i will wade out till my thighs are steeped in burning flowers I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to da… - E. E. Cummings

I will take the sun in my mouth
and leap into the ripe air
Alive
with closed eyes
to dash against darkness

I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air.

it may not always be so; and i say
that if your lips, which i have loved, should touch
another's, and your dear strong fingers clutch
his heart, as mine in time not far away;
if on another's face your sweet hair lay
in such a silence as i know,or such
great writhing words as, uttering overmuch,
stand helplessly before the spirit at bay;

if this should be, i say if this should be-
you of my heart, send me a little word;
that i may go unto him, and take his hands,
saying, Accept all happiness from me.
Then shall i turn my face,and hear one bird
sing terribly afar in the lost lands.

we are for each other: then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life's not a paragraph

and death i think is no parenthesis

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance