Favorite E.E. Cummings' Poems

I just want to share these poems from E.E. Cummings. These are two of my favorites from his book "100 Selected Poems by E.E. Cummings". I also like his poem "i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart)", which I think is published in his book "Tulips and Chimneys".

E.E. Cummings is considered as one of the great American poets during the 20th century. I like his poems about love; and his free verse style of writing poetry.

Here are the two of my favorite... happy reading!

it may not always be so; and i say
that if your lips, which i have loved, should touch
another's, and your dear strong fingers clutch
his heart, as mine in time not far away;
if on another's face your sweet hair lay
in such a silence as i know, or such
great writhing words as, uttering overmuch,
stand helplessly before the spirit at bay;

if this should be, i say if this should be -
you of my heart, send me a little word;
that i may go unto him, and take his hands,
saying, Accept all happiness from me.
Then shall i turn my face, and hear one bird
sing terribly afar in the lost lands.

This is the other poem -

i like my body when it is with your
body. It is so quite new a 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 so quite new

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