The Laughing Heart By Charles Bukowski | Poem about Life Struggles by Powerful Poetry published on 2021-10-19T17:42:20Z More Videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4avU-treRAzfQeGBgsuDtQ The Laughing Heart By Charles Bukowski is a Poem about Life Struggles. In this poem, the author admonishes readers to take charge of their lives and realize that whatever they make out of their lives is up to them. The poem reiterates the popular saying that life is boring and pointless until you make an active effort to change things around. This poem follows the style or trend for which the author is known. Charles Bukowski is popular for writing blunt and realistic poems written with no intent to please or flatter. This poem, The Laughing Heart, follows the same trend and goes straight to the point. It rebukes the practice of allowing other people to take control of one’s happiness and joy and opines that once people start to take charge of their lives, great occurrences would start manifesting in their lives. In staying true to his style, the author did not use any rhyme pattern and kept the poem in one stanza of twenty lines. Genre Entertainment