I’ve suddenly, today, wanted to read some E. E. Cummings poetry, after many years away from it. I don’t own any, which is an oversight to be rectified.

So I went on a little trawl round the poetry internet and found some I didn’t know, like this one, from the collection ‘is 5’ published 1926, so celebrating its centenary this year:

if i have made,my lady,intricate
imperfect various things chiefly which wrong
your eyes(frailer than most deep dreams are frail)
songs less firm than your body’s whitest song
upon my mind—if i have failed to snare
the glance too shy—if through my singing slips
the very skilful strangeness of your smile
the keen primeval silence of your hair

—let the world say “his most wise music stole
nothing from death”—
 you only will create
(who are so perfectly alive)my shame:
lady through whose profound and fragile lips
the sweet small clumsy feet of April came

into the ragged meadow of my soul.

#poetry #eecummings

maggie and milly and molly and may by e.e.cummings

maggie and milly and molly and may
went down to the beach (to play one day)

and maggie discovered a shell that sang
so sweetly she couldn’t remember her troubles,and

milly befriended a stranded star
whose rays five languid fingers were;

and molly was chased by a horrible thing
which raced sideways while blowing bubbles:and

may came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.

For whatever we lose(like a you or a me)
it’s always ourselves we find in the sea

#EECummings #Poetry #TheSea

#NowPlaying #MusicWomenWednesday

Louisville's #TheOxfords were a wonderful late 60s/early 70s band that get tagged as #SunshinePop for good reason. Though clearly they were enamoured by #psychedelia too, reciting #eecummings and covering an #IncredibleStringBand song on their lone 1970 album. Lead singer #JillDeMarco had a soaring, powerful voice, but she also wrote songs like "The Harm I Do (By Being Me)" that cut deeper than most of her harmonising compatriots were capable of imagining.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT7UYcEjZjk

The Courage to Be Yourself: E.E. Cummings on Art, Life, and Being Unafraid to Feel

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/02/27/e-e-cummings-advice/

next to of course satan america i

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#eecummings

Happy birthday to E.E. Cummings, born on 14 October 1894. He once had a collection of poems rejected by 14 publishers. When he eventually got it published as "No Thanks" in 1935, he dedicated it to those 14 publishers in a visual poem shaped like a funeral urn

#poetry #EECummings #publishing #poem #VisualPoem #shade #writing

"here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)"

#EECummings

The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.
-- e. e. cummings

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⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Sunset #NewMexico

In celebration of Loving Day, we're sharing "New Hope" by Corita Kent. This serigraph from 1966 is dedicated to Mildred and Richard Loving. At that time the Lovings were plaintiffs in the midst of the Supreme Court case that ultimately struck down states’ bans on interracial marriage the following year on June 12. 1/2

#LovingDay #EECummings #CoritaKent #WomenArtists #PopArt #Art #ProtestArt #SCOTUS #USHistory #Histodons @art @histodons