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bsquirrel
since 2000-01-03
Posts 7855
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I want to be happy. Put a burning candle in my ear. I want to be happy. Eat less and less -- see my beautiful bones? I want to be happy. Comfort food is a warm blanket. I want to be happy. Unroll this condom, dear. I want to be happy. Dark trails up my arm. I want to be happy. Music shines a brief escape. I want to be happy. Church for our jested god. I want to be happy. Let's get married, dear. I want to be happy. Lift those weights. Higher. Harder. I want to be happy. Just ran a marathon. I want to be happy. Library's sweet, hopeful lies. I want to be happy. Let's start a family, dear. I don't want to be happy. No need for manic edge. Just some peace, to understand. No brief joys and tugging sorrows. No need, my poetry. |
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Sunnyone Member Ascendant
since 2000-07-06
Posts 5334Staffordshire, England |
Oh..Oh...Oh.... This is the kind of thought I love.... It's full of ideas....I think I shall read this many times.... Very nice work.... full and heady.... Hold life with an open hand....leaving it room to grow.... |
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bsquirrel
since 2000-01-03
Posts 7855 |
 Glad you enjoyed, Sunny1. And full and heady makes me think of the beer I can't afford. Woe is me.Mike |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
I want to be happy...so would ya buy me a beer? LOL...Mike...I love this...happiness does seem to be an ever-changing, ever-growing list of attainables...love the theme. |
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Janet Marie Member Laureate
since 2000-01-22
Posts 18554 |
I want to be happy. Put a burning candle in my ear. I want to be happy. Eat less and less -- see my beautiful bones? I want to be happy. Comfort food is a warm blanket. I want to be happy. Unroll this condom, dear. ---------------- I don't want to be happy. No need for manic edge. Just some peace, to understand. No brief joys and tugging sorrows. No need, my poetry. ------------------- well...there will always be a need for your poetry as long as there are butterfly slippers  wise wise wise ... you are. Comes from living it...dont it.  later-cool-squirrel-gator jm/bs I think I could need - this in my life If you're gone - baby you need to come home there's a little bit of something me In everything in you MB20 |
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Butterflies_dont_cry Member Elite
since 2000-03-06
Posts 3733Michigan |
WOW Mike this is powerful stuff...with the title I thought maybe you had some answers... I guess those answers lay deep within each of us...each different and equally important to find. Great writing~ |
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bsquirrel
since 2000-01-03
Posts 7855 |
serenity, Glad you enjoyed. The poem is meant to question our "pursuit of happiness" to begin with. Life isn't always going to be happiness -- so why paste artifical smiles on everything? Love the irony, don't you? ( i knew you would )Butterfly Slippers, living the feeling more than the instances. At least I hope! B_d_c, thanks. The title was there to mock our quick-fix solutions. The answer IS inside, not external. Glad you enjoyed. Mike |
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