Tag: cummings

  • Read with your intuition at the ready, not your practiced knowledge of grammar. Then you will know its beauty, and you will see the sky the same way that Van Gogh must have.

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    my father moved through dooms of love 
    through sames of am through haves of give,
    singing each morning out of each night
    my father moved through depths of height
    
    this motionless forgetful where 
    turned at his glance to shining here;
    that if(so timid air is firm)
    under his eyes would stir and squirm
    
    newly as from unburied which
    floats the first who, his april touch
    drove sleeping selves to swarm their fates
    woke dreamers to their ghostly roots
    
    and should some why completely weep 
    my father's fingers brought her sleep:
    vainly no smallest voice might cry
    for he could feel the mountains grow.
    
    Lifting the valleys of the sea
    my father moved through griefs of joy; 
    praising a forehead called the moon
    singing desire into begin
    
    joy was his song and joy so pure
    a heart of star by him could steer
    and pure so now and now so yes
    the wrists of twilight would rejoice
    
    keen as midsummer's keen beyond
    conceiving mind of sun will stand,
    so strictly(over utmost him
    so hugely) stood my father's dream
    
    his flesh was flesh his blood was blood:
    no hungry man but wished him food;
    no cripple wouldn't creep one mile
    uphill to only see him smile.
    
    Scorning the Pomp of must and shall
    my father moved through dooms of feel;
    his anger was as right as rain
    his pity was as green as grain
    
    septembering arms of year extend 
    yes humbly wealth to foe and friend
    than he to foolish and to wise
    offered immeasurable is
    
    proudly and(by octobering flame
    beckoned)as earth will downward climb,
    so naked for immortal work
    his shoulders marched against the dark
    
    his sorrow was as true as bread:
    no liar looked him in the head;
    if every friend became his foe
    he'd laugh and build a world with snow.
    
    My father moved through theys of we,
    singing each new leaf out of each tree
    (and every child was sure that spring
    danced when she heard my father sing)
    
    then let men kill which cannot share,
    let blood and flesh be mud and mire,
    scheming imagine,passion willed,
    freedom a drug that's bought and sold
    
    giving to steal and cruel kind,
    a heart to fear,to doubt a mind,
    to differ a disease of same,
    conform the pinnacle of am
    
    though dull were all we taste as bright, 
    bitter all utterly things sweet,
    maggoty minus and dumb death
    all we inherit,all bequeath
    
    and nothing quite so least as truth
    ---i say though hate were why men breathe---
    because my Father lived his soul
    love is the whole and more than all
    
    -ee cummings