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As It Is With the Moon Above
As It Is With the Moon Aboveby Michael DoyleIn all the suffering behind poetryIt plays out deeply as if in melancholyIt’s a pouring out of love and painSomething lettered and yet still in vainSunshine and spring are simply a prefaceFor … Continue reading
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Tagged Above, As It Is, Beyond Reason, Blink of the Eye, Chilled, Compulsions of Love, Deep, Deep Passion, Embrace, In Vain, Just Our Luck, Lettered, Love and Pain, Melancholy, Moon, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Pouring Out, Practicality, Preface, Presses On, Pursue, Silvery Moon Above, Soon Gone, Source of Joy, Suffering, Sunshine and Spring, Things of Passion, Things That We Do, Thunderstruck, Time, Trickery, Warmth, Way of Love, Whole New World, Winter
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Beauty’s Brutality
Beauty’s Brutalityby Michael DoyleIn the deeps of Finland’s heartThe land lies in its darknessBathed in the Northern LightFrom where whispers of hope startAgainst the chilling harshnessBelow winter’s frosted nightSummer has been quick and fleetingTo thrive here takes endurance and courageWorn … Continue reading
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Tagged Alive, Ancient, Aurora Borealis, Beauty, Bleak Midwnter, Borne, Breeze, Brutality, Change, Chill, Comfort, Constant, Courage, Darkness, Deeps, Discourage, Down Under, Dreams, Endurance, Fatal, Finland, Fleeting, Fools, Forest, Free, Frost, Frozen In Time, Frozen Mouth, Gifts, Golden Eagle, Greeting, Grit, Harshness, Hope, Impatience, Infinity, Jeweled Crown, Land, Lapland, Legends, Life, Magical, Mesmerized, Midnight Sun, Moment To Spare, Myth, Myth of Fire Foxes, Never Know, Northern Light, Owl, Photograph, Pleasure, Poem, Poetry, Reindeer, Rule, Santa, Serenity, Shine, Stand To Know, Star-Filled Sky, Stillness, Struggle, Summer, Sunrise, Surprise, Survive, The Sun, Thrive, Tough Lessons, Trees, Warmth, Weeks On End, Weight In Gold, Whisper, Winter, Winter Snow, Wisdom
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A Dagger’s Breath
The last in the classic retelling of a classic werewolf tale: A Dagger’s Breath by Michael Doyle Everywhere the deceived heart searches for clues Bits of treachery displayed in all of its hues You can hide it all within a … Continue reading
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Tagged Ask, Aware, Banks, Bestial Pride, Big Eyes, Bitten, Blood Moon, Breath, Brutality, Chains, Christ, Clue, Complain, Confide, Courage, Cross, Curse, Dagger, Dagger's Breath, Darkness, Daughter, Deceived, Destiny, Devil's Daughter, Die, Ears, Errors, Father, Fears, Feel, Foggy, Goodbye, Hatred, Heart, Hero, Hide, Hues, Invincible, Lake, Lies, Loss, Love, Mask, Mortality, Nightmares, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Protect, Questions, Reins, Safe Passage, She, Sheer Terror, Silver, Simple, Slain, Soul Shake, Sunrise, Tale, Tears, Teeth, Treachery, Unholy, Vain, Veins, Verse, Want, Watch, Werewolf, Winter, Woken, Wolf
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A Cowboy Slips Into Easy
Some of my heroes have been cowboys. At least one of them was a cowgirl. My sister. She’s likely riding the North Back 40 in heaven now looking down on us all and encouraging us to ride through this storm … Continue reading
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Tagged Belong, Brave, Cast, Changes, Coffee, Cowboy, Cowboy Ways, Cowgirl, Cup, Dakota, Easy, Enough, Face, Going On, Half Remembered, Hero, Home, Human Beings, Intangibles, Jukebox, Known, Life, Light, Luck, Made, Name, One Day, Own, People, Photograph, Place, Poem, Poetry, Principles, Promises, Proof, Quarter, Ranges, Same, Seen, Sister, Slips, Smile, Splinter, Stand By, Stone, Storm, Taste, Thrown, Truth, Unafraid, When, While, Winter, Yester
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The Wolf Knows Its Howl
