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Trapp, J. (1964). Modern religious poems, a contemporary anthology. New York: Harper & Row.

I think I'll start posting poems from it.

The first is e.e. cummings's "i thank You God"

i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday;this is the birth
day of life and love and wings:and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any--lifted from the no
of all nothing--human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?

(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

Date: 2007-08-26 10:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] prettypoet43.livejournal.com
I love this!

Date: 2007-08-27 04:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] melissa52677.livejournal.com
This is one of my all time favorites. I've used it often on homemade greeting cards. :)

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