02 December 2009

Thankful

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)

by e.e. cummings

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

love

juliette said...

ummmm do you know that this is quite possibly my favorite poem ever?

have we shared this before?

ee recited it for us in linguistics and it stole me heart. . .like you!

emily said...

juliette--ha! we have never talked about this poem...but it's one of my favorites too!

i miss you :(