Finding Words

'Proverb or Saying'

 

- that was the challenge this week, given to us by Patrice

 I love words, and so it took me quite some time to decide what words I wanted to create with. 

But I finally decided on these ones.  

They are from a poem by E.E. Cummings written in 1952.  

Below is the full poem.

 

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

I was not satisfied with how this piece turned out - but it was a learning piece, and I am happy with that.

I learned things not to do next time.

 

- too many dots will make it too busy

-varied letter/word size is important  

- more white space is needed             

- perhaps a thicker black line (or pen)

 

 

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Along the way today I found some other words.

 

These words were written last September when I also took the photographs.

It was a time that I missed my words so much.

I struggled to find them in my head as I was healing from a concussion.

A concussion that toppled my world almost sixteen months ago now.

I continue to heal from it.

Fortunately my words are beginning to come more easily.  

 

 

It has been a lesson in patience.

 

 

 

 

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