my favorite poem

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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)


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  • Re: my favorite poem

    Mon, May 23, 2005 - 3:09 PM
    may 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
    (you are Mine said she)
  • 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 AM
      thats 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
      • Unsu...
         

        Re: my favorite poem

        Wed, November 1, 2006 - 11:30 AM
        stand 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)
      • 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.
        • Re: i will wade out

          Wed, November 15, 2006 - 1:22 AM
          Bjork'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.
  • Re: my favorite poem

    Wed, December 20, 2006 - 3:40 PM
    Sleep 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.
    • that you should ever think,may god forbid

      Fri, June 15, 2007 - 1:37 PM
      you 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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