e-e- cummings, Gratitude, i thank you god, Poetry, T-S- Eliot e-e- cummings, Gratitude, i thank you god, Poetry, T-S- Eliot

T.S. Tuesday: Thankful Thievery


"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal." T.S. Eliot

Today, at the bequest of T.S. Eliot, I am stealing one of my favorite poems (of a different author) to share with you.

by e.e. cummings

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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Body Image, e-e- cummings, Poetry, Thankfulness Body Image, e-e- cummings, Poetry, Thankfulness

i thank you god for most this amazing body

The e.e. cummings antidote for the times I get caught up in how I look, how my jeans fit, how much I've eaten, and how much I've worked out:

i thank you god for most this amazing
body:for the leaping greenly spring in my step
and the blue true dream of my eyes; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes

Based on my favorite poem by e.e. cummings.

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