I challenge YOU! Yes that's right, the person looking at this title.

[Tessar]

I challenge YOU to write a happy poem.

I mean everywhere you go you find lots of angst 'Bullets... blood... death... vampire' poems, but rarely any happy ones!

So c'mon and write something happy, and don't say 'I can't' because you can. If you can expound on death you can expound on flowers and rainbows. Get cracking. ;)


Just to get things started:

Dragon flying in the sky,
Take me on a starlit ride,
Take me far and take me fast,
Till from dreams my mind has passed.

[littleCat]

Sunshine, butterflies, morning dew
I wish a happy day to you!
Ponies, ribbons, candy
I truly hope your day is dandy.
music, meadows and games,
this poem is happy but lame.

[Tessar]

Oh man that was actually pretty good :D. I love it!

[littleCat]

Thank you! I've had waaaay too much sugar....that's why it was so fluffy...

[zone]

You might want to take the s out of games

[Lizra]

Happy? So many things make me happy.....but they're all just little things.


Little things make me happy
when big things make me sad.
When life's unfair,
it's the little things that always make me glad.

A cozy fire someone made,
a comfy place to sit.
A glass of wine, with lots of time
my inner glow get's lit.

Finding clothes at Goodwill
that are beautiful to wear,
looking in the mirror,
and liking silver hair.

Sitting at the computer,
while talking to unmet friends.
A place to go and chat away,
the lonliness quickly ends.

The dinner tastes delicious,
They liked the food I made.
The dryer hums, the clothes are clean,
The sheets are freshly laid.

Coffee in the morning,
While work is briskly done.
Time is left to take a nap,
Being alone is so much fun.

I'm thankful for the little things,
That make me smile and sigh.
They make my life worth living,
and serenity is high.

[azalea]

Oh, I like that one, Lizra! That's happiness -- the dryer humming! Can't do any more laundry yet.:)

[PippinTook]

thats great lizra! makes me happy! *smiles* I am happy, yes I am. and I can't write poems, so I won't try! very good work!

[Lizra]

Thanks Azalea. :)

With a name like Pippen Took, you've GOT to be happy....eh? :)

[PippinTook]

yes indeed! we hobbits tend to be very happy! we have many reasons, friends, food, pipe-weed, er, I mean, family!

[Tessar]

Awww that's a really sweet poem Lizra! :D

[littleCat]

Wow, that was a groovy poem! You're good at this......

[Lizra]

We had "contests" on the old Calvinball thread! What fun! :)

[Kalile]

I'll try this... don't shoot me if it's more sad than happy.

I sit.
Quiet contemplation in the sunlight.
Toes stretched in the grass, my world is the smell of
Green.
Warmth and sunshine are my only links to the place outside my
Eyelids.
When
I sit
Like this,
I can feel the
Growing of the
World,
and the turning of the
Earth.

[Gwaimir Windgem]

Wow, Liz, yours was great. :)

I've already written one, and it should be on here somewhere...

Yep. Here (http://entmoot.tolkientrail.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=231267&#post231267) it is. :)

[Nurvingiel]

A Tree's Tree
by Nurvingiel

Thuja* is my little tree
Nearly two years old
He's growing by my window
Never suffers from the cold.

He's a Western redcedar
He'll grow up strong and tall
A lovely tree with fluted trunk
Providing shade for all.


*Pronounced "Thoo-ya"

I really do have a tree named Thuja who lives by my window. (Indoors, in a pot.)

[Finrod Felagund]

There once was a man from Mantucket.......























hahaha...

[Kalile]

This isn't mine, and it's actually a song, but it really makes me happy. Not like jumping-up-and-down-screaming happy, but sitting-quietly-in-the-sun happy.

Tom's Diner
I am sitting in the morning in the diner on the corner
I am waiting at the counter for the man to pour the coffee
And he fills it only halfway,
And before I even argue,
He is looking out the window
At somebody coming in.

It is always nice to see you
Says the man behind the counter
To the woman who has come in, she is shaking her umbrella
And I look the other way as they are kissing their hellos,
And I'm pretending not to see them,
And instead I pour the milk

I open up the paper, there's a story of an actor
Who had died while he was drinking, it was no one I had heard of
And I'm turning to the horoscope, and looking for the funnies
When I'm feeling some one watching me, and so I raise my head.

There's a woman on the outside looking inside, does she see me?
No she does not really see me, as she sees her own reflection
And I'm trying not to notice that she's hitching up her skirts,
And while she's straightening her stockings, her hair has gotten
Wet.
Oh this rain it will continue through the morning as I'm listening
To the bells of the cathedral.
I am thinking of your voice.

[PippinTook]

Thats lovely Kalile. and Nurv, what a nice poem. Well, I feel all fluffy now. *sits in fluffiness*
-Pip

[katya]

Yeah, exactly, Warm And Fuzzy Feelings. :) I'll write a haiku about it because I'm lazy. Silly eh?

snow and birds outside
nice start to a lovely day,
reading happy poems

[Lady Arwen56]

yea...see...if i was a happy person instead of a morbid schitzophrenic i might write a poem here but...ya know...

[peperheart]

There once was a man from Mantucket.......

lol

"There once a man from the town of Potpucker....." :D lol