Poetry

Today is simply a poetic day.  So simply, here is one of my favorite poems paired with one of my favorite paintings.  Enjoy.




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
which 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 of 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)


-e.e. cummings

The middle 1/3 of Gutav Klimt's Tree of Life