Thursday 15 October 2009

In my heart.

Of course I didn't nearly forget to write a post today.
Don't be silly, I totally remembered to look up a poem for todays poetry offering last night.
Nope, I was not sitting twiddling my thumbs thinking, 'what is it that I normally do at lunch time?' then suddenly leaping into action and typing like a maniac (ok the last part actually isn't true, I rarely leap into anything let alone action and my typing speed is plodding at the best of times).

Soooo here is the post that nearly never existed *ahem* what? hmm, no haha. I mean, so here is the post I have been meticulously planning for ages.

E E Cummings
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, my dear;
and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)
I fear no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet)
I want no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

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)

I first heard this poem in the rather unintellectual place of the movie 'In Her Shoes'. She reads it for her sister so it always reminds me of mine too.

Although I would of course not object to this being performed to me be an adoring male.

Pip pip mes cheries.
Chin up, it's not long til Friday.
x

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