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Tag Archives: Turn Back
Bumping Up Against
Bumping Up Againstby Michael DoyleBumping up against the edgesToes reaching out over the ledgesThe quest is given up for the idealAs we learn to settle for the realThe higher grounds are out of boundsAs we seek to find further soundsThat … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Belief, Better Off, Bleed, Boundaries, Bumping Up Against, Chaos and Contradiction, Choice, Clock, Dedication, Deeper Truths, Despite, Dreams, Edges, Expectation, False Starts, Fear, Find In Our Hearts, Further Sounds, Ghost, Guitars, Hear, Heartbreaks, Higher Grounds, Hours, Ideal, Idols, Ignorance, Incidental Heathens, Lack, Learn, Ledges, Love, Mistakes, New Paths, Note By Note, Out of Bounds, Pain Cuts, Play, Poetry and Poems, Pretense, Quest, Reading, Real, Rest, Sense, Settle, Someone Else, Test, Toes, Turn Back, Voice, Wilderness, Wish
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Caught In the Fracture of Distraction
Caught In the Fracture of Distractionby Michael DoyleThe present generation’s grab for screensIs like a plague sucking life and it demeansBy going to extremes to get enough attentionThe attention seekers lose right intentionThis constant indiscretion shapes our fateIf we do … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Attention, Attention Economy, Attention Wars, Bores, Caught, Control, Destroyer of Souls, Distraction, Embrace, Experience, Extremes, Fate, Fracture, Indiscretion, Insurgency, Intimate Currency, Lost In Place, Plague, Poetry and Poems, Present Generation, Right Intention, Screens, Social Media, Sucking Life, Too Late, Turn Back, Worthiness
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Thought For the Day: In the End It’s Only A Passing Thing, This Shadow
“I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn’t want … Continue reading
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Bad, Clear, Danger, Darkness, End, Frodo, Great Story, Happen, Happy, Here, Holding On, Keep Going, Lord of the Rings, Matter, New Day, Pass, Passing Thing, Rights, Samwise Gamgee, Shadow, Small, Stay, Sun Shine, Thought For the Day, Turn Back, Understand, Way It Was, World, Wrong
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A Vancouverite Current
The Na/GloPoWriM0 Day 15 challenge is to provide a Robert Brown or Shakespearian styled monologue sort of a poem. I opted for a redo on Hamlet’s “To Be or Not To Be” monologue. Kind of.. I opted for happy thoughts not … Continue reading
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Tagged Arms, Beaten, Border, Caution, Conscience, Country, Coward, Current, Decision, Deep, Delay, Devote, Dream, Flesh, Folly, Fortune, Friend, Gloom, Good, Gray, Happiness, Happy, Heartache, Heir, Hope, Infatuation, Insolence, Jammies, Know, Life, Love, Me, Merit, Moment, Monologue, Mortal Coil, Motivation, Na/GloPoWriMo, Naked, Native Resolution, Noise, Patience, Pause, Photograph, Pleasure, Poem, Poetry, Pride, Purn, Puzzle, Question, Quiet, Regret, Respect, Return, Reward, Robert Brown, Sake, Shock, Sky, Sleep, Song, Thought, Time, To Be Or Not To Be, Traveler, Trouble, Turn Back, Vancouver, Voyage, Warmth, Weary, Will, William Shakespeare, Wisdom, Wish, Worth
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