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It’s Not So Funny Now
It’s Not So Funny Nowby Michael DoyleIt seems like the truth behind so many stories.We had to dare the lightning to find the glories.Yesterday’s lessons, we thought would never end,These were the moments we really needed a friend.It’s really not … Continue reading →
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Tagged Advice, Believer, Believers, Chilren, Clock, Cope, Dare the Lightning, Days, Deceiver, Deserving, Discern, Discipleship, Dodge, End, Eyes, Falling Rain, Family, Forgive, Friend, Funny, Glory, Head, Hope and Faith, Know, Learn, Lessons, Life, Live, Love, Man Above, Moments, Now, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Prophets, Serve, Stories, Thanks To God, Thirst, Toughen, Trouble, Truth, Wall, Wrong Turns, Yesterday, Young
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Laughing At Life
Laughing At Lifeby Michael DoyleHere I am, sitting on the floor.I’m lost in numbers, collating the score.I’m not saying that I need it easy.But wish for once it would even up to please me.We’re laughing at all of life’s dramady,But … Continue reading →
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Tagged Afraid, Alone, Backbone, Coke, Comedy, Currency, Doubt, Dramady, Dream, Easy, Family, Feelings, Fiber, Floor, Forgotten, Funny, Glory, Guitar, Hanging Stars, Heart, King, Last, Laugh, Lifee, Love, Mean, Meaning, Misspoke, Myth, Number, Okay, Past, Poetry and Poems, Queen, Remember, Score, Settle, Shoot, Sip, Songs of Yesterday, Spend, Stars, Stone, Stories, Streets, Thoughts, Today, Truth, Understand, Urgency, Walk, Work Out, Wrap It Up, Writer
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The Ecology of Hitchhiking
The Ecology of Hitchhikingby Michael DoyleWhen you think of it in terms of ecology,Hitchhiking has very little to do with the economy.From my own experience, it’s about relationshipsPerhaps even sometimes about brinksmanship.The people that are met on the open roadAre … Continue reading →
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Tagged Accepting Rides, America, Brinksmanship, Caught Rides, Collective, Common, Danger, Ecology, Economy, Experience, Extended Thumbs, Friends, Glory, God's Seed, Heart of Life, Hitchhiking, Hitching Rides, Need, Odds, Open Road, Perspective, Poetry and Poems, Relationship, Rregret, Stories, Story, Stranger, Time To Fly, Told, Traveling Companions, Trust
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Troubles In the Real World
Troubles In the Real Worldby Michael DoyleSometimes, the law gets in the wayThe way of what passes for justiceIt isn’t as it should beBut it is simply what it is Sometimes, life fills up our daysFills up our days in … Continue reading →
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Tagged Best That We Can Do, Contracts, Dark Shadows, Days, Evil, Exist, Fact, First Mistake, Give and Take, Handshakes, Hding, Heads Shake, Honor-Bound, Justice, Know, Law, Laws of the Jungle, Legends, Life, Meant To Be, Only Reality, Persist, Poetry and Poems, Real World, Repay Good, Sense of Irony, Should Be, Simple What It Is, Stories, Strangest Ways, Troubles, Way
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Intoxicatingly Lost
Intoxicatingly Lostby Michael DoyleWe paraded all of our songsSinging on the trail to each otherStrumming our tunes to one anotherWondering where we might belongWe were tripping over the costFeeling intoxicatingly lostAs we fished for the starsInventing our stories on our … Continue reading →
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Tagged 15 Minutes, Bamboo Flute, Believe, Belong, Best Friend, Blue Stone, Bows, Butterflies, Chances, Conspire, Cosmic Dances, Cost, Court, Darkness, Ends, Eventually, Explore, Fast, Fingers, Fire, Float, Focus and Emphasis, Fools, Full Moon, Gilded Screens, Glory, Gothic Cathedrals, Guitars, Gun Slingers, Intoxicatingly Lost, Life, Lived and Loved, Lonely Shadows, Lost Dreams, Metamorphosis, Moment, Moonbow, MTV, Night, Occur, Paraade, Poetry and Poems, Pyrotechnics, Ring, Rock, Seat, Sing, Songs, Sonic, Stars, Stories, Strum, Sun, Tell, Tides of the Moon, Too Soon, Trail, Trip, Troubadours, Tunes, Vampire, Wind, Wonder, World, You and I
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Cheap Candles Finding Gold
Cheap Candles Finding Goldby Michael DoyleAsk any Rabbi, and you’re sure to findA story or two to give sight to the blindIt’s a whispered rumor illustrating the taleOf how those with pride are sure to fallEven cheap candles can illuminate … Continue reading →
