i carry your heart with me ...

Do you hate poetry? Read this poem 'i carry your heart with me' first and then decide. Edward Estlin Cummings or ee cummings was an American poet. He was born in 1894 and wrote about 2,900 poems during his lifetime. By the time of his death in 1962, he'd become the second most widely read poet in America after Robert Frost. You can read more about him here:

http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/156

Cummings wrote this poem in 1958. It's beautiful to me because describes the feeling of being in love so perfectly; the transcendent sense of being connected with someone so deeply that they are almost a part of you ...

At the same time, it could be applied to any kind of love ... for a child perhaps :) This is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart! I think a poem like this makes the ordinary things of life seem miraculous again.

I invite you to come to my blog and share your favorite poem with me in a comment ...


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 the 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)