My Favorite Poem (by ee cummings)

[Arpeggi]

somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond

by E. E. Cummings

 

somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond

any experience, your eyes have their silence:

in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,

or which i cannot touch because they are too near

 

your slightest look easily will unclose me

though i have closed myself as fingers,

you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens

(touching skilfully, mysteriously) her first rose

 

or if your wish be to close me, i and

my life will shut very beautifully, suddenly,

as when the heart of this flower imagines

the snow carefully everywhere descending;

 

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals

the power of your intense fragility: whose texture

compels me with the color of its countries,

rendering death and forever with each breathing

 

(i do not know what it is about you that closes

and opens; only something in me understands

the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)

nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands

[paintedfish]

I love ee cummings. And yeah, he never really uses capitalization in his poems or his name.

 

Want to be confused forever? Read "anyone lived in a pretty how town."

 

 

My favorite poems of his are " i carry your heart with me" and "1(a... (a leaf falls on loneliness)." He's amazing. One of my favorites.