A Welcome Emotion

by Ziad Assaad   Oct 30, 2014


Within one's belly, may deeply reside a guttural rumbling, beginning to rise.
Shivering jolts clench your chest as it gives way to expanses of deeply drawn breath.
It can veil, for a moment, the worst of fears, and in one's eyes may form as tears.
Uncontrollably, your face is obscured behind a huge grin, from ear to ear.
A gentle tide it permeates, as a healthy spirit laughter creates.

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  • 10 years ago

    by Poet on the Piano

    Good piece, and I almost see it as a prose poem? My one suggestion would be to work on formatting it with line breaks or I think it could also be written simply in paragraph form. I love how you personify happiness and from the first line, it seems something innate in us, that every culture recognizes and that we can channel no matter what part of the world. Your language is this is also unique and how you place the words in a more abstract way so to speak, such as with putting "Uncontrollably" at the start of the line for more emphasis.

    Thanks for sharing.

    • 9 years ago

      by Ziad Assaad

      Thank you for not simply reading. Thank you for, instead, analyzing the text and discerning a theme that you could relate too. I appreciate your criticisms and thank you for the insight.

  • 10 years ago

    by gumshuda

    I guess it should be in miscellaneous.I found this poem to be a happy poem and as we do not have any category called happy poem, according to me it is right where it is.
    It's just not fair.They should have a category for happy poems.

    • 10 years ago

      by Ziad Assaad

      Awesome, I was hoping it would come off as happy poem.

  • 10 years ago

    by Ziad Assaad

    Should this poem be Miscellaneous?

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