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 Happy today That's how I'll stay Sadness, despair I don't care to share In misery and moaning In sighing and groaning Happy today This is my way Smiles and kind words Listening to birds Feel sunshine inside Self-esteem and pride
 * Happy Today**

Happy today Take time to play Lunch with a friend Go shopping and spend [|Time for yourself] Tme on your health Happy today Self-love is the way Try [|yoga or meditate] A crossword or [|cogitate] On poems and rhyme Or the passing of time.

- **Pauline Oliver**

I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide
 * Introduction to Poetry**

or press an ear against its hive.

I say [|drop a mouse into a poem] and watch him [|probe] his way out,

or walk inside the poem 's room and feel the walls for a light switch.

I want them to waterski across the surface of a poem waving at the author's name on the shore.

But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it.

They begin beating it with a hose [|to find out what it really means.]

-Billy Collins

A walk on the beach The breeze on your face Footprints in the sand That leave not a trace As the waves they roll in Rhythmically lapping the shore The power of the ocean Hear its mighty roar Yet calm is all around Find your own[| inner peace] Earth wind, and water Combine to release Negative thoughts - Washed away by the tide Balance and harmony Feel centred inside Hand in hand with the [|elements] Dancing water at your feet The ocean stretching before you A horizon never to meet [|A walk on the beach] A stroll on the sand Just you and nature - Together you stand
 * Earth, Wind and Water**
 * Earth, Wind and Water**

-Pauline Oliver

The Big Wrap Up Overall these poems talk about happiness and relaxation. They all do talk about it but is a little less evident in each one. In the second poem "Introduction to Poetry" it talks about the joy of poems and how you should really enjoy and spend time with poems. In the other two its more relaxation and you can picture yourself were the authors describes. I think these poems might not have to much in common besides the aspect of happiness.