Ever my Favorite Poet and a most, most interesting person to me since learning about him during my childhood, I have always loved ' ee cummings '. That is primarily how he always wrote his name - all lower case. Loved his renegade, Pirate soul and mis-Use of letters and words - violating every known rule of the english language to formulate incredible poetry, stories, ideas, etc... So, I thought, "why not interpret a poem of his that I like - among the many?" Here is my first run at one...........

Since Feeling Is First
by ee cummings

since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you
wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world
my blood approves
and kisses are a better fate
than wisdom
lady i swear by all flowers.
Don't cry
the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids' flutter which says

we are for each other: then
laugh leaning back in my arms
for life's not a paragraph

and death i think is no parenthesis
Written by Edward Estlin > (e e) cummings

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