Hey you have a great day
Hope wonderful things come your way
Share a smile with someone
Frowns are sad and never fun
Make sure your hearts always caring
And that you are always sharing
The love that you have inside
Let it out Dont let it hide
The smile beneath the frown.
The truth you only find when everything else falls off;
A surviving light refusing to die or to be warded off.
It reeks of grit earned through dust storms and dead ends.
It’s the inheritance your soul kept hidden, evading deep ends.
An internally displaced grin, 'cause on hope it depends;
Unbeknownst to the soul when or whether this dip ends.
The smile beneath the frown; soft, quiet, stubborn.
The one life didn’t give freely but pain carved slowly.
It waits in the shadows of all you never said;
A rebellion of hope in a world that collect storms.
Some joys don’t shine, they flicker;
Like a candle fighting for breath, they linger.
The smile beneath the frown...
In a world that says you owe it your despair, it reminds you;
Joy tastes different when it’s survived tears, sweat and blood.
You become a connoisseur of quiet victories that refines you;
The kind no one claps for but Heaven stands to applaud.
Finally, as breakthrough emerges you finally understand;
The smile was never hiding, it was waiting for you to stand.
Wipe that frown from your face
Trust in what the future has in store
You never know what's around the corner
AP: Honorable Mention 2026
POTD February 17, 2026
Faithful friends frown; while wind blows hard,
With manners fake love disregard.
To open our reasoning eyes well,
By chance to escape raging hell...
Unlike been lucky playing card!
We are loyal, but don't loose guard.
We are brave, not without regard¡
In our schoolyard, moon can sure tell,
Faithful friends frown.
By the harsh sun, some gets so scarred,
But Kayode gets us bombard...
By such nice heart of random spell...
Both moon and sun do bluntly yell
Off violence without bodyguard.
Faithful friends frown!
Mr Brown longed to be a clown,
but Mr brown he had a frown,
so every circus turned him down.
Even his smile was upside down;
you look too sad, said Mrs Brown
for you to ever be a clown;
you'll scare the kids with that mean frown.
I'll wear a hat upon my crown
and baggy pants, said Mr Brown,
tell funny jokes, bring the house down;
fall down, jump up, again fall down
I'll be the tops, talk of the town.
Calm down, calm down, said Mrs Brown
you'll never ever be a clown
with your sad, scowling, scary frown.
I read in paper of renown
of a mortician's job in town
a fitting job for man with frown;
so let us have, said Mrs Brown
no more nonsense about a clown.
Watches herself in the mirror
Listlessly smudging the lipstick off her face
~ her smile gone ages ago
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Is summer over or just cooling down,
days are getting shorter do not make a frown.
Sun time use varies widely,
in many different places.
Do not tell me barbeque time is over,
that will make me want to pee my bedcover.
As BBQ corn does eat,
great with hotdogs and watermelon too.
Tell me it is not so,
no more ice cold sweet tea to drink slow.
Now to make only hot tea,
keeping lips moist not open.
Summer will be back next year,
must I really wait twelve months with no cheer?
Friends gather happily in just,
time for the holidays and not missing the summer.
He had to be mad
to invade Ukraine
his troops followed orders
they must all be insane
to cross the borders
an unwarranted attack
by a megalomaniac
bombarding innocents
who couldn't fight back
one leader was a comedian
the other is a clown
the former gave us smiles
the latter makes us frown
what do the Russians hope
to achieve or accomplish
by destroying all they covet
leave us alone Ukraine's only wish
and it would be right in the pocket
if Zelenskyy signed a docket
for a galoot in cahoots
who's a-rootin' tootin'
to shoot a stealth rocket
between the ears of the idiot Putin
a frown is a smile
with naughty corners of mouth
dragged down, to half-mast.
stop wallowing in the mire ~
flip your lips to all ends up
Toast some almond flakes and shredded cocnuts
set aside
use your favorite recipe to make a vanilla cream pastry
whipp some heavy cream and sweeten and set aside
mix powdered sugar. vanilla,and milk
use your favorite instant vanilla pudding
mix mix smooth
fold in 1 and 1/2 tubs of whip topping
using a great cake one of your best cakes
I prefer a pound cake or two cut into halfs or thrids
one a cake platue
arrange cake
combine heavy whip cream with cream pastry
pipe a thin layer
add alomnds and coconut
vhopped browie bts
and carmel bits
( and bits of white choclate and banannas)
layer and repeat until
cake is been stacked
in a piping bag pipe out the sides
using a spatula smooth around the edge
do the same to the top
and add a few swirls to
show that clever durabilty of
creativness!
Thank Lesous and Yesura
Might these people
Worship jesus
If All
if all we ever do is frown
life will always get us down
if we can sometimes be happy
life would not always seem so crappy
Fearless and cheerfulness
radiance and happiness
oh my God! Obedience not rebellious…He’s my rock and my shield
willing to serve You
Nevermind my mind of doubt and not of faith — peacefulness is not a battlefield
We often hear
Smile, God loves you.
We send emojis of smiley faces
There are stickers of them
We draw them on paper
But the truth is
No one can measure
The worth of a face
That carries a smile
It gives light in the darkness
Warms the soul
In a gentle way
Whispers all is well
So my friend
Keep smiling
The world needs it
You never know the
Difference it might make
To a fellow traveler
Who has a frown on their face...
I have heard enough of your growl;
I am well aware of your prowl.
When you wear angry frown,
You appear like a clown.
Why waste time expecting my howl?!
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