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Wrist Cutter Blues
Wrist Cutter Bluesby Michael DoyleShe was born hard to impressHe was maybe overly dressedFor a boy deep in his thoughtsBut she could never be boughtThey were standing in the deep endSomehow waiting for a friendNeither of them was from anywhereThat … Continue reading
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Tagged Afterlife, Anywhere, Blues, Born, Bought, Boy, Capable, Care, Cold Brew, Deep End, Deep In Thought, Doom, Empty People, Everyone else, False Punchlines, Fell, Forget, Friend, Happy, Hard To Impress, Hard To Tell, Heartbreaks, Hell, Invisibile, John, Jokes, Laugh, Life, Meaning of Life, Missed, Mistakes, Muddling Through, Overly Dressed, Path, Patterns, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Repeat, Slice, Small Regrets, Steeple, Steven, Suspect, Sylvia Plath, Warm Slice, Wonder, Wrist
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Ways of Life Previously Chosen
Ways of Life Previously Chosenby Michael DoyleEating smoked salmon and in contemplationAbout what will be the fate of my nationI will let no untruths be varnished or toldBut insist on telling how history did unfoldI have watched the destruction of … Continue reading
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Tagged 13th Through 15th Amendments, 1860s, 1960s, 40 Acres and A Mule, ACA, Actual History, America, America's Legacy, American Power, American Soul, Aspiration, Assimilation, Bells and Lights, Bill of Goods, Bill of Rights, Black, Blight, Blood and Tears, Brooks, Bureaucracy, Calhoun, Choose, Chosen, Civil Rights, Civil Rights Act, Civil Rights Movement, Civil War, Common Man, Complicit, Contemplation, Credit, Creed, Crockett, Cross Road, Cruelty, Darker Brothers, Deep State, Deliberate Illusion, Delivered, Democratic Republcian, Democratic Standard, Destruction, DNC, Doubling Debt, Douglas, Dredging Up the Truth, Dysfunction, Economical, Election Day, Election Year, End Slavery, Ensure, Equal Opportunity, Equal Rights, Equality, Equity, Equivalency, Extorionate, Fable, Fact, Fair Life, False Flag, Fate, Filibustered, Focus, Freedom, Frelinghuysen, Fringe, Gang, Greenlight, History, Inconvenient, Indian Removal Act, Instill Fear, Islamic Militancy, Jackson, Jefferson, Kleptocracy, Knee, Lands, Lash, Legacy, Liberty, Lies of Equity, Lincoln, Love For the People, Merit, Military, Modern Democrats, Modern History, Nation, Native American, North and South, Not So Distant Past, Obama, Open Opportunity, Opposing Listeners, Pathway, Permanent, Poetry and Poems, Politics, Price Paid, Priority, Profit, Promises, Racism, Real Fight, Real History, Recalled, Republican, Restore, Right To Vote, Rule of Law, Sexual Plunder, Shackled, Shivered, Slavery, Sleight of Hand, Smoked Salmon, Social Justice, Stand Up In the Front, Steeple, Stumble, Suffragettes, Supreme Court, Sword, Tainted Legacy, Taught, The Hermitage, Theft, Tocquieveille, Told, Trading Lives, Trail of Tears, Understood, Unfold, Untruth, Varnish, Vehement, Votes Are Cast, War, Ways of Life, Whip, White, White House, Women, Worth
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Trees Are Overrated
Trees Are Overrated by Michael DoyleSpeaking of paradigms outdatedIt turns out trees are overratedThis thought comes I am knee-deepIn a prairie’s secrets to keepIn the verdant landscape, songbirds singProviding a soundtrack to the blessed thingsDancing blue granma and sand dropseedTrace … Continue reading
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Tagged Aboreal, Decline, Forest Floor, Grass People, Homo Sapiens, Knee-Deep, Outdated, Overrated, Paradigms, Poetry and Poems, Prairie, Prairie Dogs, Preserve, Protection, Savanna, Secret, Shoots, Sign, Soil, Songbirds, Soundtrack, Steeple, Toil, Trees, Tug-of-War, Tyranny, Velds
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The Chicago Seven and Liberty
The Chicago Seven and Libertyby Michael DoyleThe American soul was in desperate measurePoisoned and depleted of blood and lost treasureFor the sake of a war that people didn’t understandOur republic’s principles died for in a foreign landThe Vietnam draft and … Continue reading
