Friday, July 16, 2010

oh, sweet spontaneous earth

(woods at Ames State Park)
O sweet spontaneous
earth how often have
the
doting
fingers of
prurient philosophers pinched
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).
-e.e. cummings

1 comment:

A Painted Journey said...

Those trees are spectactular, honey. And those last two photos with the sunbeams are just breathtaking!... Mummy