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e.e. cummings - am was.

am was.  are leaves few this.  is these a or
scratchily over which of earth dragged once
-ful leaf.  & were who skies clutch an of poor
how colding hereless.  air theres what immense
live without every dancing.  singless on-
ly a child's eyes float silently down
more than two those that and that noing our
gone snow gone
yours mine
.  We're
alive and shall be:cities may overflow(am
was)assassinating whole grassblades,five
ideas can swallow a man;three words im
-prison a woman for all her now:but we've
such freedom such intense digestion so
much greenness only dying makes us grow

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Poet: e.e. cummings (e.e. cummings Art)
Poem: am was.
Poem of the Day: Mar 15 2002

Comment 6 of 6, added on July 21st, 2008 at 8:08 AM.

Death is not the opposite of life: Rather, the opposite of life is stagnation. was there no Death, Life would be impossible. New groth thrives on the rot of fallen leaves.

Yael from Israel
Comment 5 of 6, added on December 16th, 2005 at 9:23 PM.

We get better with age....

wendy from United States
Comment 4 of 6, added on February 24th, 2005 at 11:07 PM.

We are missing the point. I am whatever I was made me but more importantly, We are dwelling on the details of was and should be shouting the is of now because everything around us is changing and what was, was and what is now is more important. We are.

catherine from United States

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