Short Yardstick Poems

Let intelligence be your currency, your wealth and your ambition,
Elect reasoning to be your yardstick, your goal and your religion....

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what is the way we look at other forms
do we feel God’s presence in each soul
or is gender, colour or age the yardstick
have we imbibed agape love scriptures extol...

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Walrus tusks are longer than I thought
Length of a yardstick, new and store bought
Females' tusks are much longer; they serve as teeth
Sharper than a copper dagger in a leather sheaf...

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Nature offers me plates of dreams
The aromatic fragrance teases my appetite
I take with much gusto and hope, perhaps
They are my present yardstick
To the depths of tomorrow!

But how much do I take, for in the sun like
A mountain of ice away the dreams're melt?...

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Double Standard?
Tom’s Opinion
4/29/2020

She makes charges, He denies.
Fair minded people report the facts,
but the national media is disingenuous,
spinning everything to fit a narrative 
that often portrays their own viewpoint.
Listening to the accuser has now become dependent
upon what network is asking the question.
Each person should be measured with the same yardstick!
...

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If I'm to judge my own character,
    What do I use as a just yardstick ?
Can I rely on simple reflection, 
    Or use another gauge, that's just as quick ?

Will this evaluation be considered fair,
    If the answer returns with only praise ?
Or does it prove to be detrimental,
    Leaving my self-esteem to a foggy haze ?

This introspection is necessary,
    And even common among those to care.
Only to realize that others must weigh-in,
    For the scales to compare....

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