Thoughts On "It's A Wonderful Life" by Michael Doyle
"It's A Wonderful Life" is a different war My kind of film and at times a lot more The critics can snark their hatred of platitude Or maybe learn a thing or two about gratitude
There is nothing to hating honest sentiment Except for a guttural fear of things intimate I, for one, think there's beauty in this tale Where we occasionally live up to Norman Rockwell
Seen as an obscure release of Old Hollywood "It's A Wonderful Life" was unafraid of being good A cultural monument to the truest American value While devoted to traditions of Christmas made anew
The jaded who are faded might not get the metaphor But then again, it wasn't for them this was for It's a telling of big city dreams and small town reality Told very ably by Capra in portraying sentimentality
Toughing it out in the grind of a work-a-day peasant Hustling the truth that goodness can be yet pleasant The common man can be uncommon and somehow extraordinary In how we live to prevail even in the angst of the ordinary
It's better to be on the side of angels and unshaken Taking responsibility might be hard but it's not mistaken Every "crummy little town" holds its share of good hearts And has its magic in every nook, cranny and hidden parts
Deep rooted common sense is seated in moral certainty This is the homage to the everyman's crux of dignity In a world where America grappled with Depression There is a loneliness forged in fear of failure's impression
That in a world where easy answers seem to disappear Somehow, "It's A Wonderful Life" offers its good cheer It's up to the people to make life the very best we can And in this is the magic that is beautifully American
(c) December 24, 2021 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
We have all made it through another year of challenges and loss. Time to take a deep breath and rejoice in this! Also, this should be a time of contemplation and gratitude for the much that we have despite these challenges of the last two years! You are all in my thoughts and prayers! Wishing you all to have a happy and blessed Christmas Eve 2021!!
“The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel” — which means, “God with us.”– Matthew 1:23 (New International Version)
“Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.” – Alexander Hamilton and James Madison (1787)
Self Awareness Penned In Resurrection by Michael Doyle
A dull cubicle's existence jabs Leaving the feel of bruising hopelessness Pondering the future's uncertainty Life's lemons squeezed with a twist of darkness
It's an endlessly looped sense of stuck Trapped inside a mental simulation With crushing inertia's dominant luck Setting the story in its firm foundation
Evolved into the stains felt deep as sin No longer believing in any free agency Life has spun into its unending din As yesteryear generates its own legacy
It's a reboot culture nostalgic for moments In which an overly compulsive world hits exhaustion A patchy bearded anti-hero amidst his torments While chattering millennials tap out their adoration
The unending treadmill goes on and on and on As the corporate world desires to make old into new Creativity debates the luster that is already gone Moving two steps backward into what once grew
A strained heart's love is blissfully unaware Of a past repeating in its faded, jaded charms The sentimental streak that exists only to care Is powered by its dominance that somehow disarms
All of life relived is a lore to sift and untangle Significantly raised for the sake of missed stakes As if the plot slate is wiped clean to freely mangle This is a universe of constant distractions and mistakes
Intense in its lived in scatter of patterned energy Provocative in its assault on our senses Embodying all the best of life's pleasant savagery Tweaked by the futility despite our pretenses
Escaping the vainglorious bytes of clickbait philosophy In which emotional hooks lead to their own introspection There is a retention of our overwhelming chemistry That well surpasses life's cynicism through true affection
(c) December 23, 2021 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
Following the Lord God means obedience But when push comes to shove, she grew in diligence While Joseph played out his part unsung Holding his head upright and not hung
Trusting in God even when it was hard Willing to keep going and to never discard The Mother of God, who told her true story And Joseph bowed to his knees before God's glory
In a time of Old Testament law there was one law T o be stoned to death outside the city wall Troubled Joseph was visited by an angel in a dream Quietly sealing the truth within its holy seam
The steps of the righteous are guided with love Directed as those are with trust in the above This is the question that must be tested To trust in the holy scripture that cannot be bested
Then all there is to do is simply follow Through the depths of faith, not by being shallow Doing what must be done to please an audience of one So that Mary would give birth to the Holy Son
Brave enough to stay on this holy journey Joseph quietly loved Mary with great empathy He brought the holy family out into the night For the sake of holiness that would be this world's light
(c) December 21, 2021 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
