Better paint a smile

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    • anaisnais
    • Enters 2011, with all best intentions and wishes to all here at OP, have a good year whether I know you or not, and don't forget to check by my profile for new poems once in a while! Old and new friends whether I know you or not - welcome, come share, come learn together.... All constructive critique welcome, so that I might iimprove on my current level of works and move another step closer to my goal/ambition... Response to reads, & comments or friendly raport depends on health as to when!

    Better paint a smile

     Another tough to face morning
    I gaze into the mirror
    Palored cheeks
    Clammy beaten brow
    Dark circled tired eyes
    Pin pricked pupils peer back
    Medicated erupting skin
    Drained tightly pursed lips
    I  know today I'd better paint a smile
    Instill the motto to do what I can
    When  and however that may be
    To try new things
    Embrace all and use it to my advantage
    To overcome adversity
    Making a positive difference
    To my own life
    And those around me
    For it is those small mercies
    That make such a  difference daily

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    WordSlinger commented on Better paint a smile

    10-28-2010

    Cool, I like the poem, and term, permant paint right, :) thank you my friend from beyond the pond, WS
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    anaisnais

    10/28/2010

    Thanks so much for stopping by today to comment. Afraid I'm on a soap box again, lol.

    A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.

    Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet.

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