by Dahni
Title
A Rhymer’ Primer of 31 days to, Spatter Joy, in rhymed verse
By Dahni
Copyright © 2016 Dahni
Donald C Hayden and I-Magine
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Table of Contents
Title
Forward
Dedication
Spatter 1
Spatter 2
Spatter 3
Spatter 4
Spatter 5
Spatter 6
Spatter 7
Spatter 8
Spatter 9
Spatter 10
Spatter 11
Spatter 12
Spatter 13
Spatter 14
Spatter 15
Spatter 16
Spatter 17
Spatter 18
Spatter 19
Spatter 20
Spatter 21
Spatter 22
Spatter 23
Spatter 24
Spatter 25
Spatter 26
Spatter 27
Spatter 28
Spatter 29
Spatter 30
Spatter 31
“Great titles for poems aren’t they”
-Dahni-
About the Author
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…….Spatter Joy
Spatter Joy
Forward
by Arman Sicovia
editor for I-Magine Publications
The word "spatter" brings many images to mind that are instantly familiar to most everyone. Paint, water, mud and other liquid-like materials are just a few of the things which could be 'spattered.' But "joy" (technically an emotional response to stimuli), we may not ordinarily think of something which can be spread or 'spattered.' As it is used in this collection, it fits perfectly. From time to time, most of us if not all of us have experienced something that has given us some measure of happiness or has made us happy. "Joy" is, a word which is most often a word used to express or define something which cannot be expressed or defined. It is considered something far deeper inside a being than happiness. As a figure of speech, the words, "Spatter Joy," implies that this "joy" could be 'spattered' or spread to others. In poem 24, they are associated with words and ideas as: "infection," "contagion," and "inoculation." These words we understand when it comes to the spreading and prevention of communicable diseases, bacteria and viruses etc. There is an expression used for enthusiasm that— "if you want to spread the measles, you have to first have a good case of them yourself." One cannot spread or spatter joy without first having it themselves. Dahni's confession is that this whole collection was written in just two days and was a direct response to his own personal, fullness of joy that he could not help, but to— "Spatter Joy!"
For Dahni, the 2015 winter holiday season began in March of that year, with the announcement and his involvement with his one his nieces and her first child and now, his first and only, grand nephew. The season culminated with a lovely dinner with friends that he prepared, two weeks before Thanksgiving. Then it was Thanksgiving with family he also, cooked for.
Next, travel to witness the birth of a new baby. Then it was home again for the first holiday concert of his twin boy grandchildren, the early completion of a Christmas Story for another grandchild (originally intended as a story for all of the five grandchildren). Then came the announcements of yet another grand niece and another grandchild, both to be born early summer of 2016. On Christmas Eve 2015, Dahni and his wife were on the road again to share and cook dinner for family on the 25th and 26th. On December 29th, he and his one sister celebrated with their older brother on his birthday. This was the first holiday season that the three of them have been together in about thirty years.
Finally, he returned home once again to celebrate New Year's Eve and Day and yet another Christmas/New Year's celebration, with more family (a brunch) on January 2nd that Dahni just refers to as, a "Merry Happy," celebration. Indeed, these many events lead him to joy, kept him full of joy and has made him desirous that it continue.
When we are happy and joyful, if is difficult if not impossible, for others around us to NOT be happily affected or infected with this joy. It is a spill-over effect and affect!
As many of us do, Dahni thought on the custom of New Year's Resolutions. We each want for ourselves and for those we love to have more and be more, do more, give more, love more and just, 'Be More' in the coming year than the previous one. When it comes to the subject of "joy," the reason for it and the purpose for this collection is set in the smallest poem which is the first one. Basically, after the winter solstice around December 25th, the days are getting longer and for those that cannot wait until spring comes again and we can be outside again, this is certainly something to look forward to, to be happy about; to joy and for and to others to, "Spatter Joy." And as for New Year's Resolutions, Dahni states his intentions and desires in poem #2 that it be the same, "every year" and that is to daily, "Spatter Joy," each and every single day, every year.
This entire collection was conceived and written in two days, from December 31st, 2015 and completed January 1st, 2016. Though the verses are simple, they are NOT over-simplified or simplistic. It is difficult to find words that rhyme with "joy," but it was intentional and purposefully planned to repeat, to reiterate, over and over again, the theme and title to— "Spatter Joy."
In one sense, this collection seeks for Dahni to continue spattering his joy from the previous year, for the readers to have one poem, for each day in January, one each for the new month of the new year. Though this collection ends as the month of January ends on the 31st, it continues as the line of his final poem states, "I must just continue to— Spatter Joy!"
As Dahni lives and seeks to perpetually 'Spatter Joy," this is the purpose of this collection that each of us catch a big dose of our own joy and splatter it everywhere to everyone that they too will in turn— 'Spatter Joy!' What motive could be clearer than this whole collection being offered to anyone and each and every one of these poems and the whole collection, FREE of cost to anyone! One cannot pay ANY amount for joy.
