This my favorite e.e. cummings poem. Though it’s been a friend for over 40 years now, it still makes my heart soar, “which is natural which is infinite which is yes!”

(If you are curious as to why a “Buddhst” blog would have posts with references to God in them, you might want to take a look at an earlier post, True God, True Buddha to get a glimpse of where I’m coming from.)

I Thank You e. e. cummings I thank You God for most this amazing

day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees

and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything

which is natural which is infinite which is yes (i who died am alive again today,

and this is the sun’s birthday;this is the birth

day of life and of love and wings:and of the gay

great happening illimitably earth) how should tasting touching hearing seeing

breathing any—lifted from the no

of all nothing—human merely being

doubt unimaginable You? (now the ears of my ears awake and

now the eyes of my eyes are opened) ♥♥♥

And here, for your enjoyment, is some complementary music by amazing guitar virtuoso Muriel Anderson. She is playing a transcription of François Couperin’s “The Mysterious Barricades” on her album Heartstrings: https://mettarefuge.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/muriel-anderson-the-mysterious-barricades.mp3

Buy it at iTunes:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-mysterious-barricades/id18183172?i=18183148

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