Never a better time for some EE Cummings

I love EE Cummings. I love people who write things that make me feel fully alive again– as if, just by finishing it, I have been resuscitated in a way I didn’t even know I needed. I am grateful for people who get over themselves and dare to express these sort of sentiments for the world to sigh and marvel at together. Poets like EE Cummings share their heart in the moments when no would ever think to listen. It’s these secret marvels exposed that show us bits of ourselves and God and I love it.

i am a little church (no great cathedral)

i am a little church(no great cathedral)
far from the splendor and squalor of hurrying cities
-i do not worry if briefer days grow briefest,
i am not sorry when sun and rain make april

my life is the life of the reaper and the sower;
my prayers are prayers of earth’s own clumsily striving
(finding and losing and laughing and crying)children
whose any sadness or joy is my grief or my gladness

around me surges a miracle of unceasing
birth and glory and death and resurrection:
over my sleeping self float flaming symbols
of hope,and i wake to a perfect patience of mountains

i am a little church(far from the frantic
world with its rapture and anguish)at peace with nature
-i do not worry if longer nights grow longest;
i am not sorry when silence becomes singing

winter by spring,i lift my diminutive spire to
merciful Him Whose only now is forever:
standing erect in the deathless truth of His presence
(welcoming humbly His light and proudly His darkness)

ee cummings

5 Replies to “Never a better time for some EE Cummings”

  1. I have one of his poetry books at home and first discovered it there…I copied this from online though (a little tedious to type it all out).

  2. It’s just precious! My little blogging buddy! Who’s New Wine cruisin? B-ton and K-dawg fo life.

  3. Which part? Blogging buddy? Sorry. I know that was a bit presumptuous. New Wine cruisin’ for life, yo. Peace out, B-ton-dizzy.

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