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Losing Light
Losing Lightby Michael DoyleIn modern life’s twistWhere nothing is missedWe earn by the momentFelt in every tormentExposing our inner soulTo continuously extolThat which wins the moneyFalse tears seem funnyReborn into a hard day’s nightIt’s the hurt exposed to lightWhen forced … Continue reading
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Tagged Earn, Expose, Extol, False Tears, Felt, Hurt, Inner Soul, Losing Light, Modern Life, Moment, Money, Poetry and Poems, Reborn, Speak, Torment, Twist
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She Learns To Survive
She Learns To Surviveby Michael DoyleTo her, I’m her fatherAs I watch my daughterWalking alone in the nightShe’s always been my lightBut it wasn’t always this wayShe’s haunted by the dayThese moments hidden insideBehind her fragile prideHe took her innocenceI’ve … Continue reading
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Tagged Abandoned, Afraid, Agnoize, Agonizes, Almost Took Her Life, Alone, Beautiful, Beside, Blossom, Bold, Brave, Child of the Light, Confide, Creid, Darkest Depth, Daughter, Day, Dread, Eyes, Father, Feeling, Fight, Fragile Pride, Fright, Grow, Hand, Haunted, He, Head, Heat, Her, Hidden Inside, Hold, In the End, Innocence, Intended Offense, Intense, Know, Learn, Life, Light, Love, Meaning, New Meaning, Night, Poetry and Poems, Power, Remembers, Sad Eyes, Scared, She, Smile, Step Forward, Step-By-Step, Strength, Survive, Talk, Tears, The Past, This Way, Ties, Times, Told, Torment, Understood, Unfolds, Walk, Walking Alone, Worthy, Years
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On Hunt For the Moments
On Hunt For the Momentsby Michael DoyleIn my life’s recent historyI have written tons of poetryIn happiness and in tormentI find myself on the hunt for momentsWith x-ray eyes for what is rightI approach the world in second sightFor the … Continue reading
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Tagged Atom, Attempt, Break, Comprehend, Constant Transformation, Contempt, Course Correction, Dreams, Fear, Feel, Formed Myself, Genuine, Godspell, Gospel, Happiness, Hatred, Heart, History, Hope, Hunt, Judas, Little Pictures, Meant, Moments, Mumble, My Life, Negotiated Life, Peace and Strife, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Redemption, Rise Above, Second Sight, Shocker, Start, Street Prophet, Stumble, Tainted Soul, The Hurt Locker, Torment, Translation, Unmasked, Vain, Waterfall, Whole, World's Pain, X-Ray Eyes
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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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If the Truth…
If the Truth…by Michael DoyleIf the truth is to be unpleasant Let it be spoken in a bold voiceKeeping focused on the presentNot a stumbled mumble as if not a choiceIt is better that the disagreeableBe out there and quickly … Continue reading
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Tagged Avoid, Avoidance, Bad, Better, Bit By Bit, Bold Voice, Choice, Conceivable, Cycle, Dear, Deception, Disaagreeable, Done, Ear, End of Nature, Fear, Focus, Happy, If, Laws and Statutes, Life, Love, Malice, Moment, Mumble, Nibble, Pacify, Poetry and Poems, Present, Quick, Quick Usee, Reason, Reception, Sad, Seasonal, Seek, Spoken, The Cause, Think, Time, Torment, Truth, Unpleasant, Victory, Well Used, Wisdom, Won
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Thought For the Day: You Think Your Pains and Heartbreaks Are Unprecedented In the History of the World, But Then You Read
“You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the … Continue reading
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Tagged All the People, Books, Connect, Heartbreak, History, James Baldwin, Pain, Read, Taught, Think, Thought For the Day, Torment, Unprecedented, World
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First Principles: Virtue Runs No Risk of Becoming Contemptible By Being Exposed To View, and It Is Better To Be Despised For Simplicity Than To Be Tormented By Continual Hyprocisy
“Virtue runs no risk of becoming contemptible by being exposed to view, and it is better to be despised for simplicity than to be tormented by continual hypocrisy.” – Roman statesman Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC-AD 65)
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Tagged Contemptible, Despised, First Principles, Hypocrisy, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Risk, Simplicity, Torment, View
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Circling Around Symmetry
Circling Around Symmetryby Michael DoyleLike a wanderer of lost momentsI find myself with ghosts in memoryCircling around the tormentsTo sharpened to find the symmetry Needed to find balance in the crawl outIn the long kiss good night In a gathering … Continue reading
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Tagged Attention, Balance, Balloon, Capability, Circling Around, Community, Conversations, Counting, Covers Blown, Deep Truths, Depth, Engage, First Contact, Gathering of Kings, Ghosts, Good Night, Grown, Improvisation, Innocent, Islolation, Lessons, Lost Moments, Magic, Memory, Minor Moment, Overheard, Poetry and Poems, Pretense, Reality, Repressed Emotions, Seek, Sharp, Sincerity, Siren's Calling, Steps, Strain of Cynicism, Strained Torment, Symmetry, Tension, Torment, Touch, Vulnerability, Wanderer, Wish, World
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On Being the G.O.A.T….
On Being the G.O.A.T….by Michael DoyleHow to be the greatest of all timeIs to go beyond that easy rhymeAnd move past our selfish natureGrowing in the Lord and becoming matureStanding in life judging one anotherDebating who is best among all … Continue reading
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Tagged Acknowledge, Agree, Being the G.O.A.T., Best, Best Attitude, Beyond, Breath, Cause of the Cross, Contest, Cruxifixion, Debate, Easy Rhyme, Example, Faith, Fate, Feet, Finally Understand, First, Flow, Follow, Forget Yourself, Full Humiliation, Greatest of All Time, Greet, Grow, Healing Moment, His Word, His Works, Honor and Duty, Jesus, Journey, Judge, Last, Last Supper, Latitude, Leanring, Lend, Lord, Loss, Love, Mature, Mustard Seed, Needed Hand, Nobility, Obedient to Death, Passover, Poetry and Poems, Self-Adulation, Selfish Nature, Servant Leadership, Service, Suffocation, The Latest, Torment, True Humility, Truth, Understanding, Victory, Wash, Willingness
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