Thursday, January 1, 2009

My current favorite poem

My current favorite poem is i carry your heart with me, by ee cummings. I know it’s a random thing to have a current favorite poem. Most people have current favorite songs, foods, or whatever, but you should know by now that I’m kind of random. Kind of a LOT random. So here is my current favorite poem:

i carry your heart with me

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

ee cummings’ words are beautiful. I’m not going to deconstruct or analyze it here because that’s not the point of this post. I’m just going to say again that I have mad love for this poem.

Kind of a boring post, I know. But I’m not sorry.

Boo-yah.

*Note: I am in no way claiming ownership to this or any other of ee cummings’ works. I am just using this here to express my appreciation for the poem.

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