- love this in the center!
- Beautiful! - Just Kimberlee
e e cummings bench
Edward Estlin Cummings (1894 – 1962), popularly known as E. E. Cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. His body of work encompasses hundreds of poems, two novels, four plays and several essays, as well as numerous drawings and paintings. He is remembered as a preeminent voice of 20th century poetry, as well as one of the most popular.
Cummings' publishers and others have sometimes echoed the unconventional orthography in his poetry by writing his name in lower case and without periods. Cummings himself used both the lowercase and capitalized versions, but according to his widow did not, as reported in the preface of one book, have his name legally changed to "e e cummings". He did, however, once write to his French translator that he preferred the capitalized version. One Cummings scholar believes that on the occasions Cummings signed his name in all-lowercase, the poet may have intended it as a gesture of humility, and not as an indication that it was the preferred orthography for others to use for his name.
source: wiki
One of the poems on the bench (they are on both sides):
i have found what you are like
the rain,
(Who feathers frightened fields
with the superior dust-of-sleep. wields
easily the pale club of the wind
and swirled justly souls of flower strike
the air in utterable coolness
deeds of green thrilling light
with thinned
newfragile yellows
lurch and.press
-in the woods
which
stutter
and
sing
And the coolness of your smile is
stirringofbirds between my arms;but
i should rather than anything
have(almost when hugeness will shut
quietly)almost,
your kiss
This bench can be found alongside a tributary of the Willamette River off route 34 near the Harrison Boulevard Bridge.
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Paulo Rui Martins, I'm a changer, joiseyshowaa, greenka2000, and 35 other people added this photo to their favorites.
rdng tchr (54 months ago | reply)
Wow, Tony...what a wonderful bench! Where is this?!?
GeneC55 [deleted] (54 months ago | reply)
Cool bench...great find Tony!
Tony Fischer Photography (54 months ago | reply)
Hi! Just finishing the comments, still working on it.
Thanks, I am so happy you appreciate this gorgeous and unique bench.
rdng tchr (54 months ago | reply)
Thanks for the extra info...didn't mean to rush you! ;-)
giullong (54 months ago | reply)
Nous serions heureux de voir cette photo dans le groupe
Banc Public Bench
This photo deserves to be in Banc Public Bench.
Please add it to the group.
Jay Bees Pics (54 months ago | reply)
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ebroskie1234 (54 months ago | reply)
poetic and calming
I think this is a great image!
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KLnyc (54 months ago | reply)
I heard of Purple Rain.
But, never seen purple bench b4, bahahaha!
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melina1965 (54 months ago | reply)
Beautiful shot ! Congrats !
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Bob Zanger (54 months ago | reply)
You put his name in Caps...as gomer would have said shame shame shame. enjoyable reading though..
cupeiroalberto (54 months ago | reply)
Me gusta el detalle de la hoja , un saludo
kerrins_giraffe (54 months ago | reply)
Tony what a great find. It is so pretty.
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smokejmt (54 months ago | reply)
Yep... it's purple. Nice one, Tony!
turtlemom4bacon (54 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called www.flickr.com/groups/418199@N25/, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Neat bench photo and a great find, Tony!!!
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Paulo Rui Martins (54 months ago | reply)
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daretoaffirm [deleted] (54 months ago | reply)
Really great Tony!! Did you place the leaf there or was it 'serendipitous'?? Love the whole setting and the bench color
billnbenj (54 months ago | reply)
Great find,Tony and,as always,the back up information is superlative.
***Yuna*** (54 months ago | reply)
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So interesting about his name = )
Just Kimberlee (54 months ago | reply)
Absolutely amazing! Great image! Bravo!
greenka2000 (54 months ago | reply)
Music To My Eyes - (post 1 - give an award to 5)
albertka (54 months ago | reply)
Music To My Eyes - (post 1 - give an award to 5)
Lynda W1 (54 months ago | reply)
Nice shot. Very interesting
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http://TheConcreteJungleBook.com (54 months ago | reply)
Fine photo, thanks.
cummings wrote a novel worth reading, too, called the enormous room
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Enormous_Room
aliona's photos (53 months ago | reply)
Love the purple of the bench! Beautiful autumn composition!
DoodleDancer (53 months ago | reply)
greatness personified! ;~)
purplenoel (53 months ago | reply)
Beautiful...
I saw this in the 10+ Faves group and Faved it.
L'habitant (51 months ago | reply)
Any man who loves e e cummngs is sound enough for me. Brilliant photos in the stream. Best wishes from London, England.
MadreMia!!! [deleted] (48 months ago | reply)
Trying to start a new group for images relating to e.e. cummings. We would love to have this added to the pool.
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Tony Fischer Photography (48 months ago | reply)
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one
l
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"l(a... (a leaf falls on loneliness)"
by e.e.cummings
- thus, the leaf, which I found on the bench!
wimdejonge (47 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called bookends, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
This is the first time I wanted to put a park bench in my home.