A Recipe For Joyful Living Poem by Valsa George

No matter you are seventy or seventeen Still spry enough to have frolic and fun Youthful enough to cherish hopes and dreams For life affably beckons and is not done! Dear Valsa, I was planning to become a seventy year old saint on the coming 8th of February at 8 am (Yes number 8 is always eventful for me) but now I have changed my planning I shall celebrate my 17th birthday on that day. All credit all thanks to you. This lovely poem is miraculous.

Great advice for joyful living, and worth the try. I feel the joy just in reading this. Thanks.

Crack a joke, laugh out loud Wear a smile, walk an extra mile Nice recipe for happy life. Thank you.

A beautiful recipe for joyful-living dish! Happiness is a choice: one creates one's own joy of living. I love these lines: Break free of the ropes that bind Let loose the spirit within Shed out your dry reticence n' reserve Let your geniality, many hearts win Great write!

Very inspiring indeed.......Valsa......redeem the time, moments wasted not in slothfulness and folly, live every moment as if the last not in haste but in acts of love, mercy and prayer........great write as always

Delightful poetry....God bless you, please keep writing.

There is such a wealth of good advice in this poem I had to share it on my 'Be Happy Cartoons' facebook page.

valsa, i was looking to see if you had submitted a God's Kind Of Poetry poem for brian johnston's september poem CHALLENGE contest. the contest needs something from you to balance off my blasphemous entry. but, not finding what i was looking for, i'll read this one, which may help me a bit in my hedonistic (a word i pulled from somewhere in my mini-brain) pursuits. reticence n' reserve....well, although i've proof that reticence and reserve are synonyms, i'll let you use both of them here. BUT DON'T LET IT HAPPEN AGAIN! i see that many poets have already beat me to the (comment) punch! i feel sorry for them, as they may never read my comment here, unless i send it to them; i have no time for that! :) pelf! what a great word. it is another one i've never heard of. and goes nicely with power. scene/cuisine.............cute, and right up my alley! to sum up my feelings about the poem: very encouraging for readers, unless of course they are shut-ins with no fond memories. my favorite stanza: Break free of the ropes that bind Let loose the spirit within Shed out your dry reticence n' reserve Let your geniality, many hearts win ................this is THE FINE RECIPE. unfortunately not all cooks have the ingredients or skills needed to follow it. but thanks for offering it. bri :) p.s. i send now to MyPoemLIst.

I've saved this poem as one of my favourites so I can read it again whenever I or someone I know needs reminding how to live. Thank you Valsa for this therapeutic, beautiful poem.

Crack a joke, laugh out loud Wear a smile, walk an extra mile Chill out, lose in the beauty of the dusk Praise someone without any guile No matter you are seventy or seventeen Still spry enough to have frolic and fun Youthful enough to cherish hopes and dreams For life affably beckons and is not done! Beautifully written. Why would we always busy ourselves each and everyday persuing baseless agenda here and there? Why are we chasing rainbow dreams that can never be fulfilled? We are worth than mere troubles like old age. Lets continue to live life in happiness for life is too short for our endless dreams. Mhh... I like this poem. Great job!