The Poetry Meme

[narcissa_malfoy]

This is one of my favourite poems.

Happiness, by Inger Hagerup

What is happiness?
-To walk on a grassy forest path
In thin, thin summer's clothes,
Scratch one's fresh mosquito bites
With lazy contemplation.
To be young and very rich
on unlived love.

To have a spider's web
Caress you lightly over mouth and cheek
And give some thought to cabbages and kings.
Perhaps awaiting a letter.
Ask the daisies for advice
And maybe yes - and maybe no -
He loves me - loves me not.

And soon to know you.