I like this poem by Galway Kinnell in Three Books:
Crying
Crying only a little bit
is no use. You must cry
until your pillow is soaked!
Then you can get up and laugh.
Then you can jump in the shower
and splash-splash-splash!
Then you can throw open your window
and, "Ha ha! Ha ha!"
And if people say, "Hey
what's going on up there?"
"Ha ha!" sing back, "Happiness
was hiding in the last tear!
I wept it! Ha ha!"
To read more of Kinnell's poetry, head for here: Galway Kinnell
2 comments:
thats a happy poem. i like the haha's
I found the Kinnell entry . . . alas! Thanks for sharing, I've not read this one yet, and I've been fighting a tear or two these days. So I think I'll let them fall . . .
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