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7/24/2008 5:58:39 AM
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am was
 
  am was. are leaves few this. is these a or
scratchily over which of earth dragged once
-ful leaf. & were who skies clutch an of poor
how colding hereless. air theres what immense
live without every dancing. singless on-
ly a child's eyes float silently down
more than two those that and that noing our
gone snow gone
yours mine
. We're
alive and shall be:cities may overflow(am
was)assassinating whole grassblades,five
ideas can swallow a man;three words im
-prison a woman for all her now:but we've
such freedom such intense digestion so
much greenness only dying makes us grow

ee cummings


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Dexter Inopiquez (8/23/2007 3:09:00 PM)
'only dying makes us grow'.... nice, no better poem than these.. of e.e.cummings
Yoonoos Peerbocus (7/10/2007 10:59:00 AM)
am was is a good symbol and poetically well done...thanks

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