i like my body when it is with your
body. It is so quite a new thing.
Muscles better and nerves more.
i like your body. i like what it does,
i like its hows. i like to feel the spine
of your body and its bones, and the trembling
-firm-smooth ness and which i will
again and again and again
kiss, i like kissing this and that of you,
i like, slowly stroking the, shocking fuzz
of your electric fur, and what-is-it comes
over parting flesh . . . . And eyes big love-crumbs,
and possibly i like the thrill
of under me you quite so new
one of my favourite, sexy, sensual, arousing poem of all time! i always send it to potential guys and see how they react to it cos that’s how I feel !
ooooh! how scandalous is that last line…and yet at the same time its comforting to know he was human
So raw, so naked, so true…
This poem is so real , fantastic. I really like reading it.
The poem isnt beautiful or romantic. its sexy.
It made the cut in John Irving’s latest novel at an interesting point- I came looking for this poem. Fascinating.
it’s just a beautiful poem, gets me every time.
I very much like this poem. But to Wayne: I’m female and I’m going to pass this on to my lover. He can be under me and it won’t be the traditional missionary position. Poetry is for everyone, yes?
this poem is quite brilliant…the words used portray the deepest of love and affection and im glad my girl friend read excerpts from it
Mark Thompson, what do you mean? (Unless this was changed after your comment?) The poem here reads as it does in “Complete Pomes 1913-1962.”
This is one of my all time favorite poems. Beautiful! Very erotic and romantic.
now this is that which eyes wide,
tingled skin, side to side
calls the smooth, lips & grin to
call back to her first again.
check the word order in the second and last lines, the cummings’ original is DIFFERENT! Please change.
This poem is rife with imagery. The way that cummings attempts to put his feelings of love and lust into simple words (“Muscles better and nerves more”) is so candid and loving–I absolutely love e.e.cummings.
This poem is absolutely beautiful and romantic. I highly recommend this to anyone who loves poetry.
This is a beautiful poem and perhaps a little outdated in that E.E. Cummings makes love to his wife in the missionary position…:)
This is probably one of, if not, the best love poems I’ve ever read. cummings has such an astounding vocabulary and such delicate phrasing, absolutely beautiful.
this poem is one of my favorites… it’s beautiful and sexual all at the same time… erotic and playful and still almost thoughtful… cummings way of writing leaves me breathless, again.
it’s not almost very sexual …. it is very sexual
a very beautiful poem. very romantic… very sexual almost
highly romantic poem…