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Our Living Hope
Our Living Hopeby Michael DoyleOur living hope is pureMaking our souls sureOf the Lord’s living graceAs we gaze on His holy faceWe know this by the tracesIn all we do as we embraceIn this living God we knowWho brings light … Continue reading
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Tagged Aware, Become, Been, Bible, Celebration, Christianity, Commit, Communion, Darkness, Dedication, Embrace, Family, Focus, Forever, Forward, Freed, Gaze, God, God's Community, Grace, Gratitude, Hallelujah, Hands, Heaven, Holy Face, Humble, Humbled Hearts, Individual, Jesus, Join, Know, Light, Living God, Living Hope, Living Right, Lord, Need, Offering, One-By-One, Partake, Poetry and Poems, Pride, Pure, Raise, Rendering, Repent, Right Attitude, Sacred Praise, Satan, Satan's Snare, Shadow, Sin, Soul, Soul Shake, Start, Sure, The Lord, Trace, Transform, Voices, Words
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Left Behind
Left Behindby Michael DoyleThere is a coziness to all our liesWhispers the darkness in this monster’s eyesThere is peace in settling the scoreVengeance knows the warmth of its pourLike a blended whiskey that burns down slowSo is our lack of … Continue reading
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Tagged Alienation, Angel, Anger, Awareness, Beginning, Blended Whiskey, Brimstone and Sulfur, Burn, Cause, Consciousness, Cozy, Creation, Cure, Darkness, Death, Descendants, Design, Desire, Dream, Dwell, Equal, Escape, Exist, Eyes, Fight, Fractional Lineage, Fumbles, Future, God's Favor, God's Will, Heaven's Door, Hell, Humanity, Hunger, Imagination, Isolation, Jesus, Know, Lack of Wisdom, Law, Left Behind, Lesser Beings, Lies, Linear Time, Little More, Living God, Lucifer, Misguided Past, Monster, Odds, Pain, Peace, Pentinents, Persist, Perverse, Poetry and Poems, Pour, Pride, Purgatory, Reincarnation, Requisite Saor, Rest, Satan, Score, Self-Created, Selfishness, Sin, Slow, Sorrow, Soul, Spiritual Synapses, Sublime, Subtle, Suffer, Test, Time, Universe, Vengeance, Warmth, Whisper, Win
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Preparation and Interpretation
Preparation and Interpretationby Michael DoyleI begin this in prayer and dedicationStanding firm on God’s holy foundationSpeaking the Word of God before meIn supplication, I seek to let this beGod, the three-in-one, formed in trinityIs holy and righteous in His dignityWelcoming … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible, Book of Daniel, Bound, Broken, Challenges, Confidence, Confusion, Constant, Days, Dream, Esteem, Faith, Faithful, Found, Foundation, God, Going For Broke, Hand of God, Holy Spirit, Identify, Identitty, Illusion, Interpretation, Jesus, Kingdom, Living God, Manipultion, Marketplace, Poetry and Poems, Preparation, Presentation, Reeducation, Relevance, Resistance, Righteous, Separation, Sin, Society, Spoken, Strategy, Strife, Supplication, Tame, The Woke, Translate, Trinity, Trust, Truth, Ways, Wisdom, Word of God, Word View, Worldview
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Truth of Dust Roads Taken
Truth of Dust Roads Takenby Michael DoyleSome of the deepest truths are told in fictionEspecially those of times of historical frictionPushed into competition over narrowed resourcesInherent conflicts rise as nature takes its coursesSome conflicts come with visible tags of shameWhere … Continue reading
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Tagged Ages, Author, Back, Blame, Certainty, Competition, Conflict, Darkness, Dearth, Death, Deeper Thoughts, Deepest Truth, Depression, Deprive, Desperation, Disappear, Dust Bowl, Dust Road, Fiction, Forward, Hard Times, Harshness, Heavy Vintage, Historical Friction, Humanity, Ignorance and Greed, Lasting Impression, Learn, Nature, Pages, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Prophesy, Resources, Rot, Sin, Strength, Survive, Symbolized, Tags of Shame, Taint, Tears, Tenacity, Truth, Virtue, Wrath
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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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Complexity-Simplified
Complexity Simplifiedby Michael DoyleOf all the things I have in life reservedThe right to peacefulness is deservedI have no need for people who like to cause stressAnd this is something I will readily address2024 will be a year of peace … Continue reading