Enforced surveillance and censorship of the creative mind, particularly by oppressive government is nothing short of a crime against humanity. The Wolf Knows Its Howl by Michael Doyle When a writer must be brave To memorize just to save The … Continue reading
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Tagged Artist, Authority, Bitterness, Brave, Call, Censorship, Choke, Civilization, Conscience, Control, Creative Mind, Crevice, Crime Against Humanity, Cry, Culture, Dark, Days, Die, Education, Eradication, Falls, Fight, Free, God, Heart, Howl, Ink, Know, Labor, Light, Live, Mankind, Memorize, Night, Opportunism, Oppression, Paper, Pessimism, Photograph, Poem, Poet, Poetry, Poisoned Tongue, Power, Right, Save, Scrap, Shadow, Sheep, Sleep, Start, Stifle, Surveillance, Truth, Undertaking, Unmask, Watch, Winter, Wolf, Words, World, Writer
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Idylls of the Progressive Age
Continuing in this look at American History. Idylls of the Progressive Age by Michael Doyle Theodore Roosevelt rose to the presidency Upon the assassination of William McKinley A cowboy rode into the White House that day Formidable and enthusiastic in … Continue reading
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Tagged 1904, 1912, Act, American History, Assassination, Booker T Washington, Bull Moose Party, Business, Century, Coalminers, Consoldiation, Constitution, Contrary, Cowboy, Dominance, Eugene Debs, Federal Reserve, Founders, Government, Idyll, Impropriety, John Muir, Land Reserve, Legislation, Nation, National Forest, Nationalism, Natural Beauty, Necessary, Photograph, Pillars, Poem, Poetry, Politics, Presidency, Progressive Age, Racism, Reform, Republican, Sanctity, Segregation, Senior Partner, Sentiment, Society, Stewardship, Sweeping Changes, Tariffs, Theodore Roosevelt, Trust Bust, White House, William Howard Taft, William McKinley, Winter, Woodrow Wilson
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Wild Romania
It’s the second day of NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo 2020! The prompt today is: “to write a poem about a specific place — a particular house or store or school or office. Try to incorporate concrete details, like street names, distances (“three … Continue reading
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Tagged Ancient Forest, Autumn, Awake, Backbone, Beams, Beasts, Beauty, Bounty, Breath, Brown Bear, Carpathian Mountains, City, Conifer, Crisp, Cruel, Day, Deep Sleep, Drift, Eat, Embrace, Europe, Explore, Flow, Forage, Forest, Freeze, Frozen, Giants, Ice, Light, Mistress, Mountain, Myth, NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo 2020, Nature, Nibble, Photograph, Place, Play, Poem, Poetry, Reason, Rest, Rivers, Romania, Season, Shake, Skies, Slip, Snow, Spring, Story, Straggler, Struggle, Summer, Sunlight, Sunrise, Time, Wild, Wild Boar, Wilderness, Winding, Winter, Wolves, Wonder
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A New Nation Born Pt I
In a continuing cycle on America, we look at the Revolutionary War through England’s defeat at Yorktown: A New Nation Born Pt I by Michael Doyle Let’s have no sense of delusion The united states were but illusion Or, perhaps … Continue reading
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Tagged Allusion, America, American Crisis, Army, Bolder, Brith, British Crown, Certainty, Change, Character, Christmas Eve, Colonial, Common Sense, Confusion, Continental Congress, Contribution, Credible, Cross, Dawn, Defense, Delaware, Delusion, Discontent, Dues, Encourage, England, Even, Exhaustion, Fabric, Family, Fragility, Fragmentation, French, General, George Washington, Glory, Hard Times, Hessians, Hope, Landing, Lead, Legacy, Length, Level, Lost, Loyalty, Nation, Navy, New, Odds, Offensive, Pay, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Position, Rag Tag, Revolutionary War, Saratoga, Society, Staten Island, Story, Strength, Summer Soldier, The World Turned Upside Down, Thirds, Thomas Paine, Thrust, Tilt, Triumph, Truth, United States, Valley Forge, Van Steuben, Victory, War, Weak, Will, Winter, Words, Yorktown
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