Osprey - 9-18-2013 at 07:01 AM
O sweet spontaneous
by: e.e. cummings (1894-1962)
sweet spontaneous
earth how often have
the
doting
fingers of
prurient philosophers P-nched
and
poked
thee
, has the naughty thumb
of science prodded
thy
beauty, how
often have religions taken
thee upon their scraggy knees
squeezing and
buffeting thee that thou mightest conceive
gods
(but
true
to the incomparable
couch of death thy
rhythmic
lover
thou answerest
them only with
spring)
[Edited on 9-18-2013 by Osprey]
Pescador - 9-18-2013 at 08:19 AM
Leave it to Osprey to come up with something profound and beautiful. The other topic left me synaptically challenged as I listened to well defined
claptrap from both sides of the agenda (spectrum). Some left me angry in their shallow interpretations and perceptions, some left me feeling hopeless
in their lack of depth or wisdom, but Osprey has once again zeroed in on a more universal truth. Thank you my friend.
Osprey - 9-18-2013 at 08:27 AM
Thanks Jim, I've always liked cummings. Bereft of self-importance and endowed with delicious sloth, he was just too damned lazy to bother with capital
letters. I like his style.
[Edited on 9-18-2013 by Osprey]