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85 poems tagged HAPPY
I have fallen in love, I said / that I have managed to lose my heart / that I found someone to wake up with / where I can hold her and time stand still / / what makes her so different - the question is / different is the first answer - that she is / our souls meet, we reach out to each other / we make… sign in to read more »
As soon as everything was approved / We packed our things and moved / We have not gone far / This note is to let you know where we are / We would be honored to have the pleasure / Of your company at our new treasure / / This treasure gets suddenly cold without a warning / Is that not a call for a… sign in to read more »
Today is the day when an angel was born. / You, the most precious child of this era. / The person who was so pure and beautiful. / The day you born, known for the day of love ones. / Happy birthday dear. / With your shine and God blessings. / This day and ever after will be fullfiled with happiness for… sign in to read more »
I miss you / everyday / I know that you never / wanted to go away a nan in a million / and nan as bright as a rose tree / you were always there for me / you were the lady / that kept us together / for many years / a woman so precious / who meant the world too all of us / a woman so kind and trusted… sign in to read more »
Roses are red, / Violets are blue, / Love is strong, / And so are you. / / Relationships dies, / Leaving behind gloomy goodbyes, / Mud is brown, / And so are your eyes. / / Souls are dark, / Bright ones are rare, / A shadow is black, / And so is your hair. / / Roses are pretty, / Sharks are killer, / And so is… sign in to read more »
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In peaceful states of being, / Simplicity is all mind can reach, / No speech,… sign in to read more »
This love is from me to you. / This love for you is true. / You walked into my life and brought me hope. / Slowly I trusted and learned to cope. / / You opened the doors of my heart and eased in / Now my love has a purpose and a reason. / You are the fairy in my tale. / The reason to each breath I inhale… sign in to read more »
As I trudged along, / I see a bird, high up in the sky, / It's quiet big, I'm intrigued, I stop! / I hear a sound, the sounds gets louder! / It must be a bigger bird! An eagle maybe! / I'm mistaken! What could that be? I ponder... / The sounder gets louder and more powerful, / An engine? Maybe? I wonder… sign in to read more »
Nobody knows what tomorrow will bring / Could be sunshine, could be rain / Could be pleasure, could be pain / But you got to have faith over fear / Even in your darkest hours and / Drowning in your own tears, keep the / Faith, faith over fear and / MAKE THE BEST OF TODAY before / It slips away, like the… sign in to read more »
A new day dawns with a bouquet of dew, / / Wet soil, dark trees, green leaf garden view, / / Under a fading star, half dressed, my love, / / Idling on a thick white cloud fantasy above, / / In tranquility, down the dripping light rain, / / Revelation of a despair love always in pain, / / Years, years… sign in to read more »
Well and you are one of a kind / There's no one in the world like you / I know 'cuz you lift me up so high / When I'm, down so low... / That's why you're My Hero and I / Know I ain't got nothing to fear / When you are around 'cuz / Not even the Lone Ranger has / Nothing on you and not even / Superman can do… sign in to read more »
I drank from ancient rivers as old as time / But never so sweet as the nectar of her smile / / She was just a girl named Jazz / Her beauty I could not capture in words / / Her eyes spoke truth / She said her real name was Ruth / / She cried a melancholic tune / Serenading the intoxicated moon / / Night… sign in to read more »
One heart so full of love / One sky so pretty from / Sunrise to sunset, one / Moon sometimes silver / Sometimes red, sometimes / Gold, one voice singing / I love you whether or not / You love me yet... / Oh ONE RAISED, one red / Ribbon card, one love / That will live forever in / My heart oh ONE ROSE, / ONE… sign in to read more »
Darlin' why do you still want him / After all he's put you through... / Well I say to had it with him, you / Don't need his kind no, you need / Someone who is true blue to you! / So don't cry one more tear over him / It's His Loss...look at me honey / I'm trying to tell you something long / Overdue, I have… sign in to read more »
Droplets of water falling, / gentle, softly / over my whole body / soaking me to my toes. / Standing there with empty mind, / and a very big smile, / hmmm, / I have not done this in a while. / Taking time, any time / some time, my time, / How wonderful it seems, / for just this very moment / lost in my non… sign in to read more »
Oh Angel surround me and / Keep me sane in such an insane world as today. / Help me to be brave when I am frightened and afraid. / Oh Angel surround me in your strong, strong wings now and always! / Never let me go so wrong that you don't want to know me anymore, / Guard my tongue from speaking any… sign in to read more »
I was a little kid. / A kid was full of need. / A need was full of heed. / A heed was full of beet. / A pure feel, a healthy mind. / A little keen, a wealthy rhymed, / there was not money in my little hand. / there was not funny out of land. / A little land, out of other hand. / A little land, found by no… sign in to read more »
