E.E. Cummings

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Vandaag, zondag, een gedicht van dichter van de maand november E.E. Cummings (1894-1962). Dit gedicht zonder titel (heel gebruikelijk bij Cummings)  verscheen oorspronkelijk in de bundel ‘&’ die Cummings in eigen beheer uitgaf in 1925. Het gedicht verscheen in een vertaling in van Peter Verstegen in De Tweede Ronde, jaargang 2 in 1981.

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Take for example this:

if to the colour of midnight
to a more than darkness(which
is myself and Paris and all
things)the bright
rain
occurs deeply,beautifully

and i(being at a window
in this midnight)
for no reason feel
deeply completely conscious of the rain or rather
Somebody who uses roofs and streets skilfully to make a
possible and beautiful sound:

if a(perhaps)clock strikes,in the alive
coolness,very faintly and
finally through altogether delicate gestures of rain

a colour comes,which is morning,O do not wonder that

(just at the edge of day)i surely
make a millionth poem which will not wholly
miss you;or if i certainly create,lady,
one of the thousand selves who are your smile.

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