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Tagged Absence, Alone, Bad Mood, Blind, Cheap Candles, Creation, Dream, Eyes, Fact Pattern, Fall, Find, Find the Point, God, Gold, Hear, Hope, Humanity, Illuminate, Illustrate, Illustrating, Incomprehensible, Intrude, Lessons, Mind's Window, Moments, Mystery, Never Comprehending, Never Know, No Friend, Nothing, Orchestrate, Ordinary Stone, Path, Poetry and Poems, Presence, Present, Pride, Rabbi, Receive, Resent, Rumor, Sages, See, Sight, Solid Rock, Something, Stories, Tablets, Truths, Universe, Unnatural Fact, Vague Talk, Wind, Words
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Life Lived Artfully (Without Deceit)
Life Lived Artfully (Without Deceit)by Michael DoyleImagine, if you might, your life in a circumstanceHanded over to art, but only from a tragic distanceIt would be a malaise that knew its exceptionBecause your life is the art that doesn’t know … Continue reading →
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Tagged Art, Artfully, Circumstance, Critique, Deceit, Deception, Evening Star, Every Moment, Exception, Familiar Life, Fascination, Forgiving, General Explanation, Heal, heartbeat, Hope, Imagine, Jagged Scar, Lamentation, Life Lived, Limitation, Long Time Living, Malaise, Masquerade, Poetry and Poem, Simple Life, Stories, Sunset, Tragic Distance, Translation, Truth, Understanding, Variation, Words
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Through Fevered Eyes
Through Fevered Eyesby Michael DoyleHeard even from the criminally rejectedComes the kindness otherwise neglectedNeglected by those who have more than neededAll of the many lessons too seldom heededHelping the poor brings about true prosperityThe type of prosperity of an unknown … Continue reading →
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Tagged Better Days, Child's Play, Chosen Friends, Circles, Comedy, Comfort, Criminally, Cycles, Darkness, Deliver, Discern, Eyes, Family, Fever, Glory, God, Heard, Heed, Help, Horro, Kindness, Learn, Lesson, Lessons, Life, Majesty, Miracles, Monstrosity, Need, Neglected, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Poor, Private Hell, Prosperity, Rejected, Riddles, Search, Shiver, Sights, Stories, Story, Strie, Truth, Unfold
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Remembering When Kindness Was In Fashion
Remembering When Kindness Was in Fashionby Michael DoyleWe live in a time of self-limited imaginationWhere people cannot dream of outside creationBut mysteriously believe in writing only experienceSuch as found in personal and depraved dalliancesRather than dreaming of the bigger conceptionsToo … Continue reading →
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Tagged Afraid, America, Appalling, Attacks, Authoritarianism, Awe, Believe, Bewilder, Bigger Conception, Bold, Brink, Bulldoze, Change, Closing Down, Coarseeness, Compassion, Confide, Connections, Counter-Atacks, Creation, Culture, Dalliance, Debate, Decline, Discerning, Dream, Edge, End, Exceptional, Experience, Fashion, Forget, Freely Told, Friend, History, Hold Back, Identity, Imagination, Individual Strands, Kindness, Learning, Liberate, Literature, Live, Love, Moral Courage, One-Sided, Orthodoxy, Peace, Peculiar Sense, Personal, Plurality, Poetry and Poems, Point, Pride, Progress, Refine, Regress, Remember, Responses, Self-Limited, Shadows, Shock, Society, Stories, Strife, Strong, Think, Time, Too Far, Tribes of America, Truth, Unity
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What Used To Be
What Used To Beby Michael DoyleI remember when I showed my daughterWhat it was that used to once beShared like a loving fatherIn the twenty-second centuryWe dominated with technologyForgetting the natural carrying capacityAnd reframed the world in uglinessTo which her … Continue reading →
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Tagged 22nd Century, Before, Best, Blaze of Glory, Candid Answers, Carrying Capacity, Certaianty, Children, Cling, Daughter, Deja Vu, Deominate, Die, Do, Dues, Ecology, Ending, Evidence, Father, Fight, Fix, Fly, Forget, Generation, Grasp, Heaven, Human Race, Ingenuity, Legacy, Life, Living Witness, Mission, Overome, Paradox, Plan B, Poetry and Poems, Poor, Pray, Pretend, Prospect, Reframe, Remember, Restore, Stories, Symptoms, Technology, Toxicity, Twenty-Second Century, Ugligness, Urgency, Version, Victory, What Used To BE, Wicked Pace, Win, Wings, World, Write
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