A poem for spring, a poem for you….
Posted March 21, 2012 at 8:02 am by Ian Byington
Dawning of a new spring on the island...
As the island comes alive again this spring (hoping you had a happy vernal equinox, yesterday!), I seem to always hear this poem in my head, watching the birds come out & the buds & the sprouting of things & the smiles of people on Spring Street, which today feels like it’s named after a season & a feeling – from one of my favorite Unitarians, e. e. cummings (and I added a YouTube recording of him reading the poem in 1953…wow! Amazing to hear these words, in his voice….)
Happy Spring!
i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes
(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun’s birthday; this is the birth
day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)
how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any–lifted from the no
of all nothing–human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?
(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)
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