The air looks like that song that stays on your fingers and makes hearts smile / Your favourite song tastes like a medley of ice-creamcream, pop-corn and marshmallows all dipped in rich darks chocolate / Food sounds like the orchestra of toes in socks strutting their way on wooden floors / Each breath… sign in to read more »
I love to eat, I love to drink, / I love to sleep, I love to dream, / The more I think or so it seems, / There are no end to my love it seems. / / I have always thought, at times a lot, / but then again I soon forgot, / For me a life never quite ends with a dot, / For it soon changes like a wild moth.… sign in to read more »
When I was but a young girl I just loved opposites, then I didn't know they attract. / Defying the odds and always being the odd one out, now I only find out it's what they call gender. / Female, feminine, phenomenal are words I started understanding when I became a young woman. / Pubic, puberty is not… sign in to read more »
Singing along to the blissful melody of jazz rebels / as I inhale red paint from the dripping wet brush of employment, / the eye of heaven looks down on me / sizzling on a winter afternoon barefoot in contempt. / / Alone in my world / I would sneak a dance or two before / the shades of darkness are drawn… sign in to read more »
Beat the drum / Sounds of the Djembe drum / Sounds the call to come together / / Summoning the elders, / Guardians of the great Africa / South Africa / My land / My place of birth / / Summoning the great, the small / The BLACK, the WHITE, the GREEN, the BLUE, the RED and the YELLOW / The interweaved colours… sign in to read more »
I walk on this lonely path, / without appeal, / without relief... / I see in front my eyes... / My eyes are blind, / I'm without sight... / / But I need your tender touch, / the greatest light, / my sight can see... / I need your lips in my, / The greatest thing I can believe... / / I lost a part of me, / When… sign in to read more »
They say that every woman wants a man that makes her smile; / But baby, you make me laugh and laugh and laugh until I cry. / At first I thought that this was nothing but romantic bliss, / But now I realise; / You bring me happiness. / / Soul light. / He's lighting up the dark, / and using just my smile… sign in to read more »
She's confident, she confides. / Her skin is black and it aint going to crack. / Her body is not of an hour glass but she has class. / She is bald but that doesn't stop her from being bold. / Is that her face and I thought I was blinded by the sun. / She walks the talk and when she talks you can't help… sign in to read more »
Time and distances / The only disturbances / Keeping me away from you my love / Hence I am tense as I am writing this and pouring my heart trying to free it like a dove / My ultimate gift from above / Without you my heart aches and my days turn blue / I can't wait to hold you / Nevertheless lay my eyes as… sign in to read more »
I swung wide my shutters this morning at dawn, / To witness the beauty as another day was born, / Too early I'd risen for the dark of night yet hung there, / Her eyes still sparkeled and indigo graced her hair. / / Slowly as her cheeks flushed with rose / And periwinkle adorned her face at night's close… sign in to read more »
"Happiness", an understatement / Just no words to precisely express my sentiment / Words at large simply fail me / / Forward the "tic tacks" of time / Hearing your name at play to my ears awakens the senses I never knew I had / You are my music / Rhythms play / Spasms my heart gets / Beats it skips / Trips… sign in to read more »
Oh God has blessed me with such a wonderful mother like You / You can never be replaced and I thank you for all You do / There are not enough ways to show You my appreciation / For as we grow older to one day reach our heavenly destination / I do not only give thanks to you on this day / But I will… sign in to read more »
when the rain pours down from the sky / it's so beautiiful it all seems a lie / / when it drops on my face / it seems like the drops are in some kind of a race / / they taste so sweet / it's like a yummy treat / / one by one they come down / they form together like a silver crown / / they are so beautiful… sign in to read more »
Firstly I love you more today / than I ever did in my life before / / You have intensified all colors / heightened all beauty / deepened all delight of being with you / / The thought of seeing you / and being around you / touch of your nose with mine / to recapture the electric current / the blood rush / oh… sign in to read more »
The blind man saw, / and confessed to law, / that it was the limbless who draw, / bringing anarchy to law. / / Which… sign in to read more »
My heart speaks... / My heart longs for you, / yet, you are not there... / My heart cries, / It cries day and night for you... / Where have you gone to? / I feel so lonely even my joy is my sadness... / I try to love outside the restriction of you... / For I felt that you were my asymptote... / I remember… sign in to read more »
