I’d intended to wrap up April’s National Poetry Month with a selection from Poe’s Tamerlane, but I am out of town and have to make due with the internet. I’ve found 2 different Charles Bukowski pieces to share and that’s how will end our month. Hope you enjoy them and invite a little poetry into your life. This post contains affiliate links. If you click a link and make a purchase, Poe in Wonderland will earn a small commission for the referral at no cost to you. Read more about affiliates and disclaimers here. The Laughing Heart by Charles Bukowsi 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 butit beats the darkness.be on the watch.the gods will offer you chances.know them.take them.you can’t beat death butyou can beat death in life, sometimes.and…

I’ve discovered the work of Charles Bukowsi in the last few years. I’m learning he was controversial and considered offensive by some. I haven’t delved that deeply yet to find what all of the critics see, but I really like his quotes and the poems I have read. Not ashamed to say I first heard of him through the movie Beautiful Creatures. One of the main characters wants to be a writer and is fascinated by his work. The name Bukowski stuck in my head. In 1986 Time called Bukowski a “laureate of American lowlife”. Source: PoemHunter.com Regarding Bukowski’s enduring popular appeal, Adam Kirsch of The New Yorker wrote, “the secret of Bukowski’s appeal. . . [is that] he combines the confessional poet’s promise of intimacy with the larger-than-life aplomb of a pulp-fiction hero.” Source: PoemHunter.com I discovered this poem this morning and had to post it. “So you want…