toddlers giggling
dogs wagging
forest paths
a friend
the last payment
rainy days
coffee
old photographs
a sky full of stars
touching someone you love
daisies in a mason jar
cotton candy at the fair
helping someone you don’t know
fields of lavender
memories
– Sarah Russell
for dVerse’s Quadrille prompt “bliss”
photo source
Sarah Russell Poetry 
Can’t fault any of those 🙂
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Thanks, Jane. I even wrote a second “Bliss List.” Got on a roll of favorite things.
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It’s hard to decide where to stop 🙂
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I know. When you turn your mind from the wretched stuff that is going on in the news, the day-to-day joys put everything in perspective.
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It’s the only way to stay sane.
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Love the list… there is a lot of very good things on it…
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A perfect choice for the quadrille today, Bjorn. With all the s%$#t in the world, we need to be reminded of the happy stuff.
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A beautiful list of bliss Sarah :o) xxx
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Thanks, Xenia. I loved this prompt.
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A bliss list. What a wonderful idea! I identified with each and every item, by the way!
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Thanks, Bev. It’s the little things, isn’t it.
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I love this Bliss list. XX
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Thanks, Alison.
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Everything on that list can bring bliss.
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I think so too, Frank. Thanks!
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I love your bliss list! I am going to magnet a piece of paper on the fridge to every day write something that brings/brought me bliss. thank you. And I can totally relate to them all on your list – except for the toddlers. I have no contact with children and probably never will. But the thoughts of anyone giggling just to giggle is bliss!
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I do that too — the magnet list.
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What a great idea, Toni. When 44 words weren’t enough for all my bliss, I composed a second quadrille, and I still didn’t get them all. I may have to start a fridge list too!
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Okay. I have my list up (I found one of those magnet backed shopping lists) and is up on the fridge! 🙂 the first entry? cold watermelon for dinner
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Yum! A southern staple. Roy and I are eating fresh peaches and sweet corn nearly every night here in PA. There’s a farmer’s market somewhere in the State College area every day of the week, I think.
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Wonderful! Peaches and sweet corn are wonderful things. I froze about 5 doz. ears of cut off corn to use for soups, corn pudding (both savory and sweet) and of course, nuked with lots of butter.
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“The last payment” and “daisies in a mason jar” are the items that gave me the biggest bump. But it’s all so wonderful.
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That last payment is just the best, isn’t it! OK, you, Toni and I will keep fridge lists and we’ll have prompts for years!
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No kidding!
My husband likes to have the kids share their “highs” of the day at dinner (they really hate it). So I’ve taken to making happy lists, writing down those little bliss moments during the day that might get overlooked if I didn’t make that effort to document them. Then I can show the kids at night how many moments of joy we really have; we just aren’t good about giving them their due credit. We really have to be better about that. Otherwise we might believe that we aren’t happy or that our relationships aren’t good. It just isn’t true; our perspectives get skewed because we look too long and hard at the wrong things. The negatives.
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Amen to that!
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Perfect perfect use of a list poem! Sigh. Wonderful!
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Thanks a lot, De!
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Love your list poem, specially the last payment and sky full of stars ~
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Thanks, Grace. Yup. That last payment is wonderful!
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This makes me want to go right now and write and write my own bliss list. Those are the practices that keep us full of joy in the midst of so much trouble that seems to surround us right now.
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It was the first thing I thought of for this prompt, Victoria. I think that fridge list idea is great!
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Dogs & coffee – pretty much covers it! I haven’t done a list poem in ages and you inspire me. Love this, Sarah.
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I don’t do them often either, Jilly, but bliss needed it, I thought.
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Do you hear Julie Andrews singing in the background? 🙂
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I resisted the urge to say “these are a few of my favorite things,” but it did cross my mind. 🙂
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🙂
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“daisies in a mason jar” I don’t have a context, but this line stood out in your list. It works akin to something I’ve learned in fiction writing… the small insignificant, yet odd detail. The one that makes the scene… or the character… real. Additionally, this reminds me of the song, The Waters of March. For what it’s worth….
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OK, going out to you tube The Waters of March. Thanks for commenting on the mason jar. When we had a cabin, one of the grandkids picked some daisies and all I had was a mason jar to put them in. Now they don’t look right in anything else.
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You go with what works.
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Loved this version of Waters with the literal translation of the Portuguese. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g3oNSFQVzNM. A wonderful collage of images and words. Thanks for the reference.
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I know that I relate to the last payment. That’s a true moment of bliss, and a sigh of relief for me. The list form was well used here. It reads great
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Thanks so much, Walter.
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Isn’t if wonderful that there’s so many things that can give us bliss? I thoroughly enjoyed your list!
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Thanks for stopping by. Yes, it was a joy to write this one. We have to keep thinking these positive things.
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That which tops the list is truly blissful. Ha, feeling inspired to do a list poem 🙂
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You can join us in a refrigerator list, Sumana.
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You were on a Quadrille roll with your list of bliss, Sarah! I can’t disagree with any of the items 😉
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Thanks, Kim. I even did a second list. I was really on a roll! I thought this one was better though, except that the other one had butterflies. Guess you can’t put all the bliss in one poem or it would tip over!
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A handy list to get myself a treat of bliss. Thanks for sharing!
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Thank you, Colin.
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Dogs wagging is my favorite, but I also love coffee, touching someone you love, and lavender fields. I’m iffy on the memories. Some of mine aren’t so great, but good memories, those are bliss.
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Thanks, Linda. Gotta concentrate on the good memories. The bad ones you toss.
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Actually, some of the bad ones are ending up in my memoir as an encouragement to others who can’t forget. 🙂
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Such smiles you’ve generated for me…
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Thank, Misky. It was fun to write.
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…and the world becomes a better place!
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Yes, I hope so, Margaret.
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Loved this….so many good things….have to keep an open mind ….💜
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Yes, blissful things happen more often when our minds are open to the whole world around us. A good reminder, Sreeja.
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A list of happiness! 🎈👍
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Glad you think so too, Imelda!
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This was a great list poem! I’m sure you would have found it difficult to stop at just 44 words 🙂
a sky full of stars is my favourite!
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Thanks a lot, Vandana.
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A happiness list…thanks for sharing the bliss, Sarah! We should all count our blessings…I have a journal list of “everyday grace” and write what I’m thankful for.
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Thanks, Lynn. You’ll have to join our fridge club. In the comments, several of us have decided to keep a Bliss List on the refrigerator door to remind ourselves of blessings.
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A nice catalogue of what brings you bliss. It makes me happy, too.
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Thanks so much. From the comments, I think my blissful things are pretty universal. Good to know!
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Lovely list 🙂
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Thanks, Arcadia!
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Soooo late to the reading! Apologies….grandkids with us always takes precedence.
I do adore list poems…and this seems ripe for it! Ah that we should all be reminded of our moments of bliss, many of them recurring! 🙂
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Thanks, Lillian. I thought bliss deserved a list too. Aren’t grandkids just the best?!
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