Happiness Metaphor Poems

I have seen that house a hundred times,
The one upon which the old vine climbs.
So poignant and so melancholy,
That place had once been the omphali.
Now...

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I was handed a beautiful gift box
On my twentieth birthday. 
A bold scripted message was waving me to the right. 
It was beautiful!

The gift box...

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The girl with the looking glass
  Is walking down the stairs
 Daintly steps,happy lass
 A girl with zero cares

The girl tumbles down 
 The...

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“Life is too short to be serious all the time. So, if you can’t laugh at yourself, call me and I’ll laugh at you.” -...

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Eagle
by Lanier Thomas

Safely soaring above the sky
The eagle continues to fly.
On stately wings that glide on air
Like drifting dreams without despair.
Onward over the horizon it...

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Beauty is in the keen eyes that behold
Never in the high mountains tinged with gold
Clouds that can swirl in any form or shape
Or forest greens...

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I think I'm in trouble, watching morning's,  
dance of light, across the crumpled pillow,  
noticing a fleck of amber in your eyes, ...

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When I was a child, I wondered

Was deep sleep, death?

Was every morning a new life, a new incarnation?

Waking up, I found the people around me...

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The bass line slips,
in melody of you,
rhythm’s eclipse,
control askew, 
glass mouths cling,
to every line,
whispering, 
sublime, tipsy light,
in our eyes,
of crescent bright,
lullabies.
...

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Gently smile along when the flowers grin;
Freely fly along when butterflies glide
Divulge the veiled exuberance within;
Set your worldly tribulations aside.

Pace along with ever ebullient breeze;
Crazily...

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Magnolia hearts need not be brave,
For their tickets are only one way,
Routes unchallenged, straight to the grave,
I’d rather chase the vermillion fray. 

Though, that is...

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A light instrument flows, ink darkness; folded within
Flowers; a painless, healing, prescription of treatment 
Such secure grounding, found; in glowing obsidian

Happiness; gives sharp antithesis of...

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A visitor in my own skin stopping by as a guest 
Rented out happiness with no permanent address

As searched for stability I found a place...

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Used to spend a lot of time
On the hunt for happiness 
Thinking it was something
I could catch and harness 

But I called off the search...

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Buttered pancakes, hot cocoa, cinnamon sticks,
Knitted neck shawls, all buttoned up jackets, "Phew,"
Some are ice skating, or skiing, and sledding,
     ...

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