I'm not the greatest fan of poetry in the classical sense, but sometimes there comes along a fantastic poem, a poem that can't be ignored, a poem that speaks to the very cells within your heart and that is a poem you will remember for the rest of your life.


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)

ee cummings

In my hands I hold a bowl of green tea. I see all of nature represented in its green colour. Closing my eyes I find green mountains and pure spring water within my own heart. Silently, sitting and drinking, I feel these become part of me. "

I found this quote on a random piece of paper in my scrap paper drawer, accompanied by illustrations... I thought perhaps I had written it, but before posting it on my blog I searched for it on-line and discovered that it is an old Japanese poem, source unknown.