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"no one, not even the rain, has such small hands..."
Posted on Oct 7th, 2006
by 
Nicole
Nicole
ee cummings
somewhere i have never travelled... (LVII)
somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond
any experience, your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near
your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully, mysteriously) her first rose
or if your wish be to close me, i and
my life will shut very beautifully, suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;
nothing we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility: whose texture
compels me with the colour of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing
(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands
~~ Has anyone heard the soundtrack for Beauty and the Beast, that TV series that was on for a while in the 80s I think, which has this poem read soulfully with lovely background music?
I have just discovered through googling that, inspired by this poem, the Charlatans UK wrote this song:
(No One) Not Even the Rain
the first and lonely days have come
a sea of state
and a heaven unknown
and I don't like the air that I breathe
it can't escape from me
I don't belong to this world no more to
better myself why don't you do it again
why don't you say it again why don't you
save me again I can't do anything
not even the rain has such small hands
another kick my soul can't stand
and I don't like the air that I breathe
and I don't like the air that I breathe
it can't escape from me
I don't belong to this world no more to
better myself why don't you do it again
why don't you say it again why don't you
save me again I can't do anything
when honesty is mine to ride
a gem dissolving shadowslide
down you better not drown
what are you going to do when the sky
falls out of this world
I don't belong to this world no more to
better myself why don't you do it again
why don't you say it again why don't you
save me again I can't do anything
I don't belong to this world no more to
better myself why don't you do it again
why don't you say it again why don't you
save me again I can't do anything
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