POETRY

somewhere i have never travelled
ee cummings

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

* i know it has been ages since last pinalabas sa sinehan yung IN HER SHOES... pero kami ni tenten kanina lang after shift namin napanuod sa dvd. hehehe it's a nice movie. nakaka-touch. nakaka-inspire. and for that, nagbabasa tuloi ako ngayon ng poetry. in fairness, ngayon ko lang naapreciate ang beauty nitO. i was actually looking for the exact poem cameron diaz read to tOni collete on her wedding day, entitiled, i carry your heart with me(i carry it in by ee cummings... nakita ko naman sha and i almost cried again while reading it, mas masahol pa nung narinig ko kanina sa movie, inf airness ang sakit ng lalamunan ko nun ha?! i was like keeping myself from crying. kahiya kasi parang OA. pero naman kasi sino ba namang hindi mata-touch dun eh, so going back, i found an even more BEAUTIFUL poem. it's from ee cummings pa rin, and that is the poem above. while reading it, i was thinking a lot of things... i was [again] almost crying here sa station ko. i don't know if i interpreted the poem correctly, pero the way i understood it, it moved me - sobraaaa. and now i am sharing it with you... *