Poem of the Week

4/17: Thirty-Eight Has No Fear of the Future

4/18: Thirty-Six Sings Well the Song of Life

4/19: To Be Happy, One Must Know the Rules

Thirty-Six Sings Well the Song of Life

April 18, 2020

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is happiness.

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A philosophical number poem in which happiness lies in passion, joy, and love, resting in the arms of death and pain:

Thirty-six sings well the song of life,

Having long known well its sweet refrain.

In passion, joy, and love lies happiness,

Resting in the arms of death and pain.

There are those who battle for success,

Yet wind up winning much with little gain.

Sing, then, of what is neither more nor less;

In music limn the grace beneath the strife,

X-rays of a silence, spare and plain.

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This week’s theme: Happiness

4/17: Thirty-Eight Has No Fear of the Future

4/18: Thirty-Six Sings Well the Song of Life

Friday, April 17, 2020

Thirty-Eight Has No Fear of the Future

April 17, 2020

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is happiness.

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A philosophical number poem about the role of calculation in achieving happiness:

Thirty-eight has no fear of the future,

Having learned the secret in the past:

It calculates the chances of success,

Roughly estimating more or less,

Then turns to contemplate the things that last,

Yielding a solution that is surer.

Even though a number might be better

In dithering before the die is cast,

Grace comes not to bargain but to bless,

Hewing to what hopes lie anchored fast,

The resonance within the songs that matter.

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This week’s theme: Happiness

4/17: Thirty-Eight Has No Fear of the Future

Thursday, April 16, 2020

Happiness Is like a Sun

April 16, 2020

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is happiness.

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A tenth anniversary poem comparing happiness to a sun: sometimes obscured by clouds, sometimes not, but always there:

Happiness is like a sun

Adrift amidst high clouds:

Pouring through like liquid gold;

Playing coy, shy peek-a-boo;

Yielding to despair.

The warmth and light are never done,

Enduring behind shrouds

Now draped across it, fold on fold,

Then unveiling cerulean blue

High up, where all is fair.

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This week’s theme: Happiness

Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Jayden Has the Recipe for Joy

April 15, 2020

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is happiness.

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A philosophical name poem with a recipe for joy:

Jayden has the recipe for joy:

A quiet, passionate delight in beauty;

Yearning for what lies behind the veil;

Desire for what lies within the will;

Enduring love that makes a gift of duty;

Need only for what time cannot destroy.

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This week’s theme: Happiness

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Fortune Is More Fortunate Within

April 14, 2020

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is happiness.

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A philosophical number poem about the role of creation in happiness:

Fortune is more fortunate within.

One has been created for creation,

Rich in reason and imagination,

There being always something to begin

Yielding something more than what has been.

No one’s at the mercy of relation

If one can see the grace behind the scrim.

Nor need one look to fortune for salvation,

Embracing life with joy through thick and thin.

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This week’s theme: Happiness

Monday, April 13, 2020

Fulfillment Is Entirely Up to You

April 13, 2020

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is happiness.

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A philosophical number poem about the role of intent in happiness:

Fulfillment is entirely up to you.

In simply being, there’s enough content,

Freeing all to lead a happy life.

The source of disappointment is intent,

Yearning for far more than one need do.

For some there is much joy in noble strife.

One would wounds heal and shattered lives renew.

Uncouple caring from accomplishment,

Retaining love for what is good and true.

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This week’s theme: Happiness