One of the Best Praise Prayers I Know!

This poem by e e cummings is just the thing for weather like this! And it's a  sonnet, one of my favourite forms of poetry. Hard to read this and scowl, or frown, or moan - and notice where the higher case is used - not the first person singular, but the second person transcendent! Love it.

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)

Comments

[Geoff Colmer]

Hi Jim! I used Eric Whiteacre's setting of this, which I think is stunning, as part of our Faith Engaging with the Arts day. If you don't know it do give it a go! Trust things are well with you.

[Lucy Mills]

Love it. Thanks.