{"id":2258,"date":"2017-03-29T00:00:22","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T04:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=2258"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:47:09","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:47:09","slug":"march-29-e-e-cummings-the-voice-of-your-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2017\/03\/29\/march-29-e-e-cummings-the-voice-of-your-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"March 29 – e e cummings “. . . the voice of your eyes . . . “"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wednesday, March 29<\/strong> \u00a0\u2014 \u00a0e e cummings \u2013 \u201c. . . the voice of your eyes . . . \u201d<\/p>\n

Early spring, \u00a0mid-semester, lots of neighborhood hustle and growth, \u00a0clean elegant sunshine, \u00a0leaves budding out. \u00a0 \u00a0Perfect day for e e cummings\u2019 exquisite love song.<\/p>\n

In these hard and strident weeks, it helps to let a strong love poem work its word magic deep down where the soul\u2019s muscles get stiff with fatigue and need some tending.<\/p>\n

Try it out loud with pauses and take some time to look at the leaves showing themselves.<\/p>\n

Have a blest day.<\/p>\n

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Today\u2019s post<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cSomewhere<\/strong>\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond
\nany experience, your eyes have their silence:
\nin your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
\nor which i cannot touch because they are too near<\/p>\n

your slightest look easily will unclose me
\nthough i have closed myself as fingers,
\nyou open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
\n(touching skillfully, mysteriously) her first rose<\/p>\n

or if your wish be to close me, i and
\nmy life will shut very beautifully, suddenly,
\nas when the heart of this flower imagines
\nthe snow carefully everywhere descending;<\/p>\n

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
\nthe power of your intense fragility: whose texture
\ncompels me with the color of its countries,
\nrendering death and forever with each breathing<\/p>\n

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
\nand opens; only something in me understands
\nthe voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
\nnobody, not even the rain, has such small hands<\/p>\n

e e cummings<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

October 14, 1894 \u2013 September 3, 1962<\/p>\n

https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/E._E._Cummings<\/a><\/p>\n

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Wednesday, March 29 \u00a0\u2014 \u00a0e e cummings \u2013 \u201c. . . the voice of your eyes . . . \u201d Early spring, \u00a0mid-semester, lots of neighborhood hustle and growth, \u00a0clean elegant sunshine, \u00a0leaves budding out. \u00a0 \u00a0Perfect day for e … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11641],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2259,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions\/2259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}