...
either way, write me, okay?
(um maybe you should use the hotmail address because
i'm not even sure how to retrieve my mail here and
i'll probably only be here another few weeks or
something)
Topic 24 of 52 [poetry]: The Poetry of e. e. cummings
Response 27 of 70: Flidais (Flidais) * Wed, Oct 21, 1998 (21:18) * 1 lines
aye aye cap'n
Topic 24 of 52 [poetry]: The Poetry of e. e. cummings
Response 28 of 70: nick a'hannay (pmnh) * Wed, Oct 21, 1998 (21:20) * 6 lines
shit
put the address in brackets...
didn't print...
some kind of commie-computer-language thing...
anyway, my hotmail address is pmnh@hotmail.com
Topic 24 of 52 [poetry]: The Poetry of e. e. cummings
Response 29 of 70: Flidais (Flidais) * Wed, Oct 21, 1998 (21:21) * 2 lines
unfortunately I'm having technical difficulties with my e-mail at the moment
so...when I'm able to, I'll e-mail
Topic 24 of 52 [poetry]: The Poetry of e. e. cummings
Response 30 of 70: Flidais (Flidais) * Wed, Oct 21, 1998 (21:23) * 1 lines
I remembered
Topic 24 of 52 [poetry]: The Poetry of e. e. cummings
Response 31 of 70: nick a'hannay (pmnh) * Wed, Oct 21, 1998 (21:25) * 1 lines
did you indeed?
Topic 24 of 52 [poetry]: The Poetry of e. e. cummings
Response 32 of 70: Flidais (Flidais) * Wed, Oct 21, 1998 (21:27) * 1 lines
I remembered
Topic 24 of 52 [poetry]: The Poetry of e. e. cummings
Response 33 of 70: Flidais (Flidais) * Wed, Oct 21, 1998 (21:28) * 1 lines
hmm....once again...oops
Topic 24 of 52 [poetry]: The Poetry of e. e. cummings
Response 34 of 70: Flidais (Flidais) * Wed, Oct 21, 1998 (21:29) * 2 lines
I did indeed
no short term memory, but plenty of long term
Topic 24 of 52 [poetry]: The Poetry of e. e. cummings
Response 35 of 70: nick a'hannay (pmnh) * Wed, Oct 21, 1998 (21:30) * 2 lines
for fear of secreted daggers (etc.), i shall
refrain from comment...
Topic 24 of 52 [poetry]: The Poetry of e. e. cummings
Response 36 of 70: Flidais (Flidais) * Wed, Oct 21, 1998 (21:31) * 2 lines
I did indeed
no short term memory, but plenty of long term
Topic 24 of 52 [poetry]: The Poetry of e. e. cummings
Response 37 of 70: Flidais (Flidais) * Wed, Oct 21, 1998 (21:32) * 2 lines
what's going on?
echo
Topic 24 of 52 [poetry]: The Poetry of e. e. cummings
Response 38 of 70: Flidais (Flidais) * Wed, Oct 21, 1998 (21:33) * 1 lines
it didn't happen that time
Topic 24 of 52 [poetry]: The Poetry of e. e. cummings
Response 39 of 70: Flidais (Flidais) * Wed, Oct 21, 1998 (21:35) * 3 lines
refrain from comment?
you?
are you feeling ok?
Topic 24 of 52 [poetry]: The Poetry of e. e. cummings
Response 40 of 70: nick a'hannay (pmnh) * Wed, Oct 21, 1998 (21:35) * 2 lines
still kickin'
(et tu? tae kwon do-ing, i mean?)
Topic 24 of 52 [poetry]: The Poetry of e. e. cummings
Response 41 of 70: nick a'hannay (pmnh) * Wed, Oct 21, 1998 (21:37) * 2 lines
(and that was just a little unkind... and you
type too damn fast for me)
Topic 24 of 52 [poetry]: The Poetry of e. e. cummings
Response 42 of 70: nick a'hannay (pmnh) * Wed, Oct 21, 1998 (21:43) * 3 lines
hey, gotta go for a bit...
you wanta talk, be back in half hour or so...
