If the title Post Impressions II immediately agitates your dopamine reward receptors, then I'm guessing you are already an avid E.E.Cummings fan, and don't need any introduction to this wonderful poem.
For the rest of us Post Impressions II is the official title given to a poem commonly known as The Moon is Hiding in Her Hair by American poet E.E. Cummings. This poem was originally published in Cummings first book of verse back in 1923.
It has been my privilege over the last year to be introduced to Cummings work, and to be invited to create songs from his words as part of a bigger project.
For my part, my latest song to the poem Post Impressions II is called MOON .
I have three more Cummings songs that I have written, which will conclude this project for me, they will be released as new songs on the forthcoming album entitled SILVER, so look out for details of that new album towards the end of October.
I am hoping for an October release for SILVER as I put the finishing touches to the album.
Here is the original poem Post Impressions II as it was published in 1923, courtesy of E.E. Cummings free poetry archive.
the moon is hiding in
her hair,
The
lily
of heaven
full of all dreams,
drawns down.
cover her briefness in singing
close her with intricate faint birds
by daisies and twilights
Deepen her,
Recite
upon her
flesh
the rain’s
pearls singly-whispering