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Tagged America, American Pride, American Soul, Audience, Blood, Bobby Seale, Breakdown, Brew, Certainty, Chicago Seven, Chicken Foot, Content, Crossing the Line, Damage, Dead, Democratic Convention, Depleted, Desperate Measure, Determine, Die, Done, Draft, Dream, Enormously, Fateful Day, First Amendment, Foreign Land, Free Speech, Freedom of Speech and Thought, Grown Up Values, Heart, Ill Intent, Incite, Irate, Issue, Land of Liberty, Lawless, Liberty, Life, Little Doubt, Little To Be Won, Martin Luther King Jr., Matters, Minds, National Security, Non-Coformity, Overnight Bag, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Point, Poisoned, Police State, Pressure Cooker, Principles, Protest, Question, Rebels, Relent, Relevance, Restless Mind, Rise, Say, Serious, Significant, Society, Some Times, Stage, State Lines, Steeple, Storm, Strife, Stupor, Temperature, The American People, The Left, Threat, Treasure, Truth, Truth On Both Sides, Unambiguous, Understand, Vietnam, Violence, Voice, War, Watch, Wonder, World
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Commit Freedom To Memory
Yesterday, December 15, 2019, was Bill of Rights Day! I was semi-astonished when I didn’t find anyone making reference to this. I was busily recovering from a long walk without a coat taken on Saturday. By the way, … Continue reading
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Tagged American, Bill of Rights Day, Birth Right, Breath, Confluence, December 15 1791, Die, Distinction, Extinction, Flag, Flickr, Freedom, Fundamental, God, Government, Guarantee, History, Hour, Influence, Light, Limit, Lord, Memory, Natural Law, Overseer, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Principles, Rule of Law, Rules, Sentiment, Steeple, The People, Truth, World, Worth
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On Classical Liberalism
Classical liberalism without its foundation resting on God’s law is devoid of form, function and suitability in the governance of mankind. On Classical Liberalism by Michael Romani Looking back over the course of history It seems to be no great … Continue reading
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Tagged Acrimony, Advocate, American Experiment, Arrive, Believe, Boundary, Bring, Built, Christiaity, Civic Good, Civilization, Claim, Classical Liberalism, Conform, Constitution, Course, Decadence, Demagoguery, Diversity, Fact, Fee, Foundation, Freedom, Full Democracy, God, Governance, Government, Great, History, Impudence, Incline, Inclusion, Legitimate, Liberty, Licentiousness, Mankind, Moon, Moral, Mystery, Natural Law, Outward, People, Photograph, Pluralism, Poem, Poetry, Pretense, Reform, Refuse, Reject, Religious, Respect, Revival, Rock, Ruin, Ruins, Secularism, See, Shatter, Society, Soul, Stay, Steeple, Tatters, Testimony, Throw, Throw Away, Time, Unfit, Virtue, Voice
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The Path of Kindness
Based in part on Proverbs 3:3-4 The Path of Kindness by Michael Romani Stretched patience gives its opportunity As a choice of kindness felt in empathy God has given His shine into this darkness That would otherwise know not but … Continue reading
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Tagged Absolution, Actions, Acts, Angry, Answer, Attention, Blindness, Calm, Capability, Children, Christ, Command, Community, Compassion, Consideration, Darkness, Day of Judgment, Deeds, Do, Empathy, Enemy, Focus, Fruit of the Spirit, Gentle, Gift, God, God's Will, Grace, Gracious, Harshness, Head, Hear, Heart, Importance, Inner, Inscribe, Kindness, Light, Love, Mankind, Natural, Needs, Opportunity, Outer Beauty, Path, Patience, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pride, Proverbs, Quality, Reflection, Relationship, Repentance, Responsibility, Retribution, Righteous, Said, Salvation, Sensitivity, Shadow, Shine, Sight, Sin, Society, Soft, Soul, Steeple, Tolerance, Treat, True, Truth, Understand, Ungrateful, Ways, Worship, Wrath
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