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In the Tomes of Humanity
In the Tomes of Humanityby Michael DoyleAlgorithms of simplicityMakeup humanity’s complexityWith habits easy enough to understandAs the madness takes over as plannedMost waiver between love and prideSometimes this happens to coincideThen there are the exceptions irreducibleThat’s what’s become of the … Continue reading
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Tagged AI, Algorithms, Brave Souls, Broken Bodies, Choice, Codices, Coincide, Competitive Advantages, Complexity, Contemptible, Cost, Countless, Coup, Death, Doom, Exceptions, Face Off, False Promises, Final Battle, Garden, Habits, Humanity, Keeping, Last Breath, Libraries, Lost, Love, Madness, Mankind, Overcomes, Pain, Planned Obsolescence, Precipice, Price, Pride, Real Life, Recall, Sacred Door, Simplicity, Smile, Tomes, Truth, Understand, Victories, Villainies, Volumes, Waiver, Warrior's Voice, Weeping, Winner Take All, Wise Mother, Worth
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Held In Silence
Held In Silenceby Michael DoyleDarling, I’ve learned to love youBut somehow hate you moreDarling,I could never be without youBut trust me, I know the scoreThe traces may be coldFrom the fenced goods soldAll the secrets circled roundTo the treasures; they … Continue reading
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Tagged Answers, Darkness, Darling, Don Quixote, Fenced Goods, Found, Grieving Widow, Harshness, Hate, Held, Hope, Light, Lonely Mother, Love, Night, Poetry and Poems, Pray Alone, Right, Score, Scream, Secrets, Sense, Silence, Squeeze, Startlled, Traces, Trust, Understand, Violence, Without
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In Full Stomp (On Satan’s Head)
In Full Stomp (On Satan’s Head)by Michael DoyleLift the cross and trust in the FatherThough the steps seem sometimes fartherWe must walk away from things of enmityKeeping united to love in all its entiretyLife does come with things that painDespite … Continue reading
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Tagged Attention, Bruised Heel, Choices, Contemplation, Contrain, Cross, Devil, Enmity, Faith, Fall, Family, Feel, Fight, Fragility, Hell, Integrity, Level, Liberation, Life, Love, North Star, Pain, Patterns, Poetry and Poems, Promises of Truth, Purpose, Real, Reconiliation, Redemption, Right Intention, Rules, Same Lap, Scripture, Serpent, Service, Steps, Stomp, Swinging For the Fence, Tasks, Track, Trust, Understand, United, Vain
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Thought For the Day: There Are Times When We Must Sink To the Bottom of Our Misery To Understand Truth, Just As We Must Descend To the Bottom of a Well To See the Stars In Broad Daylight
“There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.” – Vaclav Havel, writer, Czech Republic … Continue reading
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Tagged Bottom, Daylight, Descend, Misery, Sink, Stars, Thought For the Day, Times, Truth, Understand, Vaclav Havel, Well
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Thought For the Day: This I Must Fight Against: Any Idea, Religion, or Government Which Limits or Destroys the Individual
“And this I must fight against: any idea, religion or government which limits or destroys the individual. … I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for this is the one … Continue reading
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Tagged Destroy, Fight, Free Mind, Governmen, Idea, Individual, Inspection, John Steinbeck, Limit, Pattern, Religion, System, Thought For the Day, Understand
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Elephants Mourn Their Dead (Happy the Elephant)
Elephants Mourn Their Dead (Happy the Elephant)by Michael DoyleNo freedom, no libertyNo right to fundamental dignityHappy the Elephant pays the costAnd the decision it seems is lostThere will be no sanctuaryPersonhood has been denied capacityRegardless of intelligence, elephants are thingsSubstantially … Continue reading
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Tagged "X", Ability, Aesthetic, Arbritary, Autonomy, Beauty, Capacity, Chattel, Complexity, Cost, Dead, Decision, Dissent, Dominant Tusked, Elephants, Empathy, Factors, Family, Forehead, Freedom, Full Recognition, Fundamental Dignity, Given Hand, Happy the Elephant, Human Beings, Humanity, Intelligence, Language, Legal Reasoning, Liberty, Love, Majestic Giants, Memory, Mirrors, Mourn, Nonverbal, Personhood, Picky Eaters, Poetry and Poems, Points of Similarity, Present, Recognize, Refinement, Rejected, Sanctuary, Science, Self, Sentient Beings, Solitary Confinement, Talking, Things, Things Unsaid, Understand, Unfeeling, Walking, Words, World, Zoo Enclosures
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Thought For the Day: Look Deep Into Nature, and Then You Will Understand Everything Better
“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” -Albert Einstein
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Tagged Albert Einstein, Better, Deep, Everything, Look, Nature, Thought For the Day, Understand
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Lisa (How To Love A New England Girl)
Lisa (How To Love A New England Girl)by Michael DoyleShe was born a New England girlWith dreams of her own and the leaves in a whirlEvery fall, she knew comfort in her seasonAnd he knew that she made sense beyond … Continue reading
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Tagged Beach, Beautiful Name, Best Place, Beyond Reason, Blame, Boston, Coffees, Comfort, Conversations, Cotton Candy, Dreams, Driven, Dunkin Donuts, Embrace, Enjoy, Every Morning, Fall, Fall Foliage, Flowers, Glad To Be Alive, God, Granite Swimming Holes, Hand-In-Hand, Hard to Resist, Hayrides, Heart, Her Ways, Hoome, Hung Out, Incredible Place, Kaleidoscope, Leaves, Lights, Lips, Lisa, Longfellow Serenade, Love, Love Like hers, Love Like That, Love of Music, Miss, Moon, Music, Never Alone, New England Girl, North Beach, North Conway, Overgrown Surfer Boy, Oyster, Plans Made, Poetry and Poems, Posse, Promised, Reach, Red Hair, Sand, Season, Settler's Green, Shade, Shores, Smart Enough, Songs, Sore Thumb, Splinter, Start, Story Land, Summer, Sunrise, Take the Blame, The Wall, Toes, Tourists, Two Hour Drive, Understand, W.C. Handy, Walking, Warm, Warning, Wicked Slippery, Winter, Wintry, Woods, Worth
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To the New Sunrise
To the New Sunriseby Michael DoyleHand to heart, heart to handI wish only that you understandThat even if it weren’t for all your charmI would never wish to bring you harmWhen and wherever you may goYou take my care beyond … Continue reading
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Tagged Betteer, Brave, Care, Charm, Comfort, Deeper, Desire, Dream, Eyes, Feel, Fire, Forward, Greet, Hand, Harm, Heart, Inspire, Joy, Known, Life, Lifetimes, Light, Love, Make Love Real, Memories, Memory, Morning Light, New, Playfulness, Poetry and Poems, Refuge, Restless, Reverie, Safe, Sense of Peace, Sunrise, Tire, Toward, Understand, Warmth, Wish, Words, World
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A Rispetto of Loneliness
Featured again is a poem form obtained from the weekly Short Form Poetry Workshop on Linden Lab’s virtual platform known as Second Life. This week the form was the rispetto. What then is a rispetto? It is a Tuscan folk … Continue reading
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Tagged Blind, Color, Commands, Conceptions, Curved, Embrace, Face, Feel, Folk Verse, Hard, Hearts, Imaginary, Knowing, LandMines, Loneliness, Moments, Poetry and Poems, Politian, Rhyme Scheme, Rispetto, Short Form Poetry Workshop, Showing, Straight Lines, Strambotto, Thinking, Thoughts, Time, Treasonous, Tripping, Tuscan, Understand, Walk
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