Elizabeth Melton Parsons

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I Carry Your Heart With Me

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i carry your heart with me

i carry your heart with me (i carry it in
my heart) i am never without it (anywhere
i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)
i fear
no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want
no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)

e. e. Cummings

Author: Elizabeth Melton Parsons

I'm a novelist, poet, and artist. I love books, nature, art, and gardening. I'm a rock hound and there's a photo of me with a cool fossil rock on my about page, I take a lot of nature pictures. The background here is one of mine. Unfortunately I recently lost my wonderful husband, but I'm grateful to have the blessing of two beautiful sons. elizabethmeltonparsons.wordpress.com is © Elizabeth Melton Parsons 2007-2018. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this blog’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Elizabeth Melton Parsons with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.

22 thoughts on “I Carry Your Heart With Me”

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  2. Cynthia Reyes
    January 10, 2017 at 11:39 pm

    Ah. So beautiful. Thanks for sharing, dear Elizabeth.

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  3. Debbie
    January 11, 2017 at 12:32 am

    Love EE Cummings and that particular poem speaks volumes…..bless you always Liza xxx

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  4. arlene
    January 11, 2017 at 12:43 am

    I was about to comment that’s e.e. cummings when I saw the end of the poem. I love the lines ” the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses.”

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  7. bernard25
    January 13, 2017 at 5:27 am

    Bonjour ou Bonsoir ★* *★ ELIZABETH

    Ce jour
    J’écoute Le Vent

    Me souffler des mots puissants et attachants
    A mon oreille il est venu me murmurer

    Des élans d’amitié avec des envies de liberté

    Me dire combien notre amitié compte entre toi et moi
    Une Amitié avec un grand A
    je te souhaite une excellente journée ou soirée’
    Une douce belle journée si je suis de journée

    Ou une tendre nuit si mon passage est du soir

    Gros bisous

    ​

    Bernard

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  8. Bumba
    January 13, 2017 at 7:03 pm

    i like e.e., but how come he never got the shift key fixed on his typewriter?

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  9. Aquileana
    January 14, 2017 at 1:28 am

    A most beautiful poem by an excellent poet… thanks for sharing!!!! best wishes! 😀 ❤

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    January 16, 2017 at 9:06 pm

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  11. bridie83.
    February 27, 2017 at 2:47 am

    It was a pleasure Eliazabeth – thank you!
    Bridie.

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