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• A comment on Conversation: What is your favorite poem and why?

  Dec 12 2011: My favourite poem is by ee cummings. For me, no poet is able to capture the subtlety of love and beauty, as well as the manic passion of life as poignantly and viscerally as ee cummings. This poem makes me remember every lovers kiss, every embrace, the slightest touch and those quiet moments that make life worth living.
  
  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 color 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