And some nights just call for a poem: e.e. cummings
Michael GallagherI won't preface this poem too much with explanation or emotional context or anything like this, but it seemed fitting that my first post (belated) of 2011 should be a…
Invictus (the poem)
This might go down as my most unoriginal blog post to date, but I was struck by a poem referenced several times in the Invictus movie from Clint Eastwood and…
Circus Animal’s Desertion by Yeats and constructive language
Yeats' poem as presented below is illustrative of the constructive nature of discourse (and what is poetry aside from a complex discourse at the very least with one's soul); language…
e.e. cummings, opening and closing
"somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond any experience,your eyes have their silence: in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they…