<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=569268" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ponderance of Joy</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">What is joy, delight? <br>For delight is but distraction<br>Escapement of life</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Delight is but pleasure<br>Physically received<br>But mentally perceived<br>A reaction of body to outer stimuli</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What is joy, delight? <br>When in delight<br>Man joy perceives<br>The bliss that comes<br>Ah joy it must be…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I look around me<br>What do I see…<br>What do I find that brings joy to me? <br>Not gifts not things not coin none of thee<br>But sharing of life with people loving me</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To be content, what does it take? <br>What does it take to not be fake? <br>A spirit at rest and a soul at ease<br>What is this secret of life to seize? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Contentment little with money none<br>But seeking it such with money as means<br>It is as trying to walk to the sun</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What brings us to peace<br>If at all peacelessness on earth do cease<br>For where desire ambition goals exist<br>Peacelessness persist</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It just may be that peace no constant state<br>But fleeting moments of joy, hope, and rest<br>Caught between oceans of rush worry and sweat<br>Deep dark whirlpools<br>That perplexities of thought create</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah joy… you illusive purple rose<br>Ever fragile ever rare</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Rolling down a mount a gem<br>Running after, man, a chase<br>Always chase just sometimes caught<br>What would happen whilst in pursuit<br>We looked up<br>And saw the view we’re brought?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francois+Hoon">Francois Hoon</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=569268" data-title="Ponderance of Joy de Francois Hoon" data-description="What is joy, delight? For delight is but distraction Escapement of life Delight is but pleasure Physically received But mentally perceived A reaction of body to outer stimuli What is joy, delight? When in delight Man joy perceives The bliss th..."></div> </div> </div>

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