e.e.cummings

On some clear nights, walking along a quiet country road, we can sometimes perceive just how immense the universe is.

Here’s a poem by American poet, painter, essayist, author and playwright, e.e. cummings. He is known for his use of idiosyncratic syntax and uses lower-case spellings for poetic expression.

A Connotation Of Infinity

a connotation of infinity
sharpens the temporal splendor of this night
when souls which have forgot frivolity
in lowliness, noting the fatal flight
of worlds whereto this earth's a hurled dream
down eager avenues of lifelessness
consider for how much themselves shall gleam,
in the poised radiance of perpetualness.
When what's in velvet beyond doomed thought
is like a woman amorous to be known;
and man, whose here is always worse than naught,
feels the tremendous yonder for his own-
on such a night the sea through her blind miles
of crumbling silence seriously smiles

-- e. e. cummings