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devi ([personal profile] devi) wrote2008-08-28 05:13 pm

I feel some e e cummings coming on

i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday;this is the birth
day of life and love and wings:and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any-lifted from the no
of all nothing-human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?

(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

[identity profile] vigornian.livejournal.com 2008-08-28 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Not to do down the rest of the poem, but great closing couplet!
jinty: bright enamel depiction of stylised sun (sun)

This is the poem I read at my sister's wedding nearly ten years ago

[personal profile] jinty 2008-08-28 11:13 pm (UTC)(link)
...which reminds me I have to practice the other poem (also e.e.cummings) that my brother wants me to read at his wedding in a couple of weeks...

[identity profile] lilitufire.livejournal.com 2008-08-28 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
That's beautiful. As always, I've really enjoyed reading about your adventures.

[identity profile] libellum.livejournal.com 2008-08-29 11:54 am (UTC)(link)
So that's where that line's from! I thought I recognised it. Thankyou :)

[identity profile] parallelgirl.livejournal.com 2008-09-01 12:59 pm (UTC)(link)
oh, wonderful poem, thank you!