Best In That Respect Poems

The Library of Trust and Hope
The Bank of Trust and Hope

(Cant decide on title, so feel free to pick or suggest one)

She was all but four years of age
Birthdays were such magical moments
The cake was filled with candles
The balloons still in their package twelve on...

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Self-control is the first lesson of life,
when learning to be presentable.

An alternate lifestyle 
will bring you grief,
but you are no different
in that respect.

All grieve.

Delete everything 
you should not have said
	or done.

There is a scream,
then nobody is there.

The machine shuts down
at the end.
Silence is the last...

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The lady I love is true to herself
and in that respect she is true to me.
She has cast her eyes to see no one else.

Such a love as ours is ordained to be.
To loves sweet song our hearts beat as one
and in that respect she...

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In 1920, my father, 16, was a guest of the British government. He was a prisoner of their forces occupying Ireland at the time, a group called the Black and Tans.

One day he and seven other prisoners were brought out of their makeshift cells to...

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love can lie to the naked eye
we deceive ourselves
and know not why
the things we hear 
should kill a love
make us call ourselves liars
is what love does

the truth can be so inconvenient
forcing a heart to be lenient
when rage and anger should over flow
but that  would...

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Life is such a blessing
By Franklin Price
6/10/2014 
(edited 6/10/2018)

Life is such a blessing, of that I'm here to tell
It's not the money that you have although that's kinda swell
It's a happy life and satisfaction to be just where you are
Which means you hung your choices...

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If nothin else is said or done
at least i did whats right
at every single rising sun
to glowin moon at night
it wasnt easy being tuff
and doing what i hate
but now i see ive done enough
theres no room for debate
my task is done, in that respect
and tho...

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ABE LINCOLN WRITES TO JOSHUA SPEED
						
Dear Joshua: 
	You know that I love you,
That I have always loved you– only you!
The woman means nothing to me– nothing!
Henceforth, don’t write angry letters to me!
Mary always was and always will be
A splinter between us in our bed:– but–			
I...

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he was looking for a new enemy
for it was the man he hated before 
which defined his very being &
in that respect, there was no other
who could possibly take his place---
he searched far and wide, after the last
fight had come to a close---two
young men with...

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Have you ever wondered how fish have sex
Males don't have sticky-out things as you might expect
Feel sorry, I do
Curiosity beaucoup
Perhaps sperm whales could help in that respect...

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The biggest boy in all the school
Was Charlie Bull, who was no fool!
All the pupils knew the truth,
This bully was just so uncouth. 

Every day he had to fight,
He’d bust your nose just for spite.
But nobody could have ever guessed
Why Friday would have been so...

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I’m only one of billions of my kind 
breathing in the same atmosphere 
from eons gone by. . . 
just a spec in God’s eye 
Perhaps, we’re just the latest whim 
Perhaps, the greatest 
Perhaps, perhaps not. 
You’re only one of billions, just like me...

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Sometimes in life things are out of our control...
Especially when we feel we've given to the bottom of our soul...
Only to receive nothing in the end...
But I want you to know in me you have a lifetime friend...
It hurts that I can't give you what...

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Wherever you find Mankind, two plagues follow Him: War and poverty, both preventable but
impossible to eradicate. The reason: greed. The sorrier of the two is poverty; war
sometimes is a necessity, poverty never is.
Man is forever looking for more but always that pursuit is misdirected. He...

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