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 PAD Challenge 25: For today's prompt, write a thought poem. 

'Everything we do/become begins with what we think,

and which thoughts we entertain! we do not fall prey to

a passing thought, but the one which we indulge'

our father would caution us, as teens.

'We all have terrible things that enter the mind but as the old

proverb goes;

Just because a bird flies over our heads

doesn't mean we need to allow it to build a nest'

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So many thought-guests drop by!

We need to be careful to whom we offer a chair!

***

We become what we feed thought...

Such a huge buffet!

choose well

Something like this is nice for

thought's breakfast...

One life to live;

A gift to give

Our uttermost attention to

Where thought gives birth

To waste or worth

Of everything we say and do

Thought entertains

In boundless veins

Guests of both honor and deceit

Its rendezvous

(no matter who)

Soon bursts through gates of mouth-hands-feet

This control tow’r

Of holy pow’r

All other boasts of might exceeds

Therefore, we ought

To give much thought

To what we think and where it leads

© Janet Martin

Whatever is noble, 

whatever is right, 

whatever is pure, 

whatever is lovely, 

whatever is admirable — 

if anything is excellent or praiseworthy —

 think about such things.

-Philippians 4:8