30th
November
2008
Many ways to express thanks
Posted by Jackie on November 30, 2008
posted in Poetry |
In the spirit of being thankful, the following is a poem by American poet E.E. Cummings. The poem can be found in his book Xaipe: Seventy-One Poems.
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i thank You God for most this amazing |
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day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees |
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and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything |
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which is natural which is infinite which is yes |
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(i who have died am alive again today, |
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and this is the sun’s birthday;this is the birth |
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day of life and of love and wings:and of the gay |
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great happening illimitably earth) |
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how should tasting touching hearing seeing |
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breathing any-lifted from the no |
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of all nothing-human merely being |
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doubt unimaginable You? |
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(now the ears of my ears awake and |
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now the eyes of my eyes are opened) |