E.E. Cummings
somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond
any experience, your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which I cannot touch because they are too near
your slightest look will easily unclose me
though I have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skillfully, mysteriously) her first rose
or if your wish be to close me, I and
my life wills hut very beautifully, suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;
nothing which are to be percieved in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility; whose texture
compels me with the color of its countries,
renderind death and forever with each breathing
(I do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands
~lovely poem don't you think?
The first time I'd heard part of it was in this song:
The First Time I loved Forever
(Lisa Angelle, fr. Beauty and the Beast)
somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond
any experience, your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which I cannot touch because they are too near
The first time I loved forever
Was when you whispered my name
And I knew at once you loved me
For the me of who I am
The first time I loved forever
I cast all else aside
And I bid my heart to follow
Be there no more need to hide
And if wishes and dreams are merely for children
And if love's a tale for fools
I'll live the dream with you
or if your wish be to close me, I and
my life wills hut very beautifully, suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;
For all my life and forever
There's a truth I will always know
When my world divides and shatters
Your love is where I'll go
(I do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands
any experience, your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which I cannot touch because they are too near
your slightest look will easily unclose me
though I have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skillfully, mysteriously) her first rose
or if your wish be to close me, I and
my life wills hut very beautifully, suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;
nothing which are to be percieved in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility; whose texture
compels me with the color of its countries,
renderind death and forever with each breathing
(I do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands
~lovely poem don't you think?
The first time I'd heard part of it was in this song:
The First Time I loved Forever
(Lisa Angelle, fr. Beauty and the Beast)
somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond
any experience, your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which I cannot touch because they are too near
The first time I loved forever
Was when you whispered my name
And I knew at once you loved me
For the me of who I am
The first time I loved forever
I cast all else aside
And I bid my heart to follow
Be there no more need to hide
And if wishes and dreams are merely for children
And if love's a tale for fools
I'll live the dream with you
or if your wish be to close me, I and
my life wills hut very beautifully, suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;
For all my life and forever
There's a truth I will always know
When my world divides and shatters
Your love is where I'll go
(I do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands