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In A Time of Flux
In A Time of Fluxby Michael DoyleTheory and practice belong togetherIf international relations are to be betterThese are pivotal times to seeFilled with dread and promise for you and meThose who talked of an end to historyWere blinded to the … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Aggression, Alternative, Attacks, Balance, Brutality, Claws, Conflict, Conversation, Decide, Declarative, Democratic Nations, Discern, Divide, Dread and Promise, Dynamics, Elements, End To History, Existence, Failure, Full Change, Idealism, Integrity, International Relations, Multipolar, Narrative, National Sovereignty, Nations, Neighbors, Optimism, Order, Persistence, Perspective, Pivotal Times, Place, Poetry and Poems, Political Mystery, Power, Power Vacuum, Renegotiation, Rule of Law, Russia, Ruthless Regression, Sovereignty, Spheres of Interest, Stand Together, The United Nations, The World, Theory and Practice, Threaten, Time of Flux, Trace, Tyrants, Ukraine, Value Space, Velvet Gloves, Western Civilization, Western Ways, World War II, Yalta
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Darkness Shapes the Hearts
Darkness Shapes the Heartsby Michael DoylePutin sits as another dictator in a lineCertain his autocratic rule is blessed as divineThis has been the slavery of Russia’s serfdomWith brutality reigning supreme in this kingdomFor five thousand years, we’ve known epilepsy As … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Affliction, Ashen, Autocratic Rule, Believe, Betrayer, Blessed, Brothers Karamazov, Canker, Chained, Christianity, Civil Liberty, Cloak, Coincidence, Creativity, Cruelty, Dark Place, Darkness, Death, Definition, Demons, Dictator, Disease, Divine, Dostoevsky, Dubious Reputatin, Enigma, Epilepsy, Exceed, Father Zosima, Fight, Fool's Game, Freedoms, God Above, Good and Evil, Grasp, Greatest Miracle, Heart, Heresy, Holy, Initiation, Light, Line, Love, Masses, Mismatch, Mystery, Mysticism, Opiate, Photograph, Poem, Poietry, Preach, Protagonist, Pure, Putin, Questions, Quiet, Reason, Religion, Revolutionary, Riot, Russia, Russian Nation, Russian Soul, Serfdom, Shadow, Shape, Slavery, Super-Impose, Trappings, Treason, Unsure, Violence, Wastrel, Western Civilization, Wicked, Writer
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From the Perspective of the Rus
From the Perspective of the Rusby Michael DoyleStanding on the shoulders of wisdomBy each step we build separate kingdomsThe Brothers Karamazov built on a grain of wheatThat life comes from death and death is not defeatAll the suffering that we … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Absolute Rule, Authority, Autocracy, Beyond, Brothers Karamazov, Capability, Connection, Constantanople, Culture, Death, Declaration, Decree, Defeat, Despotism, Different, Division, Dreams, Driven, Fallible, Forces, Foundation, Freedom Lovers, God, Grain, Historical, History, Kiev, King, Kingdom, Kingdoms, Liberty, Life, Monarch, Mother Russia, Nation, Ninth Century, No Relief, Nobility, Ordained Choice, Orthodoxy, Perspective, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Principles, Purpose, Reflection, Relationships, Reservation, Reverent, Rule, Russia, Sacred, Shoulders, Solzhenitsyn, Soul, Step, Suffering, Supreme, Talk, Temporal, True Belief, Twin Blades, Undergon, United, Viking, Voice, Western Civilization, Wheat, Wisdom, Withstand
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Conflict Of Civilizations
There is a conflict in the West that draws down deeper than radical Islam versus West. It is Leftism versus Tradition. I think it’s pretty clear which side of this divide I am on. https://flic.kr/p/28vWo91 Conflict Of Civilizations by Michael … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Antithesis, Chaste, Christianity, Communism, Contempt, Death, Destruction, Dogma, Economics, Extremism, Faced, Fascism, Freud, Futile, God, Guidance, Happy, Heart and Feelings, Holy, Ideology, Imaginary, Instruction, Judaism, Leftism, Life's Questions, Light, Marxism, Meaning, Perverse, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Poor, Secularism, Sex, Sirens, The Bible, The West, Theology, Thesis, Tradition, Unholy, Universe, Utopia, Wealth, Western Civilization
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: The Ugly Duckling – Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish poet and author who lived from 1805 to 1875. One of the stories he wrote is the classic The Ugly Duckling (Den Grimme Aelling). This is the tale of a seemingly homely little bird who … Continue reading
Time Spent On the Harvard Classics: Of Agriculture – Abraham Cowley
“We may talk what we please,” he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, “of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles, in fields d’or or d’argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in … Continue reading
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Abraham Cowley, Essay, Harvard Classics, Literature, Of Agriculture, Poet, Western Civilization
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First Principles: The Federal Government Must Not Interfere With Religion
“I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. This results not only from the provision that no law shall be made respecting the establishment or … Continue reading
Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: Francis Bacon’s Of Envy
As First Viscount St. Albans, Francis Bacon lived his mortal life from January 22, 1561 through April 9, 1626. This outstanding figure from history was a philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, author and is credited as being the scientist who … Continue reading
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