Short Self Respect Poems

my tiger told me
to say hi, ahlla, hello
hallo aloha
a positive self respect
not rapid nor an ego...

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Self-respect:  The ultimate test
If it is found you will find rest
You deserve to give yourself the best!...

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self regard
brings
self respect,
pleasure
pride
simple bliss:
the touchstone
of contentment
laid bare...
...self..care...

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All you want is sex
Because it was everyday with your ex
But please don't vex
Because I am not an object of pleasure
At your leisure
That doesn't last eternity
Because I  have my dignity...

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You enter and leave his house
Only in the dark
Like a  scurrying mouse
You enter and leave his house
When none can notice
Self respect you lack
You enter and leave his house
Only in the dark....

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Where did my love go
And the self-respect?
Where did my love go?
It's not what I'd expect!
How can one be so cruel
To just stomp the golden-rule!
Reprecusions in the life
so hard to get rid of strife?...

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I loved you much more than myself  losing my self respect! 
I know it hurts but you were my parasol. 
Evil chanted it's whimsical words I guess.
You have changed I mean it! 
It's like broken mirror, can't put it back together...

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Thought you had me 
in your grip.
My mind you violated 
and tried to rip.
My self respect
you did not strip.
Stuck out my foot
and made you trip.
While you were down,
I gave you the slip.
Never more to listen
to your abusive,
blippity,blip, lip!...

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Listen to poem:

in my youth
i was in love
it was hard but
i once left the boy
for whom I cared so much

I told him he didn't
love me enough
he just asked
'what do you mean?'
to which i said
'exactly'



AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Posted on August 24, 2021...

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Don't scream about equality.
Life's unfair, that's reality.
Just do the very best you can
to be a truly worthy man.

Productive work and mind said Marx,
beget the humanizing sparks.
Self-worth and self-respect, said Rand,
can make for ouselves a better land!...

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strange relief, since she left,
he had been feeling so right,

     though down and out, yet so
     exhilaratingly high and light,

so unexplainably much better
though beaten and battered,

     his self-respect stood strong
     where it ultimately mattered....

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People may not know,
what you hide.
Behind closed doors,
your true side.

Lack of self respect,
and pride.
You try to be strong,
part of you has died

All the times you cried.
Telling everyone you fine,
even though you lied.
You hid it well,
or atleast you tried....

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"All a man really wants, is a girl who looks good in a bikini." - Jack Freestone

		
Upon your mind set it purely depends; 
Self-respect of girls it greatly offends.
Men, tighten all your minds’ screws; 
Picture yourselves in their shoes.
A view of this kind surely needs amends....

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Don't scream about equality;
        life's unfair, that's reality;
        just do the very best you can
to truly be a worthy man.

Productive work and mind, said Marx,
        beget the humanizing sparks;
        self-worth and self-respect, said Rand,
can make this place a better land !...

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I wish I wouldn't try to be perfect
When I know it can never come to fruition
Perhaps I do it for the self respect
Maybe I do it for the recognition

Always I try to keep it all correct
Always I fail, and let it fall away
I wish I wouldn't try to be perfect
I wish I wouldn't try to be perfect...

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The humble soul has self respect
Treat others how you would choose be treated
The apple falls from the tree
for you to take freely - the tree giving

There is a courteous respect
when you look to another - inferior to those around you
holding yourself in lesser importance 
and not centred on self...

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Earlier this morning I was enlightened by a poet's post and felt the need to express my thoughts in the following lines ~

It's far better we write to please ourselves
and ignore the negative criticism of others
   than to write in order to please the public
      and forfeit our integrity and self-respect...

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On unbearably pleasant days
she beckons the ferryman
to taxi her to the
dark places of her past
to stock up on bitterness,
envy, rancor
a delusional cocktail for the
attention-starved addict
with the trademark, fatalistic,
false sense of power.
Self-respect makes a break for it
while she coddles demons in her sleep....

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To you who truly treasure self-respect,
has there been a humiliating 
instance

when to succumb low, and sheepishly so,
to public opinion's 
preponderance

is neither a betrayal of your worth
nor a slap to your reason's 
countenance?

and spinelessly you go, float with the flow
of popular passion and 
circumstance?...

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Tie-in-the-back butt-baring hospital gowns are humiliating. According to patients, wearing a belted loin cloth would be far less embarrassing. Some say the hospital gown strips self-respect from patients who humbly come to the hospital for help. Surely, fashion designers could create a hospital gown with dignity and compassion in mind....

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The things addiction took from me
My Lord
My family
My goals
My career
My friends
My self- esteem
My self- respect
My pride
My compassion
My mind
My heart
My soul
My freedom
&
My health
Addiction took everything from me
I thank you Lord for another day clean


Written for Kristin's 20 lines or less
"List Poetry contest"....

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To you who truly 
treasure self-respect,
has there been a humiliating 
instance

when to succumb low, 
and sheepishly so,
to public opinion's 
preponderance

is neither a betrayal 
of your worth
nor a slap to your reason's 
countenance?

Do you spinelessly go,
float with the flow
of popular passion and 
circumstance?

....

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So in love with me. Why shouldn't I be? I'm
My own person original  from all others. We
have comparable needs and wants nevertheless some of us are extraordinaire  beyond the webs of life that guides us to rediscover  self love, respect that's self evident
that we all seek self respect,  self sacrifice  to acquire self love within self-reflection....

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They are what they learn,
and they've learned so much
from their pastors and teachers 
when mom wasn't there,
and dad was defining himself.

They are loved second hand 
by aunts and uncles distant and suspect.
From the back of a hand 
to the stroke of a cheek, 
confusion curdling self-respect.

They are what they're used to,
it stems from regard or neglect....

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So easy to die,
But so hard to live.
Wonder if this existence,
Is really worth it.

I cry in the arms,
Of an early grave.
I only wanted love,
But instead rejection came.

I can love no other,
Because I do not love myself.
Zero self confidence,
Zero self love.

No self respect,
The cause of my death.
The past the ink,
On my death certificate....

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