I will share with you one of my most favorite poems ever by one of my most favorite poets ever. It reminds me to practice gratitude and to never stop noticing the beauty all around.
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 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)
e. e. cummings
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Ohh...I love this poem, too! I think you would love the setting of it for 8-part choir by composer Eric Whitacre:
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=eric+whitacre+i+thank+you+god&www_google_domain=www.google.com&emb=0&aq=-1&oq=eric+whitacre+i+thank+you+go#
It was commissioned for my college choir in 2000, and it's just stunning... We went on tour and sang it in an enormous cathedral. It still gives me chills to hear it. Let me know what you think!
(and thanks for reminding me of it!)
Wow!! That is beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing it with me. I love choir music and miss singing quite a bit... it was so nice to hear such a great piece - totally brought me back. What an amazing thing to have been a part of. ;)
One of my professors in college developed a show made up of various cummings poems set to music and movement. It was fantastic. I think his work lends to such creative interpretations and reworkings. Thanks again for the link!
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