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Thought For the Day: We Value and Respect Every Black Life
“We value and respect every black life. The black cops who have been shot in the line of duty, they matter. The black small business owners who have watched their life’s work go up in flames, they matter. The black … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: Nonviolence Is the Most Potent Weapon Available To Oppressed People In Their Struggle For Freedom and Justice
“(R)iots are socially destructive and self-defeating. I’m still convinced that nonviolence is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for freedom and justice. I feel that violence will only create more social problems than they will … Continue reading
Birth of Merlin
Which was your favorite? King Arthur? Or, Merlin? Birth of Merlin by Michael Doyle In 480 AD, in Britain’s Dark Ages Arthur, Camelot and Merlin rode into its pages Shrouded in the fog of great mystery It’s half lost from … Continue reading
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Tagged Ancient Days, Anger, Birth, Brawn, Breath, Britain, Camelot, Castle, Child, Chivalry, Command, Counsel, Country, Dark Ages, Death, Druids, Famine, Favorite, Fog, Gods, History, King, King Arthur, Land, Legend, Lore, Magic, Merlin, Mystery, Myth, Night, Pages, Photograph, Plague, Poem, Poetry, Poor, Purity, Question, Risk, Second Sight, Sincerity, Storm, Time, Violence, Wise Man, Wizard
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The Great Not So Great Society
American History continues through the Lyndon Baines Johnson presidency: The Great Not So Great Society by Michael Doyle LBJ entered his presidency aiming to be legendary Setting his sights on ending poverty through Great Society Johnson aimed to do this … Continue reading
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Tagged Affluence, Anti-War, Anxiety, Assassination, Black Vote, Blank Check, Bleed Out, Bobby Kennedy, Civil Rights, Conflict, Conservative, Counter-Culture, Disaffection, DMZ, Doctrine of Limited War, Domino Theory, Draft, Echo, Eisenshower, Emptiness, Ethics, Flaw, Fought, Franchisement, Gap, Government, Great Society, Hubert Humphry, Inadequacy, LBJ, Legendary, Legislation, Limitation, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Marriage, Martin Luther King Jr, Master, Materialism, Medicare, MLK, Nation, Nights, Nihilism, Nominee, Peace With Honor, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Politics, Poverty, Presidency, Promise, Question, Quiver, Radical Movements, Real Time, Repudiation, Result, Return, Richard Nixon, Riots, Role, Skepticism, Soldiers, Southeast Asia, Substiution, Television, Tonkin Bay Resolution, Torpedo, Up Close and Personal, Urban, Victory, Vietnam, Violence, Watts, Welfare, Wilderness
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Heirlooms In the Shadows
Haunted graveyards anyone? Heirlooms In the Shadows by Michael Doyle Where there is wanton violence There is always fear in that place You can feel it in the silence That permeates darkness in that space Standing there with the coffin … Continue reading
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Tagged Air, Believable, Bleak, Bury, Chance, Coffin, Crime, Crypt, Dance, Darkness, Dead, Death, Devil, Evil, Family Secret, Fear, Grave, Graveyard, Haunt, Heard, Heirloom, Horror, Ignorant, Inconceivable, Incur, Jewelry, Know, Locked Away, Many, Mausoleum, Moonlight, Night, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Pretend, Price, Promise, Regret, Respect, Save, Shadow, Silence, Stride, Told, Truth, Unfold, Violence, Welcome
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To Bring the Stars Closer
There are those who walk into our lives to not simply touch and fadeaway. There are those who from the moment met leave an indelible trace in your heart and soul. It is to this which has left me so … Continue reading
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Tagged Amaze, Attitude, Beautiful, Beauty, Belong, Brave, Bring, Change, Choose, Close, Closer, Compassion, Contentment, Control, Curl, Curled, Dare, Deep, Desire, Detail, Doubt, Dream, Duty, Embrace, End, Essence, Eyes, Fall, Fascination, Feel, Fools, Forgive, Forgotten, Friend, Give Up, God, Good Man, Grace, Gratitude, Harm, Heart, Heaven, Here, Hold, Hope, Illusion, Important, Inner, Inner Fire, Inspire, Latitude, Live, Look, Love, Lover, Lyric, Magic, Magnificence, Man, Mystery, Night, Obligation, Passion, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Praise, Pray, Purpose, Right, Risk, Serve, Significance, Silence, Sing, Sky, Sleep, Soul, Stars, Tears, Time, Token, Touch, Trace, Treasure, Truth, Violence, Watch, Ways, Weep, Well, Will, Wish, Woman, Wonder, Wonderful, World, Worth
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Ruined Absolution
This poem was meant for December 19, 2019. This is, among other observances, National Emo Day.. So Happy that… In my own confessional, I am struggling a bit these last few days with my upcoming birthday, Christmas almost here and … Continue reading
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Tagged Absence, Absolution, Afraid, Angst, Bangs, Beautiful, Brithday, Burn, Care, Chemical Romance, Christmas, Compression, Confession, Confessional, Contemplate, Dark, December 19 2019, Die, Do It Or Die, Embrace, Emotional, Escape, Expression, Fall, Fraught, Glance, Hair, Happy, Hollywood, Human Being, Ink, Inspiration, Intropective, Jet Black, Life, Little Girls, Love, National Emo Day, Nothing, Pain, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pride, Question, Ruin, Savage, Sigh, Silence, Skinny Jeans, Sleeve, Smile, Something, Sonic Attack, Sorrow, Stride, Structure, Sunday, Taste, Tee Shirt, Tenderness, Thin, Think, Violence, Violin, Want, World, Yesterday
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Thought For the Day: World Peace Must Develop From Inner Peace Manifesting From Compassion
“World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion.” – Dalai Lama
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Tagged Absence, Compassion, Dalai Lama, Develop, Human, Inner, Manifestation, Peace, Thought For the Day, Violence, World
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First Principles: Peace Cannot Be Achieved Through Violence, It Can Only Be Attained Through Understanding
“Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Tagged Achieve, Attain, First Principles, Peace, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Understanding, Violence
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Borne From the Violence
From the chaos that surrounds us, we find our way to the order that allows us to thrive. Borne From the Violence by Michael Romani Our world was borne from the violence Demanding from us, our best vigilance To duck … Continue reading
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Tagged Battle, Billions, Bliss, Bruise, Chaos, Collision, Connection, Duck and Roll, Dynamic, Empty, Focus, Forge, Ignorance, Lesson, Moment, Norm, Order, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Recall, Space, Stand, Storm, Sublime, Surround, Tale, Unaware, Victory, Vigilence, Violence, World
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