e.e cummings - Writers Forum

Delvok · 11-15-2007, 10:26 AM

Anyone here like this guy? I think he's awesome though fragmented in some poems.

Olly Buckle · 11-26-2007, 02:39 AM

A very long time since I read him but I remember getting a lot of pleasure from Just Spring "when the world is puddlewonderful". Then there was the one about the girls going down to the sea and each finding what they deserved; the taxi drivers rant about "civilizedemlittleyellowbastards" and "a politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man". Must be most of 40 years since I read that stuff, no , more than, time I went back for another look, thanks for the reminder.

Monalisasmile1 · 11-29-2007, 10:56 PM

Is one of his poems in that book " Walk two moons"? Parker and I read that book together.

vangoghsear · 01-03-2008, 08:00 AM

I have a book of his poetry that I have misplaced and have been looking all over to find. I like his work. He is one of the writers that I feel opened the door allowing us to express ourselves poetically outside conventional methods.

Shawn · 01-03-2008, 09:34 AM

I find it amusing to read his poems, try and find the "mistakes" and feel the joy in knowing that he knew he did that.

Ah, Cummings, you idiot bastard.

Kamisama · 01-11-2008, 09:51 AM

Nothing can surpass the mystery of stillness.

Jaye · 01-12-2008, 05:41 PM

I've never been such a big fan of poetry and always had to get friends to help me the two times we had to do poetry projects -- once in middle school and once in high school. Ironically, I asked the same friends both times.

However, I love e.e. cummings. His poetry is just so unconventional and fresh and true. Love. xDDD

SadLuckDame · 01-13-2008, 11:57 AM

e. e. cummings is wonderful. My favorite poem by him is No Thanks

Quote:

may i feel said he
(i'll squeal said she
just once said he)
it's fun said she

(may i touch said he
how much said she
a lot said he)
why not said she

(let's go said he
not too far said she
what's too far said he
where you are said she)

may i stay said he
(which way said she
like this said he
if you kiss said she

may i move said he
is it love said she)
if you're willing said he
(but you're killing said she

but it's life said he
but your wife said she
now said he)
ow said she

(tiptop said he
don't stop said she
oh no said he)
go slow said she

(cccome?said he
ummm said she)
you're divine!said he
(you are Mine said she)

papertears · Yesterday, 05:57 AM

I agree with SadLuck and here's my other fav:

Quote:

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
................................................... i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

~ e.e. cummings

i cheated on the spacing for L5, dunno how to do with this forum, need html, sry e.e.

ash somers · Yesterday, 07:35 AM

yes, that one's lovely ...

Quote:

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

~ e.e. cummings

and i'm not usually a fan of love poems