thankfulness

i have kept myself from adding this poem in here a long time, to save myself some guilt from lifting off of bright butterfly's blog every so often. now that a fair bit of time has passed since her post (or so i decree :) and my thankfulness is none reduced, i think it is time. i give thanks, also, to her for introducing me to this masterpiece that resonates deep within.

i thank You God for most this amazing
-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 have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday;this is the birth
day of life and 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)