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Wednesday, March 01, 2006

Poems from "In her shoes"

Two poems were used in "In her shoes." Watched that movie sometime back. I was searching for them on net for sometime. Now I have found them.
1. One Art by Elizabeth Bishop

The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.

Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant to travel.
None of these will bring disaster.

I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.

I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster.

--Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident
the art of losing's not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.

2. 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)

26 Comments:

  • At 5:48 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    love these poems makes me think of my best friend just like the girls in her shoes we might aswell be sisters.. we don't talk anymore now im in university i miss her these poems are beautiful love them!

     
  • At 10:20 AM, Blogger Unknown said…

    Very nice poem..love'em.this make me remember of school days and my favorite Nike shoes.Thanks for the post.

     
  • At 5:07 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    After wacthing this movie I also looked for these two poems, really touching. Thanks for posting, I'm going to put them on my blog too.

     
  • At 4:47 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    I love these two poems one is my thought of a love for a man. The other of a sister who has not talked to me for a year now.
    I had wished in never reached the year but I did all I could. Maybe she should watch the movie and read these poems.

     
  • At 10:07 PM, Blogger Unknown said…

    Thanks for the post .. This is a great poem :-D

     
  • At 1:47 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Thanks!!

     
  • At 1:07 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    I was looking for the poem one art...was so glad to have found it in your blog...

    Thank you for posting! Sweet!

     
  • At 6:18 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    wow, I have looked for these, too, and want to thank you. I need them to help mend a broken heart.

    Thank you so much!

     
  • At 2:11 PM, Blogger Unknown said…

    The movie reminds me so much of the relationship between my sister and myself. I love that movie and both poems. "I carry your heart with me" is just how I feel about my lil' sis.

     
  • At 9:35 PM, Blogger Tao said…

    Weren't they sister? If not how could she
    protect cameron Diaz? Tao;)

     
  • At 3:31 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    thank you so much! God Bless!

     
  • At 12:29 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    thank you so mutch... i finished watching the movie and i came fast to look for the second poem .. thanx,god plus you

     
  • At 2:22 PM, Anonymous Shaz said…

    Thank you so much I was looking for these and your blog showed up! :)

     
  • At 2:59 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    these poems are beautiful. Its sad how so many women can relate to the situation these two sisters are going through in this film. I know I can. My youger sister does a lot of the same things just relatively worse, though unlike diaz' character she does things like this deliberately. she truly thinks its cute and feels no remorse, ever. And She's stupid. i have done so much for her and still to this day love her. Am I a Bad Person for wishing I could hate her like the older sister (whose name i cannot remember for the life of me) wished she could I too find it impossible to stay mad at her no matter how miserable she tries to make my life. funny part is Im the pretty one, the smart one, the ambitious one, the literate one, but im still not THE one. i want to be able to tell her to stay out of my life and mean it. Hopefully she'll read this and save me the trouble.

     
  • At 3:47 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    thank you for posting these poems! deeply touching and beautiful words to express such feelings.

     
  • At 11:17 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    I just saw this movie what an awesome movie loved it... I really liked the poem In My Heart to her sister thank you so much for finding these

     
  • At 5:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    I've watched the movie multiple times, and saw the book title for Elizabeth Bishop, but couldn't figure out the other one. E E Cummings is good. Thanks for posting these. This movie and her reading helped spur me to look into poetry a little bit more.

     
  • At 5:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    I loved the second poem
    it really helped me say the word for my dad funeral
    so thank you for posting them on the web

     
  • At 9:47 PM, Blogger Angelica said…

    thank you for posting this poems... Love them and the movie!!!

     
  • At 3:30 AM, Blogger Catalina Redheels said…

    I watched the movie for... I don't know which time last nigh on tv. Loved the second poem the second I heard it the first time.
    The first poem I never paid attention to, but always cried afterwards while listening to the analysis she made... I really felt the same way - like loosing a friend.
    Thanks for the post :)

     
  • At 7:10 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Love theses poems, reminds me og my best friend, my sister and how close we are and all the bull we've been through together!

     
  • At 3:51 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Great poems. First poem ending in disaster is so sad as I guess we can all think of lost relationships. For me lost relationship with x mother in law who knew me for 14years since age of 18. We were very close but times change and worlds divide! She even held my first child all night long in his first week when I was taken into hospital after an allergic reaction, not moving for fear he woke and cried out for his mother. It is sometimes painful to look back as sad to consider relationships which are no longer. She lives in France and will probably never see her again nor she her grand children.

     
  • At 11:50 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    god, i loved this film! thank you for looking up the elizabeth bishop, the e.e. cummings i knew. the poetry was so important to this movie for me. i think it's some of cameron diaz's best acting. i seen this movie several times mostly because it is one of a small genre of films i call "the suicided bipolar moms" movies. another one is i think called "sunshine cleaners" and there have been a couple others i can't remember. i watch these beautiful films as a now treated mom with manic-depression. i have in the past felt suicidal so often even with my beautiful children and these movies real touch me so deeply. thank you, now i can go look up more of elizabeth bishop's work :) peace.

     
  • At 9:42 AM, Blogger Veronica said…

    I love both of the poems in the movie "in Her Shoes."

    The movie has so many significant points about life's relationships, insecurities, and acceptance of ourselves and each other. Both poems hinge around those concepts.

    I could actually watch the movie every day and not get bored.

     
  • At 12:22 PM, Blogger Unknown said…

    I love the poem, but parenthesis definitely take away from the simplicity and directness that makes a poem more powerful and far reaching.

     
  • At 9:58 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…


    A few lines from Jane Kenyon's “Let Evening Come” was also featured in the film "In Her Shoes," in a scene where the character played by Cameron Diaz reads the poem. Jane Kenyon (May 23, 1947 – April 22, 1995)was the second wife of poet, editor, and critic Donald Hall who made her the subject of many of his poems.

     

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