“Love Is . .” 

Was a Comic Strip
in the Newspapers a Long Time Ago

It was popular in the 1970s and was created by Kim Casali of New Zealand

Lisa Swerling wrote books with the title, “Happiness Is . . .”

Lisa’s book generated a question, “When will happiness arrive?”

I searched online for the phrase “Happiness arrives when you are” and received three results.

The five-word phrase became my poem that went like this:

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Happiness arrives when you are
With the family you Love

Happiness arrives when you are
With the one you Love

Happiness arrives when you are
Reading Books In The Park

Happiness arrives when you are
Thinking of Springtime Dreams

Happiness arrives when you are
Calm ~ Cool and Cucumbered

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Lisa Swerling’s “Happiness Is” generated my idea for the five couplets I wrote.

My couplets are more like a call-and-response style, not the traditional style of couplets.

Double, double, toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

William Shakespeare’s play “Macbeth,