“it’s poetry in motion/ when she turned her eyes to me/ as deep as any ocean/ sweet as any harmony”

[larryhammer]

For Poetry Monday, a cummings that isn’t a sonnet but is a love poem:

somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond, 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 colour 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


First published in his 1931 collection ViVa.

---L.

Subject quote from She Blinded Me With Science, Thomas Dolby.

Comments

[cmcmck]

You're on Cummings again and I'm doing a repeat on Ungaretti!

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[minoanmiss]

saves poem

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[larryhammer]

Good decision.