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Guarding Against Faction
Today’s poem about American history speaks on some basic principles as set out in largely in Federalist Paper Number 10 in which we choose to become a republic and not a democracy to protection of nation from the encroachment of … Continue reading
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Tagged Advice, Air, American History, Ancient, Answer, Argue, Become, Capacity, Citizens, Community, Constitution, Contest, Control, Convene, Cost, Counter Direct, Country, Democracy, Deprive, Differences, Direct Democracy, Duly Elected, Effect, Elective Despotism, Eliminate, Enfranchise, Faction, Federalist Paper No. 10, Fire, Form, Good, Government, Guard, Guide, Harm, Heed, Injury, Institutions, Insult, Justice, Latent Cause, Learn, Lesson, Liberty, Lost, Love, Majority, Man, Medium, Minority, Mystery, Nation, Nature, Outcome, Outvote, Path, Patriotism, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Political Control, Primary Role, Principles, Protect, Purpose, Representation, Republic, Rest, Rights, Rights and Interests, Rule of Law, Sacrifce, Satisfaction, Scheme, Seek Advantage, Settle, Society, Sown, Stop, Survive, Temporary, The People, Tryanny of the Majority, Tyranny, Understood, Unjust Result, Utility, Wisdom
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First Principles: Justice Is the End of Government and Civil Society
“Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.” – James Madison, in The Federalist Papers, … Continue reading
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Tagged Civil Society, End, Federalist Papers, First Principles, Government, James Madison, Justice, Liberty, Lost, Obtain, Pursue, Pursuit
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Holding Hands With the Sun
Falling in love with art is an intimate construction within ourselves expressed both outwardly and inwardly. Holding Hands With the Sun by Michael Doyle An experience of the narrative Doodles swirled in declarative Filling out the feels An imaginative look … Continue reading
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Tagged Abstraction, Advocacy, After All, Art, Awake, Bottom, Call, Clear, Complicity, Construction, Darkness, Declarative, Destruction, Detection, Distraction, Doing, Doodle, Escape, Experience, Exquisite, Fall, Fantasy, Feels, Fill, Glacier, Granted, Hands, Heed, Hold, Hope, Humanity, Imaginative, Improvement, Intimate, Life, Light, Look, Lost, Love, Melt, Mirror, Moment, Movement, Moving, Narrative, Noise, One, Photograph, Poem, Poet, Poetry, Positive Sight, Precious, Rant, Reality, Reel, Reflection, Rope, Scrawl, Secret, Simple, Simplicity, Sun, Thinking, Unknown, Voice, We, World, You and Me
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First Principles: Liberty, Once Lost, Is Lost Forever
“But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.” – John Adams
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Tagged Change, Constitution, First Principles, Forever, Freedom, Government, John Adams, Liberty, Lost, Restore
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Second Sight of the Garden of Earthly Delight
Day 6 of NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo 2020! The prompt is to write an ekphrastic poem based on Hieronymous Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delight. I elected to take the point of view of the artist or perhaps someone who is familiar with the … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020, Allegory, Blame, Center Frame, Civility, Civilization, Command, Consideraton, Contempation, Corruption, Cost, Damnation, Depravity, Desire, Disruption, Earth, Ekphrastic, Fate, Finger, Flee, Flesh, Free Will, God, Heaven, Holy Trinity, Humanity, Judge, Know, Left, Life, Light, Linger, Lost, Lust, Moral Warning, NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo, Noble Savage, Panorama, Paradise Lost, Peril, Photograph, Piety, Playground, Plreasure, Poem, Poety, Reap, Reflect, Remorse, Revel, Revelation, Right, Salvation, Second Sight, Secret, Sensual, Serenity, Shun, Sin, Succumb, Temptation, The Garden of Earthly Delight, Tiara, Trap, Treasure, Trinity, Triptych, Turn, Vanity, Word
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Dealing With the New Deal
