sonnet entitled how to run the world) 

A always don't there B being no such thing 
for C can't casts no shadow D drink and 

E eat of her voice in whose silence the music of spring 
lives F feel opens but shuts understand 
G gladly forget little having less 

with every least each most remembering 
H highest fly only the flag that's furled 

(sestet entitled grass is flesh or swim 
who can and bathe who must or any dream 
means more than sleep as more than know means guess) 

I item i immaculately owe 
dying one life and will my rest to these 

children building a rainman out of snow


- ee cummings

Who knows if the moon's
a balloon,coming out of a keen city
in the sky-filled with pretty people?
(and if you and i should

get into it,if they
should take me and take you into their balloon,
why then
we'd go up higher with all the pretty people

than houses and steeples and clouds:
go sailing
away and away sailing into a keen
city which nobody's ever visited,where

always
            it's
                 Spring)and everyone's
in love and flowers pick themselves

e. e. Cummings - maggie and milly and molly and may

maggie and milly and molly and may

went down to the beach (to play one day)

and maggie discovered a shell that sang

so sweetly she couldn’t remember her troubles,and

milly befriended a stranded star

whose rays five languid fingers were;

and molly was chased by a horrible thing

which raced sideways while blowing bubbles:and

may came home with a smooth round stone

as small as a world and as large as alone.

For whatever we lose(like a you or a me)

it’s always ourselves we find in the sea