Best By The Same Token Poems

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by, and
That has made all the difference".
The Road Not Taken. Robert Frost

We deem it normal for babies to cry when they arrive.
Perhaps it's the best indication that they are alive.
But in their...

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You've seen them.  Those little trays on the store counter with pennies in them and often a sign saying “Take a penny, leave a penny”.  On occasion, I have dropped pennies in them, but until just recently, I never had occasion to need...

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You've seen them.  Those little trays on the store counter with pennies in them and often a sign saying “Take a penny, leave a penny”.  On occasion, I have dropped pennies in them, but until just recently, I never had occasion to need...

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All things in moderation,
It's a good way to get along;
For life it seems is a smorgasbord,
Of work, play, strife and song.

How can we enjoy a meal,
If we only taste one dish?
How can we have the fullness of life,
With our mind set alone on one wish?

Life...

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This Christmas, I am moved by the names in the genealogy of Jesus.                                ...

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UNQUOTABLE QUOTES : LV - Mind unwinding tweezers

If you let « bygones be bygones » , there’ll be no FUTURE left, and since we can’t always live in the EVER PRESENT (yet that’s what we all do), WHAT are we living for ? By the...

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I confess, there are many things I want to and should change.
But by the same token, there are things better left as I found them.
The moth doesn't need an  assist from me to make him  a better butterfly.
Oh, I just want to make...

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Keep paying your dues when liberalism
packets profits from your sweat;
and don't mutter a disapproval word...
when your stomach growls for an altruism
that enriches the lives of the smart,
while yours is not considered sacred.

The horrifying screams 
that were suddenly halted 
by an exhaled breath are fragments
of all...

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Perhaps like me, you have heard the expression,                                     ...

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A generation thats been inspired
Has left a lot to be desired
With sex and drugs on rampage wild
What have we taught to our child
What we thought was better for sure 
Has left our children unclean not pure
And we dont understand why
Why is skin all we see...

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Age defiant was this spruce and spirited citizen slinking blithely past the burgundy red doors of her enigmatic country dwelling.
As her olive skin neatly curved fingers 
slid over an intermittently scratched carbon black handrail she had only the haziest of inklings of what is in...

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People aren't perfect, for sure this is true.
They don't always do what they say they will do.

By the same token they often aren't guilty,
Of commissions, omissions that some will deem filthy.

Nefarious crimes, using darkness for cover,
Lest someone find out and all is discovered.

While often it's...

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"So correct is Maya Angelou,
“Nothing will work unless you do”

Sweat and hard work is not enough,
You need to be strong and mentally tough

Strong in integrity and motivation,
With focus and determination 

Self worth and happiness are also key,
To have that balance in “me”

To insure what I...

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FREE-WILL is Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden making choices KNOWINGLY contrary to God's command. They were tempted with other choices which they had the ability to resist and avoid a different outcome which their creator did not choose for them.  By...

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