Quatrain · Happiness
A Birthday Blessing
May your coffee stay hot, may your phone hold its charge,
may small luck find you daily and big luck loom large;
may the year rolling toward you arrive like a friend —
with the best of beginnings, and no thought of end.
Original poem © QuillOak — personal sharing is permitted.
“A Birthday Blessing” by The QuillOak Editors — quilloak.com/poems/may-your-coffee-stay-hot
Quick facts
- Poem
- A Birthday Blessing
- Poet
- The QuillOak Editors
- Length
- 4 lines
- Form
- Quatrain, Rhyming Poems
- Themes
- Happiness, Hope, Short
Craft notes
How this poem works
Measured from the text on this page, not copied from a summary. Counts are approximate: syllables and rhymes come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, which models General American English, so dialect, older pronunciation, and performance can all change what you hear.
- Shape
- 4 lines · one 4-line stanza
- End rhyme
- AABB — couplets.
- Line length
- Mostly 12-syllable lines (hexameter length).
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Text, source & rights
A traceable edition
Original QuillOak text. Personal sharing is permitted; other reuse requires permission.
- Author record
- The QuillOak Editorstoday
- Source record
- QuillOak originalA Birthday Blessing, 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 afdab61e728c0e91…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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