After reading ee cummings for an hour

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Open Poetry #49

After reading ee cummings for an hour

ice
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since 2003-05-17

Posts 3404
Pennsylvania

0 posted 2016-02-15 06:28 AM

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DaysofView
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since 2014-04-01

Posts 433
Just A Slice Of The Pie

1 posted 2016-02-17 10:57 AM

I guess I don't get it iceman. I don't mean that in a mean way at all I just don't understand what you are trying to say? Is this what happens after reading alot to you?

If I were more than I am, I'd see things differently instead of the same all the time.

ice
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since 2003-05-17

Posts 3404
Pennsylvania

2 posted 2016-02-17 12:18 PM

Cummings is either very hard to get, or easy.
iHs range was wide...I think he got bored of punctuation, and "normal" grammer.
The oddness of it, is what attracts me.

He wrote sometimes vertical...like this:

Because it's\By ee cummings

because it's
Spring
thingS
dare to do people
(& not
the
other way
round)because it
's A
pril
Lives lead their
own
persons(in
stead
of everybodyelse's)but
what's
wholly
marvellous my
Darling
is that you &
i are more than
you
& i(be
ca
us
e It's we)

I tried to get some visual effect in my attempt at this form.
I try different stuff when I am bored, and have counted all the flowers on the wall..lol

Thank you for reading it, and your honest reply.

"Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance."
Carl Sandburg

Alison

Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-27

Posts 9318
Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy!

3 posted 2016-02-22 02:20 PM

I never really "got" ee cummings either. But, I aspreciate his style.

A

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