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Ee Cummings and I

  E.E.CUMMINGS AND I


I remember a beautiful, Spring
day in Chicago.
Sitting on my lover's lap.
His eyes as lovely as the spring-
green trees tapping gently on...

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Categories: e e cummings, chicago, emotions, inspiration, longing,
Form: Free verse

Mr.Vinal Hurts Still.......An Ee Cummings Echo

believe you me sirandmiss
a country made of this
youIItthem(a blended cocktail conspiracy)

you, Land of Calvin
Klein peacoat peacocks and Maybelline
Girl with cryproof mascara dripping(fashion
-first step lacking substance(of...

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Categories: e e cummings, on writing and words,
Form: Free verse

Ollyver, My Beloved

"i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go . . . "
    ...

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Categories: e e cummings, love,
Form: Free verse

''Death of a Friend''

death is near-
a fading out    tomorrow will never be-
gone away        an empty shell will dwell

birds...

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Categories: e e cummings, death, death of a
Form: Free verse

Little Ol' Me

I wish I could write
like those others before me,
Byron and Shelley and old Edgar Poe

Flowery phrases
Thy love unforgetting,
chasing a raven as ink tends to flow

Follow...

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Categories: e e cummings, poems, poetess, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme

Soul of My Life

"i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go . . . "
    ...

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Categories: e e cummings, love,
Form: Verse

A Poem For My History Teacher

I wanted to write
 The best slavery poem   ever written—
Perhaps win a Pulitzer or Faulkner. 

I had every intention of conforming 
To the...

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Categories: e e cummings, assonance, forgiveness, history, holocaust,
Form: Rhyme

A Part of Me

 “I carry your heart within me (I carry it in 
             ...

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Categories: e e cummings, love, romantic, together,
Form: Rhyme

Always In My Heart

“i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go “ E. E. CUMMINGS




My desktop photo is from...

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Categories: e e cummings, love, mother son,
Form: Couplet

Soul Controlled


You were leaning over the rustic, wooden bridge.

Elements of a cold autumn eve approaching.
I just was entranced by the sea of you.
Black full hair, corduroy...

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Categories: e e cummings, love, memory, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Your Perfect Rhyme

I do not like your perfect rhyme,
I find it boring all the time.
It wasn't good in Shakespeare's hands,
No rhyming poet understands,
No Keats or Shelly, Byron,...

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Categories: e e cummings, me, universe,
Form: Rhyme

They Wouldn'T Let Me Be White

They wouldn’t let me be White 
Oh I wanted to be 
Dreams of that Pulitzer haunted me 

They said, Sir, you have ten minutes to...

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Categories: e e cummings, allegory, anxiety, black african
Form: Quatrain

Resilience

Now I lay with everywhere around,
softly rains your lines, your curves, your sound
upon my dreams, day awakens from death and yet
clouds drift around my head,...

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Categories: e e cummings, dream, feelings, hope, lost
Form: Quatrain

I Carry Your Heart

 "i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go . . . "
   ...

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Categories: e e cummings, love,
Form: Rhyme

Forever In My Heart

"I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)I am never without it"
         ...

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Categories: e e cummings, lost love, love,
Form: Sonnet