Trailing Thoughts - e.e. cummings' Dive For Dreams

I just got home from a night out at the movies. A line from Charlie St. Cloud caught my attention, aside from Zac Efron himself, and which comes from one of my favorite poets. I already have come to terms with my father's passing and have gained closure with a past love affair. Being reminded of e.e. cummings and of the poem where the line was taken comes to me at a time I feel I am most in need of a new beginning. And with this encounter, I am given more drive to dive for dreams that I have long made to slumber.

"Trust your heart if the seas catch fire (and live by love though the stars walk backward)"
- e.e. cummings

dive for dreams
e.e. cummings

dive for dreams
or a slogan may topple you
(trees are their roots
and wind is wind)
trust your heart
if the seas catch fire
(and live by love
though the stars walk backward)
honour the past
but welcome the future
(and dance your death
away at the wedding)
never mind a world
with its villains or heroes
(for good likes girls
and tomorrow and the earth)
in spite of everything
which breathes and moves, since Doom
(with white longest hands
neating each crease)
will smooth entirely our minds
-before leaving my room
i turn, and (stooping
through the morning) kiss
this pillow, dear
where our heads lived and were.

silently if, out of not knowable

silently if, out of not knowable
night's utmost nothing,wanders a little guess
(only which is this world)more my life does
not leap than with the mystery your smile
sings or if(spiralling as luminous
they climb oblivion)voices who are dreams,
less into heaven certainly earth swims
than each my deeper death becomes your kiss
losing through you what seemed myself,i find
selves unimaginably mine;beyond
sorrow's own joys and hoping's very fears
yours is the light by which my spirit's born:
yours is the darkness of my soul's return
-you are my sun,my moon,and all my stars

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