AMY KITCHENER'S
ANGELS WITHOUT WINGS FOUNDATION
PRESENTS THE 2008 GOLDEN PEN AWARD
LIVING POET TO

A. Irving Rosenberg

A SONG OF HAPPINESS


I'm going to be a happy person,
No matter what comes along.
Each day as I go walkin'
I'll sing my happy song.

Early when I get out of bed
Good thoughts are bouncing in my head;
And people I meet upon the street
With smiling face and song I'll greet.

I'm going to be a happy person,
Singing my song all the Time,
'cause deep down inside my singing head,
I stumbled--and found The Sublime.

A. Irving Rosenberg
Union, New Jersey
A. Irving Rosenberg, 87, is an attorney and founder of the Psychic Studies Institute in Union, New Jersey. He is author of "Autobiography of the Unconscious," a book exploring the phenomonon of Automatic Writing that many poets call "meeting the muse." This poem, which reflects the discovery that attitude and gratitude are choices one can make in order to be happy, regardless of challenges and circumstances that tempt us to succumb to negativity, is profound in its simplicity. "A Song of Happiness" won an Honor Scroll Award in the 2006 National Annual Senior Poets Laureate Poetry Competition.