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pleas(e.e.) ... (an ode to mr. cummings)
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pleas(e.e.) ... (an ode to mr. cummings) |
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ma miller Senior Member
since 2000-07-11
Posts 806 |
pleas(e.e.) ... Your old book smell infecting my senses; My wish to absorb its words as easy. Dust plumes float off pages so tender; Hope catches its meaning in my eye's eye. Crackling jacket wearing binding's bones; A long night's silence broken by its cry. To air, to airs goes my aged bound friend; Companion's thought grinder as wheat to mill. Compels wheels of my mind to faster spin; Speeding passages finally slowed to a crawl. Reader's read again 'til a bleeding sweat; Down my face runs liquid's captured fall. Pleas(e.e.), return to help a helpless fool; Making sense of your senses, arduous toil. I beg your indulgence to live once more; Return on my whim wishing 'cross time. To hear your mysteries finally unfurled; Feed me a clue -- A rhythm -- A rhyme. M.A. Miller 07.14.00 < !signature--> My calling before me, let quill be my offering; For to be called poet, no greater gift to receive. M.A.M. [This message has been edited by MA Miller (edited 07-14-2000).] |
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Sudhir Iyer Member Ascendant
since 2000-04-26
Posts 6943Mumbai, India : now in Belgium |
Can I be statistical and get away with saying 3 wonderful stanzas, and 18 beautiful lines.... instead of saying Excellent poetry??? I wonder.... MA Miller, My regards, Sudhir |
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ma miller Senior Member
since 2000-07-11
Posts 806 |
thank you Sudhir ... Not sure if many here are familiar with cummings' work, but take a read sometime, you'll be, uh, flabergasted ... or maybe gaberflasted ... |
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allan Senior Member
since 2000-04-09
Posts 620On the road |
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ma miller Senior Member
since 2000-07-11
Posts 806 |
thanks allan ... cummings is so undescribable and I didn't want just blantantly copy his (graphic) style ... thanks for reading and appreciating ... |
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Mark Bohannan Member Rara Avis
since 2000-06-21
Posts 7269In the winds of Cherokee song |
Excellent write and with such an abundance of afterthought left lingering in the mind. I'll have to check out his work if it can inspire such as this. |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
I have been a cummings fan for many years and have such a book as you describe... with pages turned back and backbone bent...Great poem! In the dew of little things, the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. (ee cummings) |
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brian madden Member Elite
since 2000-05-06
Posts 4374ireland |
MA one of my favourite quotes is an E.E Cummings quote. "To be nobody-but-yourself-in a world which is doing its best night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting". E. E. Cummings I will have to search out some of his work, your poem has made me thirsty for knowledge and good poetry. A wonderfully written poem. "I've been too honest with myself I should have lied like everybody else" faster-Manic street preachers. |
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ma miller Senior Member
since 2000-07-11
Posts 806 |
My thanks again to all who've responded, but the real thanks goes to mr. cummings himself ... for without, my calling be to skies of empty ears -- to ears deaf to the skies ... thanks again. |
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Sven
since 1999-11-23
Posts 14937East Lansing, MI USA |
truly a s u perb SALUTE to 1 of my (favor)ite poets. . . well done!! ----------------------------------------------------- That which gives light must endure burning --Victor Frankl |
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Paula Finn Member Ascendant
since 2000-06-17
Posts 5546missouri |
Loved this one MA especially the last line... |
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Gemini Senior Member
since 1999-12-15
Posts 1203Wisconsin, USA |
Dear MA-I enjoy e.e. cummings and your salute to him, very nicely done. |
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ma miller Senior Member
since 2000-07-11
Posts 806 |
many thanks to Sven, Paula and Gemini ... I'm actually fairly new to Cummings' work, but such a profound influence it can be ... Never to try and copy his style, so much as reach the depth of thought that he had to have put into it ... thanks again ... |
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