it is so long since my heart has been with yours by E. E. Cummings
it is so long since my heart has been with yours
E. E. Cummingsit is so long since my heart has been with yours
shut by our mingling arms through
a darkness where new lights begin and
increase,
since your mind has walked into
my kiss as a stranger
into the streets and colours of a town–that i have perhaps forgotten
how,always(from
these hurrying crudities
of blood and flesh)Love
coins His most gradual gesture,and whittles life to eternity
–after which our separating selves become museums
filled with skilfully stuffed memories
MARGINALIA
Somebody asked me about the contours of my life. It was a weird, difficult and lovely question. All the same, I don’t quite have an answer.
ABOUT E. E. CUMMINGS
Edward Estlin (E.E.) Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Cummings earned both his BA and MA from Harvard, and his earliest poems were published in Eight Harvard Poets (1917). In 1922 he published his first book, The Enormous Room, a fictionalized account of his French captivity. Cummings’ first collection of poems, Tulips and Chimneys, appeared in 1923. Another collection quickly followed: XLI Poems, also in 1925. By the time of his death in 1962 Cummings held a prominent… (more)
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Umesha Pathirana
Love coins His most gradual gestures,
And whittles life to eternity
–after which our separating selves become museums
filled with skilfully stuffed memories
:: when we truly love someone, it’s amazing to live through how love feels even after separation of two hearts. Your heart and your soul protects it and nurture it even through its’ physical absence :: beautifully crafted words