Hey woman, wonderfully and fearfully made. / A flower that blossoms in all seasons, areas and atmospheres. / / Your scent gives breath of fresh air / Your presence brightens the day / / Woman your range and brand does not end / uprooted and planted elsewhere it does not change you, it makes you even… sign in to read more »
And then you waltz into my life, / hoping that you would do that quick step with me. / then you did the tango for five of years, / now you are doing the tap dance with someone else, / doesn't matter, / 'cause all you really want the lap dance, / which will make it short-term, / last night I pulled out a… sign in to read more »
The cartoon speaks of some great destiny / And the priest calls for his eternity / That desperate scramble time feared / To survival they say we are geared / And yet I do not feel that strange yearning / For that purpose they spend life burning / / The sun falls in red tea skies / Darkness falls over our… sign in to read more »
Love finally knocked on my door / the day you declared your love for me / everything in me shifted to create space for you / / The darkness faded in to the light you brought into my life / sadness melted upon your smile and happiness invaded my soul / / Love finally knocked on my door / the moment you… sign in to read more »
He holds his bat with all his might, / The bowlers bowl with full of fright. / He is the man, he is the king, / He smashes every ball out of the ring. / / Once he entered the pitch by chance, / And changed the game in a single glance. / He is the man depended on hard times, / For he is the king of all the… sign in to read more »
I live in my fingers / The fingers which deck my haughty eyes / The fingers which tickle my ears, / With the turning of the forbidden keys / I dart out to the forbidden space / To be ravished and chiseled by the rain / My anklets unquiet / Drenched and dripped / With the pattering piercing downfall / When… sign in to read more »
The numbers, letters, symbols, and songs / of lost poems put into a never ending brew / of cast aside thoughts, / loves, hates, fears, / and joys emotions sought out by many / but found by few / times many mothers / put into simple verses / and left in the mind / of the poets chaos, / that he endures / within… sign in to read more »
Just came today / to say I'm just a man / so many flaws within me / and yet the world knows / that my compass could / only carry me so far / and through all my travels / both good and bad / I have never seen a love / just like yours / and through all my sailing across / the seas / and of all the fishes I have… sign in to read more »
There are some dreams that you don't see during the night / You can just imagine. / There are some words that you don't hear / You feel these if you look somebody in the eyes. / There are some loves that you don't get with a kiss or a hug / You can touch these with your soul. / / If you can see what… sign in to read more »
Corner café, table for three. / Waiter, please get me some wine! / I loosen the straps of my sandals, / as I heavily sit, banging my knee on the corner of the damn table. / Hey gals, what's up! / I get back a mournful greeting / and a grunt from the other. / Okay, I say as I greedily eye the waiter… sign in to read more »
Light the sparklers / Twirl them round / Watch the sparkles flicker / Listen to the sound / / Pop the poppers / Hold them high / Listen to the happy pop / Watch the streamers fly / / This is party magic / Made for girls and boys / Soak it up and love it / Unwrap birthday toys / / Listen to the giggling / Of… sign in to read more »
You sing as if from the distant skies; / I take wings as my heart… sign in to read more »
I find peace in many places / In the sunbird's quick flittering / Wings amongst red bells glittering / In the field of blowing gold grass / Shimmering as clouds above pass / I find peace in these spaces / / But you come with your theology / You proclaim this but biology / And with this you make war / On the… sign in to read more »
The day has passed us still / and still I failed to say / in all the flowers I have seen / and all the places I have / travelled still / none takes my attention like / you do / / The day has passed us still / between the sun and the moon / I still need to declare / you the greatest of them all / but should… sign in to read more »
my friday reminds me / my december reminds me / of all the days I almost / told you / / but somehow I forgot / some promises I made / but still if you dance / please do / but when you dance in the / rain / and all the spectators wonder about / please don't forget / that my friday reminds me / of all the kisses… sign in to read more »
Before I become bug food, / I plan to eat / as many bugs as I can. / / Not the best plan, / but I do what I can. / / I think I'm molting. / / Breakfast will be / a few ant… sign in to read more »
The cookie cutter / cut a cookie / the cookie cutter / could not cut. / / I've been cutting back / on all the other stuff / I could never cut out. / / Now, I just cut it all out, / and count the pieces / as the pieces fall; / should the pieces / fall at all. / / It's easier in the daylight, / but more fun in… sign in to read more »
"What is happiness? Is it something you can find?" / Why are we all to that answer so blind? / Happiness is not bought of some shelf, / Go, search eternity, prove it yourself. / / We crave it so much, but do we know what it is? / Our hopes are crashed by broken promises. / We think of it as a life without… sign in to read more »
