Today’s program takes a look at how poems may consider the idea of “happiness” and how some poets may write “happy” poems. The focus, in that consideration, is that happiness may have to do with a sense of contentment. In that light, “happy” poems may reflect a certain contentment in a certain circumstance at a certain time.  That is today’s foundational theme.  I read poems by Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Kenneth Patchen, Gary Snyder (by way of Eliot’s “Little Gidding”), Katia Mitova, Arisa White, and Gina Athena Ulysse that resonate with such momentary contentment – with happiness – and I end with a poem of my own that presents a similar theme.