Lyric Poem · Happiness
Another Trip Around the Sun
Another trip around the sun,
another year of you —
of all the laughter you have caused,
and all you've carried through.
So here's to candles, here's to cake,
to wishes still to come;
the best of you is not behind —
you've only just begun.
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“Another Trip Around the Sun” by The QuillOak Editors — quilloak.com/poems/another-trip-around-the-sun
Quick facts
- Poem
- Another Trip Around the Sun
- Poet
- The QuillOak Editors
- Length
- 8 lines
- Form
- Lyric Poem, Rhyming Poems
- Themes
- Happiness, Life
Craft notes
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- Shape
- 8 lines · 2 quatrains
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- Author record
- The QuillOak Editorstoday
- Source record
- QuillOak originalAnother Trip Around the Sun, authored for QuillOak by The Quillery
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- Not recorded in the imported source
- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 749df1f378326114…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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