E.E. Cummings

Edward Estlin Cummings, better known as E.E. Cummings, was an American poet. He is remembered today for his pioneering new style of writing and willingness to experiment with his verse. He wrote somewhere around 2,900 poems. This was in addition to plays, novels, and essays. Read more about E.E. Cummings.

[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]

All in green went my love riding

anyone lived in a pretty how town

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if everything happens that can’t be done

in Just-

l(a (A Leaf Falls with Loneliness)

maggie and milly and molly and may

my father moved through dooms of love

next to of course god america i

pity this busy monster, manunkind

r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r

somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond

what if a much of a which of a wind

when god lets my body be

‘when god lets my body be’ is a poem about the cycle of life and death. The poet E.E. Cummings describes how he wishes to be part of nature through death.

You are tired (I think)