since feeling is first- E.E. Cummings

[wyvernstars.livejournal.com]

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 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

Comments

[yarrowkat]

Yes!

[teithiwr.livejournal.com]

Aah yes, one of my favourites! That last line!

[bright-ephemera.livejournal.com]

This makes me so happy every time I read it.

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

Always love this one; thank you!