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Tag Archives: happiness
I Thought I Knew: madrigal
I thought I knew, but knew nothing of love before your true love grew to fill my heart; and now there is no other that compares. How small and turned within my life was then, so crowded and content with … Continue reading
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Tagged #BookofForms, Chaucer, happiness, love, madrigal, poetic forms
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Whatever Works: ghazal
To say positive thinking breeds success is to a point the truth – well, more or less. Reality, however, would suggest what matters more is really openness: acceptance of what comes as being blessed with more experience and evidence that … Continue reading
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Tagged #BookofForms, ghazal, happiness, openness, poetic forms, positive thinking, understanding
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Don’t Worry, Be Happy: canzone
Canto I. Don’t Worry There is no cause for worry or alarm. The world will carry on despite your fears; true love will never languish in the arms of its emotions’ mirror once there found, though those who seek destruction … Continue reading
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Tagged #BookofForms, belief, canzone, daily poems, happiness, ignorance, illusion, Italian verse forms, worry
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Let the Cold Wind Blow
Let the cold wind blow, let the weak spots show, let the gray hair go ’til it’s there no more. Let the days roll by, let the hours fly, let ’em say goodbye ’til it’s you and I. There’s just … Continue reading
Posted in Songs
Tagged companionship, contentment, devotion, happiness, living, love, seasons, Sondra
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The World is a Small Town
Don’t want much, but that’s all right Nothing much happens here on Saturday night Get laid, get drunk, get in a fight Maybe all three Maybe at the same time Don’t need nothing, but that’s OK Nothing much here to … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Statements
Tagged expectations, happiness, history, individuality, limitations, maturity, small towns
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Inappropriate Happiness
Maybe sanity’s a side-effect of living; some folks get it, while some others never do. It’s just a minor irritation that can do no lasting harm; you can shake it like a slight touch of the flu. Besides, in a … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Statements
Tagged acceptance, adjustment, happiness, living, sanity, self-determinism, therapy
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Elizabethtown
Some kinds of closure only come in story books and movies; real life rarely turns out quite so neat and clean: with one door neatly sliding open as another firmly shuts; such coincidence is rare and far between. To compress … Continue reading
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Tagged Elizabethtown, endings, happiness, love, movies, reality, relationships, reviews
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