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Valentine’s Season
Valentine’s Seasonby Michael DoyleIn a circular society, there are seasonsSome of these devoid of sensible reasonsAs to why there is plenty or there is lessLove to be found, yet if I had to guessIt’s more worth quietly learning to resignAnd … Continue reading
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Tagged Age, All of This, Alone, Anguish, Apartment Wall, Argument, Attention, Call, Capuccino, Chances, Circular Society, Complete, Constant Denial, Cry, Design, Devoid, Do Not Disturb Sign, Dream, Easy, Efforts, Evade, Failed To Say, Falling In Love, Father, Feelings, Find Her, Follow, Found, Four Course Dinner, Friends, Good Turn, Guess, Happiness and Joy, Human Condition, Journey, Learn, Less, Life, Loneliness, Love, Love Depends, Loveable, Manage, Mine, Miss, My Daughters, My Fault, Plenty, Poetry and Poems, Point, Prayer, Quiet Moments, Reasons, Reminder, Replete, Resign, Season, Seasons, Secret, Self-Sedition, Shadows, Silver Moonlight, Sip, Smile, Someone, Stone, Trip, Try, Tyle, Valentine, Wish
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Poinsettia Day 2023
Poinsettia Day 2023by Michael DoyleUsually quiet and sometimes reservedSometimes death seems so undeservedIt’s hard to find the words to sayLike on this present Poinsettia DayLife is sad, yet interesting, in processionMoments like these reveal this is not a possessionBut a … Continue reading
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Tagged 2023, Abovee, Accept, Afrar, Angels, Aware, Borrow, Breakdown, Breathe, Bring, Christmas Tale, David, Death, December, Do My Best, Eyes, Family, Filled, First Noel, Flower, Forgiving, Fullness, Gift, Giving, Guitar, Hard, Healing Light, Heart, Heavens, Him, Important, Know, Laughter, Life, Lived, Love, Midnight, Moments, My Life, News, Openly Weep, Plucking Notes, Poetry and Poems, Poinsettia Day, Possession, Procession, Quiet, Remember, Resentment, Reserved, Reveal, Sad, Sad Day, Shepherd, Shining Bright, Sing, Smile, Sorrow, Star, Story, Turn Out Right, Undesvered, Up Close, Wise, Wish, Words
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First Principles: I Wish To Be Useful, and Every Kind of Service Necessary For the Public Good, Becomes Honorable By Being Necessary
“I am not influenced by the expectation of promotion or pecuniary reward. I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary for the public good, becomes honorable by being necessary.” – Nathan Hale (1776)
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Tagged Expectation, First Principles, Honor, Influenced, Nathan Hale, Necessary, Pecuniary Reward, Promotion, Public Good, Service, Useful, Wish
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The Naughty List
The Naughty Listby Michael DoyleWhen the truth’s told even in the best of timesA heart should beware of the easiest rhymesKeeping an eye out for the details of the DevilIs best because we know he’s never on the levelThere’s a … Continue reading
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Tagged Because, Best, Best of Times, Beware, Bright Lights, Careful, Christmas, Christmas Magic, Coca-Cola Santa, Contest, Crass Commericalism, Dark Side, Decorations, Details, Devil, Display, Doubt, Eye Out, Fights, Forgotten, Heart, Hustle and Bustle, Level, Modern Age, Parades, Poetry and Poems, Point of View, Pray, Question, Real Reason, Reason For the Season, Rhymes, Room Enough, Teasin', The Naughty List, Time Enough, Told, Too Bad, Tragic, True, Truth, Wish
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First Principles: Wish Not So Much To Live Long As To Live Well
“Wish not so much to live long as to live well.” – Benjamin Franklin (1746)
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Tagged Benjamin Franklin, First Principles, Live Long, Live Well, Much, Not, Wish
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Jake LaMotta’s Blackened Blues
