Love Poem #3 I Carry Your Heart With Me by e.e. cummings

Howdy there! So my number 3 choice for this weeks love poems will be by e. e. cummings or E. E. Cummings...I'm not too sure which one is supposed to be correct but I heard he had his name legally changed to be all lower case letters. I have seen it written both ways. Anyway, I am new to this author but I fell in love immediately. It even sparked an interest to read his novel The Enormous Room which was a novel he wrote inspired by his time in a military detention camp for rumored espionage by the French military. He was highly regarded by many of my English classmates so I finally gave him a try.

I chose this poem because it was simply beautiful...

I Carry Your Heart With Me - ee cummings

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)

 

 

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