Monday, February 14, 2011

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!


somewhere i have never travelled - by e. e. cummings

somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond
any experience, your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near

your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skillfully, mysteriously) her first rose

or if your wish be to close me, i and
my life will shut very beautifully, suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility: whose texture
compels me with the colour of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands

Image from Wikipedia.

8 comments:

  1. I meant the poem, I love ee cummings, but the roses are beautiful too.

    Are you doing anything Valentiney for dinner, Mimi? ...

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  2. Cathy, we have reservations for dinner at Café Milano in Houma, the next town over.

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  3. I have just checked it out, looks lovely. Nice Italian food.

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  4. It's quite good, Cathy. We've eaten there many times. We have a gift certificate from Christmas, so our meal will cost us little or nothing. :-)

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  5. Lovely poem. May you and GP have a wonderful dinner.

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