I'M HAPPY:)

You know, there's something about happiness that you just got to love. Even if it takes a while for that bout of joy to flow through our veins. And you know what that is? It is how it suddenly bursts out of you, making you want to jump out of your seat, dance around the house, frolic in the garden, twirl under the trees till you plop on the ground with your teeth smiling at the sun. I did something like that today. I think I even invented my own pirouette, although I have no clue of ballet. I'd like to tell you how it started, but I think it sounds better in rhyme:

First you feel a tingle
Then your feet start to jingle

Your arms start flinging
And you can't stop singing

And then you spin
And spin
and spin

But you're not tired
'cause happiness
has been hired

To make your grim
face grin!

Now your body sways
And you forget the
bad days

Then you jump up
up high
And try to touch the sky

But you land shortly
and sigh

Your arms stop flinging
Your voice isn't singing

You aren't spinning
spinning
and spinning

But don't worry if your feet don't jingle
'Cause now you know happiness
only needs a tingle!

Copyright:)

I Found a Poem Today!

My mom told me about the days where she and her class in the Philippines would memorize and recite poems for their English class. And not only did they recite, they recited with great poise and dramatization. And you know what? They did that in 5th grade!

There was one poem that I like the most. My mom's friend's poem. I went to find it today, and its actually a love poem by Edgar Allan Poe. Its a bit sad though....

Here it is:

ANNABELLE LEE

Edgar Allan Poe

It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.

I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea;
But we loved with a love that was more than love -
I and my Annabel Lee;
With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
Coveted her and me.
And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her highborn kinsman came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulcher
In this kingdom by the sea.
The angels, not half so happy in heaven,
Went envying her and me
Yes! that was the reason
(as all men know, In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.

But our love was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we
Of many far wiser than we
And neither the angels in heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.
For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride,
In the sepulcher there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea.

Then it got me thinking: where is this kingdom by the sea?