American history continues into the 1930s and the Great Depression. Dealing With the New Deal by Michael Doyle Had Coolidge been in power for Wall Street’s fall The safe bet is he would have done little or nothing at all … Continue reading
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Tagged 10%, 100 Days, 1930s, 1937, Activist, Administration, Alphabet Soup, American History, Blind, Callous, Change, Complexity, Confidence, Constitution, Coolidge, Cornerstone, Cycle, Destroy, Door, Economy, Employment, Executive Overreach, Executive War Powers, Experts, Fall Apart, FDR, Federal, Feed, Finance, Fireside Chat, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Frustration, Government, Great Depression, Grief, Hawley-Smoot Tariff, Heart, Hodge Podge, Homes, Infrastructure, Integrity, Intrusion, Issues, Legacy, Legislation, Live On, Lost, Make Work Jobs, Money Changers, Moral Equivalent, Nation, New Deal, NRA, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Opposition, Optimism, Overwhelm, Packing the Court, Patch, Photograph, Planning, Poem, Poetry, Policy, Polio, Power, Power Grab, Program, Public, Rationalization, Reconstruction and Fiance Company, Recovery, Reelection, Reliance, Relief, Restore, Roosevelt Recession, Simplicity, Social Security, Socialist, Supreme Court, Temperament, Temple, The Happy Days Are Here Again, Top-Down Economy, Unemployed, Unemployment Rate, Victory, Wall Street, War
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A New Nation Born Pt I
In a continuing cycle on America, we look at the Revolutionary War through England’s defeat at Yorktown: A New Nation Born Pt I by Michael Doyle Let’s have no sense of delusion The united states were but illusion Or, perhaps … Continue reading
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Tagged Allusion, America, American Crisis, Army, Bolder, Brith, British Crown, Certainty, Change, Character, Christmas Eve, Colonial, Common Sense, Confusion, Continental Congress, Contribution, Credible, Cross, Dawn, Defense, Delaware, Delusion, Discontent, Dues, Encourage, England, Even, Exhaustion, Fabric, Family, Fragility, Fragmentation, French, General, George Washington, Glory, Hard Times, Hessians, Hope, Landing, Lead, Legacy, Length, Level, Lost, Loyalty, Nation, Navy, New, Odds, Offensive, Pay, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Position, Rag Tag, Revolutionary War, Saratoga, Society, Staten Island, Story, Strength, Summer Soldier, The World Turned Upside Down, Thirds, Thomas Paine, Thrust, Tilt, Triumph, Truth, United States, Valley Forge, Van Steuben, Victory, War, Weak, Will, Winter, Words, Yorktown
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New Music For A Troubled Century
A sort of brief start of a look into 20th neo-classical/art music: New Music For A Troubled Century by Michael Doyle All music was once new it seems There’s no accounting for esoteric dreams One fifth of the way through … Continue reading
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Tagged 21st Century, Abandon, Account, Age, Babble On, Babylon, Beethoven, Belief, Belong, Blend, Castaway, Century, Change, Composer, Comprehension, Contemporary, Cost, Dream, Esoteric, Expression, Familiarity, God, Harmony, Heart, Heat, Heaven, Him, Hyper-Drive, Inclination, Insinuation, Lift, Look Back, Lost, Melody, Mind Numbing, Music, Musician, Mutilate, Neo-Classical, New, Pace, Personal Signature, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Purpose, Rate, Reflection, Rest, Revolution, Sear, Self Expression, Service, Singer, Society, Song, Soul, Spiritual, Standard, Strange, Style, Symphonic, Tear, Tension, Test, Tonal, Tonality, Trouble, Voices
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So Much Sky
Ever been out in the middle of wilderness and realized the vastness of the universe and the smallness of humanity? So Much Sky by Michael Doyle So much sky That a person might get lost In a freedom one cannot … Continue reading
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Tagged Alliance, Brilliance, Buy, Compromise, Cost, Destiny, Empty, Fear, Freedom, Gold, Hidden, Humanity, Infamous, Journey, Lost, Overflown, Overgrown, Perplex, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Poverty, Promise, Quicksand, Reconnaissance, River, Sky, Small, Universe, Vanity, Vast, Verity, Wilderness
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