Thank you God for most this amazing by e.e. cummings

Thank you God for this amazing day
by e.e. cummings

i thank You God for most this amazing
day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun’s birthday; this is the birth
day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any—lifted from the no
of all nothing—human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?

(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

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This is one of the great “yes” poems, for me, this yes to life, and a prayer of thanksgiving and revelation and the opening of the senses. It’s also a poem of resurrection and coming back into the body. In the mystical traditions, there’s this awakening of the inner senses, deeper perceptions available when attention and presence are available. Cummings published this in Xaipe (1950), Greek for rejoice — a volume of praise written mid-career.