I have a thing about love poems and spend quite a bit of time perusing collections in the hope of finding even more gems than I have already encountered.
E.E. Cummings is one of my all time favourite poets and I delight in the way he plays around with grammatical conventions. This poem caught my eye today and really lifted my heart. I wondered how a conventional English teacher would react if a pupil submitted a poem like this on a Monday morning as an an assignment on the topic of love.
[love is more thicker than forget]
love is more thicker than forget
more thinner than recall
more seldom than a wave is wet
more frequent than to fail
it is most mad and moonly
and less it shall unbe
than all the sea which only
is deeper than the sea
love is less always than to win
less never than alive
less bigger than the least begin
less littler than forgive
it is most sane and sunly
and more it cannot die
than all the sky which only
is higher than the sky
E.E. Cummings
SOCIAL BRIDGE ~ Jean Tubridy connecting with you from Ireland 
I love it!
Oh good!
Well, I have to say that was interesting. I think the final verse may be the only one I “got” however. 🙂
With E.E., it’s a matter of reading in a different way to normal as he writes so unusually.
How wonderful. And methinks E.E. got away with a lot more than today’s teachers would allow 😉
Makes one wonder alright.
Have you tried the contemporary poet Lang Leav?
Not yet. Looking forward to it and thanks for the recommendation.
I love it Jean, in my head..
I cannot read it out loud …too difficult 💜
Glad you like it.
I have been reading it out loud for the last while. Son getting worried about me😊
Lol 🤣🤣🤣