Coconut
by Paul Hostovsky
Bear with me I
want to tell you
something about
happiness
it’s hard to get at
but the thing is
I wasn’t looking
I was looking
somewhere else
when my son found it
in the fruit section
and came running
holding it out
in his small hands
asking me what
it was and could we
keep it it only
cost 99 cents
hairy and brown
hard as a rock
and something swishing
around inside
and what on earth
and where on earth
and this was happiness
this little ball
of interest beating
inside his chest
this interestedness
beaming out
from his face pleading
happiness
and because I wasn’t
happy I said
to put it back
because I didn’t want it
because we didn’t need it
and because he was happy
he started to cry
right there in aisle
five so when we
got it home we
put it in the middle
of the kitchen table
and sat on either
side of it and began
to consider how
to get inside of it
End of the poem
15 random poems
- I Am Just Saying! by Luis Estable
- Song Of The Colours By Taj Mahomed
- Robert Burns: Address Spoken by Miss Fontenelle on her Benefit Night, December 4th, 1793, at the Theatre, Dumfries.:
- Companions by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Fairest, Brightest, Hues Of Ether Fade by William Wordsworth
- I bended unto me a Bough by Thomas Edward Brown
- God’s Grandeur by Ted Hughes
- Olney Hymn 61: The Narrow Way by William Cowper
- Away With Funeral Music by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Sometimes by Vinko Kalinić
- The Lovely Maïd Ov Elwell Meäd by William Barnes
- Альфред де Мюссе – Не забывай! Когда заря рассвета
- Владимир Высоцкий – Там были генеральши, были жёны офицеров
- On The University Carrier Who Sickn’d In The Time Of His Vacancy, Being Forbid To Go To London, By Reason Of The Plague poem – John Milton poems
- A Drinking Song by William Butler Yeats
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).