Wednesday
Dec202006
HAPPINESS
The feeling that is happiness
Comes from an inner sun.
Its warmth conveys to us the sense
Life's struggle we have won.
Just like the sun we make the warmth
With our activities
That reach out to the limits of
Innate capacities,
To others and to God as well;
And all at the same time.
The warmth created then gives life
It's reason and its rhyme.
Attempts to gather things of life
We think make happiness
Will fail because there's not enough
To fill the emptiness.
Say "reaching out..." becomes a score.
Then happiness will be
Just playing all the notes of it
In perfect harmony.
We 'play' ourselves but join as well
Together in our 'band'.
When there's just happiness perhaps
We'll see in it God's hand.
Wednesday, December 20, 2006 at 09:59PM
Reader Comments (19)
Interest and a feeling of well-being and reflections on approved state of mind and body and present emolumental expectations, all yield a modicum of happiness, though real joy (that is not connected with relief) must come through an inner connection that is not always under one's personal control, though some one's efforts might be more responsible for the good after effects than another's, that is, less serendipitous. We can but aim to do good and be happy. As a basketball player aims for the basket. This, game of life.
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I am sorry but unlike your previous 3 comments this one is not as crystal clear to me. However, I will guess that what you have said is similar to what I have expressed in my last 8 lines. Doug.E.Barr
Hayyy Watss Upp.;;;;;;
:P
Peace Outt;;;
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Peace Amanda. Doug.E.Barr
that was the best poem over
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I appreciate all comments equally. Doug.E.Barr
I like this happiness poem, it makes me feeling of happiness by just reading it! for that, I thank you!
I see happiness in very simple ways... contentment is a very simple happiness... if I have a warm dinner await for me after my long working day, I feel very happy. If my towel does not cuts a hold on it and often it does when I use it for a while.. then I feel very happy about it, when a stranger gives me a warm smile from other side of the street, or from a bus.. as we stand side by side.. I feel so very happy, moreover, when I hear someone told me "I love you.." I feel most happy for even just a moment of sentence.. so, therefore, I ve learned that I can find happiness through very simple ways, and they are more than enough to fill up my heart than materials. and rich enough to make me smile long time till after life..
again thank you for your poem, very enjoy it.
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Keep it simple. Doug.E.Barr
wooow! that poem waz deep!!!
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...and clear, right to the bottom I hope. Doug.E Barr
i heart ur poem!
-luv amanda
Your life is your to keep as long as fover love is forver as long as........................
GEUSS WHAT IF YOU DIDN'T KNOW, THE LORD IS THE SUN.HE ALSO IS NIGHT AND DAY.AND SINCE YOU DON'T BELIEVE IN THE LORD. WHY DID YOU INCLUDE HIM IN THIS POEM?
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This is one of 16 comments Crystal left. If you are interested in my general response to all of them you can read it here. Doug.E.Barr
lol person above me obsessed wif god Crystal F?
Well I luved the poem it rockd there was absolutly nofin wrong wif it =)
i <3 this poem xD
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lol Thanks. Doug.E.Barr
wow luv your poems
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Thanks. Doug.E.Barr
Thank you for sharing this beautiful peom. It showed opions of all of us in one sinple peom, what we never think about when we laugh.
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Thank you for sharing your thoughts. Doug.E.Barr
Just wanted to say thank you for the poem you wrote. It was exactly what I was looking for. You have a beautiful gift. Peace. Sarah B x
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peace to you too. Doug.E.Barr
I didn't even read it I wanted to write one but this didn't help me.
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It can't possibly help if you don't read it. Doug.E.Barr
I love your poem and I hope you write more to show people that love and peace is really important.
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Thank you and "I hope you (continue) to show people that love and peace is really important." Doug.E.Barr
heyyy :) :P
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Hey to you. Doug.E.Barr
Hey, this poem is beautiful. I was trying to find a poem that represented how people can find happiness in so many different ways, and this poem expresses it wonderfully.
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Thank you for making me happy by taking the time to comment. Doug.E.Barr
i really like this poem of yours, its conveys meaning and passion. But i don't get the bit where you wrote
'It's reason and its rhyme.' Joanne.
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Search the phrase "rhyme nor reason". Doug.E.Barr
i really like your poem! we were recently given an assignment to write an essay on ANY poem, and i'm considering doing yours. do you by any chance have an analysed version?
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lol That's your assignment. Doug.E.Barr
thanks for the poem that was the best that i have ever read there was so much to it that i loved though i wish some would feel the same i don't feel like people that includes parents understand teens feelings about love the tell you that you don't know what love is and that were experiencing lust well what would you describe love for a teens eyes i felt like when i lost my first love i felt that pain that life meant nothing to him and that i was a piece of treat that he could use why would a boy that i had done so much that included lieng to my parents and run away to his place after school just to be with him would treat me like crap i hated it but then the second breakup man you should have seen the look in my eyes i saw the truth in this guy that i never saw in the first i knew that he really loved me and if it were not for his parents than we would have still been together and we would be in love forever i whish that his friends liked me because though i may seem mean there is nothing in me that says that i am mean all the time i am so sad that i have never found the true love that wants to be with me forever i hope that some one will find me soon when i am 16 and ask for me to be with them
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16? Don't lie to your parents. Avoid boys for another 10 years at least. Doug.E.Barr