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Archive for January, 2010

Blast from the Past, part II

Posted by prajjwald on January 29, 2010

I was thinking I might post something of my own from my old blog this week.  However, since I’ve been busy doing other kinds of writing (the kind that makes a sane person’s eyes glaze over when reading), and I feel somewhat saturated, I don’t feel like going over my old posts right now (since reposting would require at least rudimentary quality checking).  Anyways, I found another poem from someone I had posted a long time back in my old blog.  Its also about happiness, like the previous poem I posted.  Here goes… I liked it quite a bit, hope you like it too!

GLADNESS

The world has brought not anything
To make me glad to-day!
The swallow had a broken wing,
And after all my journeying
There was no water in the spring–
My friend has said me nay.
But yet somehow I needs must sing
As on a luckier day.

Dusk fails as gray as any tear,
There is no hope in sight!
But something in me seems so fair,
That like a star I needs must wear
A safety made of shining air
Between me and the night.
Such inner weavings do I wear
All fashioned of delight!

I need not for these robes of mine
The loveliness of earth,
But happenings remote and fine
Like threads of dreams will blow and shine
In gossamer and crystalline,
And I was glad from birth.
So even while my eyes repine,
My heart is clothed in mirth.

_Anna Hempstead Branch._

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Lets start an epidemic and get the world infected….!

Posted by prajjwald on January 22, 2010

Once again, posting something that is not my own, but that I liked a lot: I bumped into this a long time ago, liked it, posted it (in my old blog), forgot about it, bumped into it again recently (in my old blog :D ), and posted it :) .  Hope you like it too!

Smiling Is Infectious
(Author Unknown)

Smiling is infectious,
you catch it like the flu,
When someone smiled at me today,
I started smiling too.

I passed around the corner
and someone saw my grin.
When he smiled I realized
I’d passed it on to him.

I thought about that smile,
then I realized its worth.
A single smile, just like mine
could travel round the earth.

So, if you feel a smile begin,
don’t leave it undetected.
Let’s start an epidemic quick,
and get the world infected!

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