Best Undemanding Poems

If love is sharing,
Heartfelt caring
Always being by someone's side.
If love is giving
Knowing the joy of living 
A deep down feeling of pride.
If love is heart thumping, 
Excitement,nerves jumping
Never knowing quite what to expect.
If  love is yearning,pleasing
Playfully teasing
Yet treating another with respect.
If love is tears...

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I sometimes,
     through the noise of disaffection,
     hear a distant song,
     with soothing comfort in its embrace,
     a calling reminding in its humanity,
     an echo...

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We did not choose Africa. 
It chose us.
There's no Africa without us.
For a while
we thought the Berlin Conference
would change us, but
nothing changed us, not even
the colonial rituals you brought, not even
the whole Era of Apartheid, and the
plunder of our wealth.

We gave everything
and asked nothing in...

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Sonnets XCVIII-CII

Willy Nilly
by Michael R. Burch

for the Demiurge aka Yahweh/Jehovah 

Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?
You made the stallion,
you made the filly,
and now they sleep
in the dark earth, stilly.
Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?

Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?
You forced them to run
all their days uphilly.
They ran till...

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I’m standing solemnly contemplating 
How ageing lighthouses independents
Have become Maritimes normality 
With beacons becoming statutory 

Now standing shimmering silhouetted
You’re shining flawlessly undemanding
The hopeful monument oblivious 
To seamen’s abounding adorations

Written by Brenda Meier-Hans 
09.22.2014
Contest: The Lighthouse 
Nette Onclaud
7th...

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I saw a kindly friend in church today--
 I say "a friend" because I know her well
 Like all the rest, her name, address, the way
 She smiles and says, "good morning," takes 
 Her seat four seats away from mine.
 An hour later we...

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The Female Migrant
A customs official found a suitcase with a forgotten
Syrian refugee lady in it, he took her home blew life 
into her and he was no longer alone. 
Bought her sexy underwear skirt and blouse and
a bicycle pump and no longer did he bother...

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Things to do in 2022
Breathe in – breathe out
Listen more – talk less
Pay attention
To the needs of the undemanding
Look people in the eyes
(it’s all you can see nowadays)

Breathe in – breathe out

Curb my dog – and my tongue
Soften my sharp edges
Trim my nose hairs -...

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Continuation of Brodsky’s History of the Twentieth Century 

1918.  A flu pandemic in Spain takes hold, 
From Kansas over the seas in America bold, 
Women’s suffrage win the vote, 
Their opinion is not remote, 
Russia switches from the Julian calendar, 
To the Gregorian, the...

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My Little Dog

This little dog of mine, now three years old 
is sometimes stubborn and independent, 
but so like a child, 
never wanting or venturing to leave my side. 

A constant and faithful companion he reads my mind 
and senses my needs, giving him playtime...

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All things have fallen to the wayside
And I cannot bring myself to go beyond the front door

The coffee table is messy with unopened mail 
And haphazard cigarette ash

Dusty knickknacks are silent and undemanding 
Each with its own place on the shelf

The past is nonsense, the...

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Innocence has its travails of 
Losing the true identity of
Being touchy versus being sensitive.

I ruined many beautiful moments
Forsook my joys to reel in entanglements
Of lively public bantering as being abusive

A mild joke was a jab of cold heartedness
Brooding for days over the other's rudeness
Undervaluing true...

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You are the gift . . .
first of its kind God granted me,
unrestrained joy in little boy;
heart bonded unto heart
more firmly knit than strongest glue.
You are the gift . . .

You are the gift . . . 
and there were two,
sweet little girl, undemanding;
a giver...

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Oh my God! Help me find understanding! 
And not just of Yourself, also Man, 
Let me search for the truth, undemanding, 
Or in seeking self-worth in your plan. 

Help me see life on Earth with Your values, 
Guide me where I should be with Your...

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ON THE DEATH OF A PET

When you finally realize he’s gone,
How he pad so benignly on your awareness
Something pulls at your soul –
     A memory of other time
        Of other life
   ...

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