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First Principles: Peace, Commerce, and Honest Friendship With All Nations; Entangling Alliances With None
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Thought For the Day: A Thing of Beauty Is A Joy Forever, Its Loveliness Increases; It Will Never Pass Into Nothingness
“A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.” – John Keats
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It Feasts On Fear
It Feasts On Fear
by Michael Doyle
I.
Watch for signs of corruption in the morning,
In all the troubles that come without warning.
American Sign Language signals the meaning
Of all the challenges for us human beings.
Small towns brush life with their mercy,
Sipping whiskey from a bottle of Hennessy.
Frozen there in the solitude of night,
Anywhere but Derry would be alright.
A stranger's kid struggles with a pout,
Fighting with an urge to find a way out.
Some forms of vice are suffered merrily,
While others are escaped quite narrowly.
It was born quite evil and quite hungry.
A birthday greeting was given quite early
As It escaped to a drainage in the night.
It was spawned to bring others full fright.
Bangor Air Base had its special projects,
Along with nuclear fear and its rejects.
A normal town with all its participation,
Life was lived with a mix of fear and anticipation.
Duck and cover for the ashes of mass radiation.
The aliens and Russians were fearful interpretations.
The new normal wasn't a welcome invention,
But the military stood ready for intervention.
A little pessimism helps pass the time of day,
Sometimes ignorance needs to be pushed along the way.
Kids and parents fight their vivid imaginations.
It's how it is as sweet scenes bury titillation.
Town kids find themselves in a secret hideaway.
Into the darkness of the night, they're bound to stay.
Mood rings reveal their jammed-up feelings,
While accidents will happen as life keeps revealing.
The new year comes with a little conversation.
There are so many memories of past devastations.
It's how life happens on the way to the cemetery.
All of our dreams can turn out so contrary.
Trouble is as trouble comes down the country road,
In that in-between place that we've all been told.
Though we do our best to learn how to save,
There's no escaping the whispers calling to our graves.
(c) October 30, 2025 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: The Only Sure Way To Avoid Making Mistakes Is To Have No New Ideas
“The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas.” – Albert Einstein
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First Principles: One Useless Man Is A Shame, Two Is A Law Firm, and Three Is A Congress
“One useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three is a Congress.” – John Adams
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It’s A Wonderful Wonder
It's A Wonderful Wonder
by Michael Doyle
The works at God's hands
Are a wonder to understand.
I worship all that the Lord has made,
And my love for this will never fade.
It's a wonderful wonder
Filled with love and grace.
There is no unforgiven blunder,
Just an undying love that I embrace.
My God makes my journey's way
Through each and every day.
He has erased the sin of my past,
And replaced it with miracles to last.
I walk in wonder and I worship,
The Lord and this undying relationship.
Where He corrects my every wrong,
And I praise Him with my song.
It's through His will that I transform,
And to the ways of Jesus, I do conform.
Though the storms may rage and toss,
I am redeemed by His sacrifice at the cross.
In this world, I try to do a little good,
Though I may miss the mark, as it's understood.
Through loving ways of the Trinity
God's ways are revealed as no longer a mystery.
(c) October 29, 2025 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: I Never Considered A Difference of Opinion In Politics, In Religion, In Philosophy, As Cause For Withdrawing From A Friend
“I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.” – Thomas Jefferson
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Thought For the Day: Everyone Discusses My Art and Pretends To Understand, As If It Were Necessary To Understand, When It is Simply Necessary To Love
“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.” – Claude Monet
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Promises Made
Promises Made
by Michael Doyle
I remember the fateful day
That I finally decided
To embrace your heavenly ways
As God, you confronted me, and provided
The answers to all of my doubt.
I dove under the murky water,
But you eased my way out.
I give my promise to you, my Father.
They say I nearly died.
I say you had e in your hand.
I breathed my las, and you sighed,
Bringing me back to understand.
Every moment spent is a moment
That could have been too late.
I lived through the anguish and torment,
And your answer was for me to wait.
Every wrong move, you saw me through.
Your time is changing the night for me.
Yet, you'll always see me through.
Bringing me to the Holy and sublime.
(c) October 28, 2025 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: All Men By Nature Are Equal In That Equal Right That Every Man Hath To His Natural Freedom, Without Being Subjected To the Will or Authority of Any Other Man
“All men by nature are equal in that equal right that every man hath to his natural freedom, without being subjected to the will or authority of any other man; being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.” – John Locke
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