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Tuesday, June 11, 2013

i carry your heart with me - E. E. Cummings

E.E. Cummings is one of my favorite poets, he has a unique visual style while using a simple language that I personally find enchanting.

This poem that looks like a sonnet "i carry your heart with me," is deeply profound and touching. The simple language that he uses makes it easy to understand and read,  he talks about deep and profound love, a love able to keep the stars apart and that can transcend the soul or the mind.

How beautiful....


i carry your heart with me 

i carry your heart with me (i carry it in
my heart) i am never without it (anywhere
i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)

i fear
no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want
no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)

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