National Poetry Month

[qatarperegrine]

marialuminous says it's National Poetry Month, so in honor of National Poetry Month, here is the poem that was going around my head when I woke up this morning.

Take for example this:

if to the colour of midnight
to a more than darkness(which
is myself and Paris and all
things)the bright
rain
occurs deeply,beautifully

and i(being at a window
in this midnight)
                         for no reason feel
deeply completely conscious of the rain or rather
Somebody who uses roofs and streets skilfully to make a
possible and beautiful sound:

if a(perhaps)clock strikes,in the alive
coolness,very faintly and
finally through altogether delicate gestures of rain

a colour comes,which is morning,O do not wonder that

(just at the edge of day)i surely
make a millionth poem which will not wholly
miss you;or if i certainly create,lady,
one of the thousand selves who are your smile.

         -E.E. Cummings

Comments

Are you familiar with...

[shmuelisms.livejournal.com]

The Wondering Minstrels, an amazing site (and mailing list) for poetry, that is run by an online friend of mine, hitchhiker?

Re: Are you familiar with...

[qatar.livejournal.com]

Coolness! I just clicked on "Random poem" and got MacLeish's "The End of the World" -- one of the few poems I studied in high school that I loved enough to keep a copy.