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Tagged 2024, Act Right, Address, Around, Back To the Wall, Backflow, Bring Me Down, Cage-Less, Childish Games, Clear, Complexity, Conflict Free, Conscious, Court, Deserved, Destination, Distinct, Document, Don't Tread On Me, Doubt, Edge, Evidence, Eyes, Foolish, Games, Guitar, Inhumanity, Inked, Intention, Known, Last and Final Warning, Learn, Ledge, Life, Lion, Look, Mane, Mercenary Knight, Mistakes, Need, Once In Your Lifee, Owe, Pack of Lies, Pay, Peace, Peacefulness, Pick On, Poetry and Poems, Price, Profound, Push, Rarified, Reserved, Right, Road Runner, Roll, Route, Shade, Shallowness, Share, Simplified, Sin, Soul, Steer Clear, Stress, Strum, Tale, Tattoo, Time, Transparent, Trite, Tug, Tust, Vain, Vain Effort, Voice, Wasted, Wicked, Wile Y. Coyote, Wonder, World, Writing, Wrong Sort of Man, zoo
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Truth of War
Truth of Warby Michael DoyleMost of the world’s problems start with warIt’s a noteworthy thing that it takes moreThen dreamy words offering a shallow victoryTo come out on the winning side of historyMany a fool has believed themselves betterWhen cooler … Continue reading
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Tagged Arms, Begun, Breath, Brilliance, Choose, Cooler Head, Creep Up, Depths, Done, Dream, Equally Sad, Fight, Fight Hard, Fool, Fought, Hell, History, Journey, Legacy, Lesson, Lessons Learned, Lose, Luck, Mirror, No One Wins, Poetry and Poems, Price, Problem, Reflection, Reliance, Review, Roulette Wheel, Rush of Exuberance, Shallow Victory, Sin, Slow Drag of Death, Struggle, Tragic, Truth, Truth of War, Victory, Wages of War, War, Well-Earned, Winning Side, Won, World, Wounded
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Healing the Brokenness
Healing the Brokennessby Michael DoyleWe are all part of the brokenness of humanityWe must seek to bravely move into responsibilityBeing part of the solution, to relieve our strifeBy lessening our own sins in this thing we call lifeThe Garden of … Continue reading
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Tagged Blame and Shame, Blame Shifting, Brokenness, Capable, Conflict, Contemplation, Dominion, Eyes, Fix, Garden of Eden, Heal, Humanity, Lean'In, Life, Losing Game, Planks, Poetry and Poems, Redemption, Resolve, Responsibility, Responsible, Scapegoating, Sin, Solution, Strife, Stuggle, Thrive, Work
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In Healing Hymn
In Healing Hymnby Michael DoyleTo be human is to fantasizeMore than can be seen with naked eyesWorried about what ghouls might beAfter death’s last-breath tragedyWe keep our eyes on what is nextAnd all the riddles that do connectCaught in our … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrogance, Bittersweet, Blasphemy, Breath, Burn, Bury, Climb, Conceal, Courage, Cure, Death, Desceration, Die, Dream, Endure, Fadeaway, Faithlessness, Fantasize, Flowers, Fluidity, Ghouls, God, Grave, Grow, Heal, Health and Sickness, Heart, Heartbreak, Heaven's Gate, Hesitation, Human, Hymn, Know, Lives, Lullaby, Measure, Memories, Mortal Love, Mountain, Mourn, Mystic, Naked Eyes, Offense, Pockets of Desolation, Poetry and Poems, Pursue, Question, Remembered, Resurrection, Riddles, Sacred Reason, Save, Sin, Sorrow, Sympathy, Timid Souls, Tomorrow, Tragedy, Treasure, Yesterday
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The Artful Conflict
The Artful Conflictby Michael DoyleHumanity is invariably drawn to the good fightAnd it is unorthodox when it is brought to lightThat a southpaw stance taken can bring true valueTo all of us sinners, even me and youBlessed are the peacemakers … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, Art, Ask, Avoid, Best Follow, Best Time, Biting and Breaking, Blessed, Breakers, Build Up, Cause, Complicate, Concept, Conflict, Contribution, Cut, Desires Within, Destroy, Drawn, Enjoy, Even Flow, Fakers, Fix, Follow, Forgiveness, God, God's Shadow, Good fight, Grow, Hard Work, Harsh Elements, Hearts, Humanity, Humility, Impact, Learn, Light, Makers, Me and You, Movers and Shakers, Natural, Neighbors, One Family, Path, Peaceful, Peaceful Resolution, Peacemakers, Poetry and Poems, Pressure, Quarrels and Fights, Realize, Redundant, Relationship, Retribution, Right Attitudes, Rightful Worship, Said and Done, Selves, Show, Sideways, Sin, Sinners, Skill Set, Skills, Sleepless Nights, Soul, Southpaw Stance, Start, Strive, Tendencies, The Son, Think, True Value, Unorthodox, Valuable Contributions, Wars Around Us, Wars Within, Win, World
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