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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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In An Unfolding of Glory
In An Unfolding of Gloryby Michael DoyleThe playwright was dragged from public displayOf his satire written to illustrate another wayThriving with an acrid taste of acrimonyThat was held up with ridicule as sanctimonyAs the Spanish Inquisition held the world in … Continue reading →
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Tagged Acrimony, Chains, Dressed Up, Glory, Illustrate, Playwright, Poetry and Poems, Poets, Points of View, Prison, Public Display, Ridicule, Sanctimony, Satire, Spanish Inquisition, Stories, Thoughts, Trappings, True, Unfolding, Vain
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A Cosmogony of Fear
A Cosmogony of Fearby Michael DoyleIn a wide sweep of the Temple ApolloIs the beginning of what the Oracle knowsThe things of myth, from the the beginning growAs the memories of three sisters glowsImagined become the stories that resonateGlobal fears … Continue reading →
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Tagged Counterbalance, Cultural Dreams, Death Rattle, Define, Deplorable, Desperation, Destiny, Dread, Dream, Embryo, End, Explorable, Fate, Fear, Fears Grow, Feed On Us, Global Fears, Grow, H.P. Lovecraft, Hide, Humanity, Icons, Images, Imagination, Imagine, Imbalances, Inner Cosmogony, Inner Horrors, Inside, Kiss, Look, Lurid, Memories, Mess, Mountains of Madness, Myth, Offense, Oracle, Palin View, Parasitic Wasps, Poetry and Poems, Pretense, Purpose, Questions, Refine, Replacement Theology, Resonate, Sands, Scratch, Scream, Screen, Seeds of Jupiter, Shown, Silent and Dead, Space, Stories, Temple Apollo, Three Sisters, Tower of Bable, Unknown, Vanity, Wide Sweep
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Thought For the Day: Who Are We But the Stories We Tell Ourselves, About Ourselves, and Believe?
“Who are we but the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, and believe?” -Scott Turow, author and lawyer (b. 12 Apr 1949)
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Tagged About Ourselves, Believe, Scott Turow, Stories, Tell Ourselves, Thought For the Day, We, Who
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Thought For the Day: It Is Wrong To Rewrite or Diminish Writers …Because What They Wrote Might Offend (Or In All Honesty Might Speak Truth To) Modern Audiences
“There are no perfect humans. Every single one of us has done or will do something that will deeply offend someone else or not age well. This applies to historical figures as well as important thinkers and writers. Their ideas, … Continue reading →
Reckless Love of God
Reckless Love of Godby Michael DoyleNever let the impossible stop youIf you live with faith, only victory will doPushing always forward into the newThere’s another miracle waiting to come trueRestoration given in heavenly graceFills the blissfulness in every traceDry bones … Continue reading →
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Tagged Another Miracle Waiting, Belief, Blissfulness, Bold, Changed Attitude, Defend, Failures, Forward, God, Gossip, Gratitude, Grief, Healing, Heavenly Grace, Impossible, Joy, Live With Faith, Moments, Never Ending, Overwhelm, Poetry and Poems, Rattle, Renew, Restoration, Reveal, Shame, Shiver, Sin, Sorrow, Stop, Stories, Tomorrow, Trace, Transcend, True, Victory
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Remember To Forget
Remember To Forgetby Michael DoyleAs long as there is lifeThere is, at least, some hopeRegardless of our strifeThis helps us to quietly copeThose things that bring us to edgeWe need to forgive as our sinThat which as brought us to … Continue reading →
