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Waking From Lies
Waking From Liesby Michael DoyleThe life before usSeen as if waking from liesMaybe it never wasWe awake with opened eyesDanger stands on either sideWhile we choose our confessionWe can fake that it stops at wounded prideOr press forward despite our … Continue reading
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Tagged Books, Cast Off, Children, Choose, Confession, Content, Danger, Disappear, Either Side, End of the Story, Every Day, Every Heart, Feel, Feeling Alive, Forget, Hope, Human Beings, Hurt, Kiss, Learn, Lies, Life Before Us, Never Was, Opened Eyes, Poetry and Poems, Predilection, Press Forward, Pretend, Quest, Questioning, Real, Real Meaning, Reverie, Seek Happiness, Seeking Glory, Sermons, Shadows, Sorrow, Stay Near, Tears, Tomorrow, Travel, Vast Distances, Wake, Waking From Lies, Walk, Wounded Pride
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Dedicated To A Half Remembered Lorax, Part II
Dedicated To A Half Remembered Lorax, Part IIIby Michael DoyleHowever much some point out their clarityA dreamer remains undeterred by realityEven when it seems everyone is living culpableIt never stops quixotic dreams of the impossibleFloating as it is into the … Continue reading
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Tagged Bottom-Line, Clarity, Culpable, Days, Death, Dedicate, Devastation, Devine, Dreamer, Dreams, Essence, Falls, Fire, Force Multiplier, Future Shock, Greed, Impossible, Last Breath, Last Hope, Lean, Lessons, Lorax, Mean, Mustard Seed, Nature and Trees, Need, Page, Perfect, Plays, Plead, Poetry and Poems, Pride, Rainbow, Reality, Shot, Sorrow, Soul, Stage, Success, Tomorrow, Truth, Vibes, Win, World, Worthy Thought, Zen
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We’re Going To Make It
We’re Going To Make Itby Michael DoyleWhatever today’s bit of sorrowKeep holding on for tomorrowNot giving in to the gray skiesUntil you see the bright sunriseThat will greet your dreamsHeld together now taped at the seamsIn a world that even … Continue reading
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Tagged Adjustment, Alibis, Blame, Brave, Cheerfulness, Clueless, Dreams, Empty, Empty Pockets, Fear, Gratitude, Gray Skies, Greet, Holding On, Hope, Hopes and Dreams, Linger, Make Believe, Make It, New Day, New Norm, Newsmen, Optimism, Pessimism, Platitude, Poetry and Poems, Quarter, Refuge, Same, Seams, Shanty Town, Sing, Someday, Sorrow, Souls, Stay, Sunrise, Today, Together, Tomorrow, Warm, Warmth, We, Winter's Day, Wise, World
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The Difference
The Differenceby Michael DoyleThe difference betweenA man and a kingIs that a kingCan face what the future will bringFor all of the goodnessAnd all of the sorrowThrough all of the madnessThat may come tomorrowAnd still, he stands in tallnessTo the … Continue reading
Sharing God’s Love
Sharing God’s Loveby Michael DoyleStrange…at this time in historyThat two thirds of children live in povertyThis is something we can changeIf only our priorities, we would rearrangeEach step that we might takeCan be the difference that we makeThis is the … Continue reading
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Tagged Beast, Belief, Children, Concede, Destroy, Difference, Do, Fake, Fear, Feed, Forward, Given, God's Love, History, Hunger, Least, Make, Me and You, One Thing, Poetry and Poems, Poverty, Priority, Rearrange, Shake, Share, Sharing God's Love, Shine, Simple Truth, Sorrow, Step, Step Forward, Strange, Take, Tomorrow, Walk
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Until Humanity is Gone
Until Humanity Is Goneby Michael DoyleThese parasites came to bring decayDestroying the vestiges of yesterdayThey prey on the last of our humanityKilling in waves depleting our societyMaking it impossible to be withstoodSetting fire to our planet and its woodsRats, insects … Continue reading
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Tagged Adapt or Die, Anger, Apocalyptic, Appetite, Arrival, Bluff, Children, Confusion, Cost, Crush, Darkness, Dead, Decay, Desire, Destruction, Enemy, Exist, Fight, Fire, Flame, Forward, Gone, Hope, Humanity, Illusion, Impossible, Jester, Kill, Line, Night, Onward, Pain, Parasite, Path, Pestilence, Planet, Poetry and Poem, Possible, Prey, Reprive, Resilience, Right, Salvation, Scavage, Sear, Siege, Sight, Sky, Society, Sorrow, Soul, Struggle, Survival, Survive, Thread, Tide, Tomorrow, Vestiges, Yesterday
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Thrown Away
word prompt is Away Thrown Awayby Michael Doyle Times like these are seasonableWhen life itself feels unreasonableWhat I had wanted to be for the betterSomehow fell apart when together Now it seems taking life day by dayAlone with the feelings … Continue reading
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Tagged Alone, Better, Day by Day, Edge, Fatal, Feelings, Fell Apart, Flow, Forward, Konw, Life, Me, Me and You, Memory, Mistakes, Poetry and Poems, Season, Sorrow, Stand Strong, Sympathy, Taking Life, Thrown Away, Times, Tomorrow, Unreasonable, Want, Word Prompts, Words, Wrong Done
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Outside My Shadow (Happy Birthday Angie At 14)
Outside My Shadow (Happy Birthday Angie At 14)by Michael DoyleHas it been a lifeOr some kind of a dreamIt’s hard to believeThat you’re turning fourteen14 years ago tomorrowYou first opened your eyesTaking away my sorrowAnd bringing a million surprisesThey say … Continue reading
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Tagged Angie, Baby, Be Your Own, Being Your Father, Blossoming, Brilliance, Bringing Me Pride, Brought Me, Concession, Couldn't Ask For More, Daughters, Day, Dream, Early, Every Beat of My Heart, First Opened Your Eyes, Fourteen, From the Very Start, Growing, Happiness, Happy Birthday, Happy Father, Hard To Believe, Hold My Hand, Impression, Joy, Know, Know These Things, Learned, Life, My Shadow, Nearly Grown, Never Be Poor, One of Life's Best, Outside, Outside My Shadow, Pass the Test, Poetry and Poems, Remember, Resilience, Richer, Say Hello, Since, Sister, Sorrow, Standing By My Side, Tomorrow, Treasured, Treasures You, Trust In You, Turned, Turning Fourteen, Ultrasound, Under, Young Lady
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Lessons In Life’s Suffering
Lessons In Life’s Sufferingby Michael DoyleSpring isn’t the sameWhen love has been lostSorrow calls out the nameBut refuses to pay the costThe thing held sacred as follyTouch the inner workings of the soulA moment away from devotionHas the depth of … Continue reading
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Tagged Circumstances, Clings, Control, Decision, Deeply Morose, Depth, Devotion, Divinity, Fallen Knee, Feel, Folly, Forlorn Eyes, God, Hides Within, Human's Being, Infinite Femininity, Inner Workings, Lessons, Lies, Life's Suffering, Lost, Love, Matchlock Pistols, Matter of Finality, Mortality Known, Mother Mary, Name, New Meaning, Ocean, Pay the Cost, Perishing Soul, Poet's Pen, Poetry and Poems, Reveals, Romantic, Sacred, Same, Scribbled Verse, See, Serious Passions, Small Hope, Smallest Details, Sorrow, Soul, Spring, Tales of Ossian, Teach Me, Time, Touch, Truth Bent, Tyrant, Waking, Worse, Wrecked and Weak, Young Lovers
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