Poetry - Share the first that comes to your mind?

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Gakked from pluvial_poetry

When you see this, post a bit of poetry in your own LJ.

(I chose this because - well, embarrassingly enough...lol. It's one of the MANY beautiful narrated poems on the "Beauty and the Beast: The Series" soundtrack. Believe me, if you think you've heard this poem - you've NEVER heard it until you hear Ron Perlman reciting it in his "Vincent" voice....THUD!!!)


somewhere i have never travelled

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