Tri-Sola Poetry

Tri-Sola Poetry is a collection of poems written by Michael J. Hayes of St. Johns, Michigan. It has numerous times been ported as potential designs for a website, but ultimately failed to be published in the high-design formats. Dozerfleet Productions, always ambitious about the project even though operating under a different name at the poetry collection's inception, has been behind all of the intended formats.

Focus
The focus of the poems is on emotional and spiritual journey as one longs for the strengthening of one's personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

Reflections By Mike Hayes
When the Tri-Sola collection first began in 2003, Mike was experimenting with numerous religious poems, essays, and plans for a novel. Many of his ideas he wound up scrapping, as he wasn't quite sure what to do with them. The idea came early to adapt his poems into a website collection that could be updated regularly. Numerous designs were experimented with. But in the end, the poems wound up here.

The first three poems in the set were titled "Reflections: Mere Pittance," "Petals 1.2: Surrender," and "Reflections: Powerful Comfort." "Petals," as the second of these would later be known, was actually an essay more than a poem.

The original designs for the web pages were crude, having been designed in Microsoft Word 2000.

Fortress Rock
From 2003 late until 2006 early, the Reflections series would be re-named **Fortress Rock**, to demonstrate the shift in focus in some of the prose. In this era, more designs were tried in different formats to create the web pages for each of the poems.

Adobe ImageReady, Photoshop, and more were used to create the pages with. By 2005, actual HTML coding was possible, allowing for almost any combination. The previous poems' names would be shortened to give them more focus. By the end of 2004, four poems would be added to the previous four from 2003. This would result in a collection of 8 making up the total collection so far. The earlier ones are arguably more moving than the latter ones.

Tri-Sola era
The current name arrived in 2006, when Mike decided to rename his Fortress Rock collection Tri-Sola to focus on the doctrinal integrity he sought in his writing, primarily, the emphasis on the "sola-graci, sola-fide, sola-scriptura" that Martin Luther emphasized. The collection is open to new poems, but remains at the eight that were made in 2003 and 2004 until Mike can think up some more.

The tagline is:  "Grace, Faith, and Scripture Alone: A Poetic Journey of Faith" 

In 2008, Tri-Sola Poetry became an official imprint of the larger Tri-Sola Writings, also run by Mike.

Common Themes
Common themes throughout Mike's poems featured guilt, redemption, volition dilemma, Lenten reflection, despair, cults, human stubbornness, and martyrdom.

2003 poems

 * "Mere Pittance" (Formerly "Reflections: Mere Pittance.") Written April 2003.
 * "Petals" (Formerly "Reflections: Petals 1.2: Surrender.") Written April 2003.
 * "Powerful Comfort" (Formerly "Reflections: Powerful Comfort.") Written April of 2003.
 * "Tragedy/Glory" Written by: Michael J. Hayes, May of 2003.

2004 poems

 * "Not My Will" (Formerly "Untitled.") Written February 2004.
 * "True Love" Written by Michael J. Hayes, February 6th, 2004.
 * "The Modern Pursuers" Written by Michael J. Hayes, August 2004.
 * "Lament My Soul, and Be Crucified" Written by Michael J. Hayes, August 2004.

2008 poems

 * "Passionate Peace" Written May 25th of 2008.