A Recipe for Smiles - #W3 #couplets #poem #poetry #poetrycommunity @YvetteMCalleiro

Hello, beautiful readers! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. I know I did. I celebrated one of my closest friend's birthday on Friday. On Saturday, I attended the Louder Than a Bomb team finals slam poetry competition, which was amazing! And yesterday, I spent a beautiful day at the beach. What made the weekend even more special is that my son came home from college for the next month. It feels so good to wrap my arms around him again.

Today, I'm participating in Wea've Written Weekly (W3) Prompt #208. Nancy invites us to write a poem using rhyming couplets (two lines that rhyme) that gives instructions for something. I decided to write about happiness.

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 A Recipe for Smiles

to make happiness stick

you need to lay it on thick

sprinkle sunshine's rays

into all your days

give up all the whining

and find the silver lining

when you are visited by doubt

kick that sucker out

see life through the eyes of a child

let your imagination run wild

find gratitude in everything

give your heart permission to sing

make sadness out of style

by remembering to smile

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