A Medley of Happiness Guarantees or Love's Happy-Sad Reality

For today's prompt, we have our first two-for-Tuesday prompt, which means you get two prompts. You can write to one of the prompts, both the prompts separately, or try to write a poem that works with both prompts at the same time. The prompts are:Write a happy poem, and/or...Write a sad poem. Some sunny happiness-anticipation mementos today...While the wind howls, wild as an untrained child! Happiness Guaranteed As long as there are boys with joys like fishing, baseball, pupsAnd girls with pretty curls, and brook-banks strewn with buttercupsAnd warm handshakes and birthday cakes and laughter, old and youngAnd spring following winter, and arbors wisteria-hung/strung/flung And fortunes found in friendships crowned with loyalty and prayerAnd skies of blue and work to do and poems still to snare/shareAnd birds to sing as the morning dissolves the heavens, darkAnd simple things like trees with swings, like picnics in the park Like beauty to behold and shelter from the cold, bold galeLike hope secure for the soul moored in Love that will not failOr, like fresh bread or coffee or berries, sun-warm and sweetOr gardens, where gladness runs wild as a child in bare feet As long as two agree and ‘will you marry me’ hears ‘yes’And babies coo and wonders woo, there will be happinessAs long as you and I try to be kinder every dayAnd live to bless, then happiness will never lose its way © Janet Martin Irreparable Alloy In greatest happiness and sadness, love is always chiefThe flipside of love's gladness is, inevitably, grief The higher love's apex of joy the deeper sorrow's troveIrreparable alloy; the bitter-sweetest price of love True love is like a treasure no imposter can attain A finely mingled measure of profound pleasure and pain Not for the faint of heart is love's vexatious certainty The twain can never part; love's happy-sad reality © Janet Martin Inexorable Irony The only way we know for sure that happiness existsIs because of the sadness that this broken world untwists How dumb would be delight's caress, how numb, the rousing cheerWithout sadness to sweeten happiness with bitter tear © Janet Martin Without determined dedicationWithout valiant effortVictory is flavorless *** Wilt thou be happy, oh,  so happy thou couldst burst?  Well, then,Forget about thyself; and love God firstthen fellowmen © Janet Martin It's nice to be appreciated and lovedAnd we all knowThat its important, once in a whileTo tell each other so! *** Wishing one and all a happy day! Yea, happy is that people, whose God is the LORD.Psalm 144:15 KJV