“In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.” – James Madison
Father In A Modern World
by Michael Doyle
Being a father who is generationally removed
Leaves very little feeling that life has improved.
The world is spinning, and it feels blurred
When I think of the changes that have occurred.
I watch my daughters rooting for their aspirations
At the same time, I cry for the broken nations
A life that consists of a cradle-to-empty career
Only leaves me tattered in my unshared tears
I watch them struggle between relationships,
Wondering if they believe in a god to worship.
As they make their own kind of choices,
Each of them independently finding their voices.
Will there be wedding pictures above a fireplace
Or just a cold house and a career they embrace?
I watch them walk away from sacred traditions
And try to feel fulfilled with pics of graduation
It takes a lot in life to press on that far.
I find myself thinking as I strum on this guitar,
Where's the bad of God, country, and the family?
It's all these things that mean so much to me.
There's a lot of discipline in the good girl mentality.
Mastering the skill sets requires great facility.
Still, all the things that I value aren't empty,
And what would be the harm of God, country, and family?
We have awakened at the dawn of a new girl order in life.
It's a day and age when it is meaningless to be a wife.
Only a new sense of the heroic feminist will save this day.
I watch over my daughters' sleeping, and I silently pray.
(c) April 25, 2025 Michael Doyle
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“Whoever commands the sea, commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself.” – Walter Raleigh
Let’s build these ships through manpower or robotics armed with AI and achieve parity with China. We must maintain freedom of the seas and allow trade to thrive.
‘The time has come,’ the walrus said, ‘to talk of many things: of shoes and ships – and sealing wax – of cabbages and kings.’ – Lewis Carroll
From High To Low
by Michael Doyle
Too many people believe in the niche
And from there won't budge an inch.
Truth? It pays to know about everything
Because then, you can choose what to bring
To the party of life's extremes.
From this, you can learn to work your dreams.
And the most needed of people do this
Despite how many others seem to miss
The factuality of this reality.
You need to know the high to the low.
If you are to be the one who is needed -
So, the wise have always pleaded.
Learning this seems an absurdity.
That out of enough of the ordinary
Are built things seemingly extraordinary,
Some of which become legendary.
From this, jazz came to be born
From a few notes played on a horn.
Folk music, developed from the ordinary,
It was improvised into the extraordinary.
Once born, it processed an accumulation
Of growth, as it first spread across the nation,
And unable to help itself, it became ever more
Into a richness that hinted at the poor.
A street urchin's knowledge of the street
Brought about a syncopated sense of beat.
From this plain English and sensibility
A skill set grew with accomplished ability
Grew and grew until all its notable joys
Became the bebop that sounded like noise
To those who didn't have quite the ear
For the dissonance that invoked fears
That, again, grew into a degree of fascination
Until a fusion was born in its exasperation
Learning again that all music is folk music heard
A sort of witch's brew, shaken and self-stirred
Someone call the press, and keep them on the phones
As we feel the downbeat deep in our riddled bones
However free form, jazz music is always synthesizing
And in its secret delights, it is always mesmerizing
(c) April 24, 2025 Michael Doyle
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“The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.” – Anthony Trollope, novelist (24 Apr 1815-1882)
“We are teaching the world the great truth that Governments do better without Kings & Nobles than with them. The merit will be doubled by the other lesson that Religion Flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.” – James Madison (1822)
Loneliness Prevails
by Michael Doyle
Across the world exists a billion private hells.
It is a place where loneliness prevails.
The struggle is with interpersonal trust and vulnerability.
Alienation pervasively crushes the human commnunity.
Each of our hearts silently cries out for more.
Hoping that those we love will never go away
Or, maybe not even knowing how to reach out
To someone else and hold the hand filled with doubt
I watch from my corner, hidden in the shadow,
Wanting so badly for the world to learn and know
That it's not about reaching out in all directions
But to finding the true heart and makin real connections.
A hazardous as it is, it's quality over quantity.
It's not a lack of company, but a need for intimacy.
What we need is to be loved and truly known
For our authentic selves not for the masks we've shown.
It isn't mere presence. It's consistency and positivity.
These things take the hardest thing, vulnerability.
It is the shared context of keeping close proximity
That is the only way to unravel life's consistency.
Anything short of this, is at best, an imperfect solution
To the inner struggle that requires its resolution.
Expensive distractions and false promises quickly end.
What's needed by all is at least one true friend.
Spent time is not a "to-do" to be crossed from a list.
If you think this, there is something that you've missed.
To have a true friend, you must yourself be a true friend
And this brings poem to its poignant, necessary end.
(c) April 23, 2025 Michael Doyle
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“Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.” – Thomas Carlyle
“Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity. For every false word or unrighteous deed, for cruelty and oppression, for lust or vanity, the price has to be paid at last.” – James Anthony Froude
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