a cummings apt free verse personification presented LOWER CASE style as two quatrains... atypical short&to the point
Edward Estlin Cummings so inventive
penned poetry so sensitive
He loved to write in lower case style
interspersed by CAPITALS once in a while
initialled as Edward Eselm
originality known throughout the poetic realm
In the vertical not horizontal
whose lower case was so unusual
e e cummings a poet, i be
this is how i found my u s p
in verse to be so 'original'
lower case & in the vertical
Edward Estlin Cummings so inventive
penned poetry so sensitive
He loved to write in lower case style
interspersed by CAPITALS once in a while
whistlesandspacesfar
Edward Estlin Cummings
e x t r a v a g a n t poet
puddle wonderful
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December 26, 2020
Poetry/Light Verse/puddle-wonderful
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Inspiration EE Cummings poem - Chansons Innocentes
excerpt from the poem Chansons Innocentes
in Just-
spring when the world is mud-
luscious the little
lame balloonman
whistles far and wee
and eddieandbill come
running from marbles and
piracies and it's
spring
when the world is puddle-wonderful
In 1894 EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS was born
when capital letters were the 'norm'-
With inventive and original verse,
Gaps,spaces,drop margins he then did try
and much use of the lower-case i
EE's many little poetic tricks
sure makes him my maverick!
Note Cyndi
one of my 5 line vignette form
changed to a demi-sonnet form
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