e.e cummings and other revelations in the morning

Good morning world!

I am just waking up and I have this poem on my mind by e.e. cummings. At first I didn’t get him when I first discovered him at 11  but now, at 25, he speaks a language I understand!

i thank you God for most this amazing by E. E. Cummings

i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything
wich is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun’s birthday;this is the birth
day of life and love and wings:and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any-lifted from the no
of all nothing-human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?

(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

 

…and it’s put to music. A chorus with tone clusters and rising and swelling harmonies that literally made me WEEP when I listened to it.

Over the last few days, a couple of things have been revealed to me:

LISTEN to people.(Don’t just remain silent as you formulate your next response or formulate an opinion about what they are saying. Listen to what it is they are saying. You learn a lot about them by what they say.)

Take nothing PERSONALLY. (If someone “does something to you” chances are they are doing that to everyone. That “something” is just what they DO. Take yourself off your self-built pedestal

that is all for today.

Peace and Blessings.

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