Best Joy And Sorrow Poems

So many years before have since flown by...
     back then so young...but seniors now are we;
and here are friends I view with tearful eye, 
     yet thankful some are still left here with me.

My high school yearbook...

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JOY AND SORROW*



Joy and sorrow,
Over 
The tempestuous seas of  
Tears,
Endlessly navigate!  



© Demetrios Trifiatis
  09 DECEMBER 2013


 *When we jump for joy, we cry!
   When we sorrowful are, we cry!...

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Joy and Sorrow
Are the two companions
Acompny each other in life
For after sorrow comes joy.

Sorrow makes us near to God
And we feel that we are sacred
It is the test of life
That we can trust and love others
That we are but a single soul
Sorrow is indeed a...

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A similar question would be
“Who is Jesus for you?”
It’s a question none of us can afford to ignore
Because our answer will affect our levels of 
Peace and Joy
Even influenced the outcome of what we do
Many years ago
A retreat master said
“Never forget that Jesus is interested...

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JOY and SORROW


Sorrow
Laughs with Joy’s
Failures,

Joy
Cries with Failure’s
Successes!


©Demetrios Trifiatis
     27 January 2013...

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Held in hands, gently
like a butterfly
A dream of reality
A hope for the future
A glint of joy
of happiness

But as hands are opened
and thee fae fly away
The dream dissolve
the future becomes
the past
The happiness dies away

Do not feel sorrow
do not weep,
be strong.
This happiness
is not wrong
this joy is not...

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The self..

Some capitalize to

Self..but it is all

The same self..

Yet it is not the

Self we thought..

The self appears

As story character

Empty and unknown

Beautifully engaged

In a script

of joy and sorrow......

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Is it possible for joy and sorrow to share the same space…
together…in the here and now…
My answer use to be maybe…but, for the life of me, I couldn’t see how 

I thought of Joy and sorrow as polar opposites…each one in their own way distinct…but...

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Autumn steals across my land
long shadows now are seen.
I never seemed to notice 
dying leaves among the green.
Until one day a cold wind blows
and nodding heads lay down.
The landscape has a different look
my garden’s turning brown
Geraniums still stand up straight,
the dahlias did their best,
with heavy...

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Once,

joy complained to sorrow

for

the misfortunes that brings

in Man's way
 

“If

I was not around my friend” the sorrow replied,

“no one would have ever noticed

your existence”






(c) Demetrios Trifiatis
     23 November 2016...

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Sorrow carves her way deep into our hearts
Joys are easily forgotten along the path
Why is it so hard to forget pain?
So that life’s lesson may not go in vain...

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The boat of joy

and that of sorrow

over 

the tempestuous seas of tears

endlessly navigate!*  






© Demetrios Trifiatis
     11 June 2020


 *Either we jump for joy or sorrowful we are- we cry!...

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I've experienced much joy and sorrow,
I've been through the valley and mountaintop.
But you, my love, brightened my tomorrow,
I've seen good and bad; I wanted life to stop.

My life was like yin and yang, confusion,
The one thing in my life that wasn't was you.
I thought love...

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Our lives will have their share of joy and happiness
with a sprinkling of sorrow and pain
They will see their share of sunshine.
They will see their share of rain.

At times we will find ourselves in the midst of a joy…
like we’ve never felt before…
when all of...

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This story is about a mother and her little girl…and another mother and her little boy…
and how sometimes in life sadness and sorrow is linked with happiness and joy.

After years of happiness with her son…we find one mother crying
from the news his heart is failing…and...

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