreak, Modern Romance, Optimism, Pathos, Plato, Plot Theme, Poetry and Poems, Regret, Risky Business, Roll the Bones, Rolling Home, Rush-A-Day World, Sacrifice, Scare, Second Glance, Soulmates, Steady Love, Step, Symposium, Waste, Weep, Worth
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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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Happy Halloween 2023
Happy Halloween 2023by Michael DoylePumpkin, ghosts, and black catsCoffins, ghouls, and witches hatsIt’s a dizzying juxtapositionOf death in a freeform composition Each holiday has its own marked placeThat helps society’s children embraceThe traces of life that we all knowThat shift … Continue reading
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Tagged Acceptance, Black Cats, Children, Coffins, Composition, Death, Dormancy, Embrace, Fall, Fear, Freeform, Frivolity, Ghost, Ghouls, Grow, Halloween, Happiness, Happy Halloween 2023, Holiday, Horror Tales, Juxtaposition, Know, Laughter, Life, Magic, Marked Place, Mean, Memento Mori, Mortality, Movies, Nonsensical, Pieces, Poetry and Poems, Pumpkins, Reminder, Saint, Scare, Scares, Scattered, Shift, Smile, Society, Soul, Stitches, Teach, Trace, Whimsical, Winter, Wish, Witches, Witches Hats
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A Montage of Selective Outrage
A Selective Montage of Selective Outrageby Michael DoyleHave we finally got to the turn of the pageLiving life cut by cut of selective outrageIt seems so, or at least I have this hunchThat a few bad apples have spoiled the … Continue reading
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Tagged "Victim", Addiction, Affordable, Attention, Bad Apples, Bunch, Businesses, Class, Comedians, Corporate Social Screed, Crass, Cross-Cultural, Cut By Cut, Deception, Distracting, Doom, Drama, Emergency Room, Excellence, Face, False, Fatal, Feeling, Feigned Attention, Glory, Hate, Hate-Filled, Hit Parade, Hunch, Infamous, Ism, King, Lazy Thighs, Lies, Likes, Love, Lowest Common Denominator, Meant, Misappropiation, Modern World, Montage, Need, Offend, Overflow, Paper Cuts, Poetry and Poems, Poor, Pretend, Proficiency, Profit, Rap, Reaction, Roost, Rule, Safe Space, Satisfaction, Scare, School, Selective Outrage, Show, Slave, Social Media Trolls, Speak Truth, Spell Out, Stance, Story, Thinking, Thoughts, Too Late, Trauma, Triggered, Truant, Turn of the Page, Tweet, Vapid Clones, Victim, Woke Wash, Wolf Traps, Yoga Pants
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Fragments Beyond Authenticity
In the words of Bob Dylan, the times are indeed a-changin’ Fragments Beyond Authenticity by Michael Doyle In a world less versed in prophecy Caught up in its whirl of hypocrisy The by-word become feigned authenticity And nothing is scarier … Continue reading
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Tagged Angel, Authenticity, Being, Beyond, Bleed Out, Bob Dylan, Brilliance, By-Word, Candlelit, Cannon, Caw, Change, Choose, Concrete, Crush, Cry, Defeat, Descent, Dream, Exist, Extinguish, Fabric, Fall, Fatal, Feign, Flaw, Flesh, Flight, Fragment, Grace, Heat, Honesty, Humans, Hypocrisy, Indifference, Ineuendo, Insist, Knowledge, Meaning, Mere, Mortal, Night, Particles, Photograph, Place, Poem, Poetry, Pour, Precious Life, Prophecy, Punctuality, Pure, Raven, Reality, Realize, Resiliance, Restore, Revelation, Scare, Science, Seams, Shift, Solace, Soul, Stained Glass, Sword, Time, Truth, Unified, Vigil, Whirl, World
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Bricks Into the Future
We live in an interesting time of transition. Into what exactly is yet to be seen. It’s both exciting and scary to watch and more to be part of this transformation. Greater degrees of uniqueness have somehow merged into a … Continue reading
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Tagged Abundance, Alive, Assembly, Atom, Beleiver, Best of Times, Big Bang, Breathe, Brick, Consciousness, Construct, Day, Define, Design, Dreams, Environment, Excite, Fear, Flow, Future, God Flow, Heart, Home, Hope, Integrity, Know, Last, Learn, Love, Macro, Mark, Merry, Micro, Microscope, Miracles, Mold, Moment, Nature, Night, Part, Pass, Past, Photograph, Planet, Poem, Poetry, Possibility, Post-Industrial, Reality, Relationship, Sadnness, Scare, Sentiment, Show, Soul, Span, Story, Survive, Synchronize, Threhold, Tomorrow, Trace, Transition, Unique, Unite, Way, Whole, Window, Worship
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Run of the Mill Hayride Halloween
Halloween Poem #31: Run of the Mill Hayride Halloween by Michael Romani From the first snowflake that fell that day It was a near certainty that the tricks at play Would make every headless horseman see and know That this … Continue reading
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Tagged 2019, All Hallow's Eve, Best, Brim, Candle, Candy, Candy Lovers, Child's Play, Chill, Day, Day of the Dead, Extraordinary, First Snow, Fun, Ghost, Glow, Goblin, Halloween, Handy, Hayride, Head, Headless Horseman, Hoodwink, Jack-O-Lanterns, Joy, Moment, November, Parents, Phototgraph, Play, Plunder, Poem, Poetry, Prankster, Pumpkin, Run of the Mill, Scare, Shake, Shiver, Show, Thrill, Trick, Trick or Treat, Tricks, Trickster, Way, Wink, Witch
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Some Would Be Heroes
Some are scared of their own shadows. Others would be heroes. Which are you? Some Would Be Heroes by Michael Romani Some think darkness Is the absence of light Seen in the starkness It is not the absence of light … Continue reading
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