“The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered deeply, perhaps as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.” – George Washington
“We are social creatures to the inmost center of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong.” -Karl Popper, philosopher and professor (28 Jul 1902-1994)
How Far Is Too Far
by Michael Doyle
How far is too far
You need to take it
All the way
Following that star
You cannot fake it
Even for a day
No longer giving
The wages of lip service
But giving everything
Life in its forgiving
Is to live a life of service
Bringing all we can bring
Over our heads
In our immersion
Taking up the cross
Lessons from the woodsheds
Taught in our baptism
Victory comes at Satan's loss
(c) July 27, 2022 Michael Doyle
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“Only oppression should fear the full exercise of freedom.” – Jose Marti y Perez (1853-1895)
“Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such persons, gullibility, which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand of reason and the mind becomes a wreck.” – Thomas Jefferson (1822)
A poem written dedicated to my daughters in conjunction with the last class in a series on building resilience in life and to encourage them to chase their dreams always!
Never Give Up
by Michael Doyle
Life like a Rembrandt painting
Is meant to be lived with flair
Perhaps more bedeviling than sainting
Willing to be more bold even as the world stares
Unafraid to live up to expectations
Being unafraid to give one's full dedication
Giving sacrifices as needed to be given
Doing first then asking to be forgiven
If needed to be but live as if you mean
To be the very best of a special human being
Looking up into the stars unafraid to give
Doing one's best to be live all the life you have to live
Believe in yourself in all that you do
Chase after your dreams to make them come true
And know that your father believed in you
Always wanting the best in all that you do
Daring to give yourself in full dedication
To learn the best given in your education
Learning friend from foe in every way to know
That all of this will help you to fully grow
Know the waters that you must swim
Keep your light shining never to grow dim
Give your mind and heart in full inspiration
To accomplish all you can in complete dedication
Keep after these dreams inside your soul
Knowing there is only so much in your control
Always resolving to learn what you can learn
And always living the best life you can earn
Not all of your life will bring you a thrill
It's in those challenging times, you'll live by will
Letting nothing happen to lose to distraction
Living life to the fullest and with fascination
Believe that you can and you'll make it to shore
And then the same you keep going back for more
Let your example be one that passes the test
To help inspire others to be their very best
This is the magic felt with its special grace
The ambition needed to be felt in its trace
Never give up any sense of your inspiration
But live your life in its fullest dedication
Stay at the corner of free will and grace
This will take you through all you will face
Let each moment never manage to stop your flow
In the majesty of billion stars that glow
Push yourself strong with purest emotion
Giving your all in each moment's devotion
One day you'll look back on all that you've done
Knowing inside yourself, you've shown that you're the one
And then...having lived all that you can
You'll have been the best of being the woman
That I know that you will grow to be
And on that day, take a moment to remember me
In the end, it's the friends we've made
And the stories we've told in the shade
That will matter most as you'll relive
The times you never gave up in the life you will live
Seize the days as you will chase your dreams
Don't be afraid to be out your craziest schemes
The longest journey begins there at its start
Open up these avenues and always.. follow your heart
(c) July 26, 2022 Michael Doyle
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“The burning of an author’s books, imprisonment for opinion’s sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time.” – Joseph Allen (1749-1827)
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” – Carl Jung, psychiatrist (26 Jul 1875-1961)
Trees Are Overrated
by Michael Doyle
Speaking of paradigms outdated
It turns out trees are overrated
This thought comes I am knee-deep
In a prairie's secrets to keep
In the verdant landscape, songbirds sing
Providing a soundtrack to the blessed things
Dancing blue granma and sand dropseed
Trace the passages prairie dogs quietly read
Once upon 80 million years ago
The first shoots of grass began to grow
An odd weed vying for room on the forest floor
Flowing into impossible numbers hard to ignore
Homo sapiens arose from this as a grass people
Where savanna skies formed our first steeple
Today, the suffering of grave damage brings a decline
Disposable as grasslands hoping for a sign
Arboreal chauvinism flows in a tyranny of trees
Truly needed velds are ignored amidst the pleas
As waist high golden-grass shimmers in its waves
A pendulum swings like a scythe across the graves
Of a world that seeks protection beyond all cost
Not knowing what to do to preserve it before its lost
The grasslands that hold the secret in their soil
And without which it matters little how man might toil
Against the slow-motion tug-of-war that chases
The ebb and flow of forest and grassland traces
Each is overturned in a narrative of human destruction
That offers the present and future its instruction
As it turns out in the true history of procession
There is not a naturalness nor one way succession
In its biome awareness, there are lessons of disparity
That only recently has come to be known in clarity
Despite the seeming sameness of apparent simplicity
The native grasslands are true bastions of biodiversity
Like the tip of the proverbial iceberg, it's the roots
Meaning as much as flowers blooming like cheap suits
Fires are for the savanna as the rains for the forest
Each has it's ways and needs that thrive in this contest
Life around the world finds its way past its vulnerability
As each grass blade turns as if to stress its capability
A sea of green is transformed into a technicolor of flowers
That brings the glory to the glorious of this finest hour
There's a little of this left for those who care to see
Out beyond the cities and forests are the history of prairie
This then is not simply something disposed of as a big empty
It is the pages of the past unraveled in surviving prairie
That must be allowed to be conserved, restored, and to grow
If we, as to humanity, are to get past the ugly and truly know
(c) July 25, 2022 Michael Doyle
All Rights Reserved
“Among other causes of misfortune which your not being armed brings upon you, it makes you despised.” – Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)
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