i thank You God for most this amazing day by e e cummings

20. May 2005, 6:12 Uhre e cummingsrinabeana

I’m going out of town for the weekend, so no poem tomorrow. I’m actually in a good mood, but I realized that most of my poems are downers. I snagged this one from Chris a while ago, though, so here you go.

i thank You God for most this amazing day
By e e cummings

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 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 unimaginably You?

(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

2 comments:

  1. I. Johnson, 17. December 2009, 5:58

    I once sang this poem with the NJ All State Women’s choir… It was absolutely moving and beautiful. I never knew who wrote it so thank you for sharing.

     
  2. rinabeana, 17. December 2009, 18:58

    I’m sure it was lovely. I would love to hear it set to music. Thanks for commenting!

     

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