Christmas Poem by e.e. cummings

SOURCE:

https://www.saltproject.org/progressive-christian-blog/2020/11/30/christmas-poem-by-e-e-cummings

from spiralling ecstatically this

proud nowhere of earth’s most prodigious night
blossoms a newborn babe:around him,eyes
— gifted with ever keener appetite
than mere unmiracle can quite appease —
humbly in their imagined bodies kneel
(over time space doom dream while floats the whole

perhapsless mystery of paradise)

mind without soul may blast some universe
to might have been,and stop ten thousand stars
but not one heartbeat of this child;nor shall
even prevail a million questionings
against the silence of his mother’s smile

— whose only secret all creation sings

+ e. e. cummings

little tree by e.e. cummings

SOURCE:  

https://www.saltproject.org/progressive-christian-blog/2020/12/22/little-tree-by-e-e-cummings

little tree

little silent Christmas tree

you are so little

you are more like a flower

who found you in the green forest 

and were you very sorry to come away? 

see            i will comfort you 

because you smell so sweetly

i will kiss your cool bark 

and hug you safe and tight 

just as your mother would, 

only don't be afraid 

look           the spangles 

that sleep all the year in a dark box 

dreaming of being taken out and allowed to shine, 

the balls the chains red and gold the fluffy threads, 

put up your little arms 

and i'll give them all to you to hold 

every finger shall have its ring 

and there won't be a single place dark or unhappy 

then when you're quite dressed 

you'll stand in the window for everyone to see 

and how they'll stare! 

oh but you'll be very proud 

and my little sister and i will take hands 

and looking up at our beautiful tree 

we'll dance and sing 

"Noel Noel"

+ E. E. Cummings