Smile!
Wear a smile, a cheery smile
One to hold your day
Then the weary second mile
Seems as light as play
Hold your head, a thoughtful head
Lift your chin up high
Let the pensive thoughts be laid
The Smiling Man draws nigh
Think of love, a holy love
Freedom and reprieve
Flowing in the sacred dove
Who will never leave
Cling to joy, a blessed joy!
Smiles and laughter seen
Medicine to the sullen boy
Jokes --
Mind that's clean and keen.
One to hold your day
Then the weary second mile
Seems as light as play
Hold your head, a thoughtful head
Lift your chin up high
Let the pensive thoughts be laid
The Smiling Man draws nigh
Think of love, a holy love
Freedom and reprieve
Flowing in the sacred dove
Who will never leave
Cling to joy, a blessed joy!
Smiles and laughter seen
Medicine to the sullen boy
Jokes --
Mind that's clean and keen.
posted by theChosenCan at 5/07/2005 02:44:00 am
2 Comments:
Not bad, not bad at all...always felt simple poems were the best kind. I would never be able to foollow metre and rhyme so carefully...if any rhyme or metre pops up in my poetry, it's more accidental than anything. Hee.
Last stanza is quite interesting. The three beat pause after jokes...for effect I suppose. Is there another reason why there is such a long pause? Probably reading too much into it.
Very Songs of Innocence. Now for an earth-shattering, paradigm-shifting experience that will result in a song of Experience. Then you are DARE, understand?
ha thanks for the kind words, bro. =) esp coming from a Lit genius like u. :P
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