#gladness
When you come back I'll
share with you my sorrow, which --
will then be over.
Aug 28, 2025
Aug 28, 2025 at 2:44 AM UTC
And she just wanted a little sunshine
Among this obscence malodorous mud.
She just wanted to hide in sun rays
From this dirtiness, from this crud.
And she just wanted to be joyful.
She wanted to laugh but not in hysterics,
That rippling laughter would wink with a smile.
She wanted a gladness, and no mysteries.
She also wanted a lot of snow,
So white, so huge, with snow banks!
But you found nothing better than damage all!
Aren’t you people? There’s nothing sacred!
And she just wanted a little happiness.
You were so stingy, and she would have shared.
She didn’t have grunge for you, she didn’t have meanness…
At the beginning… Look, what you’ve achieved that!
Look, what you’ve turned the angel into.
She walks without the sun through the mud.
She’s lost, but she isn’t humiliated.
Why have you done all that to her, my God?!
All that she wanted was little sunshine,
A little warmth and simple happiness.
And you thought that it was ****** and silly.
You tore her soul to pieces! You’re merciless!
Torn to shreads, appalled and pained,
She still walks because she’s alive.
And you keep on spill all with mud,
Without seeing her, burn up and deprive.
May 25, 2025
May 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM UTC
Come with gladness and thanksgiving
Bring the joy of a life worth living
Warm the heart with love's great fire
The Spirit's breath to stoke and inspire
Come now with glad tidings to share
Let the song of your life fill the air
Take in the wonder that's all around you
In your very bones believe it is true
Feb 8, 2025
Feb 8, 2025 at 10:36 PM UTC
Came out of rusty bars, with nothing but black stripes on me.
I walk down the street alone, seeing everyone else with no stripes on.
Their stares pierced through my innocence, as if my sins were still fresh for years.
But someone held my head high, gave me a identity, purpose and forgiveness.
He gave me a second chance, even when everyone else can't.
I walk down the street not alone, but with someone who filled me with hope.
Dec 24, 2019
Dec 24, 2019 at 7:42 AM UTC
"Why does it wish to come inside?"
Such stubborn rain not seeing why.
"Clearly a window is in its way."
So why does it wish to come inside?
Pitter patter, doesn't hear me.
Chit chat, continued talking.
Tick tock, time is passing.
Whish whoosh, cars are driving.
Splish splash, kids are playing.
"So why are you trying to come in?"
Confused, not seeing the point.
"Clearly, it won't be worthwhile."
So why does it wish to come inside?
Click swish, the windows swung open.
Pitter patter, the rain ran in.
Tick tock, the sound of the clock.
Silence silence, there's no other sounds.
Pitter patter, the rain continues
Hand held out to hold them tight
Tick tock, splish splash
"Now I know why you come inside."
Dec 23, 2019
Dec 23, 2019 at 3:49 AM UTC
This day you have made! I will rejoice and be glad in it!
Yet again, you gave me a chance. I will rejoice and be grateful of it!
Another day to feel your presence! I look forward to the day ahead!
Jun 7, 2018
Jun 7, 2018 at 10:58 PM UTC
There are times in a lifetime
When meanings collide
Times when we wonder
The reason why
There are moments of sadness
And gladness too
Those memories won’t last us
But they might have to do
There is such a fine line
Between the now and then
Such precious little moments
That we learn how to tend
So take up my hand love
And sing me your song
Our moments together
Won’t last all that long
Your heart is my mainstay
My chest full of pearls
Your laughter has taught me
My place in this world
Let’s spend time together
And weather the storm
We can chase all our dreams now
Before they are gone
Let’s live for this moment
And play out the game
Let’s share this adventure
To the end of our days
May 19, 2017
May 19, 2017 at 12:15 PM UTC
Remembering our dead
Mansions, or humble abodes
Virtues or deeds
Learned by heart
Nights of gladness
Morning sorrows
Stories as grains of sand
Forming eternal rocks
Or leaves from a tree
Shelters of hopes and dreams
Ocean waves drowning breath
Dreams crumbling as castles
Small homes becoming shrines
Images we choose, or not
Our great grands looking back
Thinking of us as we of ours
Long for memories to grow
Good grows as hands reach out
In time to lift, serve or destroy
Things break and lose charm
Those we feared and loved
Or guides found with sobs
Moments of shared delight
Human frailties, loss and pain
Keep us in want
Never enough, always too much
The hell of heaving
Infernos of inherited pride
Or careful purpose and deeds
Blessing those left
We follow their climb
When plotting our course
In darkness hides the light
Doors close in mind
Apr 8, 2017
Apr 8, 2017 at 12:46 AM UTC
Sitting Outside A Day In May
I find myself not only wondering [but]
Thirsting, needing to know when and how they died, [but]
Thoughts or suffering or not: in short,
The state before and during…
I observe a skin that’s wrinkling,
Drying out and shrinking,
Hear and spy a bird in tree,
See the freshness, spring’s new growth,
The only thing I really see is death, a passing.
