A thread neither mad nor sad.

[Bob the Beholder]

For some crazy reason I am a fan of E.E Cummings (I refuse to leave it uncapitalized). I consider the funky lack of capitalization to be annoying and pointless, but that aside, some of his poems are just really, really... well put together I guess you could say. Just written in such a way that it flows from word to word well, like the whole poem is in a single piece, and not a series of separate lines.

Like this one, which is the one I've seen most:

what if a much of a which of a wind
gives the truth to summer's lie;
bloodies with dizzying leaves the sun
and yanks immortal stars awry?
Blow king to beggar and queen to seem
(blow friend to fiend: blow space to time)
-when skies are hanged and oceans drowned,
the single secret will still be man

what if a keen of a lean wind flays
screaming hills with sleet and snow:
strangles valleys by ropes of thing
and stifles forests in white ago?
Blow hope to terror; blow seeing to blind
(blow pity to envy and soul to mind)
-whose hearts are mountains, roots are trees,
it's they shall cry hello to the spring

what if a dawn of a doom of a dream
bites this universe in two,
peels forever out of his grave
and sprinkles nowhere with me and you?
Blow soon to never and never to twice
(blow life to isn't: blow death to was)
-all nothing's only our hugest home;
the most who die, the more we live.

And then there's another one that is very, very different. It's impossible to read outloud, but is still very memorable for some reason:

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one
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