Unknown mountain tops to explore Is an answer and a prayer for the more That comes from a world knowing less Is actually more, the function search of a guess
As if there is still a peak yet to exist It would be where the human soul can persist In most being itself and not a duplicate Where people wish for self while living in replicate
The answers that others have given But believe they are themselves, needs to be forgiven Like Hobbits who never venture beyond the shire Yet babble on endlessly until they eventually tire
Those who make us believe should be deified When it is ourselves they say who are rarified Would it be boring or enough to live on the forever In which we are smiling or thinking ourselves clever
With a laugh, we wish we could simply disappear To some place, any place, other than being here Lies spread themselves ever corrupting the soul It is the quiet spaces that allow up back to self-control
High on a mountain top where I can at last be me Is sometimes, it seems, the only place left to be With the outside world searching for freedom's shout Such questions are only for those living within doubt
(c) January 6, 2023 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
“The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted … if by decency and propriety of conduct they appear to merit the enjoyment.” – George Washington (1783)
“The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reach us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.” – Kahlil Gibran, poet and artist (6 Jan 1883-1931)
“There are in fact four very significant stumbling blocks in the way of grasping the truth, which hinder every man however learned, and scarcely allow anyone to win a clear title to wisdom, namely, the example of weak and unworthy authority, longstanding custom, the feeling of the ignorant crowd, and the hiding of our own ignorance while making a display of our apparent knowledge.” – Roger Bacon (1220-1292)
“Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them” – Umberto Eco, philosopher and novelist (5 Jan 1932-2016)
Before the ever of never That thought itself clever Is the cosmic perspective That proclaimed itself reflective
A messenger from the stars High above the skyscrapers and cars It not to be too irreverent To say that the world looks different
Now that we too have seen It's become time for all human beings To being our urgent redefinition Into a world of one tribe, not just nations
No longer are we in Paleolithic isolation As we look down in our fascination A new quiet reveals past the confusion And an greater truth reveals the former an illusion
(c) January 4, 2023 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
“People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.” -Max Eastman, journalist and poet (4 Jan 1883-1969)
Told from the tallest mountains Yet kept within my mainframes I will shout, "Jesus!", and maintain My sustenance is found in His holy name
Truth spoken in a quiet tone of reverence We are bound inseparable by the difference Of the how that God responds to us, each and everyone Meeting present and future, leaving past as done
With love and hope for the new year just begun For all the dreams we have that have yet to be won By our faith and works, our strength will be known In all the wonders that will yet come to be shown
Ratcheting up to the next level of needed explanation We focus on things fuzzy and sometimes untenable It pays to know all of the available tools Such as prayer and fasting that make the wise out of fools
There was something different in how Jesus prayed Lessons in word and deed that were always well-played Prayer is best a first response, not a last resort As we are brought to our limits, as we make our report
Starting our day in our faith for what will come Living each moment forward in the name of the kingdom Our prayers are to treat God as our God leaned on It's theology experienced as life continues rolling on
For each of us to truly come to understand the final why It is up to each disciple to do these things and apply All that we need to think on as to what needs laid down In order to live God's will and wear sweet victory's crown
Reconnecting in becoming Godly and duly reconnected This generation needs to heed this and stand corrected In the littleness of our faith unlike that in a mustard seed That finds us clinging to the faith which all of us need
Turning to God in prayer builds our best true relationship It is prayer's connection that is the best intentional worship Living out faith in His presence, we reside in our commitment This is the better church that leads to our contentment
(c) January 3, 2023 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
Heading out of Australia to escape this Aussie winter. First stop Japan, then UK/Ireland and if work doesn't call me back, onto Chicago. I will make it up as I go along
