Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LA GUERRE: 1, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS


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First Line: The bigness of cannon
Last Line: The night utter ripe unspeaking girls.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E.
Subject(s): War


the bigness of cannon
is skilful,

but i have seen
death's clever enormous voice
which hides in a fragility
of poppies. . . .

i say that sometimes
on these long talkative animals
are laid fists of huger silence.

I have seen all the silence
full of vivid noiseless boys

at Roupy
i have seen
between barrages,

the night utter ripe unspeaking girls.





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