Short Contented Poems

Don't rush please
As I'm contented to read
This book of poetry...

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Contented as moi 
although others see a fool, 
every day I cry....

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Frustration of mind
Sleep findeth me not contented to rest.
Passionate tempest....

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Story telling time
Content in their small world
Watch them fall asleep
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Naked and dejected, 
Between heaven and the void, 
Struggling yet contented....

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Huge white clouds
being so content
as they drift slowly
through the blue
velvet sky.

wrote 8-7-08...

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I heard the thunder
above my contented place
as I accepted the sunshine
and left home
without an umbrella....

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a cup of hot tea
cozy corner of a room
a contented heart

Written October 31, 2022...

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I have a secret you don't know
Hiding deep, down below
See me smile and look contented
Now my nappy's been cemented...

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In a badger trap
Found with peanut butter
Contented to be nursed back to health
And sleep on the chair
Next to the dog...

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I’m moving forward
The suffering ends right now
Don’t want to see you
I’m contented without you
Get out of my existence...

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Hairy upon his lap did lie
Snuggled and contented
Hairy upon the mistress' lap 
Snapped his hand when extented ...

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a floating lily
frog rides back to spawning bed
with contented fish

©  Feb 23 2010      Charles Henderson...

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she purrs ... contented
I feel stress leave my body
the sound of her purr
is like the rain on the roof
or ocean lapping the shore...

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'If thoughts are seeds, why nourish weeds?'
A friend of mine once said.
Contented are the minds of those 
Where roses bloom instead....

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Any total ignoramus
Can end up rich and famous,
But riches and celebrity
Often lead to misery.
Contented I have grown
Being poor and little known....

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 Happiness is one of the most noticeable by-products~~
                                                                       of the contented mind....

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cows stand in their beds
trod on grass loosen like springs
blades of grass enriched

cows fulfilled and contented
cows unfilled their content ... parts...

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Remember when
all it required 
for a full and contented life
was a friend or two 
some marbles in your pocket
a stick of liquorice
and a hot sunny day.
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SILLY HAIKU

bovine strike over
price of milk is coming down
contented,  cows graze

too late for robert –
sign warns of carnivore plants -
red chlorophyll burps...

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Contented and complete
Amiable and sweet
Nurturing and nice
Cancer's good advice
Ever tied to home
Resolved to never roam.

inspired by Danielle's contest....

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Plan Trump Had Invented

Another plan Trump had invented,
And no one else ever consented;
Fulfilled need
Or agreed;
He was satisfied and contented.

Jim Horn...

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I dreamed that I lived in the sea,
So happy, contented and free.
No need to do dishes,
I fed with the fishes
'Til a sea creature tried to eat me.


won 5th place...

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I am but a man treading a brief dream.
I'm but a man rowing a sacred stream.

A student of life seeking knowledge yet;
Contented with the cotton therein his closet....

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Panda eats leaves, shoots and stems of his favorite tree
Surrounded in a forest of bamboo, he is insanely happy
China has everything he needs to be content and excited....

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