Wednesday, March 08, 2006

Poetry Thursday: Early Spring

I'm posting this a day early, appropriately enough.






Thy fingers make early flowers of

ee cummings

Thy fingers make early flowers of
all things.
thy hair mostly the hours love:
a smoothness which
sings,saying
(though love be a day)
do not fear,we will go amaying.

thy whitest feet crisply are straying.
Always
thy moist eyes are at kisses playing,
whose strangeness much
says;singing
(though love be a day)
for which girl art thou flowers bringing?

To be thy lips is a sweet thing
and small.
Death,Thee i call rich beyond wishing
if this thou catch,
else missing.
(though love be a day
and life be nothing,it shall not stop kissing).

5 Comments:

Blogger John said...

It's Thursday? Oh, crap. Well, on some level I guess I knew it was since I did teach today. But where the hell has my week gone?

3/09/2006 04:27:00 PM  
Blogger John said...

Oh, sorry. I should at least say hi as well. Hello!

3/09/2006 04:29:00 PM  
Blogger lisa schamess said...

It seems your week has gone to hell...o to you too.

3/09/2006 05:15:00 PM  
Blogger Riannan said...

Darn it, Lis, I get the picture but no text. Which means it must be your best so far...Rats, what am I missing?

3/09/2006 09:00:00 PM  
Anonymous Dustlover said...

I think ol' ee was having a Shakespearean moment. He should have stuck to his excellent lower case modern romance poetry.

Still, the straying whitest feet thing was lovely.

Who was he writing about, I wonder....

Dustlover

3/10/2006 05:53:00 PM  

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