All Poems

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there are so many tictoc...

© Edward Estlin Cummings

there are so many tictoc
clocks everywhere telling people
what toctic time it is for
tictic instance five toc minutes toc

when serpents bargain for the right to squirm... (22)

© Edward Estlin Cummings

when serpents bargain for the right to squirm
and the sun strikes to gain a living wage-
when thorns regard their roses with alarm
and rainbows are insured against old age

Marianne Moore (35)

© Edward Estlin Cummings

M in a vicious world-to love virtue
A in a craven world-to have courage
R in a treacherous world-to prove loyal
I in a wavering world-to stand firm

into the strenuous briefness

© Edward Estlin Cummings

into the strenuous briefness
Life:
handorgans and April
darkness, friends

red-rag and pink-flag... (11)

© Edward Estlin Cummings

red-rag and pink-flag
blackshirt and brown
strut-mince and stink-brag
have all come to town

when faces called flowers float out of the ground... (67)

© Edward Estlin Cummings

when faces called flowers float out of the ground
and breathing is wishing and wishing is having-
but keeping is downward and doubting and never
-it's april(yes,april;my darling)it's spring!

Of Nicolette

© Edward Estlin Cummings

dreaming in marble all the castle lay
like some gigantic ghost-flower born of night
blossoming in white towers to the moon,
soft sighed the passionate darkness to the tune

Doveglion

© Edward Estlin Cummings

he isn't looking at anything
he isn't looking for something
he isn't looking
he is seeing

spoke joe to jack... (10)

© Edward Estlin Cummings

jack spoke to joe
's left crashed
pal dropped

F O R E W A R DOn the assumption that my technique is either complicated or original
or both, the publishers have politely requested me to write an intro-
duction to this book.
At least my theory of technique, if I have one, is very far from

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six... (21)

three
with faces made of cloud dancing and
three
singing with voices made of earth and

now does our world descend...

now does our world descend
the path to nothingness
(cruel now cancels kind;
friends turn to enemies)
therefore lament,my dream
and don a doer's doom

when hair falls off and eyes blur And... (L)

when hair falls off and eyes blur And
thighs forget(when clocks whisper
and night shouts)When minds
shrivel and hearts grow brittler every

when life is quite through with... (II)

when life is quite through with
and leaves say alas,
much is to do
for the swallow,that closes
a flight in the blue;

this is the garden: colours come and go,... (IX)

This is the garden. Time shall surely reap
and on Death's blade lie many a flower curled,
in other lands where other songs be sung;
yet stand They here enraptured,as among
The slow deep trees perpetual of sleep
some silver-fingered fountain steals the world.