I’m not a great reader of poetry.  It has never been my favorite thing to read, and I eye-rolled my way through the poetry units in my high school English classes.  Still, I love to expand my horizons and there are a very few poets who have my bookworm heart captured – none more so than my all-time favorite, e.e. cummings.  Every April, we celebrate National Poetry Month, and last year I started the tradition of marking it by subjecting you all to an e.e. cummings poem.  In fact, I’ve shared several of his poems here – my favorite, to celebrate back-to-school, a lovely piece for Easter last year, and one to celebrate Christmas.  Since it wouldn’t be National Poetry Month without a little e.e. cummings, here’s another piece that I think is sweet and Easterly and a perfect kickoff to a month spent reading poems:

love is more thicker than forget
more thinner than recall
more seldom than a wave is wet
more frequent than to fail

it is most mad and moonly
and less it shall unbe
than all the sea which only
is deeper than the sea

love is less always than to win
less never than alive
less bigger than the least begin
less littler than forgive

it is most sane and sunly
and more it cannot die
than all the sky which only
is higher than the sky

~e.e. cummings (source: The Poetry Foundation)

I’ll be back on Wednesday with a recap of Peanut’s first Easter.  In the meantime… have a Cadbury egg on me, and read a poem!