here's to opening and upward

Portrait of e.e. cummings
e.e. cummings 1894–1962

here's to opening and upward, to leaf and to sap and to your(in my arms flowering so new) self whose eyes smell of the sound of rain

and here's to silent certainly mountains;and to a disappearing poet of always,snow and to morning;and to morning's beautiful friend twilight(and a first dream called ocean)and

let must or if be damned with whomever's afraid down with ought with because with every brain which thinks it thinks,nor dares to feel(but up with joy;and up with laughing and drunkenness)

here's to one undiscoverable guess of whose mad skill each world of blood is made (whose fatal songs are moving in the moon

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  1. Maxey United States

    This is one of my favorire Cummings poems. No is more real a poet than him.

  2. silvia United States

    I used the first stanza on a birth announcement for my daughter. I love it!

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