poetry

Sometimes, all I need is poetry to make my day better. Today was one of those days. It was one of those days where I felt like nothing went right, where every little thing that happened let to bigger things that ended up making me feel a rush of anger and sadness. They were all trivial things in the scheme of life, but I guess they relate to my life so maybe they aren't that trivial. These always make me feel better:

i carry your heart with me by: e.e. cummings
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)

Rain: by Shel Silverstein
I opened my eyes
And looked up at the rain,
And it dripped in my head
And flowed into my brain,
And all that I hear as I lie in my bed
Is the slishity-slosh of the rain in my head.

I step very softly,
I walk very slow,
I can't do a handstand--
I might overflow,
So pardon the wild crazy thing I just said--
I'm just not the same since there's rain in my head.

Poetry can do wonders for the soul. So can the Jaymay station on Pandora. I suggest both.