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PPB: Spring is a perhaps hand / E.E. Cummings
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George J. (George J. Dance)
2025-03-02 17:15:11 UTC
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Penny's Poetry Blog's featured poem for March:
Spring is like a perhaps hand, by E.E. Cummings

Spring is like a perhaps hand
(which comes carefully
out of Nowhere)arranging
a window,into which people look(while
people stare
[...]

(read by E.E. Cummings)

https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2014/03/spring-is-like-perhaps-hand-ee-cummings.html
W.Dockery
2025-03-03 12:17:05 UTC
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Post by George J. (George J. Dance)
Spring is like a perhaps hand, by E.E. Cummings
Spring is like a perhaps hand
(which comes carefully
out of Nowhere)arranging
a window,into which people look(while
people stare
[...]
(read by E.E. Cummings)
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2014/03/spring-is-like-perhaps-hand-ee-cummings.html
I love the poems of ee cummings, although I suspect he drove a few
readers nuts with his wild experiments with language.

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W.Dockery
2025-03-03 13:17:15 UTC
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Post by George J. (George J. Dance)
Spring is like a perhaps hand, by E.E. Cummings
Spring is like a perhaps hand
(which comes carefully
out of Nowhere)arranging
a window,into which people look(while
people stare
[...]
(read by E.E. Cummings)
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2014/03/spring-is-like-perhaps-hand-ee-cummings.html
This is the kind of poetry Archibald MacLeish was thinking about when he
wrote:

"A poem should not mean, but be "

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