The ‘Good News Movement,’ gained traction rapidly worldwide between 2018 and 2020, generating thousands of “copycat” do-gooders, and is alive and thriving on sites such as “Reasons to be Happy,” “The Good News Network,” and WP’s own “Anything is Possible.”

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Recorded Reading (1:39): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/4668pt6xc9p18p23rdmye/The-More-the-Merrier.mp3?rlkey=7sluojc0j9g8wg21rqb6fe9mx&dl=0

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The More the Merrier

The more the “Good News” of the day
The more we learn to think that way

Less of shooters, less of hooters
Less of scooters and commuters

More of kindness taking hold
Kids who care to help the old

Bus drivers who comfort the
Child on board whom newest be

The officer who really tries
To offer comfort and advice

Community respect deserve
Genuinely “protect and serve”

The unselfish stewardess
All her scanty free time bless

A frightened one with autism
Overcome that awesome schism

Competitors who stop their play
To help a teammate some bright day

Or — which makes us even prouder
Speaks of love a little louder —

For their competition
Exercise compassion

People who remember when
They were in need, and turn again

A presently entitled face
Forgetting not beginning place

Seek to do maximum good
In some beat-up neighborhood

And in the world of DYI
We need not stop short of the sky ~

Be there some minds and hearts so large
They post inventions free of charge

‘Grandmas for Peace,’ ‘Yellow Vests,’
Carefully worded protests

Against practices now abhor
Were thought routine not long before

I think influence of “Good News”
Be such as no heart can refuse

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Until removal of the stalker/targeter/vandal/arsonist following her allows her to approach any landlord ~ even for a private parking space ~ and to begin once again to create professional connections and to rebuild her life, this poet presently lives homeless and at a fraction of her nation’s poverty level ~ still working to contribute to her society, however, seven days a week.

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