“Drama is life with the dull bits left out. There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. I believe in putting the horror in the minds of the audience, and not necessarily on the screen. The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.” – Alfred Hitchcock
Subversive of Conformity
by Michael Doyle
Same likes same, in the interest of conformity.
But do we stop to consider the vast enormity?
What is the outcome of unquestioning loyalty
In a nation and world prone toward brutality?
However infantile, an attack on orthodoxy
Leaves a lasting stain similar to blasphemy.
There is a question of subversion in philosophy
That really doesn't sit right in the land of the free.
The press is to preserve the freedom of the mind
Where thought is allowed with no condition to bind.
The seeing and the thinking must proceed in improvement
If we, the free, are to have a righteous government.
In our republic, we exalt the ways of freedom,
Independent as we are from the ways of a kingdom.
To have done otherwise would be to abridge our liberty,
And put the killing stroke to our place in history.
The last hundred years have acted to extinguish the lights,
That act to guide humanity on the path of our human rights.
Lost promises have collapsed as to our moral improvement.
We have acquiesced in the name of obeying our government.
The press is to preserve the freedom of the mind
Where thought is allowed with no condition to bind.
The seeing and the thinking must proceed in improvement
If we, the free, are to have a righteous government.
It is the price we pay to move beyond existence,
To know ourselves as greater than mere resistance.
It is the price that we must always willingly pay,
If mankind is to find its best and better days.
Surely it is not blasphemous in any of our seasons,
That all things under God are not subject to reason.
Everything should be subject to rigorous question,
To do otherwise is in abeyance of our Constitution.
The press is to preserve the freedom of the mind
Where thought is allowed with no condition to bind.
The seeing and the thinking must proceed in improvement
If we, the free, are to have a righteous government.
(c) August 12, 2025 Michael Doyle
All Rights Reserved
“Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.” – William McKinley
“Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.” – Thales
Hoosier Rains
by Michael Doyle
It has been over twenty years now
And it's on my mind still somehow.
I was driving, approaching the state line
Of Indiana, determined to make it mine.
Shortly before the sight of the dunes, I had planned
To visit like some sort of swimmer of the sand.
As my eyes had just eyed Lake Michigan's shore,
Those cold, piercing Hoosier rains began to pour.
Small but important, its notable location
Set the state central in this nation.
The Hoosier rains gave me pause for procrastination.
It would be another day to reach that destination.
Onward I drove down through the Hoosier rains,
Grateful to be in a SUV and not be holding reins.
I hadn't known that it would rain for nearly 60 days,
Or that it would ease up into Indiana's sunny rays.
In that time, I learned of Hoosier hospitality.
It's not just a rumor but a deep-seated reality.
The milk of kindness is nurturing for the soul,
And maybe it is needed with nature out of control.
The Hoosier rains obscure these native skies,
Sometimes painted with a rainbow for our eyes
To realize the beauty that there is to be found
From the heavens above to the planted ground.
The most remarkable thing about flatness is it's not.
Reputations can be false when the reality is forgot.
Having traveled between the Hoosier rains to every part,
I have learned Indiana's hills and crags by my heart.
There is so much structure shaped by near silence,
Chiseled out of the landscape by glacial violence,
Are the lands once known as the West and Indian country.
And after the Hoosier rains pass, there is tranquility.
Time's passages teach a bit of humility and true grace,
And from them there is much to be learned about this place.
Without the Hoosier rains and turmoils of strife,
Little would grow that brings the good of our life.
(c) August 11, 2025 Michael Doyle
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“God forbid that the day should ever come when, in the American mind, the thought of man as a consumer shall submerge the old American thought of man as a creature of God, endowed with unalienable rights.” – Benjamin Harrison
“Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.” – Mother Teresa
Finding Christian Contentment
by Michael Doyle
Rejoice in and readily show your love,
Following the ways of our God above.
Always seeking after our good contentment
While doing our best to reach for improvement.
Whatever your situation and circumstance,
We can defeat the discomfort of our happenstance.
It is in our hearts played inside your minds
That we gain our sense of what needs to be left behind.
Discontentment has no pluses or useful employment
In finding our way to achieving good enjoyment.
The contentious heart finds its own hostility
With people with whom we have no true enmity.
This is not meant to be something easy,
Nor does thinking this, in any way, please me,
Nor other Christians in striving for improvement.
But it is to say we all must find true contentment.
It is by our own hard worked for preferences
That it comes as our Christian duty, honor, and excellence.
It is the undervalued grace of our true refinement,
That comes in our five-step program toward contentment.
Life comes at us hard in its full complexity,
And we all experience those times of anxiety.
Troubles catch us without a trace of sympathy,
And so, in contentment, we approach life with empathy.
Swan songs aside, God will allow for the doubt
That contentment comes from within, not without.
Affairs of finance, rob us without deceit,
Is it truly better to give in at life's receipt?
All that we have is from God's rich abundance.
That which is given us is from providence.
Both sides of the street have understood
That life has given all of us both bad and good.
In life, where we need to learn God dependency,
We have become a world demanding self-sufficiency.
Everything can and must be done by God's strength.
This is as true as our day have their full length.
There is no gospel of those demanding prosperity.
That has no legitimate place in Christian Orthodoxy.
Our failures show our God's best success
As He makes us strong enough to pass life's test.
True contentment is found in facing life's adversity,
Not in some magical formula of prosperity.
This is a certain need for our very real detachment
If we are to find our way to Christian contentment.
Our peace if found in striving for the divine unity
Of our Savior Jesus in His blessed divinity.
In knowing Jesus, we find our way to make it through.
There is really nothing further for us to do.
Our contentment is found in the deepening relationship
That serves as the basis of all true forms of worship.
This is the essence of all that's found to be true,
His salvation and love exists for the likes of me and you.
Whatever we come to face must be faced with gratitude.
This is the only right and reverential attitude.
Our highest ambition is to follow God in every and all
Things that come our way as we respond to His holy call.
We are as simple clay in the Potter's majestic hand,
As we walk our live as best that we understand.
God provides us and guides us in our possibility
To live life in grace and with our humility.
(c) August 10, 2025 Michael Doyle
All Rights Reserved
“Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.” – Booker T. Washington
“Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves.” – Philippians 2:3 NIV
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