slumber, my fingers pull
over mind, a drowning of us,
an open dance, mindlessness evermore;
winter’s wounds deny, disown madness,
it is afar from where we left, grieved,
the salvation into the abyssal tongue
alone, in thalassic sway
whilst we are fools of happiness.
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Written for the dVerse prompt: Write a quadrille (a poem of EXACTLY 44 words, not including the title) AND include the word “happiness”.
64 responses to “fools of happiness.”
A dark kind of happiness, Lucy, in that open dance. Maybe dancing is the only way to forget one’s foolishness.
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Thank you, Kim. I definitely agree. Whether a type of figurative dance or physical dance, I think it can be freeing for sure.
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I almost feel that fools of happiness are the result of medicine against all the darkness you describe before. Maybe we need to be numbed by the smile
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That is very true! It can be hard to find happiness if in a dark place. Thank you so much for the feedback. ❤
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I like how the title becomes the ending….a circle…fools of happiness…an induced state?
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Thank you! Happiness is a state of something, that’s all I know. 😉
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Ooh, now this is mesmerising. I guess that’s what happens to fools of happiness…
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Thank you, Freya! ❤ ❤
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To have that temporary respite, even foolishly, might be worth it.
I can imagine people trying to find some joy in the midst of war.
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It is worth it, even if it is a fleeting moment, it’s better to have it than never to have it at all (as I foolishly paraphrase Tennyson, hahaha).
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Yes, you are right. And paraphrase all you want. 😀 I liked how there was so much condensed into this poem.
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What is happiness after all?
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I think it can be a choice, at times. 🙂
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We can certainly choose to ignore what ought to make us unhappy. Is that the same thing as choosing happiness? Asking for a friend 🙂
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I don’t think so. I think choosing to ignore what makes us unhappy can be damaging–if it is ignoring, suppressing, or denying the existence of the issue and the issue itself that causes unhappiness.
I think the choice to happiness means recognizing these issues that often lead to unhappiness. I think it’s making a choice in trying to let go and be free in a moment, thus not letting what makes us unhappy plague us in that very moment. If choosing happiness, then it means that while a memory or situation can bother me, I have the power to let it change my perspective or it has the power to change my mood and my feelings.
I don’t think this is universal, of course. I think it’s rather subjective, since emotions themselves can be fleeting. It’s interesting to think about. 🙂
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If what makes you unhappy is beyond your control, like bush fires, terrorist attacks, exterminations of people and animals, changing perspective doesn’t help. I think an informed, humane person can’t ‘be’ happy amid the misery of others, they can only have brief flashes of happiness. Bringing everything down to the personal level as if that’s all that really matters ignores mass reality. That’s how I see it anyway.
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Poetess of Darkness has found levity and shards of light, peppered through a matrix of malaise, and hard truths. I liked “the salvation into the abyssal tongue alone”.
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Thank you, Glenn!
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Oh to dwell in mindlessness forever! Only half joking 😦
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The thought is frightening.
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Happiness is never foolish. What else do we have?
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Indeed, happiness is not foolish, but we can still be fools while happy. 🙂
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☺️Maybe the best kind of foolishness!
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Yes! 🙂
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I pray you find happiness soon my lovely friend … hang in there!
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Thank you so much, you’re very sweet. I have found happiness in my life in different ways. ❤
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good, I hope it continues to grow … you deserve every happiness 🙂
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Thank you, my dear friend. ❤ ❤ You deserve it all as well.
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ah I know it’s my responsibility to tap into it as needed thanks Lucy … it’s not reliant on others or anything external, altho those factors can help 🙂
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I think happiness comes in the guise of many emotions and situations, and sometimes through foolish naiveté.
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I agree!
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A dark sad feeling of despair drip all over this one! Looking for happiness in all the wrong places…Not found in abysmal rhetoric…. It is down deep in side! Great poem.
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Thank you, Dwight!
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My goodness this is good! Especially love; “winter’s wounds deny, disown madness, it is afar from where we left.”💝
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Thank you so much, Sanaa. ❤ ❤
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Yeah Lucy, ‘the abyssal tongue / alone, in thalassic sway’ is a wondrous image – I picture deep in the ocean of night, down there words, grief, – while here on the surface we find some kind of respite, ephemeral and misguided (maybe). A Koala stamp for this one (that’s an Australian school teacher reference for you 🐨)
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Peter, I’m very honored. Thank you very much!
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Maybe in the dreams of the slumber, sone happiness is hidden away
Happy Monday
Much💙love
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That is true. Perhaps dreams and our subconscious mind can reveal the happiness from within. Thank you.
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I really like that this poem made me think about how we can “pull” happiness over our minds, like a choice, and I love the word thalassic in here ( you always teach me new words) 🙂 It’s a great image, floating above the pain. I think that is all of us in many ways. At least those of us that feel deeply. Nothing wrong with being happy fools!
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Aww, thank you so much Tricia. I do believe happiness is a choice, and being a happy fool is always a nice thing. Seeing the optimism and letting go oneself, for me, is true happiness.
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A very thoughtful poem…touching.
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Thank you.
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Beautiful
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Thank you so much.
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Most welcome Lucy
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Wow. This is a wonderful piece, Lucy. You are an absolute wordsmith!
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Thank you dearly! ❤ ❤
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I love that you question happiness, as did I tonight Lucy. ‘Fools of Happiness’ Yes we can certainly be that many times over. A wonderful Quadrille ☺️💕
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Thank you so much, Christine!
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I feel like you are pulling back the curtain on a fool’s dream and exposing the truth that it is really a nightmare! I love the line ‘alone, in thalassic sway’
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Thank you so much, Ingrid. ❤
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love the phrase “fools of happiness”
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Thank you!
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I love the dream/Neptunian/illusory imagery here and of course the Greek reference to the sea, which may be oblivion. Such beauty expressed in sadness and loss, the human condition. Well done.
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Thank you so very much.
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Oh, the complications of love. I heard this in your words.
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Thank you!
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The happiness is hidden away. I think this happens to fouls of happiness. The way you expressed this condition, that is totally Love 😍
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Thank you so much, Muhammad. I really love your interpretation of my poem here, and I did have some ideas like that in mind while writing. Thank you again for the kindness and feedback. 💕
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Best of luck . May you have more success in future. ♥️
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Thank you. ❤ ❤ You too.
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You are so right, there are so many things that can rob you of your happiness.
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