Spatter Joy

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

  Let’s Connect

  Fair Use

  …….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

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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

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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!

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  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

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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

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  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

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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

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  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

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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

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  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

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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

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  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

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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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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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

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  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

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  Spatter Joy