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First Principles: The Rights of Conscience, of Bearing Arms, of Changing the Government, Are Declared To Be Inherent In the People
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Virtue and Disobedience
Virtue and Disobedience
by Michael Doyle
Painting away your day
As old records play
Each portrait painted with feeling
Is nothing less than soul-revealing
That is to say about the painters' ways
Not of the sitter, despite honoring his days
Spending time on crafting the right impression
This is hard felt at the artist's confession
The curve of your lips excites history
A phantom lover lives by his mystery
Disobedience is deemed the original virtue
As we rewrite history, making it less true
All great ideas live on as our art
Immorally ours and dangerous to the heart
The genius of this needs no explanation
The evil of this defies all rationalization
The controlling eyes limit what the artist sees
To only his sense of desired possibilities
It's not as simple as anyone's skill set
But just enough polish to slip past the regrets
The innocent are too often used as pawns
Until finally, all the survivors are gone
A thousand years masks the overwhelming pain
But nothing, even truth, confesses what is plain
The curve of your lips excites history
A phantom lover lives by his mystery
Disobedience is deemed the original virtue
As we rewrite history, making it less true
All great ideas live on as our art
Immorally ours and dangerous to the heart
The genius of this needs no explanation
The evil of this defies all rationalization
The madman is confident that no one sees
The knife blade felt with much indignity
Thrown to the wolves of his depravity
He wonders if there is someone else to be
In the strangeness of life, death takes a holiday
There are too many sorrows to drink away
A deal made under duress is a deal not made
Yet, the madman and the saint are equally unafraid
(c) October 10, 2024 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: Heaven Is Under Our Feet As Well As Over Our Heads
“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.” —Henry David Thoreau
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Thought For the Day: Forget Not That the Earth Delights To Feel Your Bare Feet and the Winds Long To Play With Your Hair
“Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”– Khalil Gibran
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Welcome To Our Church of Glory
Welcome To Our Church of Glory
by Michael Doyle
The rock of ages
Is spread across the pages
We hear it in the harmony
We see it in the world's beauty
It's for this, I sing
All the glory to my king
Jesus gives us all for our good
One step at a time, it's understood
Welcome to our church of glory
Hear our freedom story
Love to live in all we do
Keeping our focus on what's true
We turn our hearts to worship
Fully focused on the relationship
The God of Jacob endures each generation
Called on with our veneration
This God of smiles is needed
Through prayer, my cause is pleaded
His faithfulness is easily known
Through His love that is daily shown
Welcome to our church of glory
Hear our freedom story
Love to live in all we do
Keeping our focus on what's true
(c) October 9, 2024 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: Stability In Government Is Essential To National Character and To the Advantages Annexed To It…Which Are Among the Chief Blessings of Civil Society
“Stability in government is essential to national character and to the advantages annexed to it, as well as to that repose and confidence in the minds of the people, which are among the chief blessings of civil society.” – James Madison (1788)
Thought For the Day: It Was Beauty That Killed the Beast
“It was beauty that killed the beast.” – Carl Denham, King Kong (1933)
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A Catch of Breath
A Catch of Breath
by Michael Doyle
Let's admit that we're born dying
It's time to stop our crying
Let these words be quietly spoken
It's okay to be a little broken
We're connected by more than our heads
We have more meaning than our words said
It starts and ends with our heartbeat
Shared across the distances that time eats
Can you tell me? Can you hear?
The words of love are deeper than fear
No matter how far this nightmare goes on
I know that you aren't really gone
As I lay beside this gentle stream
I feel your will to survive beyond this dream
You may be beaten down to your last breath
But you have not yet embraced quiet death
Breathe with me, struggling through the years
Though, this day, we are down to bitter tears
The promises that we have kept
Will never equal the tears that we have wept
Our story began with a soul shake
I guess it now ends with one mistake
Though I don't know how to let you go
I guess you'll always have a hold on my soul
This world is punishing by the pain it brings
It is the blues every broken heart sings
One bullet, one gun; I won't deceive
With a gentle squeeze, the trigger is pulled, and I breath
With sad eyes, I watch your life fade away
I wasn't ready to let you go today
But some things just need to be done
I only wish there was another bullet in the gun
With a gentle nod, I quietly say goodbye
I wish it had been my turn to die
Instead, I hold your hand and silently cry
Swearing to every god, that I'll never really say goodbye
(c) October 8, 2024 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: Cutting Negative People From My Life Does Not Mean I Hate Them, It Simply Means I Respect Me
“Cutting negative people from my life does not mean I hate them, it simply means I respect me.” – Marilyn Monroe
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First Principles: Blessed Are the Peacemakers, For They Will Be Called Children of God
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God…” – Matthew 5:9
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