Dawn Huffaker

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Dawn Huffaker resides in southwestern New Mexico. Although she has been physically handicapped since eight months of age, it hasn’t stopped her from achieving her dreams. Poetry has been her passion since junior high, where her English teachers first encouraged her to write. She wrote many poems, and had them published in local school publications. Upon graduation from college, she founded a computer store in her community. Her poetry was put on the back burner because of her hectic schedule. Dawn ran this business for seventeen years. In 2006, she retired from the computer store. Now, she can concentrate on her poetry once again. It is her hope to publish many volumes of her work.)

The Best Poem Of Dawn Huffaker

Happiness

Happiness
Is not
Just an emotion.
It is
A state of mind
From which
To live life.
It is
The centering
Of the soul
On what is important.
This focus
Allows
The beauty
Of a sunrise
To be remembered,
Or
The, “I’m sorry, ”
To be cherished
After a fight.
It must be
Nurtured
Like a flower,
And
Practiced
Like a prayer.
Happiness
Is
God’s gift
To us.

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