Short Undue Poems

misunderstandings
spawn hurt feelings
that suck 'til resolution

misallocation of
emotional content that
never existed
oft the culprit...

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Day by day, our lives are worn away
That is nature, needs no undue fuss
But let it be by things we choose to do
And not by things unwilling done to us...

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If I were William Blake, I’d see
Each star that lights Eternity;
But since my name is something less
I only sense their silverness.
This undue honor humbles me....

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a 
   measure
    without
     undue
       tenure,
a
   process
     to tend
to screen
to enclose
to corner...
....so fragile..
in the mist
of my
         mind...

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undue love of power


undue "religion of matter"


usury unchecked


***


murder, subterfuge:


foul powers that be


---  cabal-loving and lynching-loving ---


divide and conquer...

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A deal, a transaction
  a trade, an exchange
Whatever you call it
  it's business arranged

Let it forever be free
  unsullied by regulation
So you and I can flourish
  without undue strangulation...

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Ol’ John Brown sang a pitiful tune
He went to his reward all too soon
Fought for a good cause
Without undue pause
And they strung him up at half-past noon.

written January 16, 2022...

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Tell me New year, I beseech Thee,

Are the tears I discern in Thy eyes those of joy or

Those of sorrow?


Please,

Let me know without any undue delay

For

My heart cannot withstand the agony 

Thou silence has put me in!






© Demetrios Trifiatis
    01 January 2019...

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Beyond all those particular existences
Such illusions of meaningless digressions
from what's humble and noble
Decimated to nothing other than
eternal oblivion
A fallacy to one's own finitude
A pretension to omnipotence
An undue adulation
To such negations 
Of knowing evil by infection...........

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not so funny, brother
when the bitter pills
of undue death
hit the rain-leaked roofs -
when the bomb-buried legs
shoot out 
fearing for the unready burial -
when the pregnant woman
in dying curses the unborn
child from afflictions 
& impositions of poverty -
then 'tis then
that a toad runs at noon for naught!...

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If from Up high, you feel, you're
falling like a leaf
Because of undue haste, that has
turned to grief
Or, a loved one's passing was much
too brief
Being that DEATH, in the night, came
like a thief
And, it does you, No justice, to buy a
memorial wreath
Remember how, in time of TROUBLE,
Peace Is Our Relief...

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Dumb I am





Dumb I am but not throughout,
People benefit of the doubt,
can't take undue height,
dip me overnight,
See the beans perfectly sprout !






Inspired by quote given by poet in the contest

Limerick- 7/7/5/5/7
Written May 23rd, 2015
For contest "Dumb and dumber personal quotes" by John freeman

4th place win...

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We place a lot of pressure squarely on our shoulders 
Raising the bar on repeat feels like carrying boulders 

Stakes set stubbornly high but can lower to find a clue 
By broadening out our view to see the strain is undue

Realize the rigor we apply isn't required in every situation
Unwinding tension that was a figment of our imagination...

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Silent, the memory pondered
of love, that it once knew
A cherished time, a love squandered
Heartbreak, never to undue

The tears that fell, spilled upon a dream
Down a face of regrets
Fragility of self-esteem
Emptiness it begets




9/2/19
contest writing challenge 1, September 2019-eight line form
sponsor Dear Heart-Wiishkobi Ode...

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With every taste of wine and sweet perfume,
The florid touch of night grows ever wilder
And wraps the heart in evanescent bloom,
Which gives the mind new fantasies to ponder.

The crisp moscato rushes through the veins,
Unfurling blithe delights of youthful glories.
It is undue and fruitless to explain
The alchemy of love in sober stories....

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Melodies from heaven take me away
Undue the wrath of hurricane heartbreak
Singing of joy in freeing green serenade
Into the voice of love the one who saves
Creating a rainbow and providing peace
Amber and gold love inside blessings
Letting us know soul holy body
Inside we glow spiritual unity
The angels do sing and ears delight
Your heart brings a note songs for Christ....

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I wake up some days lost
Because never did I know
Life would seem so empty 
Without the closest friend I know
I'm not angry with god
At times I wonder why
Them to my amazement
God comforts me
I know my father is testing comfortably in the sky
Time they say heals all wounds
So I press on life forever
Changed
I pray to heaven for peace
And god will undue from me this pain...

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Christmas is a delightful time of the year
a time of festivity, not fear
carols linger in the air,
love everywhere
all aglow,
here
Ho! Ho! Ho!
with no undue flair,
put nativity scene there
the reason for the season is here
Christmas is a delightful time of the year

written December 20, 2021
[an Andaree, a poetry form
invented by Andrea Dietrich]...

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Stupid ants
Wreck each other
Kill yourselves
As none other

Repeated cycle
All in vain
Teach another
Undue pain

Who will play
King of the hill
When one is never
Better still

Understand
The pretense being
He can never
Be all seeing

Wrest each mandible
From the other
Lay these weapons
Down asunder

Was the whole
All worth the end
Does the act
In worth amend?...

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Sitting quietly to write poetry,
bound to lower mind, we often do slip,
making undue effort to be arty,
instead of us shooting straight from the hip,
allowing pure inspirations to drip.

Thus to freely sing our joy enabled verse,
gently become one with the universe,
by letting go of, being to become,
in embracing surprise, no longer terse,
light divine ignites our sensorium!

28-December-2020...

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There are so many paces talking to the stones
The greatest counselors are the ones made of bones
The flowers in this garden couldn't possibly be any fresher
Here in lies, the answers given without undue pressure
Various degrees of experience given by souls of all ages
Their final class pictures were found in obituary pages
A final remembrance of all a somber one
Beloved father, mother, sister, or son...

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Laughter ensues from the tricks being played
undue is the pain as nerves shredded frayed
disorder the purpose dysfunction effect,
poorly presented jokingly direct
from a pig in a poke with a funnybone joke,
not even funny are the thrills being broke
but then....hitting the funnybone is no joke......

Pain and pleasure is an individualized ideal,
as our world of perception becomes obviously real........

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Lovely, yet wearied, worried,
she looks away in quiet terror
from the sight of faint wrinkles
around her eyes in the mirror.

He finds it an undue anxiety,
her worry about crow's feet,
a view that she dreads to see,
truth she's uneager to meet.

He tells her they're but laugh lines,
traces of shared joys, happy times,
skin-deep hints of deep-seated bliss.
Amused, touched she is by this view of his!...

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Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained
Written: by Miracle Man
10-17-2019

Many people will avow,
to being risk adverse.
In discussing this point,
they often become terse.

if we can’t stick our neck out,
without undue fear.
We’ll be like the tortoise,
and not get anywhere.

Sometimes a decision,
causes life to seem bleak.
But risk is always commensurate,
with the reward we seek.
...

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Itz,

cigar litany,

sun-glass villainy,

functional function-ability-

operating a pertinence undue to the mean-streak-

my man was a real porter but not so Greek-

hella' greedy like the weak,

hairy in ecstasy,

sternly speeding within his hoarse feet,

he'd leverage the wage against a narrowing bridge,
fitting neatly into scenes,

he'd soccer around his thing to bring out the majority of me....

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