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The Riddle of the Sands
The Riddle of the Sandsby Michael DoyleWith my mind’s last breathI felt myself melt into my death.Reality faded into flowery dimensions,None of which flows with great precision.But the sounds inside were already goneBefore I realized what it was to go … Continue reading
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Tagged Clever, Cold, Death, Dimension, Dreaming, Eyes, Fade, Fingers, Fire, Forever, Fragile Heart, Idenity, Jesus, Know, Last Breath, Laugh, Learn, Liquid Sky, Living, Mars, Memories, Mercury, Mind, Misery, Months, Night, Perception, Poetry and Poems, Precision, Pyschobabble, Reality, Realize, Red Alert, Riddle, Sands, Silence, Sleep, Sound, Spike, Spirit, Starlight, Surreal, Tears, Temple of Wonders, Thought, Trauma, Walk, Waves, Weep, World, Years, Yesterday
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Due North
Due Northby Michael DoyleIn these daysWhen everything has gone frothyIn a million waysWe need those around to be worthyThat’s who my friend had always beenThe one I knew was good for the winEver since back in high schoolI knew her … Continue reading
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Tagged Alright, Always Been, Answer, Beat It, Brave, Calm, Cancer, Challenge, Come Hell or High Water, Concentration, Connected, Crisis, Days, Degree of Fascination, Demeanor, Due North, Facebook, Feel, Focus, Friend, Frothy, Glide, Good For the Win, Hallway, High School, Is, Joyous Laughter, Keep Things Real, Kept Cool, Lie On My Lips, Lifetime Past, Look, Lord, Lost Track, Million Ways, Mindfulness, More Than Fair, My Friend, Nobody's Fool, Paddleboarder, Peace, Perspective, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Progress, Reconnected, Reflective, Same As the Last, Same Smile, Searching For An Answer, Sigh, Simple, Smile, Soul, Stalled, Stay Still, Stride, Style, Surreal, Tear, Test, Time, Traded Quips, True North Star, Water, Wherever, Words, Worthy, Yesterday
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I Bought You A Necklace
I Bought You A Necklaceby Michael DoyleIn love since the beginningI can’t help but feel I’m winningIt’s so surreal in what I findA love like this is my state of mindIt’s all about thinking that I canYour love makes me … Continue reading
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Tagged Altar, Beads, Beginning, Best Friend, Better Man, Blessed, Celebration, Commit, Day One, Embrace, Exactly, Falter, Family, Fascination, Feel, Find, Forgiven, Given, God, Gorgeous, Life, Lifetime, Love, Marry Me, Memory, Must, Necklace, One Day, Place, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Remember Me, Reverie, State of Mind, Surreal, Thinking, Trust, Truth Lived, Vows, Whisper, Wife, Winning, Wrongs
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Reflections On the Aftertaste
Reflections On the Aftertasteby Michael DoyleIt was just one of those endless nightsI sat feasting on a garden of fried delightsTurning the channel to hear a bit of debateSurreally hoping to help decide the nation’s fateThere on the stage were … Continue reading
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Tagged Administrative, Aftertaste, Agencies, American Dreams, Americans, Avoid, Blame, Blessing, Channel, Confusion, Countercharges, Curse, Debate, Decide, Desire, Dog, Economy, Elder Abuse, Elected, Endless Nights, Evidence, Falling Up Stairs, Familiarity, Fascism, Forgive, Fried Delights, Garden, Grown Men, Hard To Defend, Haste, Homework, Hostile Charges, Illusion, Kind But Direct, Lashing Out, Lead, Live, Malarkey, Medicare, Memory, Name Calling, Nation's Fate, Our Own Good, Pass, Passive Aggressive, Poetry and Poems, Pointed Fingers, Policies, Prepared, Puppet Master, Reflections, Road, School Children, Seem, Sell, Snarky, Stage, Suit, Surreal, Swallow, Talking Points, They Say, This Land, Truth, Two Minutes, Tyrannical Administration, Understand, Unhelpful, Verdict, Way, Weak
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In A Million Days
In A Million Daysby Michael DoyleI find myself drowning in the ocean of youIn all of the good things I’ve learned to be trueThere, deep within your beautiful, dreamy eyesIs my future that I’ve come to recognizeIt’s said that looks … Continue reading
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Tagged A Single Look, Beach, Beautiful, Begin, Best Happiness, Beyond the Feel, Blind, Breath, Bright, Carry, Champagne, Connection, Cupid's Arrow, Deepest Choice, Dreaming, Drown, Every Kiss, Every Moment, Everyday, Eyes, Fantastic, First Sight, Forever, Full Moon Walked, Future, Good Things, Handwritten Love Note, Heart's Kiss, Hearts, Holding You Tight, I Love You, Inside, Laughter, Learned, Looks, Love Is True, Loving Traces, Magical, Matter, Million Days, Million Special Ways, Ocean, Poetry and Poems, Promises, Reach, Recognize, Right, Romantical, Rose Petals, Rreal, Shatter, Shine, Sign, Spak, Start, Surreal, Touch Me, True, Voice, Wonder, You, Your Love
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Sparked Distraction
Sparked Distractionby Michael DoyleAll the world is extraordinaryThere is so much to seeIn every moment and all actionsThere is the spark of distractionHopefully and creativelyYour safety is found in beautyAs you go out into the world to seeAll there is … Continue reading