(i'll call, if you want)
Topic 24 of 52 [poetry]: The Poetry of e. e. cummings
Response 43 of 70: Flidais (Flidais) * Wed, Oct 21, 1998 (21:58) * 1 lines
no longer kicking....I broke my collar bone pretty badly this summer sparring with a black belt...the bones aren't going back together..I'm out of business for about eight months..I've got to run too...but I'll be back sometime in the next week...and no, I don't want you to call
Topic 24 of 52 [poetry]: The Poetry of e. e. cummings
Response 44 of 70: nick a'hannay (pmnh) * Thu, Oct 22, 1998 (01:27) * 11 lines
damn melanie...
really sorry to hear that...
damn i mean damn that's awful... hope
you're being a good patient (for once)
(and i DO know how stubborn you can be
when you've a mind to)...
anyway, please do write, snail mail if
nothing else (i'll send you my new
address, my new texas address anyway...
be living in vancouver (b.c.) fulltime,
though, in a couple of weeks...
Topic 24 of 52 [poetry]: The Poetry of e. e. cummings
Response 45 of 70: wer (KitchenManager) * Fri, May 21, 1999 (14:04) * 1 lines
rarely to return it seems, too...
Topic 24 of 52 [poetry]: The Poetry of e. e. cummings
Response 46 of 70: paula mendoza (paula) * Sun, Aug 22, 1999 (21:58) * 105 lines
a tribute to mr. cummings.....
-SIR-
sir
i am indebt to you, humbled
and i thank that you are
and have that only
and truly your own
awe. would, if ever
that you had been
roused like lazarus
and doubt you and grow
stupid dumb tongue
knotted to struck
i fashion a verse
to and only accidentally
because it has
been so easy to
write as freely
as you
sir
that your impeccable manners
and you've been brought
upright, as any man stands
and can i stand, beside you
poet, maybe
i write
stale the words breed
sometimes parasitic
to suck blood and blood
less gray from day
would say, to anyone
who'd ever
stop
to listen
that i crowned myself poet
in a boldness learned
only through
the words i've so
much fell in love and took
to bed, dreaming in
syrup. took to
sheets beneath
a lyric and sing
it in sleep
i am in love
with words
you know, sir, one day
i dubbed myself night
so dark, and selflessly outright
selfish. self, self- my, mine
and i
i painted me a deep deep red
like the red of rose, like the red
of sky- when my cookie sun
is bit by sky, i
and now, a rush
and it is (my own)
sir
your own. construct the line
i, and i to over, brIck, brIck
brIck... and wall
I am the CasIle of my I
sir
orbIt, my
and i see vermillion
i see indigo, i see
colours in swirls of oil
glistentrickling as the bells
of brooks when they
peal over rocks
and fingertip pebbles
sir,
and thank you
sincerely.
-Paula Jane A'Hannay-
Topic 24 of 52 [poetry]: The Poetry of e. e. cummings
Response 47 of 70: John Burnett (mrchips) * Sun, Aug 22, 1999 (22:23) * 8 lines
wow
the only response
i can give is to whistle
far
and
wee...
Topic 24 of 52 [poetry]: The Poetry of e. e. cummings
Response 48 of 70: Charlotte (Charlotte) * Mon, Aug 23, 1999 (09:16) * 3 lines
Ditto that whistle!
Paula, that is simply magnificent. Stand beside hime...tall and proud.
Topic 24 of 52 [poetry]: The Poetry of e. e. cummings
Response 49 of 70: Charlotte (Charlotte) * Mon, Aug 23, 1999 (09:17) * 5 lines
duh. see how flabbergasted you made me?
of course I meant "stand beside HIM".
sigh.
Topic 24 of 52 [poetry]: The Poetry of e. e. cummings
Response 50 of 70: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Mon, Aug 23, 1999 (09:48) * 7 lines
again Paula...
you've left us all stunned with impressions beyond words...
or at least have seen to it that those words are beyond our grasp.
thank you for posting.
