THE STAGES OF LIFE

"Worries start to show its hidden teeth".  

Given that "worries" is plural,  this should read " Worries start to show THEIR hidden teeth", yes?  

And I don't know about you,  but it didn't take me growing old to make me aware that life had claws and tusks.  I was already aware of this by the time I was  8 years old, if not before.

Please show me how and why the following is not a better written, more evocative piece than your submission (and don't use any perceived misspellings of words as an excuse not to do this):

You claim that when we’re young
we know a happiness that will not be
surpassed in any of our later days.
In fact, you say,  life’s destiny will dim
and make unreachable the memory
of  how content we were
at play within the lilting years just after infancy

For time’s cruel hand will all too soon
immerse us in a growing consciousness
of how much life is really
nothing but a  vale of tears.

Oh, yes. There’s something to be said
in favour of the Edening of youth’s naivete.
And yet it does not measure up
in all of its protected pleasurings
to those inhabited, displayed,
inside the types of carnal knowledge
that becomes available
to be enjoyed by those enhanced by  puberty
and its bestowing of the raw ability to ken
and ken again
the joys of sex.  
Praise innocence.
But give to me the energy,
the all-consuming and elating sense
of joyousness,
the upswelled, widened, wilded heart,
inherent in concupiscence.

1-Can you say A HAPPINESS ?  
2- Why don't you be creative an write your own poetry without taking the ideas created by other poets?  
3- May l know what nationality are you? You don't mention it at your page.

Another dodge of what I asked of you.  
 
If you are saying that happiness should be preceded by "an" rather than "a",  you are wrong.    

https://editingandwritingservices.com/a-or-an-before-words-beginning-with-h/  
   
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/393606/is-a-happiness-a-valid-expression
   
So yes,  one can say "a happiness".  
   
And shouldn't you have written "Why don't you be creative AND write your own poetry" instead of " Why don't you be creative an write your own poetry"?.  
   
And leaving aside the question of whether there is never anything that I've posted on my page that's "my own",  I refer you to what T.S. Eliot said about how borrowing themes from others is actually the essence of poetry.  
   
 “Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.”  
   
So please do what I asked you to do in my message above and **show**  me how and why the following is not a better written, more evocative piece than your submission if you think it is not.

How is my nationality relevant to whether or not I've produced a piece that is better written and more evocative that your piece is?

You stick to a forgotten D in the word and, and you use the word HAPPINESS as a countable word with A.

Another dodge.  I take it that you are unable to demonstrate that my piece is better written and more evocative than yours is,  as well as incapable of reading or taking into account the evidence I provided you that happiness can be a and has been taken to be by poets a countable noun.

Some beauties yet no precepts can declare, For there's a happiness, as well as care. — Alexander Pope.

SO FOR BOLDWIN, A HAPPINESS IS CORRECT.

Who is Boldwin?

And yes, "a (particular) happiness" is correct, just as it was for one of your golden age poets.

Now can we get on to discussing who's piece is the better of the two in terms of how well it's written and how evocative it is?  Or are you going keep finding quibbling ways to not do so?

I am sure you've got a knock on the head. TO DISCUSS WHO'S PIECE...... . Do you mean WHOSE? Or WHO'S is also possible? Don't you feel that you've got impossible to speak with.

Yes, it should have been "whose".  But this is yet another dodge.

But "got impossible to speak with"??.  Did you mean "become impossible to speak with"?

And how nice of you to correct the grammar gaffe in your "Worries start to show its hidden teeth".    

So you admit that you are capable of writing poorly!

Yes, l mean become. Don't you think that GOT means BECOME? Look it up in any good dictionary.

The question is not what "got" means but which is the better (and less ambiguous) English expression given what you were trying to say.

https://www.englishgrammar.org/get-and-become/

And if "become (grown) impossible" is what you meant to say,  why didn't you write "become impossible"?

By the way,  did you mean "happy" or "happiest" stage when you were making your claim about the nature of the time in which someone dreams of being a man?  Are you asserting that there is no other stage in one's life that might be described as happy other than one's childhood, let alone that there is never any sadness in childhood?  Or are you making a comparison between the various experiences of happiness that one experiences when one is, say 10, or 20 or 30 and so on?

Yes, one of my students asked me the same question, and l answered him: "Yes, it is the only happy one." The rest of your comment is not worthy of my attention.

But as many people have testified it's **not** the only happy one.