since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;
wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world
my blood approves,
and kisses are a far better fate
than wisdom
lady i swear by all flowers. Don’t cry
–the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids’ flutter which says
we are for each other: then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life’s not a paragraph
And death i think is no parenthesis
– E. E. Cummings
Tagged: E. E. Cummings, imagery, language, love poetry, philosophy, syntax
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- June 13, 2012 – 16:25
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- By Madhu
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My lover gave me green leaves
with the mud of the garden on them,
radishes sharp and red,
nasturtium flames.
He gave me the tender heart
of a cabbage, its glossy coat,
a loaf of bread studded deep
with seeds.
He gave me the note
the blackbird
I’d cried at the blackness of
by the river sang.
He gave me the struck fire
of the thoughts
in his mind—
flint on flint.
He gave me the taste,
direct on his tongue,
of the syllables their embers
did not destroy.
He gave me his word,
the word of an Adam—
a promise,
should he set eyes on the sun.
He gave me a drop of the dew
to hold.
To see my face in it.
To look through.
He gave me,
in the chrisomed palm
of his empty hand—
a gasp of joy.
– Josephine Dickinson
Postscript:
A gorgeous poem by Josephine Dickinson.
Tagged: imagery, Josephine Dickinson, love poetry
- Published:
- February 14, 2012 – 08:00
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- By Madhu
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They come to me with
[Progress Reports]
But all I see is change and bodies burnt;
They come to me with
[Targets Achieved]
But all I see is blood and chances lost;
They come to me with
Choral fucking approval of every thing I do
But all I see is cost.
– Quellcrist Falconer in Campaign Diaries
As quoted in the Altered Carbon series by Richard Morgan.
Tagged: poems by a fictional character, politics, Quellcrist Falconer, revolution, Richard Morgan, war
- Published:
- September 11, 2011 – 08:00
- Author:
- By Madhu
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