Best Best Foot Forward Poems

Front-line in depth of mortar
Whistling shells and screams of torture
Blood clot gurgles death bell tolls
Hell of pain in body enthrals
Danger rings apprehension stalls...

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Here one minute, gone the next
Life is everything it seems
Live each moment like your last
Never give up on your dreams

Wake each day to something new
Offer...

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I've been around a lotta years!
I've traveled the road of life!
I've had many, many, ups and downs,
times of joy, and grief, and strife!

I've tried my...

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But this Day is Mine!

 Joyfully I seize this new promising day,
along with whatever comes my way.
With God’s help, I’ll make it the best one...

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Just maintain that course 
Stay on that path in order to excel 
Put your best foot forward 
And continue to do well
Uplift and empower 
Be...

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Contests! good for building egos up

great for knocking creativity down

as I pore over words and sounds

to make my poetry jump off the page

to come alive...

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Meeting begins, each puts best foot forward,
in as outer appearances do go,
behind banter lurk motives untoward,
sweet words incongruent with intent low,
just waiting to land a...

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Don’t give in to adversity
Don’t accept defeat
Put your best foot forward
In any challenge that you meet.

Stick to your convictions
Hold your head up high
Know your limitations
Then...

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Tomorrow’s history makers
Future record breakers
Are the infants of this day
They should be taught well
In order to lead the way

They should be taken forward
In the fear...

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If you procrastinate, it may be because you're afraid of fate. You have no faith, so you wait until its too late! You take for...

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A high paying job..
is what some might say. 
That makes you successful..
in the world today. 

Gathering gold metals..
might be worth a shot. 
Success is not...

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As a human being weighed down by guilt, afraid, alone- traveling down a road more traveled, putting a tough act on- Shimmerings of light in...

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I tip my hat to you

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The book describes a battle that included African American soldiers in the Union army who, in spite of the controversy, were very instrumental in the...

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Idle Thoughts

In to each life, a little rain must fall.
One thing for certain, it happens to us all!	
There’s no escape, it’s just time to pause,
Take...

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