Happy Endings
One flow of your pen
and suddenly I am in.
Don't tell me the end,
I want to imagine it.
Happy Endings !
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Categories:
happy endings, analogy, happy,
Form: Free verse
No Happy Endings
Too many rules,
Too many regulations,
Too much loss
Of self worth,
Pushing us into
Personal vendettas.
You said this,
No I said that.
You talking
To me?
If the shoe fits..
You're no Cinderella.
Well, you're no
Prince Charming!
Let bygones
Be bygones,
Agree to disagree.
No way!
No way!
And so it goes on
With no happy endings.
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Categories:
happy endings, anger,
Form: Narrative
Happy Endings
Sliding down rainbows in the sky
Is this what it is to fly
Like a bird blue or black that flies
Never looking back just gracefully glide
What is it to be with tribe
To feel amoung kin of pride
Where love is stronger than genocide
No one alone all glowing in light
When do you really die
What if you do not rely
On
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Categories:
happy endings, bird, blue, death,
Form: Monorhyme
Happy Endings
HAPPY ENDINGS
We all grew up listening to fairy tales like Goldilocks and the three bears…
From Jack, who climbed the beanstalk, to Rapunzel, who let down her hair.
As we snuggled safe, secure and happy neath the covers of our bed…
tales of kings and queens and castles are the stories our parents read.
We dreamed we’d be that
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Categories:
happy endings, family, love,
Form: Rhyme
No Happy Endings Here, Part Iii
...With that he threw money down for his drink,
and stormed out of the diner in a rage,
Janet sat shattered, she just couldn’t move,
and suddenly felt like she was twice her age.
She ran to her car, quickly as she could,
her face streaked red with some well-deserved tears,
spent the day questioning all of her life,
since there would
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Categories:
happy endings, anger, child, confusion, heartbreak,
Form: Narrative
No Happy Endings Here, Part Ii
...She did not see him at the reunion,
the big night came and he was a no-show,
Janet felt sad, but figured he might need time,
so back to their hometown the two did go.
But Chet went on the alumni website,
got her email and asked if they could meet,
the place was a low-key diner he knew,
she saw him
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Categories:
happy endings, anger, child, confusion, heartbreak,
Form: Narrative
No Happy Endings Here, Part I
Her name was Janet, she was thirty-two,
and she hadn’t been in this town for years,
she’d gone to college here, back in those days,
but looking back at it now, it felt weird.
She had gotten word of a reunion,
and she’d decided it was a good time,
to do something she’d been long putting off,
something that had been consuming
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Categories:
happy endings, anger, child, confusion, heartbreak,
Form: Narrative
Happy Endings
I truly love my birthday…it’s a day that I hold dear…and I love the fact that my birthday falls on the last day of the year.
It’s a time to think about my friends, my children, my grandchildren and my wife…a time to reflect on the latest year in my Fairy Tale life.
I have always loved
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Categories:
happy endings, happiness, life,
Form: Rhyme
Happy Endings
I love stories with happy endings the most
Cauze I want to be happy n gay
But if we alter truth for lies it is unjust
Cauze it's true that night cannot be day
I love when lovers in a story end up together
The case of '..and they lived happy thereafter..'
But some end up tragic and it's a bother
How
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Categories:
happy endings, happy, love,
Form: Rhyme
Happy Endings
Face to face here
With happy cheer
Wear a rich smile
That sets grand style
Let joy draw near
To forge fine cheer
Wise ways work well
To confront tell
Dance in good fit
That sensuous wit
Set your own pace
To time you space
Dare to live bold
But never cold
Gain truthful poise
Via grounded choice
Words have a way
To paint your day
Start to live fine
Verse poise that
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Categories:
happy endings, blessing,
Form: Couplet
Happy Endings
So tell me a tale
Make it a grand sale
Tell me a story
But make it happy
There's just too much tears
That corrodes my cheer
So please tell me now
The why that strings hows
All I want to hear
Is poise in good cheer
I know too much fear
That strangles me here
Crowd your crisp telling
With happy endings
Leon Enriquez
29 May 2018
Hamlet Place, ACT
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Categories:
happy endings, blessing,
Form: Couplet
Happy Endings
Happy Endings
A long day in the office is just a prelude
to the kaleidoscopic formations
gathered beneath store front close out sales
and pigeon feathers as I head for the station,
the five o’clock hopefully on time
Strolling down the naked street,
I follow brick facades and paint chipped doorways,
listening to music from open windows above,
static to the sleeping trios
with
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Categories:
happy endings, love,
Form: Free verse
Advent of Other Happy Endings
Throughout 2016 I have been reading Rob Brezsny's Pronoia
Is The Antidote For Paranoia
now ending before I reach 2017.
This postmillennial bible of multiculturalism
ends with several questions or statements
with space to write in my responses.
I am about half through these end pages.
Here is a condensed version of this conversation,
to date:
"Imagine that you get three wishes on one
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Categories:
happy endings, destiny, earth, health, humanity,
Form: Political Verse
Happy Endings
Start with your heart
Live love's sure art
Seize peace of mind
As true love finds
Choice styles your voice
Love funds wise poise
Love what you do
Act as love woos
Live well each day
Love shows the way
Dare to be true
Love lives bold cue
End where you start
Watch soul move heart
Leon Enriquez
11 September 2016
Singapore
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Categories:
happy endings, blessing,
Form: Couplet
Happy Endings
Saw Brecht rolling in his grave
And Weill gasping for air.
And the masterful Brecht rave,
And rant and try to be fair.
(if that is possible for his rage,)
that audience-tested Happy endings
by TV and Hollywood rule the age
and color rosy, these times' being
With gorge rising say, we all love
Those Happy Endings, so addicted
And far into
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Categories:
happy endings, betrayal, business, happiness, satire,
Form: Sonnet
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