Best Livelier Poems

Finding Happiness in Everyday Pleasures

Happiness is bathing in glorious, golden sunshine,
absorbing the beauty of sunsets deliciously divine.
Dancing through cool droplets of silvery rain,
feeling cleansed, refreshed,...

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Saturday
The day she rewrote herself
No more sad songs
With livelier tunes she sings along
She has welcomed the call of opposites
When she wishes to be alone she...

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She'd had her round in Life's blighting furnace,
Where stealthy wear and age blurred her face.
Dents shot where dreamy dimples had grown,
Lightning smiles usurped by involuntary...

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BAHAY KUBO

Our Bahay Kubo
Is made of light materials of woods, nipa and bamboo
It is situated near the sand dunes of the sea
Its fence surrounding it...

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I was skeptically listening 
to a retiring social researcher,
and problem-solving imaginer,
from the American Enterprise Institute;

An Institute
I usually find more destitute
of bicameral consciousness than not,
and thereby...

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Life is like that extent 
     Live that moment 
           ...

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Jostling between the cattle
as they crowded the street
with steaming bodies
I steered my bicycle to school.

Fresh manure lay
in puddles on the ground,
plastering my shoes 
with sloppy...

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Always look on the sunny side
The sunny side of life
It's where you'll forever find me
Life's just one big slice

A slice of joy and happiness
Waiting for...

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as things speed up 
at an ever faster clip
they're ready to interrupt
my mind's day nondescript
to mark my thoughts - every tiny blip

and keep them cross-indexed
in...

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Free, at last, from the life of ire
Ignited her misery with his pyre—
Reeking of her husband of years,
Embers cooling slowly like her tears.

Married a lad...

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You are more beautiful than beauty
More lovable than love
More lustrous than the petal of a rose
Livelier than life
More vibrant than the rainbow;

You have more curves
than...

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Always look on the sunny side
The sunny side of life
It's where you'll forever find me
Life's just one big slice

A slice of joy and happiness
Waiting for...

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slang..
up-dogged = when you chip in to keep a conversation trend going
fit = gorgeous
buje = unexplainable glamor
football minute = a minute, that with time-outs, that...

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Crackling blood lies in these forest grounds
Grass growing by its lively effect…
Growing a grimace to the environment    
As the predators hung her...

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Dandelion faerie shares her inner light
Woodland fox and kits send love to her
Lighting up the sky on this October night

Owl notices how delicate she is...

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