Two lovely poems that I came across in a movie that is very unfairly called a chickflick– In her shoes
i carry your heart with me
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;whihch grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)
ee cummings
One Art
The art of losing isn’t hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.
Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.
I lost my mother’s watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.
I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn’t a disaster.
–Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan’t have lied. It’s evident
the art of losing’s not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.
Elizabeth Bishop
Beautiful!
🙂 The art of losing’s not too hard to master.
The first part of the “I carry it in my heart” poem was recited as part of a marriage vow in ER. You might like this poem
http://www.ipoet.com/ARCHIVE/original/Foss/House.html
I love the second stanza.
The first half of the poem was said as part of a marriage vow in one episode of “ER”. I like the phrase “and whatever is done by me is your doing”
Thought you might like this one too
http://www.ipoet.com/ARCHIVE/original/Foss/House.html
The second stanza is my favourite. Hopped in from madmomma’s blog 🙂