I allow myself my breaths,
The moods, desires -
All that goes along,
Forgetting for the most part.
Deep down I see the buds of parting
And an emptiness because
I have no answers.
All that I can do is wait and act and meditate
As if life equaled all time-in-the-world.
Every year in spring
I find I’m writing,
Charting age unconsciously,
Literally marking time.
Not sad, not glad but emptier
Than years before,
(or maybe more).
Noticing, acknowledging a substance;
The substantial underlying all the grandeur.
Sitting Outside A Day In May 5.21.2016
Birth, Death & In Between II;
Arlene Corwin
Mar 10, 2017
Mar 10, 2017 at 1:37 PM UTC
caught from the blue,
with my polished
and sparkling eyes.
all that everyone saw was beauty,
while deep inside pain crept.
forgetting of its existence.
to me it became profane.
refusing to speak of it
Allowing myself to forgetting.
then at my cheerful being of night,
you saw through me
what i had forgotten.
it was the pain that dwelt.
and all the broken pieces inside of me.
lost in the dark night with a fake smile,
i would have never known all was wrong.
and healing could have never come.
but you helped me admit to my wrong.
today i look back at the lost time in darkness.
all the happiness wasted.
i could have been cheerful then,
but now that am at ease,
solace came unexpectedly
gratitude is the token of appreciation i have for you.
Jan 23, 2017
Jan 23, 2017 at 6:25 AM UTC
The Lord your God
in your midst,
the Mighty One,
He will save;
with gladness
He will rejoice
over you,
He will quiet you
with His love,
He will rejoice
over you
with singing....
Zephaniah 3 :17
cj 2016
May 6, 2016
May 6, 2016 at 11:37 PM UTC
Dear, I'm going on an adventure and it's beginning now
Away from the heartache, away from the sorrow I go
I'm letting the light in
This is where my adventure begins
I choose to no longer be the shadow cast by the light
Instead I've decided to be a candle
Though it be small compared to others
One day it will spread and become a roaring wildfire
There are so many negative people leading negative lives
I've been one for so long
But that part of me is dying
Only the light will remain
As I sit here with the path rocky and unclear
I cast my eyes on the sky, I know
I'm leaving for my adventure now
It may take a while for me to reach my destination
But no later than a lifetime
Which is rather short after all
My heart was weighed and burdened
Now it is a candle
While being small
I worry not
It's soon to be a roaring wildfire
Burning bright among the night
Jun 3, 2015
Jun 3, 2015 at 1:17 PM UTC
It's mile away from home
To feel with gladness inside
It was rainy day
While I'm driving motorcycle
As I pass the bridge
The music get through
While the rhymes of the rains
Cool's down under inside
As I start to remember
the past year I was there...
Far from home
A time to enjoy my vacation
Oh~ how nice it is
To be found in
~ TAGBIBINTA FALLS ~
Once again.
May 8, 2015
May 8, 2015 at 4:36 AM UTC
A year to end
within it …~
Many of untold
stories of time
again.
A new journey
to discover…~
So as this heart
would learn to
embrace.
As this year
says goodbye…~
Let thy new songs
serenade my soul.
While this fruit
my present was…~
Am being thankful
and grateful.
Because in Thee,
Words in tune.
So, that this spirit
may fills with ~ gladness.
Dec 2, 2014
Dec 2, 2014 at 7:54 PM UTC
the phrases of your words
it lights within my room
words tho' sweet to absorbs
so, dear to ponder the lines
your words like honeyed
to my lips when i used it
gather years for my days
and make my lonesome heart beat
it's like treasures of a lifetime
that truly grows within my veins
as my heart felt with gladness
that helps me free ~ indeed.
Jul 4, 2014
Jul 4, 2014 at 10:56 AM UTC