(and stick around awhile
or make those 'in-betweens' with less in between)
Topic 24 of 52 [poetry]: The Poetry of e. e. cummings
Response 51 of 70: Wolf (wolf) * Mon, Aug 23, 1999 (13:01) * 1 lines
and now paula's back! thanks for sharing *smile*
Topic 24 of 52 [poetry]: The Poetry of e. e. cummings
Response 52 of 70: John Burnett (mrchips) * Mon, Aug 23, 1999 (19:36) * 29 lines
I'm surprised and shocked that no one has posted my cummings fave, so here goes:
somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
any experience,your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near
your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully,mysteriously)her first rose
or if your wish be to close me,i and
my life will shut very beautifully,suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;
nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility:whose texture
compels me with the colour of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing
(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens;only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands
--e. e. cummings
Topic 24 of 52 [poetry]: The Poetry of e. e. cummings
Response 53 of 70: Wolf (wolf) * Mon, Aug 23, 1999 (20:46) * 1 lines
moving piece, john...
Topic 24 of 52 [poetry]: The Poetry of e. e. cummings
Response 54 of 70: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, Aug 23, 1999 (20:51) * 1 lines
I can see why it is a favorite, but it is so beautiful and intimate, it is almost painful to read.
Topic 24 of 52 [poetry]: The Poetry of e. e. cummings
Response 55 of 70: Wolf (wolf) * Mon, Aug 23, 1999 (20:56) * 1 lines
it is very intimate. love the way he figured out a way to describe this in a way that is so eloquent. john, do you know who inspired this piece for him?
Topic 24 of 52 [poetry]: The Poetry of e. e. cummings
Response 56 of 70: John Burnett (mrchips) * Mon, Aug 23, 1999 (21:40) * 1 lines
Wolf, I wish I knew the answer to that. Cummings was a very private man who did not like to discuss the less political, more intimate aspects of his poetry (I also love his antiwar poetry such as "i sing of olaf..."). Nor have I read his letters, if they exist. Must've been SOME muse! Funny you should mention painful, as well as intimate, Marcia. Tennessee Williams used the poem as his inspiration for Laura in "The Glass Menagerie."
Topic 24 of 52 [poetry]: The Poetry of e. e. cummings
Response 57 of 70: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, Aug 23, 1999 (22:08) * 1 lines
Perhaps it spoke to me on a level more vulnerable than usual...
Topic 24 of 52 [poetry]: The Poetry of e. e. cummings
Response 58 of 70: John Burnett (mrchips) * Mon, Aug 23, 1999 (22:18) * 1 lines
Marcia, you can deal with the world. Poor Laura. If anyone exists like her in real life, they have my complete pity.
Topic 24 of 52 [poetry]: The Poetry of e. e. cummings
Response 59 of 70: paula mendoza (paula) * Thu, Aug 26, 1999 (01:57) * 12 lines
ooh... i love that poem.
so- delicate. like crystal. just...
beautiful. and that word, intimate? is perfect.
thank you very much for posting it, john.
and i didnt know... about laura. ive just recently re-read
the glass menagerie and its so cool to see how one poet has inspired
the other (and yes, i consider tennesse williams as much a poet as
playwright )
Topic 24 of 52 [poetry]: The Poetry of e. e. cummings
Response 60 of 70: John Burnett (mrchips) * Thu, Aug 26, 1999 (04:10) * 1 lines
So do I...and you have a delightful way with words, yourself, Paula!
Topic 24 of 52 [poetry]: The Poetry of e. e. cummings
Response 61 of 70: Amy Keene (Irishprincess) * Mon, Nov 8, 1999 (19:24) * 22 lines
I'm surprised that no one has posted my favorite e.e. cummings poem:
"[chérie]"
chérie
the very, picturesque, last Day
(when all the clocks have lost their jobs and god
sits up quickly to judge the Big Sinners)
he will have something large and fluffy to say
to me. All the pale grumbling wings
of his greater angels will cease: as that curse
bounds neat-ly from the angry wad
of his forehead (then fiends with pitchforkthings
will catch and toss me lovingly to
and fro.) Last, should you look, you
'll find me prone upon a greatest flame,
which seethes in a beautiful way
upward; with someone by the name
of Paolo passing the time of day.
