Poetry of Eli Siegel
Existence Is Worthy of Love
On that day,
After so many,
Dandelions shone in the sun,
With a nice, quiet, wide green,
And a brook running so sweetly, sweetly, noisily, sweetly;
And the ages came to all this.
Pleasing dandelions,
Pleasing green, nice quiet grass,
Pleasing brooks.
Such beautiful ages;
Such sweetly-doing existence.
Existence is praiseworthy;
Existence is worthy of esteem;
Existence, having dandelions, shone on by the sun, dandelions near quiet, sweetly noisy brooks; existence is worthy of love.
Existence is worthy of love.
(Aesthetic Realism Foundation)
© 1926, 1983 by Eli Siegel