Short Undemanding Poems

When love costs
that's when you should measure it.
Keep pleasant
undemanding love a secret.
Enjoy it in private
or boast.
Never tell it secrets,
especially secrets of a
demanding kind.
When love holds
in spite of hurt
then it's alive....

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Dramatically daring disarmingly dapper
So soflty serene so subtly sublime
Enigmaticly entrancing enthusiastically enjoyable
Vividly vibrant vicariously viewing
Caringly caressing charismatically cosmic
Admittedly alluring amid amicable azure
Unforgettably unabashedly undemanding
Irrisistably Ignitingly Insync...

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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
             Life so simple     so undemanding
So loving
And of that consistent joy
Only a purloined whisper lingers.


Mr. Penny died November 4th, 2013...

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not burdensome  
not draining 
uncomplicated 
undemanding 
painless 
smooth 
effortless
newness 
freshness
not the same 
better then the other 
why can't it be as ease
with the one that i long for
why can't it be as smooth 
with the one i desire 
no matter how hard i 
try it will never be as 
effortless with the one that 
holds my heart in their had...

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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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Two awake within dreaming
First nudge undemanding
Third tug understanding and
A meaning.
But what from my pocket
do I trade? Got a nut, got a
bone, got a chair and a spade,
put together with a tone from
A Blade.

And now I'll ask from between
the rooms, how many more of
my pretty balloons?
Do you want?

As I pick up my little broken strings
I think to myself, God's humor stings....

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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 present is nonsense
This life makes no sense

Breathe in breathe out don't breathe
Death is the only sensation ... cessation......

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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 present is nonsense
This life makes no sense

Breathe in breathe out don't breathe
Death is the only sensation ... cessation.......

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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 - frequently
Tell people I love them
Even though they know it
Stop arguing with inanimate objects
And

Breathe in – breathe out

John G. Lawless
©12/27/2021...

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Home, sweet home, is a heaven on earth
The abode of undemanding love and care
Where delight and tranquility reign utmost
Where one shares the joys and sorrows; all
Where the ambience remains beautified ever
Where food and water are partaken together
Where love, sweetness and charm abounds
Where from going out and returning to is
A pleasurable experience, that’s unforgettable 
Where each one is glued mutually, with that
One common and an affectionate bond....

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She looks down at the world
All around at her feet,
With a look that beckons
With a calm presence
Undemanding
But she is not meek,
She can thrill you
Start a fire,
She is a ruckus
Low on the radar
Stealth trouble
With a face that permeates
Through all emotions;
Renders you inoperable
Subdued
Leaving you clueless,
What just went down?
You want to know
Why you cannot frown
This is her mirage,
When you look again
She is no more
Like a mist;
But you know she was real......

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