“But now a righteousness from God, apart from law, has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus”. – Romans 3:21-24 (New International Version)
“Every child in America should be acquainted with his own country. He should read books that furnish him with ideas that will be useful to him in life and practice. As soon as he opens his lips, he should rehearse the history of his own country.” – Noah Webster (1788)
“Wish not so much to live long as to live well.” – Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1746
On Behalf of the Uyghurs
by Michael Doyle
Give me the whole of your sentence
And I will still my will and serve
Give me the entirety of your pretense
Tell me what it is that I deserve
And I will still write my poetry
Never surrendering an ounce of integrity
It is a vital part of the best of life
It is the truth of peace within strife
Suppress our language and our culture
Still we will fight to grow and nurture
You may choose to call this stubborn pride
While you deify your satanic genocide
These are the thoughts that honor Gulnisa Imin
These are the thoughts every poet should defend
You may degrade us and say we call for separatism
Submitting us to "reeducation" for our patriotism
But every poet of conscience takes up this banner
In face of your starkness regardless of your manner
The birds cannot sing freely where words cannot be said
Still it is better to live freely than to live dead
Dead to our freedoms where flowers will not blossom
And words of yearning, are burning inside the bosom
Never dared whispered over the course of a thousand nights
And more one more given on behalf of a people's rights
Human contact cut off for fear of harming any others
WeChat snippets shared among the freest with one another
Others still only committing verses to their memory
In hopes of sharing freedom's plea with the outside family
A family of love and extended among those who have courage
Enough to defy tyranny and brave enough to encourage
A tribe of poets, part of this human being's family
Followed in spirit to spread and follow as a living legacy
On moonless nights, skies fill with familiar voice
Searching for stars, never alone, joined in voice
Frosted hope dances in the distance of wilderness
Where strength is made stronger through tenderness
There in the strokes of penmanship until lost and gone
Worried regret whisper no tales of that magic once upon
Wilted flowers like fire in throat cried into the nothing
That dares to stand for the life of a people's everything
When I think of you, I become lost in endless grief
Wishing your memory would not fade away without relief
The stars are there to always remind us of childhood's end
But always will linger the shared thoughts that make us friends
(c) July 16, 2022 Michael Doyle
All Rights Reserved
“It is our duty to endeavor always to promote the general good; to do to all as we would be willing to be done by were we in their circumstances; to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly before God. These are some of the laws of nature which every man in the world is bound to observe, and which whoever violates exposes himself to the resentment of mankind, the lashes of his own conscience, and the judgment of Heaven. This plainly shows that the highest state of liberty subjects us to the law of nature and the government of God.” – Samuel West, On the Right to Rebel Against Governors, 1776
The photo attached to this quote is suspect. The sentiment expressed is not. The “Election Sermon” was preached to the Council and House Of Representatives of the Massachusetts Bay Colony on May 29, 1776 and is included in the The Pulpit of the American Revolution. The sermon can be found at the following linked material that also includes a link to the book: Samuel West election sermon (hushmoney.org)
“If you are looking for systemic racism, don’t look in the American story; it can be found in an educational system that has yet to teach true history in its entirety. Our nation has always sought to form a more perfect union, and though not flawless, it has done better than any other in the history of mankind. Within our DNA is a desire to unify and encourage the acceptance of others.” -Congressman Burgess Owens
“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.” – Alexander Hamilton (1788)
Too Much Drama
by Michael Doyle
There's too much drama everywhere
On every screen we stop and stare
TikTok, Instagram, and even on Zoom
All around us is nothing but doom
Forced focus gives nothing but opportunity
To live life as if it's only catastrophe
At every switch, we reach out in identity
Long let go of along with true reality
Pandemic, mental-health, and racial violence
Forced focus or a matter of coincidence
The events pile up rendering their experience
It seems advisable to look away in preference
Confessional writing splits the hairs of style
No longer smiling but unable to live out denial
Body work written in intimate sets of details
Blood is drawn by the writer's ten inch nails
The confessions are torrid in their creativity
That paint a portrait of lucid moments of reality
Writing brings us to accept that which is rational
And reveals the truth of all that is relational
The author puzzles the darkness often inviting
Struggling over sequences that blend in writing
Digesting the usefulness of the nuts and bolts in sequence
That bring together a tale fashioned in this technique
Rather the story told is one's own or another's tale
Does it really matter as long as it is told veil by veil
The creative sparks unleashes the hope it might liberate
All those thoughts and feelings that sometimes invigorate
(c) July 14, 2022 Michael Doyle
All Rights Reserved
“Men cannot see truth, because they love falsehood. The gospel is not seen, because it is too pure for their loose lives and lewd thoughts.” – Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)
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