Best Look Forward Poems

Working most days until exhaustion until I retire,
Wasn't much to look forward to outside of religion -
Until I held my granddaughter in my arms the first time....

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When you were a child you did foolish things
After bumps and bruises a small bell rings
Don’t tempt fate by racing out of control
A little caution, best way to stay whole.

Whenever your heart is broken again
You know after the tears, yes you can win
Friendships you made...

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working my butt off
the sweet sum will satisfy
it keeps me going...

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After moments she shook her head,
then moved over to the brick hearth,
a strew cooked over glowing coals,
she threw more spuds in for her part.

Then came over to the main room,
and sat herself down on a chair
Ooposite where Emmet stretched out,
her piercing glaze did find him...

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...Emmet just sat down on a bench,
And gratefully took his boots off,
Just stretched himself out there to rest,
for the moment it was enough.

The woman seemed confused by this,
it was clear she expected rape,
but when the Yankee did nothing
she quietly made an escape.

She found herself outside...

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For all the good there's always bad
For all the  wrong there's always right
For all the weak there's always strong
For all the dark there's always a light 
Allow it to always shine Bright...

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When we speak we speak of things of past, never of the future, you think it won't last. This love of mine for you is complete but around we go stamping our feet....

You say I'm no different! I say look again... if you want to...

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...Emmet would converse with Sophie,
pretend he was a normal man,
while April and Abner slipped away…
young infatuation was grand.

And after their third time out there
April and Abner were engaged,
not coincidently there
was a new baby on the way.

They would have kept on going back
but orders came up...

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I was in command at the helm
when too much demand overwhelmed
couldn't find understanding felt pressure
declined as a man thought myself lesser
became linked with mental health
failed to deal with what life dealt, raw deal?

Maybe, still I feel I may have reordered my way of handle
I put...

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For sports fans, it is the season for football.
Shortly after, we see the start of hockey and basketball.
We also have two great holidays in the fall.
They bring joy and merriment to us all.
At the end of October comes Halloween.
All those young trick-or-treaters can be seen.
A...

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His name was Emmet Patterson,
and back in 1863,
he led a cavalry unit
patrolling deep in Tennessee.

The state was firm in Union hands,
Tte Civil War in its third year,
but the threat of partisan raids
meant that he was still stationed here.

There were many in his unit,
but he took...

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...Though in closing, it must be said
they did not remain there for long.
A damned Yankee wed to a Reb?
The locals all declared it wrong.

Like many others they went west,
and made Colorado there home,
the family lives there to his day,
‘Abner’ a family name well-known.

…and ‘April’ too....

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...For the remainder of the war
he kept to himself, since he knew
making friends set you up for pain,
there was naught to look forward too.

The months passed and Lee surrendered,
the war came to its brutal end,
Emmet did not go to his farm,
but to Tennesee he did...

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See now! It is a new dance,
We have shaken off the dark,
And sashayed into the dawn,
Though our memories of the past
Our remembrance of days gone,
Are ever present in our being
We step forward with promise
And design new tapestries,
We sail out boats on sea and sky
The horizon...

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Keep your face up
Look on to see
What lies ahead....

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