Fateful Feeling – 11th February 2026

~ shaun tenzenmen

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spring approves wholly
lady, my flowers, blood kisses
will to wisdom, a life a fool pays

swear by syntax
this fate of paragraph

for my world pays
better never feeling the things

first is
blood kisses, my lady, flowers
death approves wholly

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Shared with dVerse Quadrille #241 – flowers. A poem formed only using words from e.e. cummings ‘since feeling is first’.

Today’s Daily Stoic poem:

Hero Or Nero?

The king attends to honour and health
While the tyrant overindulges their wealth
Can you counter the many temptations
That gather to trouble your foundations?

3 thoughts on “Fateful Feeling – 11th February 2026”

  1. BIG E.E. Cummings fan here, and I LOVE this. What a fun challenge in and of itself, to take only the words found in another poem and use them. Well done! I especially love “fate of paragraph.”

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  2. Shaun, inventive and creative idea. Will try it one of these days. It’s like have a cummings oracle. (magnet poetry, with a set of magnet words, is an oracle that I love to commune with.) Not sure I wholly get the poem, but it feels dangerous.

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