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Monday, November 6, 2023

Better Reason



PAD Challenge day 6: For today’s prompt, take the phrase
"Better (blank)," replace the blank with a new word or phrase,
make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem.



Better critique better, Reason's Sleek Begetter
So eager to charm and entice
Desire's effulgence with instant indulgence
Better to first ponder the price

And weigh velvet voices that prey on quick choices
And trick us to trade truth for lies
Better, first to measure the worth of the treasure
And cost of the pleasure we prize

Because oft desire can be a soft liar
If we heed no Higher Decree
Than gratification of infatuation's
Accommodating fantasy

Better to look better where seduction's fetter
Is not always easy to spot
Better to fight battles before Fool's Proof tattles
On Reason's Begetter of Thought

To weigh the approach of a 'promise'-drawn coach
Where knights in shining armor plead
To study the path and the long aftermath
(of) Where Yielding to Impulse may lead...

...better to pray before we leap
Into the fray of Whim
Better to ask the Lord to keep
Thought's pleasure stayed on Him 

© Janet Martin

Today's devotion...


...from this book!



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