Saturday, July 09, 2005

Popular Poetry

i couldnt choose, i decided now would be a good time for the final EE Cumming poem. however i had a delema. There were two poems that i wanted, i liked one for its young nieve thought, but i liked the second's truth and unspoken understanding, the winner:

Since feeling is first

since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;

wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world

my blood approves,
and kisses are a far better fate
than wisdom
lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry
--the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids' flutter which says

we are for eachother: then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life's not a paragraph

And i think is no parenthesis

the runner up: it is at moments after i have dreamed (you'll find other peopms on here too)

1 comment:

Brooklyn said...

tell me if you like the other one better