Wednesday, November 14, 2012

grateful

Here's one of the poems I'll be reading tomorrow at LOLA. I used to keep a copy of it on my desk at work.

i thank You God for most this amazing
 
by e e cummings


i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday; this is the birth
day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any--lifted from the no
of all nothing--human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?

(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

2 comments:

  1. Are you familiar with Eric Whitacre's setting of this poem? It's amazing.

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  2. No. I would love to hear it. Can you send me a link, by chance?

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