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my sweet old etcetera
aunt lucy during the recent
war could and what
is more did tell you just
what everybody was fighting
for,
my sister
isabel created hundreds
(and
hundreds) of socks not to
mention shirts fleaproof earwarmers
etcetera wristers etcetera, my
mother hoped that
i would die etcetera
bravely of course my father used
to become hoarse talking about how it was
a privilege and if only he
could meanwhile my
self etcetera lay quietly
in the deep mud et
cetera
(dreaming,
et
cetera, of
Your smile
eyes knees and of your Etcetera)
aunt lucy during the recent
war could and what
is more did tell you just
what everybody was fighting
for,
my sister
isabel created hundreds
(and
hundreds) of socks not to
mention shirts fleaproof earwarmers
etcetera wristers etcetera, my
mother hoped that
i would die etcetera
bravely of course my father used
to become hoarse talking about how it was
a privilege and if only he
could meanwhile my
self etcetera lay quietly
in the deep mud et
cetera
(dreaming,
et
cetera, of
Your smile
eyes knees and of your Etcetera)
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Re: my favorite poem
Mon, May 23, 2005 - 3:09 PMmay i feel said he
(i'll squeal said she
just once said he)
it's fun said she
(may i touch said he
how much said she
a lot said he)
why not said she
(let's go said he
not too far said she
what's too far said he
where you are said she)
may i stay said he
(which way said she
like this said he
if you kiss said she
may i move said he
is it love said she)
if you're willing said he
(but you're killing said she
but it's life said he
but your wife said she
now said he)
ow said she
(tiptop said he
don't stop said she
oh no said he)
go slow said she
(cccome?said he
ummm said she)
you're divine said he
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Re: my favorite poem
Wed, May 25, 2005 - 5:29 PMNot exactly sure where it was I copied it from .. but its here
www.americanpoems.com/poets/e...el.shtml -
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Re: my favorite poem
Sat, December 24, 2005 - 10:50 AMlove is a place
& through this place of
love move
(with brightness of peace)
all places
yes is a world
& in this world of
yes live
(skilfully curled)
all worlds
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Re: my favorite poem
Tue, May 24, 2005 - 3:44 PM
it may not always be so; and i say
that if your lips, which i have loved, should touch
another's, and your dear strong fingers clutch
his heart, as mine in time not far away;
if on another's face your sweet hair lay
in such silence as i know, or such
great writhing words as, uttering overmuch,
stand helplessly before the spirit at bay;
if this should be, i say if this should be--
you of my heart, send me a little word;
that i may go unto him, and take his hands,
saying, Accept all happiness from me.
Then shall i turn my face and hear one bird
sing terribly afar in the lost lands -
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Re: my favorite poem
Wed, February 15, 2006 - 12:33 AMthats a good one, have you heard bjork's song version of that? she did this one too:
i will wade out
till my thighs are steeped in burning flowers
i will take the sun in my mouth
and leap into the ripe air
Alive
with closed eyes
to dash against darkness
in the sleeping curves of my body
Shall enter fingers of smooth mastery
with chasteness of sea-girls
Will i complete the mystery
of my flesh
I will rise
After a thousand years
lipping
flowers
And set my teeth in the silver of the moon -
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Re: my favorite poem
Wed, November 1, 2006 - 11:30 AMstand with your lover on the ending earth-
and while a(huge which by which huger than
huge)whoing sea leaps to greenly hurl snow
suppose we could not love,dear;imagine
ourselves like living neither nor dead these
(or many thousand hearts which don't and dream
or many million minds which sleep and move)
blind sands,at pitiless the mercy of
time time time time time
-how fortunate are you and i,whose home
is timelessness:we who have wandered down
from fragrant mountains of eternal now
to frolic in such mysteries as birth
and death a day(or maybe even less)
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i will wade out
Mon, November 13, 2006 - 11:36 AM"i will wade out"
Has long been one of my favorites.
One of his first published works, printed while he was overseas in France, in prison and believed dead.
As this was written around the same time as T.S. Eliot's, "Prufrock," I have often wondered about the connections. The reference to "Sea - Girls" is the only thing obvious, but the attitude of the two poems is opposite.
Generally i like the later sonnets because Cummings used the sonnet so much, his later work has an easy grace to it.
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Re: i will wade out
Wed, November 15, 2006 - 1:22 AMBjork's settings of those two poems are really good in my opinion, but then it ought to be, as she's really how i got turned on to cummings in the first place. But she skips the last few lines in "i will wade out" which doesn't make me too happy.
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Re: my favorite poem
Wed, December 20, 2006 - 3:40 PMSleep oh my baby
warm and quite
in your cradle still
because tomorrow
you'll be beautyful and strong
and will listen the etcetera
and etcetera again
in a world of etcetera
and etcetera again
and designed for etcetera
and etcetera always
A new Don Quixote
you will love then
and you'll become
like him just to etcetera say.
Bringing with you
your Pandora box
you will be again
in a cradle my son
to say etcetera
still again
and to fire to wind mills
and Don Quixote like you
well intentioned to be
in an other etcetera day
in the cradle of earth womb
with your broken socks. -
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that you should ever think,may god forbid
Fri, June 15, 2007 - 1:37 PMyou shall above all things be glad and young.
For if you're young, whatever life you wear
it will become you;and if you are glad
whatever's lioving will yourself become.
Girlboys may nothing more than boygirls need:
i can entirely her only love
whose any mystery makes every man's
flesh put space on;and his mind take off time
that you should ever think,may god forbid
and(in his mercy)your true lover spare:
for that way knowledge lies,the foetal grave
called progress,and negation's dead undoom.
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance
e.e.cummings
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