A review by thejenjineer
Poems That Make Grown Men Cry: 100 Men on the Words That Move Them by Anthony Holden

4.0

I was wondering, going into this book, which of the poems would make me cry. It was the shortest and the (deceptively) simplest poem that did it. Hokku by Fukuda Chiyo-ni. Exactly seven words, I counted. Then I read it again after I finished the whole volume. Cried again.

The poet was a mother who lost her young son. She wrote:

"Dragonfly catcher,
Where today
have you gone?"

And it just broke my heart.