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Truth of War
Truth of Warby Michael DoyleMost of the world’s problems start with warIt’s a noteworthy thing that it takes moreThen dreamy words offering a shallow victoryTo come out on the winning side of historyMany a fool has believed themselves betterWhen cooler … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Arms, Begun, Breath, Brilliance, Choose, Cooler Head, Creep Up, Depths, Done, Dream, Equally Sad, Fight, Fight Hard, Fool, Fought, Hell, History, Journey, Legacy, Lesson, Lessons Learned, Lose, Luck, Mirror, No One Wins, Poetry and Poems, Price, Problem, Reflection, Reliance, Review, Roulette Wheel, Rush of Exuberance, Shallow Victory, Sin, Slow Drag of Death, Struggle, Tragic, Truth, Truth of War, Victory, Wages of War, War, Well-Earned, Winning Side, Won, World, Wounded
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New Life Reborn
New Life Rebornby Michael DoyleThe new life rebornKnows its miseryCommon sense would mournThis loss of such historyAs a life lived in painThere are questions that strainA thousand cuts into our moralityAre the price of approaching immortalityLike pawns on chessboard gamesWe … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Common Sense, History, Immortality, Loss, Misery, Morality, Mourn, New Life, Pain, Poetry and Poem, Price, Reborn, Strain, Thousand Cuts
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First Principles: A Morsel of Genuine History Is A Thing So Rare As To Be Always Valuable
“A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable.” – Thomas Jefferson (1817)
Posted in First Principles
Tagged First Principles, Genuine, History, Morsel, Rare, Thomas Jefferson, Valuable
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Pain Enters the Building
Pain Enters the Buildingby Michael DoylePain enters the buildingIt comes with the never-yieldingBut instead, putting your all into the gameWhether you lose or gain 15 minutes of fameSometimes conflict comes with painSometimes you ride the rails, barely saneYou give your … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged 15 Minutes of Fame, All, Bright Lights, Building, Conflict, Contribution, Corner, Deserve, Down, Driven, End, Feed, Fight, Forever, Game, Gridiron, History, Home and Family, Intense, Last Nerve, Lose, Means, Mile, Million Dollar, Mystery, Nerves, NFL, Pain, Perspective, Poetry and Poems, Pushing Hard, Resolution, Ride the Rails, Sane, Sense, Smile, Snapped, Steel, Success, Underneath, Yield
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Searching For Signals
Searching For Signalsby Michael DoyleTrying to save our soulsIn the messes we makeSpinning out of controlThough all of our mistakesPressing out from the undergroundTo be just who it is that we areA part of all that we have foundIn the … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Better Living, Blind, Bluff, Caught, Chemicals, Circle, Class, Clever Thought, Dadaism, Despair, Destination, Devil, Dialog, Enough, Far, Feeling, Fog, Found, Hint, History, Identity, Life, Lyrical, Make, Meaning, Mess, Mind, Mistake, Mystery, Observation, Obsolescence, Optimism, Out of Control, Painting, Path, Poetry and Poems, Position, Possibility, Preconception, Reality, Saint, Save, Search, Self-Deception, Signals, Souls, Underground
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Thought For the Day: No Nation In History Has Survived Once Its Borders Were Destroyed
“No nation in history has survived once its borders were destroyed, once its citizenship was rendered no different from mere residence, and once its neighbors with impunity undermined its sovereignty. Ending illegal immigration now depends solely on the American people … Continue reading
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Tagged American People, Border, Chaos, Citizenship, Corrupt, Depends, Destroy, Different, History, Human Misery, Illegal Immigration, Impunity, Leaders, Nation, Neighbors, Override, Profit, Residence, Sovereignty, Special Intrests, Survive, Thought For the Day, Undermine, Victor Davis Hanson
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Freedom Without Apology
Freedom Without Apologyby Michael DoyleThe Declaration of Independence is the only foundationLegitimate for the civil government of our great nationHistory has shown the path forward, and it is man’s testTo put aside all nations building an empire through conquestWhile we … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Accountability, Agreement, Alarm, Allies, Annals, Apology, Appeasement, Autocracy, Backslding, Broken, Capability, Cautious, Chian, Civil Government, Cohesion, Conquest, Constrain, Constraint, Damage, Declaration of Independence, Defeat, Democratic Freedom, Denial, Depend, Destroy, Deterrence, Foundation, Freedom, Freinds, Full Engagement, Fundamental Lesson, Global Decline, History, Human Diginity, Human Rights, International Peace, Interoperability, Invade, Isolation, Kingdom, Legitimate, Measure, Miindful, Military, Miscreants, Monster, Mystery, Nation, National Security, Outspoken, Overisght, Poetry and Poems, Principle, Putin, Reason, Redirect, Restraint, Rising Tide, Test, The Woke, True Heart, Ukraine, Undermin, Villain
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Strength and Prosperity For Freedom
Strength and Prosperity For Freedomby Michael DoyleThere is a foundation that truly servesTo give the America this nation deservesThough it doesn’t have much complexityDoing this will bring strength and prosperityThe road to freedom begins with cultured opportunityIt takes leadership to … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Ability, Acrimony, Afghanistan, America, American Dream, American Readiness, American Troops, Ash Heap, Biden, Border-Changing Agression, Budgetary Flat Line, Capability, Champions of Freedom, Choices, Complexity, Cornerstones, Crime On the Border, Culture, Decline, Dedication, Deserve, Dignity, Dishonor, Downstream, Dreams and Hopes, Economy, Education, Evil, Fall, Flourish, Foundation, Freedom, Gas Prices, God's Gift, Happiness, Healthy Economy, History, Illuminate, Impression, Inflation, Innovation, ISIS, Law, Leadership, Legacy, Liberty, Life, Middle East, Military Readiness, Misery, Nourish, Opportunity, Parents, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Points, Politics, Poor, Possible, Principle, Prosperity, Protection, Proven, Putin, Questions, Restore, Road To Freedom, Roe v. Wade, Rule of Law, Sanctity of Life, Security, Specter, State Level, Strength, Strenth, Strong National Defense, The Left, Toxicity, Unalienable Rights, Understood, Waste, Weakness, Withdrawal, Wokeness
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Thought For the Day: You Think Your Pains and Heartbreaks Are Unprecedented In the History of the World, But Then You Read
“You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the … Continue reading
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Tagged All the People, Books, Connect, Heartbreak, History, James Baldwin, Pain, Read, Taught, Think, Thought For the Day, Torment, Unprecedented, World
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