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First Principles: We Must Dare To Be Great, and We Must Realize That Greatness Is the Fruit of Toil and Sacrifice and High Courage
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Thought For the Day: A Sound Head, An Honest Heart, and An Humble Spirit Are the Three Best Guides Through Time and To Eternity
“A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.” – Walter Scott
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Well Met In the Night
Well Met In the Night
by Michael Doyle
We meet in the night, hiding in the masquerade
Pretending, as we do, in our game of charade,
That while we pretend to have no hint of fear
There's security that gains us gathered here.
Social wallflowers are high-class in borrowed shoes
Dancing with themselves in their angst and blues
Diamonds are coal that defied the principles of gravity
To become sharp and shiny through their levity.
In a world of giants, the children just want love
With hands in prayer, they turn their eyes to the above.
Seeing the world around them lost in legal friction,
And wondering to themselves how much of this was fiction.
Somewhere down below the sound, we felt the beat,
Joined hands in protest, we took to the streets.
Your mind was so happily diabolical, I felt the heat.
But when I kissed your lips, I knew the treat.
Cyclical nights are known as digital in their dreams,
And your pleasures were always bursting at the seams.
Filled with so many ideas that just had to be said,
There met in the night, were the outpourings of your head.
Numbed eyes behold the soul's sacred revelation,
It was just our fate that found us at our destination.
Making jokes though, lost and rambling in our ways
These would make our memories in our elder days.
Like guardians of some form unknown but filled with knowledge,
Our hearts began to bond forcing us to acknowledge
That somewhere in all that was spoken in our sincerity,
Was filling our souls with what was to become our identity.
(c) August 14, 2025 Michael Doyle
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Tagged Borrowed Shoes, Charade, Children, Coal, Dance, Diamond, Eyes, Fear, Fiction, Giants, Gravity, High-Class, Legal Friction, Levity, Love, Masquerade, Night, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Pretend, Security, Social Wallflowers, Well Met
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Thought For the Day: The Mirror Reflects Your Image But Your Soul Reflects Your Beauty. In Every Glance, Every Tear, Every Smile, Your True Nature Shines Through
“The mirror reflects your image but your soul reflects your beauty. In every glance, every tear, every smile, your true nature shines through.” – Doe Zantamata
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Tagged Beauty, Glance, Image, Mirror, Reflection, Shine, Smile, Soul, Tear, Thought For the Day, True Nature
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First Principles: The Evils We Experience Flow From the Excess of Democracy. The People Do Not Want Virtue, But Are the Dupes of Pretended Patriots
“The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots.” – Elbridge Gerry, Constitutional Convention (May 31, 1787)
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Voice Sang Soft
Voice Sang Soft
by Michael Doyle
Your voice sang softly like a melody.
It's hard to say what it did to me.
Then and there from the very start,
Your love was gentle, blooming in my heart.
Your smile might be your special power,
As it captivated me, blooming like a flower.
Step by step, our hearts glow like a miracle,
And have connected into something unforgettable.
Seeing where you came from,
I called out your name.
Feeling this beautiful magic,
I would never be the same.
Your kind words surrounded me with reasons
As we walked across the distant seasons.
We lingered through each moment of the night,
Grateful as we are to have gotten this right.
Beneath the starlit sky, I silently pray
That our love will last forever and a day.
The cool, slight night breeze gently blows
And it seems now that everybody knows.
Seeing where you came from,
I called out your name.
Feeling this beautiful magic,
I would never be the same.
It is not as if I have any sort of choice.
I will always remember your sweet voice.
Some words are hard to put into words and say,
Like the love I feel for you in every way.
My love for you feels complete and strong.
Since I've met you, I know where I belong.
Though far apart, our hearts beat as one.
The beauty is that our love has only just begun.
Seeing where you came from,
I called out your name.
Feeling this beautiful magic,
I would never be the same.
Walking into the future together,
I doubt we can be anything but better.
Though the eyes of love know blindness,
I've only ever known your sweet kindness.
The fire of love burns in my frail heart.
It has been there since our early start.
Though born from worlds of separate ways,
I know your love will see me through my days.
Seeing where you came from,
I called out your name.
Feeling this beautiful magic,
I would never be the same.
(c) August 13, 2025 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: To Befoul the Unholy Alliance Between Corrupt Business and Corrupt Politics Is the First Task of the Statesmanship of Today
“Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of today.” – Theodore Roosevelt
Thought For the Day: Drama Is Life With the Dull Bits Left Out. There Is No Terror In the Bang, Only In the Anticipation of It
“Drama is life with the dull bits left out. There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. I believe in putting the horror in the minds of the audience, and not necessarily on the screen. The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.” – Alfred Hitchcock
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Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Anticipation, Audience, Bang, Drama, Dull Bits, Endurance, Film, Horror, Length, Life, Mind, Screen, Terror, Thought For the Day
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Subversive of Conformity
Subversive of Conformity
by Michael Doyle
Same likes same, in the interest of conformity.
But do we stop to consider the vast enormity?
What is the outcome of unquestioning loyalty
In a nation and world prone toward brutality?
However infantile, an attack on orthodoxy
Leaves a lasting stain similar to blasphemy.
There is a question of subversion in philosophy
That really doesn't sit right in the land of the free.
The press is to preserve the freedom of the mind
Where thought is allowed with no condition to bind.
The seeing and the thinking must proceed in improvement
If we, the free, are to have a righteous government.
In our republic, we exalt the ways of freedom,
Independent as we are from the ways of a kingdom.
To have done otherwise would be to abridge our liberty,
And put the killing stroke to our place in history.
The last hundred years have acted to extinguish the lights,
That act to guide humanity on the path of our human rights.
Lost promises have collapsed as to our moral improvement.
We have acquiesced in the name of obeying our government.
The press is to preserve the freedom of the mind
Where thought is allowed with no condition to bind.
The seeing and the thinking must proceed in improvement
If we, the free, are to have a righteous government.
It is the price we pay to move beyond existence,
To know ourselves as greater than mere resistance.
It is the price that we must always willingly pay,
If mankind is to find its best and better days.
Surely it is not blasphemous in any of our seasons,
That all things under God are not subject to reason.
Everything should be subject to rigorous question,
To do otherwise is in abeyance of our Constitution.
The press is to preserve the freedom of the mind
Where thought is allowed with no condition to bind.
The seeing and the thinking must proceed in improvement
If we, the free, are to have a righteous government.
(c) August 12, 2025 Michael Doyle
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Tagged Blasphemy, Brutality, Conformity, Enormity, Faith, God, Infantile, Interest, Jesus, Land of the Free, Loyalty, Orthodoxy, Philosophy, Poetry and Poems, Politics, Question, Subserviion
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First Principles: Let Us Ever Remember That Our Interest Is In Concord, Not In Conflict; and That Our Real Eminence Rests In the Victories of Peace, Not Those of War
“Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.” – William McKinley
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 