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Tagged 21st Century, Beauty, Belong, Best Light, Birthday Candle, Box, Breadcrumbs, Cancer, Candle Lights, Capturing Life, Clear, Comedy, Connection, Continue, Creative, Cry, Curiousity, Darkness, Death, Degree, Distance, Doubt, Dramedy, Eventuality, Every Moment, Existential, Extradordinary, Fallen Tear, Film, Final Answers, Fork, Fullest, Future, Generation, Gratitude, Grow, Heavens, Heavens Above, History, Hopeful, Imagination, Implausible, Impossible, Inspiration, Known, Last Breath, Learn, Left Behind, Letting Go, Little Smiles, Live Love, Living Gods, Lock, Look, Love, Majesty, Matters, Miarcles, Mournful Look, Nightmares, Nowhere, Once, Pain, Path of Life, Pay, Penance, Poetry and Poems, Real, Reality, Rebirthed, Records, Road, Safety, Scourge, Sensation, Shatter, Short or Long, Songs, Sorrow, Sparked Distraction, Stay, Stride, Struggles, Surreal, Take Care, Tears, Terror, There, Tomorrow, Torment, Touch, Travel, Whisper, Worthy
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The Bones of Rock-N-Roll
The Bones of Rock-N-Rollby Michael DoyleThe bones of rock-n-roll flowed through with authorityIn the American zeitgeist that Frank Zappa made legendarySpinning tales from hippies to yuppies in a vast conspiracyIt became tragically hipper as it grew to become legendaryHe was … Continue reading
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Tagged Authority, Avantagarde, Bawdiness, Blank-Eyed Habits, Bones, Brok, Cales, Conformity, Curnch, Encourage, Fee Speech, Flamboyant, Flimsy Values, Frank Zaapa, Frivolity, Funk Infected, Hipster Guile, Hues, Humor, Hypocrisy, Lady Justice, Lyricism, Melody, Morality, Musical Tales, Narrative, Naughtiness, Percision, Poetry and Poems, Preach, Rabbit-Hole, Reach, Reality, Rock-n-Roll, Satirize, Sleeping Woke, Smile, Society, Spotlight, Style, Surreal, Television, Truthful Comedy, Urban Scensters, Vibraphone, Whine, Wounded Coil, Zeitgeist
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You Cannot Hurt Me
You Cannot Hurt Meby Michael DoyleYou cannot hurt meIt’s beyond possibilityI am damaged goodsA babe lost in the woodsOf my own heart, my own mindLike innocence left far behindEvery day I wake up numbed by painAll of my good intentions, … Continue reading
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Tagged Babe, Burnt Down, Damaged Goods, Dead, Demon, Echo, Every Moment Lived, Feel, Good Intentions, Hate Myself, Head, Heart, In Vain, Innocence, Left Behind, Loving, Mind, Mistakes, Never Go Away, Nothing Left, Nothing Left To Say, Numbed, Pain, Plays, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Savagely, Surreal, Unholy Monster, Wish, Woods, Worth, You Cannot Hurt Me
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As If Nothing Else Matters
As If Nothing Else Mattersby Michael DoyleHow do you protect Russian speakersBy bombing them into oblivion?Mix up that experiment in your beakerYou say you’re doing this as a guardian?Returning to the homeland of the RusWhile treating the natives as if … Continue reading
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Tagged Armed, Attack, Beaker, Belarus, Beseda, Black, Blessed, Bodies, Bolster, Bomb, Bombed, Bring Down, Buried, Carry On, Children, Children Plea, City, Collectively Sighs, Courage, Cry, Defense Ministry, Empathetic, Encourage, Exceed, Experiment, Eyes Grown Older, False Flags, Firm, Forget, Forty Mile Long Russian Convoy, Fought, Fruited Jams, FSB, Grandmothers, Groan, Guardian, Historical Vision, Homeland of the Rus, Honey, Human Beings, Hyiv, Intelligence, Land, Landfill, Limited, Little Russians, Living, Lucrative, Maternity Wards, Natives, Nazis, Nothing Else Matters, Oblivion, Odessan, Patience, Plot, Poetry and Poems, Poets and Dreamers, Predicted, Protect, Pulled In, Putin's War, Real, Refuse, Refusing To Die, Riches, Russian Speakers, Scenes, Sheerest Tatters, Souls, Stall, Sticks and Stones, Street Urchins, Surreal, Things We Have Seen, Three Prong of Attack, Tractors, Trembles, Tyrant, Ukrainian Grandfathers, Unbearable, Valdimir, Wall, What Cannot Be Forgot, Wheat, Wicked Thrill, Win, World Watches, World's Money, Worn Down
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Na/GloPoWriMo #4: Closed For Renovation
Closed For Renovationby Michael DoyleWith a startled turnLife became the strangeWith a subtle twist of fateSuddenly, plans became small changeLearning how to simply liveOur best moments in isolationAll across our land we wished to giveAs if it was all closed … Continue reading
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Tagged Across Our Land, American Lands, American Nation, Ask, Behind Closed Door, Belief, Best Moments, Better World, Children, Closed, Closed for Renovation, Corona, Count, Courage, Dedicatino, Dreaming, Each New Day, Easter Day, Experience, Fate, Find A Way Through, Gifted, Given Up, God's Love, Grief, Grip, Isolation, Kept In the Distance, Left Alive, Lessons Learned, Life, Lifted, Lived Safest, Lives, Living Without Masks, Lost Its Footing, Loved Friends, Meaning, Minimal Resistance, More, Na/GloPoWriMo, Never See This Again, Nightmares, No Longer Closed, One Another, Our Freedoms, Packing Up, Photograph, Plans, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Recall, Renovation, Road Trip, Safer, Semi-Legendary Plans, Simply Live, Six Foot, Small Change, Spring, Sprung, Startled Turn, Strange, Subtle Twist, Surreal, Tossed Aside, Turned Inward, Turning Toward, Un-Rung, Viral Horror, Write About
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 