It's Spring!
since feeling is first since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;
wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world
my blood approves,
and kisses are a far better fate
than wisdom
lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry
--the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids' flutter which says
we are for eachother: then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life's not a paragraph
And death i think is no parenthesis
e.e. cummings
posted by mireille at 7:16 PM
3 Comments:
I love that poem. Amazing, amazing.
8:49 AM
I love it, too. Funny, though, he swears by all flowers, flowers fade away fast, don't they? Not one lives to see the next Spring.
Romeo might have been an idiot but Julia was such a brave young woman, so much wiser than her age.
10:27 AM
Nor is poetry punctuation, as he proved.
8:19 AM
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