“The general government is not to be charged with the whole power of making and administering laws: its jurisdiction is limited to certain enumerated objects, which concern all the members of the republic, but which are not to be attained by the separate provisions of any.” – James Madison (1787)
“One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.” – Erich Fromm, psychoanalyst and author (23 Mar 1900-1980)
“[T]he true key for the construction of everything doubtful in a law is the intention of the law-makers.” – Thomas Jefferson (1808)
“Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object.” – Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
“The natural cure for an ill-administration, in a popular or representative constitution, is a change of men.” – Alexander Hamilton (1787)
The Devil Tempts
by Michael Doyle
The Devil tempts an overplayed hand
Something that even kings understand
There is merit in finding humiliation
It leads us to patience and toleration
Each a step toward our maturation
As we learn to live lives of moderation
Somehow...between our grief and elation
Are those rarer moments of exhilaration
Each of these are a part of life we live
As we learn to take less and to give
Betrayals that come to challenge pride
Too many errors that we wall inside
To the point, where reason falters
Like cut bait cast on the waters
This may be the mind of the Devil's recourse
As our clean hearts seek every resource
Like puppets dancing on the Devil's song
Our melancholy does not truly belong
Because these are the ways of those afraid
And not part of the bargains forced to be made
(c) March 21, 2022 Michael Doyle
All Rights Reserved
Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:
“God is not dead, nor doth He sleep;
The Wrong shall fail,
The Right prevail,
With peace on earth, good-will to men.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and THEN do your best.” – W. Edwards Deming (1900-1993)
Welcome to Spring 2022! Today is Spring Equinox 2022 in a continuation of those traditional blessings each of us used to embrace by heading outdoors and starting to live large. With the Covid experience behind us now, maybe we can go back to enjoying the many blessings waiting to be embraced as days grow warmer and flowers and trees begin to bloom anew! It is a time of renewal and it is our hope at Aloha Promises Forever, that each day comes with increasing blessing and abundance for each of you!!
As Emily Dickinson put to verse so long ago:
A Light exists in Spring
Not present on the Year
At any other period —
When March is scarcely here
A Color stands abroad
On Solitary Fields
That Science cannot overtake
But Human Nature feels …
As If Nothing Else Matters
by Michael Doyle
How do you protect Russian speakers
By bombing them into oblivion?
Mix up that experiment in your beaker
You say you're doing this as a guardian?
Returning to the homeland of the Rus
While treating the natives as if refuse
Waste that cannot be used and is buried in a landfill
Tell me then, Valdimir, of your wicked thrill
A three prong of attack and still you stall
As "Little Russians" stand firm as a wall
False flags with patience stated as limited
Will Belarus be pulled in as has been predicted?
Kyiv sees her fruited jams all turned to black
Knowing full well the risk of imminent attacks
As intelligence is provided by a chief of the FSB
Beseda attempted to bring down the Defense Ministry
Making it empathetically clear this is Putin's war
Odessan children won't cry tears any more
Scenes from a poem or a movie seem turned surreal
But the city trembles realizing this is too real
Ukrainian grandfathers fought Nazis on their tractors
This historical vision acts to encourage and bolster
The courage of Ukraine armed with sticks and stones
Maternity wards are bombed and the grandmothers groan
It may be lucrative to forget what cannot be forgot
The tyrant may yet win but street urchins will plot
These are the riches that exceed all the world's money
In this land blessed with plains of wheat and honey
A forty mile long Russian convoy stalls
As Ukrainian bodies stand firm as walls
Willing to keep on living; refusing to die
As the world watches and collectively sighs
It's unbearable, these things we have seen
Children plea from eyes grown older than human beings
Whose souls are worn down to sheerest tatters
Poets and dreamers carry on as if nothing else matters
(c) March 20, 2022 Michael Doyle
All Rights Reserved
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