I yearn, I yearn for the days when we played / When we would never think of going to bed before we prayed / The only stress being a worry over a lost toy, but never lost hope because / Daddy would buy me another one and here is another one / Another one of those poems that makes you yearn / Yearn for the… sign in to read more »
when days are dark and friends are few, / isolated, not knowing what to do, / nothing seems certain but you're left in doubt, / and scuicide seems like the only way out. / / do not pretend as if you're gay, / just bow down and begin to pray, / for He is able to set you free, / all solutions He'll make you… sign in to read more »
Somewhere in New Mexico / There are radio telescopes / They scan the heaven 24/7 / With extra terrestrial hopes. / / I can't search the universe / But I have wished upon a star. / I would like someone on earth to love / Another world is much too far. / / Finding someone has truly changed, / From the days of… sign in to read more »
Surprise! There's a new love interest! / She stole my heart but there's some Angina. / Like many things found here in the states / My special lady was also made in China. / / In learning about each other there's / The "getting to know you" game. / And, it is quite apparent that / Our backgrounds are not… sign in to read more »
If the music could keep on playing, sweet are the sounds and / Bells of the song that is filled with a sensational rhythm. / Jazz it is but not as lazy as it sounds, as it fills an innocent soul with hope for a better life. / / Sweet is the sound of the music as it puts me in a station where fantasy… sign in to read more »
Kisses and cares I enjoyed, / The love of infatuation and infertility, / Sweet surrendering words employed, / The child of nature beheld serenity. / The sweetest game of innocence, / Cheesecake compliments of adoration, / My salad days had no conscience, / I swooned, swayed with admiration, / The moon rose… sign in to read more »
The amount of children a family has / Brings an historical fascination. / From the 1700's to the present day / Regardless of the nation. / / Judging from all the coverage, / On TV and in magazines, / Having many children now, / Is still odd, or so it seems. / / There are interviews and reality shows, / They… sign in to read more »
If love is doing, / If love is action, / If love is hard work, / Then you and I / Are in service of each other. / / You and I / Working side by side, / Serve each other, / Support each other, / Stand by each other. / / If love is action, / It is this action that keeps love alive. / You and I, / In service of… sign in to read more »
Desire runs through me energising every cell in my body / Longing to hold you again feel you close next to me / Hand in hand we shall face what this world has in store / Deeply loved deeply cherished, Finding the one for sure, / Oh how natural it has happened / Interested, Fulfilled and relentlessly… sign in to read more »
I learn to fall in love with myself again / and have candle light dates with my shadow... / Converse with my cerebral cortex and hope that the sound echoes off the walls like a bat / And like this creature, I will find my way in the dark / when I am unable to see by listening to my instincts / / I feel… sign in to read more »
...And still I want you / and not just a bit of you / all of you / / mind / body / soul / / ...and still you captivate me / and not just a bit of me / all of me / / mind / body / soul / / ...and still / and still / / I hope this lasts a lifetime / and if not so / the rendezvous continues still... / mind, body, soul… sign in to read more »
You make us proud, I know you will / we will all be loud, at these amazing thrills! / / Bafana I wana say thank you for bringing it home / Now SA doesn't feel so alone... / / We have experienced this hype / of the excitement of life / / Bafana I wana say good luck! / I know you will do your best / I know… sign in to read more »
Never a matter of superstition / Nor a matter of dillusion / / As these salt hit the ground / May it cleanse my soul from your turmoil / / Wash away / Like the tides of the current / / Sync my rhythm to the moon / Never to be swayed by you / But to be guided by the wind / / Euthanasia / In every depth lies… sign in to read more »
a non-believer at first / as a result of a dark age / it was a lonely existence / a dark existence / / I could not understand / having someone / not as a means to an end / but just to have someone / / until one day a colourful enlightenment / came my way / she appeared out of nowhere / I am now a believer… sign in to read more »
Claiming a better today tomorrow / Saying goodbye to all past sorrows / Goodbye heartache, such a big mistake / No more will this heart cry lakes / In search of a better tomorrow today / Looking forward to brighter days and sunrays / I see a better me, dear misery / The way you entered my life is still a… sign in to read more »
Today I woke up with a smile on my face, / Unexplainable joy I feel inside, / Today I woke up a woman of strength. / Today I woke up with determination, / To strive for perfection; / To do better than yesterday. / / Today I woke up with keenness, / To give as much love to the needy, / And add more love to… sign in to read more »
