Great e. e. Cummings Poem

Whenever I visit the beach I think of  Cummings's poem 'maggie and milly and molly and may' and even my thoughts become lower case.  Then I panic! Should I have written 'cummings's' lower case irrespective of the separate issue of the possessive apostrophe?  

Another poem I recall on a stroll along the beach is John Masefield's 'Sea Fever', the one that starts, 'I must go down to the sea again/To the lonely sea and the sky...'  Thankfully no lower case issues with John Masefield.  

Please don't tell the punctuation police and instead enjoy the poem.

Steve

maggie and milly and molly and may

E. E. Cummings, 1894 - 1962

              

maggie and milly and molly and may 
went down to the beach(to play one day)

and maggie discovered a shell that sang 
so sweetly she couldn’t remember her troubles,and

milly befriended a stranded star
whose rays five languid fingers were;

and molly was chased by a horrible thing 
which raced sideways while blowing bubbles:and

may came home with a smooth round stone 
as small as a world and as large as alone.

For whatever we lose(like a you or a me) 
it’s always ourselves we find in the sea

Meet Shelly!

This morning I found this orphan on a beach in Devon; then had the difficult task of naming him/her/it.  After much deliberation - 20 seconds, I considered  Michelle (ouch!) but settled  for Shelley (Byron eat your heart out) given the poetry theme of this blog.  Shelley is already composing great sea-themed poems and is far better than me but that wouldn't be difficult.