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 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 each other:then
laugh,leaning back in my arms
for life’s not a paragraph
And death i think is no parenthesis
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Hi Friends,
Today’s E.E. Cummings poem (note the capital E.E.) is for Cathy’s eyelids, and for seven years wonder-full of 13ths.
Love,
Ellen
Poems by E.E. Cummings were also featured for Poem-a-Day April 12, 2007; Poem-a-Day April 13, 2009; Poem-a-Day April 20, 2010; and Poem-a-Day April 13, 2011.