True happiness, true bliss / An extravagance I cannot miss / Love me tender, love me right / Keep me forever in you… sign in to read more »
We will always fight / For what is right / To death we will always be true / To make a safe haven for you / / We shall never fall / In sight of enemies we stand tall / No matter what the consequence / We will never accept defeat / / We shall never fall / Even when we're against a wall / Our best you will… sign in to read more »
A comfortable life ... / / like comfortable shoes chosen not for the thrill of wearing but for ease and convenience. / / Single lady seeking anything but a comfortable life - for the security and contentment of comfort is merely adequate but certainly not sufficient. / / So, she courageously sheds the… sign in to read more »
I know that names of products / May often be ostentatious / But I never thought that packs of seeds / Could also be so salacious. / / Varieties mentioned here are real / And this is what I think... / Many gardeners and farmers / Must enjoy an earthy wink... / / To make my point I'll put these names / In… sign in to read more »
I blush, turn pink and light purple, I toss and turn and turn at night, I smile and I laugh for no reason... I have secret thoughts and daydreams, I am high... / / Oh, what an emotion again, that you invoke in my inner being, that cringe that you awaken in my inner womanly loins... Describe thy… sign in to read more »
Putting pen to paper makes / Inner voices very clear. / Of a desire no longer secret / For the cosmos (plus one) to hear. / / Positive thoughts are focused, / Projected strong and true. / Encouraged within my spirit, / By the joy of knowing YOU. / / Some logic here for you to see, / Although… sign in to read more »
Their hands are clasped, / Smiling - for the gift of time / Has been granted to them. / She is dressed in a snow white sari, / He in an equally hued kurtha. / Into the temple they gingerly enter / And their daily obeisance / To The Lord offer. / They emerge - still holding hands, / Smiling, greeting, just… sign in to read more »
How deep do you want me to go? / All the time you're talking about this other friend / coveting your things for $50.00. / For what it's worth, you might as well hand it over. / You are not thinking straight. / I gave you a good deal and it's not the deal! / You're actually thinking twice to make another… sign in to read more »
I believe the sunshine will never let us down this time / I believe we had cherished all our time together / I believe my heart is all set out for new memories / I believe my watch wants to count only the happy moments / / I can feel when we are together I can beat all the blues around me / I can feel I'… sign in to read more »
There is something about / A comforting hug and a tissue at a funeral / That brings contentment to a devastated soul / That brings contentment to a plight when sadness, pain and death prevail / / There is something about / The fear of a black thunderstorm / That brings knowledge of the peace to come / That… sign in to read more »
I think I'm falling for her, said a man to a star / It had been two weeks since he wished upon it, / While lying on the bonnet of his car. / / Make her kind, make her lovely, / make her only mine. / Take her heart fill it with love / and send her on a ray of sunshine / / Oh heavenly being, hear my wish… sign in to read more »
Listen to the sounds of the world; / the clamour during the day, / the muted muffles of the night, / listen to the sounds of the world. / / Listen to hungry children / suckle dry dams on bony breasts. / To the agony of the dying / as they gasp for the last, listen! / / Let there be silence / Oh, just for a… sign in to read more »
I have seen so many faces / I have been into many places / Different walks of life I have seen / But still confused on what's been missing / / Searching for the empty part that fills my heart / Hoping that one day I will never be apart / Apart from someone I can call "home" / From each sad and happy… sign in to read more »
Sometimes you may feel / Your problems are too much to deal / Sometimes you'll see that the heavy loads are all on you / And you'll say, you're in way too blue / / Try to look up in the sky / Just maybe you can seek some light / Never hesitate to call my name / Always bear in your mind that I am your… sign in to read more »
I see the stretching lips / Lining the nose above / I see the rounding cheek / Covering the eyes around / / I see the cheekbones lift / With the skin a little pink / I see the eyebrow… sign in to read more »
Yes I still have some / It's like looking in a mirror so very long ago / When being free, was sitting in a tree / / I get free hugs, free kisses, at every turn / Kisses and hugs without the burn / / Whispering secrets and special stories, / Laughing at mistakes, nothing so serious / / When being silly is… sign in to read more »
I do know that we look at the world differently / even when raised by the same mother / The thing is, it sees us not the same / look not at me in awe when I define to you my world / / The way I see it, it is both pain and happiness- / these are the only things that matters the most. / The two creates the… sign in to read more »
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