Jake LaMotta’s Blackened Bluesby Michael DoyleWith the pressure of coal refractiveIn a life hard lived and extractiveA diamond’s aspects glitter in their huesThe Bronx Bull lived his blackened bluesWhen out of the ring, his prowess was as abusiveAs his desire … Continue reading
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Tagged Abusive, Aspects, Blackened, Blues, Born, Brown Down, Bruises, Caged Canary, Champion, Cheers, Coal, Contest, Crown, Cure, Currency, Desire, Destiny, Elusive, Endure, Extractive, Feel, Fight, Footwork, Found, Go Down, Hard Life, Harm, Hues, Jabs, Jake LaMotta, Jeers, Journey, Kock Out, Life, Life Hard Lived, Love, Night After Night, No Good Answers, Outrun, Parade, Poetry and Poems, Pressure, Prowess, Punch, Pursuit, Push Beyond, Refractive, Remember, Ring, Shadow Box, Shakespearian Quest, Sing, Sir Olivier, Soured Life, Sugar Ray, Tears, The Bronx Bull, The Raging Bull, Treadmill, Unknown, Walls, Wish, Wonder, Years
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Like Souls Rising From the Dead
Like Souls Rising From the Deadby Michael DoyleHidden symbols press the conscienceAnd then denies the separation of scienceFrom the spirituality of all things trueThis is independent of a fearful point of viewMorals only tend to get in the wayOf moments … Continue reading
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Tagged Anger, Asp, Blasphemous Prayers, Block, Born, Clasp, Company, Conscience, Consequence, Cosmic Strife, Craven World, Cursed, Damned, Darkness, Dead, Divine, Engrave, Eternal Fire, Evil, Fallen Angels, Fear, Godless, Greed, Hand, Harness, Hellish Choir, Hidden Symbols, Hidden Truth, Knowledge, Life, Lightning, Majesty, Mire, Mirror, Morals, Mother Nature, Names, New Day, New Life, New Meaning, Night, Outshine, Pain, Palmistry, Past Light, Phoenix Rises, Poetry and Poems, Point of View, Price, Rise, Sacred Veil, Satan, Science, Separation, Souls, Spirituality, Stranger, Sun Rise, Sympathy, True, Undone, Winter Storm, Wish, Womb
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Happy Halloween 2023
Happy Halloween 2023by Michael DoylePumpkin, ghosts, and black catsCoffins, ghouls, and witches hatsIt’s a dizzying juxtapositionOf death in a freeform composition Each holiday has its own marked placeThat helps society’s children embraceThe traces of life that we all knowThat shift … Continue reading
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Tagged Acceptance, Black Cats, Children, Coffins, Composition, Death, Dormancy, Embrace, Fall, Fear, Freeform, Frivolity, Ghost, Ghouls, Grow, Halloween, Happiness, Happy Halloween 2023, Holiday, Horror Tales, Juxtaposition, Know, Laughter, Life, Magic, Marked Place, Mean, Memento Mori, Mortality, Movies, Nonsensical, Pieces, Poetry and Poems, Pumpkins, Reminder, Saint, Scare, Scares, Scattered, Shift, Smile, Society, Soul, Stitches, Teach, Trace, Whimsical, Winter, Wish, Witches, Witches Hats
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A Humble Servant’s Inquiry
A Humble Servant’s Inquiryby Michael DoyleIs it rebellious to question?I ask this in humblest confessionWe wish only that those we loveMight escape a little longer from heaven aboveWhile others wish for that deathThrough the struggle of wounded breathA second prayer … Continue reading
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Tagged Become, Blemish, Children, Confession, Conquest, Death, Eternity, God, Heaven Above, Holy Rain, Humble Servant, Inquiry, Life's Journey, Love, Merciful End, Mirror, Noble Quest, Paid In Full, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Question, Rebel, Redeem, Rest, Second Prayer, Servant's Request, Struggle, Test, Wish, Wounded Breath, Younger Self
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First Principles: Wish Not So Much To Live Long As To Live Well
“Wish not so much to live long as to live well.” – Benjamin Franklin (1746)
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Tagged Benjamin Franklin, First Principles, Live, Long, Much, Well, Wish
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 