[619] somewhere i have never travelled

A most unusual occurrence: a guest poem suggested (independently) by no less
than three different readers - Devyani Saltzman
<devyani.saltzman@>, Raj Palaniswamy
<raj@> and Erin Cheatham, <echeatham@ebycorp.com>. Reading the
poem, it's not hard to see why...

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 are too near

your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully, mysteriously) her first rose

or if your wish be to close me, i and
my life will shut very beautifully, suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility: whose texture
compels me with the colour of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands

	-- e. e. cummings

1931.

I don't know anything about the story behind this poem, but I feel it's one
of the most beautiful love poems I've ever read. Whenever I read it, I'm
constantly blown away by the tenderness expressed through his use of
language. It's almost as if one can feel the lightness of the caress between
these two people. One of my favourite lines has just this effect:
	"you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
	(touching skilfully, mysteriously) her first rose"
The poem almost 'breathes', for all its detail and the analogy of the rose,
there is so much room to imagine between the lines. However many times I
read it the poem takes on new tones and meanings. It's limitless.

Devyani.

From: annalou apao <d_lan2k3@>

the first time i hear this poem was on a radio..
the voice was so deep that i could never stop hearing it, as i listen to the poem i was moved by it..
the poem was really amazing that from then on i could not stop myself from looking for a copy of it..or maybe i was just too caught up with the idea of "PERFECT LOVE"..
every time i hear the poem i always find new meaning to every line and now i begun to memorized it hehe..
for the author thanks so much cause this poem really moves me in so many ways,in ways i could never figure out..thanks so much..:)

anna

		
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