parenthesis
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
parenthesis
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:
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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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Thanks so much, De 🙏
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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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Thanks Lisa. 🙏 Love comes and goes, each time we can put it in parenthesis as a part of our lives. And you’re right, it can be dangerous.
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way super cool what you did here! love!
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Thanks Lynne 🙏 Appreciated.
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what a thoughtful and thought provoking poem – so much to make the reader puzzle – Jae
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Thanks Jae 🙏 Sometimes the limit of words forces ideas to open up in the mind of the reader. I described what I thought it was about replying to Lisa’s comment, but that doesn’t mean that my idea is correct.
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Shaun, you’ve created such a great abstract, edgy peace – EE Cummings is one of my favourite poets and I’m sure he would love what you’ve done here🙌
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Thanks Ange 🙏
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Love the challenge of a found poem… and it works so well.
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Thank you Björn 🙏
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