[Newspoetry] so let's say you're a reverend...

[John]

> We used cummings as our love-offering poet
> at a Methodist-officiated ceremony in St Louis
> some 25 to 30 years ago... one that bleats
> "i thank you god, for most this amazing day..."
> affirmative poetry is nigh unto religion...

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)

This poem appears in the collection of poetry at the back of my prayer book,
but poetry from a lot of different sources appears there.  It has both a
religious feel, as it thanks God, but its generic and "nature-oriented" so
hippie parents should approve too.

ee cummings also wrote:

love is more thicker than forget
more thinner than recall
more seldom than a wave is wet
more frequent than to fail
it is most mad and moonly
and less it shall unbe
than all the sea which only
is deeper than the sea
love is less always than to win
less never than alive
less bigger than the least begin
less littler than forgive
it is most sane and sunly
and more it connot die
than all the sky which only
is higher than the sky