LIFE is Beautiful

"this little light of mine"

breaking through the clouds —

sunshine 

Live for the Love of it,

Sasha A. Palmer (aka Happy)

"All is vanity..."

"All is vanity, all falsehood, except that infinite sky."

-- Leo Tolstoy, "War and Peace"

Live for the Love of it,
Sasha A. Palmer (aka Happy)

November 2014 Poem-A-Day Chapbook Challenge: Day 30

As sure as night will fall and slowly blend

In with the dawning day, as sure as fall

Will lay her weapons down and cease to fend

Off winter, and the foes embrace, and all

The seasons come to pass, each in its turn

As sure as hungry hearts will ever yearn

If only for a glimpse of that July

That used to burn within them, that they failed

To keep, as sure as from the truths we try

To grasp, but one old truth will have prevailed

When all the days of ours are through and gone

As sure as life will end, love will go on.

Live for the Love of it,

Sasha A. Palmer (a.k.a. "Happy")

prompted by Poetic Asides

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November 2014 Poem-A-Day Chapbook Challenge: Day 9

We all are old and wise when we’re sixteen,

When with our seasoned skepsis we proclaim

That there is nothing we have heard or seen

That’s worthy of our time. All truths are lame,

Except for ours. Against the world we stand,

The world that will not ever understand.

Then we grow young and find that on upside

To getting wrinkles is our happiness.

We try no more to turn the ocean tide –

We ride with it. And readily confess

That there’s one thing we ever understood,

One truth, yours for the taking:

Life is good. 

Live for the Love of it,

Sasha A. Palmer (a.k.a. "Happy")

prompted by Poetic Asides

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"Dawn" (The Harrisham Rhyme Poem)

A writing prompt from Poetic Bloomings:

The Harrisham Rhyme was created by Harrisham Minhas, of Punjab, India. It consists of one six-line rhyming stanza.  In this form, the last letter of the first word of each line becomes the first letter of the first word of the next line.
Rhyme scheme : ababab.

DAWN

In adoration we watch the sun rise

Nevertheless the ethereal hue

So briskly fades before our very eyes

Oh way too soon the blinding light collects its due

Humbled we accept the blessing in disguise

Dawning of the everlasting true

Live for the Love of it,

The Happy Amateur