Thursday, January 20, 2011

When Trees Dance

Today has been a pretty cold, windy, dreary day. It is definitely not my favorite kind of day, but it makes me appreciate the beautiful ones even more. I can just now see the sky through the clouds. I can't really describe how awesome I think this planet is, so I'm going to let E.E. Cummings do the talking...

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)