The Enticement
Happy is a carrot on a stick
An idealistic flip of a switch
It’s child’s play
A coin toss wager
A joker in a deck
Happiness is what you make it
An easy fix that’s worth it
It’s a promise you can’t keep
that’s closer than you think
It’s never the ever after
It’s a welcomed close encounter
A candle in the wind
that burns at both ends
It’s a lucky bet
A moon and star
that rises and sets
It’s a genie’s wish
with the best intentions
A trade-off or pay-off
A wealth to spread
_______Colleen Redman / dVerse Poets Pub / Poets and Storytellers United
February 29th, 2024 5:04 pm
Happyness are both the best and the worst, it is the giving and the taking… but the sweetness always has an aftertaste.
February 29th, 2024 5:22 pm
You can always entice me with chocolate and a book, Colleen! I really like:
‘Happiness is what you make it’
and
‘A moon and star
that rises and sets’.
February 29th, 2024 6:36 pm
Always a treat to come here Colleen…. Thank you for your usual deft and keenly felt writing. What a lovely tender as ever reminder of the simplicity and yet the transitory nature of happiness itself – Thankyou
February 29th, 2024 8:17 pm
I love ‘the welcomed close encounter’ ~~ possibilities seem endless! Great write, Colleen.
March 1st, 2024 2:08 am
I enjoyed this Love the line ‘A moon and star
that rises and sets’
March 1st, 2024 2:56 am
And this dancing poem makes me feel happy on reading it!
March 1st, 2024 3:45 am
An easy fix that’s worth it – that’s true.. like watching mindless netflix when the real world becomes too much to take…it has its own consequences though 🙂
March 1st, 2024 7:03 am
You showed it right from the start with “the carrot on a stick” because happiness chased is rarely how it’s won.
March 1st, 2024 7:13 am
I like how your poem encourages the reader to find happiness in simple things, I very much enjoyed the starting of your poem.
March 1st, 2024 7:37 am
So true. It’s not something you can chase or capture.
I love the flow of this!
March 1st, 2024 10:15 am
Such lovely wink and a nod to the little joys in life, reminding us to cherish them while they last! This piece truly captures that sense of whimsy and possibility.
~David
March 1st, 2024 10:46 am
We treat it like an end goal , always searching for it when it could be right there in front of us. I like the variety of ways you express the message. Very engaging.
March 1st, 2024 11:10 pm
A really great poem. Happiness can as you shared be very elusive. Your descriptions are so true. I really liked this on…
A candle in the wind
that burns at both ends
March 2nd, 2024 11:02 am
Love your opening lines, that joker in the deck, heck all of it really. “Happiness is what we make it” A poem we can all relate to.
March 2nd, 2024 12:12 pm
I’m clapping my hands because this poem makes me feel like a room without a roof; clapping because happiness is the truth; because…
Nice work, Sister. Thanks!!
March 2nd, 2024 5:26 pm
Happiness is “. . . child’s play A coin toss wager A joker in a deck + + +.” you made is sound easy but sometimes moods are such as to make it hard. A fun read, Colleen.
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March 2nd, 2024 7:06 pm
Your poem is a treat, a delight, a happy moment in my day…thanks for sharing, Colleen!
March 5th, 2024 2:14 am
Happiness is so elusive. At best we find it when we are looking for something else.
March 5th, 2024 5:00 pm
“Happy is… wealth to spread”. I love that. And believe it all the way to my bones.
March 5th, 2024 11:05 pm
I love how you define happiness. The burning of candle at both ends…
March 6th, 2024 9:26 am
I read the poem quick, when you put it up. I actually like all your poems! I like the ones written in our bedroom in our family home, when we were just starting to search for happiness! Love this one too! You always hit the nail on the head! In all your poems!
The comments here are your proof! XO
March 6th, 2024 9:46 pm
You had me at that first line. It dangled in front of my face.
March 7th, 2024 3:23 am
Yes, enticements have their own charm. Nice poem.