“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence; true friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks and adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.”- George Washington, letter to Bushrod Washington, 1783
Ode To A Low Key God of Mischief
by Michael Doyle
Sinister plans thicken the plot
Allusions to brutality are too often sought
There in the hinterland outside of time
In a spit shot that feels less than sublime
Absorbing the heart of stars outshined
Into the infinity cast into the refined
Chaos in the character of raging arrogance
Condemned as it were in a purgatory of happenstance
It's there in the infinite shades of mediocrity
That paint their allusions of outpaced autocracy
Prolonging the pain of one's too many mistakes
And living in the shadows of life's heartbreaks
A monochrome theme paints out the outcast scene
Of intensity within a god's dystopian dreams
Umber envelops itself into discordant earth hues
Brashly unfazed in it's pruning of distant views
Of those fractured branches of so called reality
Nightmares otherwise known in their place of locality
There in the in fever pitch of a new playing field
Is the drop of the bombs and their irradiant yield
(c) July 4, 2021 Michael Doyle
All Rights Reserved
Happy Fourth of July everyone! May we always remember the battles fought and wars won for America’s freedoms and liberties! May it also be recalled that it has been our honor and privilege to fight for and preserve these throughout the world. May we soon remove the yokes of socialism and oppression that have been installed on the United States as the Biden Administration and its economic destruction through hyper-inflation are removed next election cycle.
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.” – Ronald Reagan
“Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them if we basely entail hereditary bondage on them.” -Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of the Causes and Necessities of Taking up Arms (1775)
“I just want to reiterate: not just black lives matter, all lives matter.” – Philonise Floyd, George Floyd’s brother
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclination, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” – John Adams (1770)
“This war against reality, normalcy and our country is the most serious battle we’re facing as a nation today.” – Gary Bauer
“Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States.” – Noah Webster (1787)
Truth of Soul In Our Voices
by Michael Doyle
The soul brings access metaphysically
To animate our being into rationality
The soul is the place philosophy can shine
In the light of the heart and the divine
A spark of God comes to be understood
Though the hard sciences deny this as good
Soulless in the gulag stew of chemistry
Modernity it seems seeks to erase this mystery
Yet, here we go again somewhat scholastically
It's there in the deepest well springs
That tradition sets itself out majestically
As a reconstruction of truth that always brings
The substance of all that is in actuality
A moderate course plotted in the realm of possibility
Offering its virtuous elegance in sacred tradition
And still leaves us wanting for soul's true explanation
Aristotle asked questions as if to solemnly assert
The complexities between soul and the body inert
It's there in the animating principle of desire's choices
That we will find the truth of soul in our voices
(c) July 1, 2021 Michael Doyle
All Rights Reserved
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