Something so rich and so full; so inexplicable and so often un-deserved surely is, meant to be given and to be spattered. Be a joy spatterer' and 'Spatter Joy!'
Deeply,
Arman
Spatter Joy
Dedication
; Dedicated to: The Spattering of Joy and the Joy Spatterers’
Spatter Joy
1
Good Morning to every aged girl and boy,
the days are getting longer— Spatter Joy
from the collection: Spatter Joy
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Dahni
2
My resolution, for every single year
to daily collect at least a single tear
witness some happiness in some place
and gather emotions from the face
to give the right amount and not to cloy
but instead to— Spatter Joy
from the collection: Spatter Joy
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Spatter Joy
3
My assignment for today
as I go along the way
No matter how long it takes or just a little while
I know it's in there and I'm gonna' extract a smile
So, do not turn away and don't be coy
Help me, help you— Spatter Joy!
from the collection: Spatter Joy
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Dahni
4
There's a captive audience where it seems like they feel they must PC tolerate you
and a captured audience where nothing said or done will do
So, if you find yourself in some space
I'm gonna' try and influence your face
Whether you're a girl or a boy
I'm gonna' try and Spatter Joy
PC = Political Correctness
from the collection: Spatter Joy
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Spatter Joy
5
Well, today, there's some bad and some good news
Some cheery and some blues
Which would you rather or which should be first?
But really, for which do you thirst?
I cannot make you think,
but I can choose what I will drink
So I'm sipN’ on Happy
and spitN' out the crappy
So can every aged girl or boy
spew out the negatives and Spatter Joy
from the collection: Spatter Joy
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Dahni
6
Pitter patter
What does it matter
it all comes down
to a smile or a frown
My only choice will I build or destroy
Tear down or Spatter Joy
from the collection: Spatter Joy
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Spatter Joy
7
Let us agree if we must, to disagree
and keep this agreement, between you and me
You keep your causes and politics
And I'll keep my delicious brownie mix
We'll each mix and pour and bake complete
Then see who shows up, to eat
And know what others truly enjoy
But in my kitchen, I'll Spatter Joy
from the collection: Spatter Joy
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Dahni
8
Face it, we're all gonna' step in a puddle
and we could think of it as a muddle,
but when the feet splash down
we could choose to smile or frown
splish and squish and scatter— annoy
or simply just to— Spatter Joy
from the collection: Spatter Joy
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Spatter Joy
9
We're all painters, it's so very true
What colors are the best for you,
fingers, roller, brush or spray
what's best for you today?
Paint the colors and the way you most enjoy,
But as for me, I'll just spatter Joy
from the collection: Spatter Joy
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Dahni
10
We each choose our garment or frock
mine's just, a spattered smock
Yours might be better
and mine may be wetter
And yours the mark of the life you employ
mine is just to— Spatter Joy
from the collection: Spatter Joy
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Spatter Joy
11
Upon this thought do you ever think-le’
why do the stars all seem to twink-le’
Is it just a trick of the eye, some decoy?
Or do they really— Spatter Joy
from the collection: Spatter Joy
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Dahni
12
From sunup to sun downed
what goes, comes back around
like a drop of water ever spreading
no end in sight to where it's heading
For what end, its purpose to deploy
I think it just to— Spatter Joy
from the collection: Spatter Joy
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Spatter Joy
13
Sure, you can flip or skip me
rip or trip from what you see
and find nothing in me, save a silly old boy
but when you walk on, I'll still be— Spattering Joy
from the collection: Spatter Joy
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Dahni
14
My Mommy's tiny, little blip
took a long and arduous trip
My Daddy's little splurt'
With my Mommy's egg did flirt
and I was born, a bouncing baby boy
a splattering to— Spatter Joy
from the collection: Spatter Joy
by Dahni © 2016, all rights reserved
Spatter Joy
15
Just throw it, against the wall
see what sticks or starts to fall
flinging and clinging
singing and bringing
It's not some sinister ploy
It's just to— Spatter Joy
from the collection: Spatter Joy
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Dahni
16
As r
ain is to a gutter
so is melting, just like butter
And if you truly want to know
where its hither and its flow
The single purpose, both employ
is always to— Spatter Joy
from the collection: Spatter Joy
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Spatter Joy
17
I'm only here a little while
make you frown or make you smile
there's no getting around it, something I will spread
from my first breath until the last and I am dead,
but even then, it'll just keep on going
and I suspect, will keep on growing
So, the question is, why not be a tool and a toy
to build up others and— Spatter Joy
from the collection: Spatter Joy
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Dahni
18
Are you sick of these, my silly, just yet;
are you sorry that we ever met?
You can never read here again; you're always free to go,
but if you do, there's something you need to know
Check the back of your blouse or shirt
I promise that, it will not hurt
But there is something splattered that I stuck
and you could wash to no avail and call it your bad luck
And whether your name is From A-Z or Betty or Roy
I've splattered you blouse or shirt with— Spattered Joy
from the collection: Spatter Joy
by Dahni © 2016, all rights reserved
Spatter Joy