Topic 24 of 52 [poetry]: The Poetry of e. e. cummings
Response 62 of 70: Moon (moonbeam) * Tue, Nov 9, 1999 (01:19) * 55 lines
I love this one too, Amy...
may i feel said he
may i feel said he
(i'll squeal said she
just once said he)
it's fun said she
(may i touch said he
how much said she
a lot said he)
why not said she
(let's go said he
not too far said she
what's too far said he
where you are said she)
may i stay said he
(which way said she
like this said he
if you kiss said she
may i move said he
is it love said she)
if you're willing said he
(but you're killing said she
but it's life said he
but your wife said she
now said he)
ow said she
(tiptop said he
don't stop said she
oh no said he)
go slow said she
(cccome?said he
ummm said she)
you're divine!said he
(you are Mine said she)
Topic 24 of 52 [poetry]: The Poetry of e. e. cummings
Response 63 of 70: Amy Keene (Irishprincess) * Tue, Nov 9, 1999 (13:10) * 1 lines
Oh my! I'm not even going to say a word...
Topic 24 of 52 [poetry]: The Poetry of e. e. cummings
Response 64 of 70: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, Nov 10, 1999 (23:58) * 1 lines
Well, I shall...(fools rushing in and all that...!) I found that and circulated it via email...too bad I did not have the courage to post it. I like it!!!
Topic 24 of 52 [poetry]: The Poetry of e. e. cummings
Response 65 of 70: ee spring (sprin5) * Sat, Jan 20, 2001 (11:53) * 28 lines
somewhere i have neve travelled,gladly beyond
any experience,your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near
your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skillfully,mysteriously)her first rose
or if your wish be to close me,i and
my life will shut very beautifully,suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow everwhere carefully descending;
nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility:whose texture
compels me with the colour of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing
(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens;only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands
e.e.cummings
Topic 24 of 52 [poetry]: The Poetry of e. e. cummings
Response 66 of 70: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Wed, Oct 3, 2001 (20:58) * 36 lines
plato told
him:he couldn't
believe it(jesus
told him;he
wouldn't believe
it)lao
tsze
certainly told
him,and general
(yes
mam)
sherman;
and even
(believe it
or
not)you
told him:i told
him;we told him
(he didn't believe it,no
sir)it took
a nipponized bit of
the old sixth
avenue
el;in the top of his head:to tell
him
-- e. e. cummings
Topic 24 of 52 [poetry]: The Poetry of e. e. cummings
Response 67 of 70: paula (pmnh) * Sun, Oct 7, 2001 (03:28) * 4 lines
hmmm... never read this one before...
must look it up. i wonder what he was talking about?
(must also look up nipponized- there's a curious word)
Topic 24 of 52 [poetry]: The Poetry of e. e. cummings
Response 68 of 70: Melanie (Centaur) * Sun, Feb 17, 2002 (18:54) * 1 lines
I forgot my Flidais password, so I switched names, but it's the same Bat Person...Nick please e-mail me so we can catch up...it's been so long
Topic 24 of 52 [poetry]: The Poetry of e. e. cummings
Response 69 of 70: paula mendoza (paula) * Mon, May 20, 2002 (12:48) * 10 lines
'eh-
this is paula- am at a schlotsky's at a temp internet booth.
currently not online, but will be soon.
i just ran over to the table and told him you wrote.
i'm not sure his hotmail address is still working. (just tried to get into mine and the thing crashed). anyway- he's here... well, there really, reading the paper, but yeah....
anyway, i saw a business building named after him- nippon, something nippon. so, um. i guess i came on here to answer myself...
sure he wants to talk. and will... someones waiting behind me... can't write straight... aaggh.
Topic 24 of 52 [poetry]: The Poetry of e. e. cummings
Response 70 of 70: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Tue, May 21, 2002 (05:54) * 1 lines
Welcome Paula.
poetry conference 
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