This is a picture of a laughing heart. How every heart should be.
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| A Happy Heart (click where its nose should be for a bigger version) |
Just one of those out-of-the-blue crazy moments. Why I have those moments? Because sometimes when I'm not busy pleasing others, I can say "Your life is your life, and mine is mine."
And that philosophy is perfectly bottled in this poem right here--
The Laughing Heart by Charles Bukowski
your life is your lifedon’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.
be on the watch.
there are ways out.
there is light somewhere.
it may not be much light but
it beats the darkness.
be on the watch.
the gods will offer you chances.
know them.
take them.
you can’t beat death but
you can beat death in life, sometimes.
and the more often you learn to do it,
the more light there will be.
your life is your life.
know it while you have it.
you are marvelous
the gods wait to delight
in you.
*Charles Bukowski, August 16th, 1920 – March 9th, 1994, wrote thousands of poems, hundreds of short stories and six novels. Influenced by his home city, Los Angeles, his work is marked by an emphasis on the ordinary lives of working class Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women and the drudgery of menial work. For over two decades he was published by Black Sparrow Press. His work has been translated worldwide. In June 2006 Bukowski’s literary archive was donated by his widow, Linda, to the Huntington Library in San Marino, California. “The Laughing Heart” can be found, among other places, in Method Writing by Jack Grapes, Bombshelter Press, © 2011 -- from evolution.net
*This is a poem that deserves to be the title for this blog which is devoted to everything positive and inspiring.
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