E.E.Cummings And I Poem by Panagiota Romios

I remember a beautiful, Spring
day in Chicago.
Sitting on my lover's lap.
His eyes as lovely as the spring-
green trees tapping gently on my
living room windows.
His lips velvety as the roses on
Montrose Avenue, that day in May

And, I, reading him, ee Cummings
poem, "Since Feeling is First."
That one single poem my life did
change forevermore.
" He who worries about the syntax
of things, will never truly kiss you."

Ah~ how right E.E.Cummings is.
I was and still am ecstatic with:
"Wholly to be a fool in the world,
While Spring is in the world,
my blood approves."
"And kisses are a better fate than
wisdom, lady, I swear by all the
flowers."

How very true we were that day
to Cummings line:
"Then laugh, leaning back in my
 my arms"
 God Bless you, E.E, !
"For life in not a paragraph, and
 death is no parenthesis."

My life jettisoned after that day.
Forever, was I lost in a love capsule.
And hoped a poet, I would one day be.

Panagiota
11/7/2019