Poetry Friday: Days of Innocence 2
November 10, 2006
This week I am continuing a theme: e. e. cummings' poems of childhood.
Days of Innocence (2)
in Just-
spring when the world is mud-
luscious the little
lame balloonman
whistles far and wee
and eddieandbill come
running from marbles and
piracies and it's
spring
when the world is puddle-wonderful
the queer
old balloonman whistles
far and wee
and bettyandisbel come dancing
from hop-scotch and jump-rope and
it's
spring
and
the
goat-footed
balloonMan whistles
far
and
wee
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I love "puddle-wondeful" and "mud-luscious", don't you? I know, I should have saved it until spring, but it went so well with last week's poem that I couldn't resist. Happy Friday!