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Tagged Begin Again, Brashness, Break, Caught On Fire, Circle, Comedy, Common Man, Contradiction, Cope, Dante, Dawn, Deranged, Doing Good, Doing Unto Others, Dramas, Edge, Eternity, Fake, Forget, Forgive, Found, Ghosts, Goethe, Golden Rule, Good, Grow, Hope, Human Operation, In the Flesh, Infinity, Informal Philosophy, Inspire, Jealousy, Know, Lack, Learn, Ledge, Lessons, Life, Long, Mist, Motifs, Nations, No Getting Past, No Live and Let Live, Our Condition, Payback, Poetry and Poems, Precious Time, Puzzled Complexities, Remember, Revenge, Secret Alphabet, Secret Seeds, Shakespeare, Sin, Sincere, Souls, Spoken About, Stories, Strange, Strife, Sublime, Vengeage, Vexatious World, Words of Wisdom, World, Worthy To Hear
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Split the Difference
Split the Differenceby Michael DoyleKicking back with my girls on the holidaysSharing life with them in a million waysWhen we happened on a soulful snip of movieWith a lot of heart that played out groovyThere in the middle of a … Continue reading →
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Tagged 3-D, Abstract, Beat, Celestial Concept, Complicated Hearts, Culture, Difference, Displayed, Dreams, Each of Us, Enough, Every Bit, Everyone, Explore, Fascination, Fluff, Forgot, Future, Get Jazzy, Great Before, Greater, Groovy, Hear, Holidays, Improvised Part, In REach, Inference, Ink Dab, Jazz, Joy, Keep, Kicking Back, Known, Learn, Lennon, Lesson, Life, Living Our Soul, Lot of Heart, Lyric, Meaning of Life, Middle, Million Ways, Moment, Movie, My Girls, Nature, Needed Role, Nurture, Our Meaning To Others, Panorama, Parts, Photograph, Plausibility, Play, Played Out, Plot, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Postulation, Preach, Present, Probability, Pseudo-Intellectual, Punditry, Repartee, Say, Screens, Shadows, Sharing Life, Soul, Soulful, Split, Splitting the Difference, Stories, Subtle, Sum, Super Stars, Teach, The Streets, Tough, Twist, Waiting, Wonders of Life
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NaNoWriMo Thoughts
NaNoWriMo Thoughtsby Michael DoyleSince the first cave paintingStories have been written and toldHere now in all of our waitingIs yet another story to be written and soldIt’s a path of thinking and imaginationIn a what if world of machinationAn another … Continue reading →
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Tagged Accountabiltiy, Acts, Apply, Arrive, Benefit, Best Choices, Best Friends, Brutality, Cave Painting, Conjugate, Connection, Courageously, Direction, Disappear, Distinction, Doom Scrolling, Dystopia, End, Explanation, Extinction, Fact, Fascination, Fear, Forage, Full, Future, Glory, Happiness, Heads, Hope, Illustration, Imagination, Indiscriminate, Inner Editors, Inner Peace, Let It Show, Life Moves On, Love, Machination, Meander, NaNoWriMo, Optimism, Path, Patterns, Pen, Pep, Photograph, Pieces of Shred, Plot Runs Thick, Poem, Poetry, Problematic, Push Ahead, Rage, Reach, Release, Respectability, Rolling, Sacred Flow, Sadness, Serenity, Set Out, Sold, Stop the Need, Stories, Story, Stroke, Taking the Time, Thinking, Thoughts, Time Confetti, Told, Trust, Turn of Page, Utopia, Voices, Wait, What If, Wonderful, World, Worry, Written
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Manuscripts Don’t Burn
Day 22 of NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo 2020! The optional prompt being to use an idiomatic phrase from another language or popular in another country as a starting point. Manuscripts Don’t Burn by Michael Doyle Years ago when I was younger Words ate … Continue reading →
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Tagged Allow, Ate, Beat, Belong, Burn, Commit, Concept, Country, Dangerous, Dead, Edition, Embrace, Fear, Feel, Felt, Freedom of Press, Frustration, Government, Hunger, Ideas, Idiom, Jail, Learn, Legacy, Light, Live, Long, Manuscirpts, Marketplace, Memory, NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo, Notion, Oral Tradition, Pdd, Photograph, Phrase, Pocket, Poem, Poetry, Prompt, Proud, Rulers, Satire, Say, Sense, Sentiment, Song, Stories, Strong, Tale, Tears, Tell, Thought, View, Way, Words, Write, Written Down, Years, Young
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 