Inspirational Words: E. E. Cummings

e. e. cummings was and remains to be one of the most well-known American poets of the 20th century. In addition to writing thousands of poems, he was an essayist, author, painter, and a playwright. He's written some of the most beautiful arrangements of words in the English language and a few of them are below.

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So I'm writing a book...

As I've shared with some of you, I'm currently in the process of writing a book, tentatively titled "The Other Side of People." This book will be an amalgamation and synthesis of the knowledge, wisdom, experiences, and information I have accumulated over my lifetime. I don't want to say much more at this point, as much of it has yet to be written, but here is an excerpt from part of the first chapter of the first draft that I'm working on:

As human beings, we are not just biological organisms driven by survival-based motivations and needs to achieve homeostasis in our bodies. Nor are we merely vessels for thought, shells in which information is processed like a computer. We are not only waves of emotion being thrown about by the whims of external forces and internal pressures as we react to our environments. We are a synthesis of all these things and a multitude of other characteristics that make up the multifaceted existence and experience of being human. Most of all, we are persons; gestalts which are greater than the sum of the individual pieces of which we are composed and greater than the manner in which our parts are arranged. 

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Cocoon

Not everything that cocoons

becomes a butterfly.

A butterfly needs to undergo complete metamorphosis

at a cellular level,

each part of it transforming, shifting, changing,

in a delicate process that, if disturbed

can result in death.

People often enter cocoons of their own.

Sometimes it is necessary to cocoon,

to lose old ideas, beliefs, perspectives,

and gain new faculties and sensibilities;

to emerge with new possibilities for life.

But not every caterpillar that enters a cocoon

sprouts the wings it needs to fly.

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I want to give a sincere THANK YOU to everyone who's been supporting me, rocking with me, motivating me, encouraging me, inspiring me, and listening to my words and music over the past several years. As a token of gratitude, ALL of my music is now available for FREE download, including my latest EP, "the poet":

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Storm

like a branch that beats down

on a window pane in a storm,

threatening to  break it all –

shattered to pieces

like an unforgiving friend

who doesn’t want to hear apologies,

justifications or reason,

who just wants to know that you feel

as shitty as they do

liquid rock

searing over gray matter,

coursing through veins;

ashen trees with empty roots,

cracking at the seams,

brittle to the core

I will bend

but I will not break

against the weight of the storm

MLK Timeline

Check out this great, basic MLK timeline I got sent to me from www.onlinecollegecourses.com:

The Only Battle

Some battles don’t get won in a day. Some battles don’t ever get won. Sometimes people can fight a battle their entire lives only to realize near the end that they spent all their time fighting a battle really wasn’t worth fighting after all. And why is it that we find the need to fight at all? Where are we trying to get? What are we trying to win? We work and push and struggle and suffer and hope to come out the victors at the end of the day…but against whom or what could we ever truly emerge victorious?

The only real battle is the one we fight within ourselves, and the only true victory is when we learn a way to stop fighting; when we learn to simply be in the world.