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'My Elusive Happiness'
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written to express unhappiness at a dark point in my life

‘My Elusive Happiness’

Happiness, why so elusive?
Why flee my longing?
Would skies fall and heavens die
Should contentment pause and wait awhile

With longings lost
From the compass of my days
No endless seeking and striving
To capture and harness my dreams

Would a surfeit of joy,
Lay waste some plan
In reckless disobedience,
To the interventions of fickle fate

Or should I lifelong
Placate the deities
To give me happiness
As they weave the tapestry of my life

Between the summits of glorious achievements
Or the vastness of the voids of emptiness
Snatch victories from defeats
And surrender my unquiet heart

By
Mary Cecil


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 Reviews of "'My Elusive Happiness'"
Reviewed by William Bonilla
Reviewed on July 4, 2013
a sad but well composed piece
Love & Peace be with you

William

Reviewed by Shirley Long
Reviewed on July 2, 2013
Your poem My ELusive Happiness is well-written and deplicts all of
the frustrations, heart-aches and sorrows we all must endure just to
continue our journey here on this earth. We ourselves know of our inner thoughts and what we purpose or want them to become and sometimes life just don't seem to give us that certain sparkle or
approach in which we falther too. Keep writing, it is a good poem
which tells it like it is.

Reviewed by John Domino
Reviewed on June 25, 2013
A poetic purge of emotions that we all need.
I find helping others less fortunate helps me to forget my problems and woes. There are always others that are far less blessed.

May you have much peace, unconditional love and abundant blessings,

John Michael Domino

Reviewed by RWE SAYS BYE (Reader)
Reviewed on June 23, 2013
There is a stoic tone about this lament. I sense a heart long sorrowful, yet no cloying sentimentality clouds the firmament of your faith in the purposeful lining sewn up with fortitude and resolve not to allow a cheap wistful sense of woe swallow up your steeping solace.

This poem suggests the speaker will not glut sorrow in a false display of gilded remorse, but feel it deeply, know it surely, and seed it thoughtfully in the fertile fields of imagination.

I am grateful to you for sharing this wonderful poem, Mary, and I wish you nothing but meaningful experiences (punctuated of course, now and then, with moments of hilarity and trivial baubles of banal delight!).

Roger

Reviewed by E Phillips
Reviewed on June 22, 2013
Yours is a sad and a well-expressed tale. Perhaps that's the curse of a good writer. I think you and I got in the wrong line when live's outcomes were being handed out. But neither of us is a quitter. Chin up and keep writing, Mary.

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on June 22, 2013
I could suggest a normal hormonal imbalance that will go away at a certain age. ;-)

Ron

Reviewed by George Carroll
Reviewed on June 22, 2013
Love what you like and like what you love


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