The song I am

the song I am tonight falling
is me to you in a whisper
a dead man walking
around the silent clock

there are women beneath the bridge
unnamed water churning
with fish and gargoyles gaping
there are men at work with nothing

slender and constantly dying
the dragonfly of one day only
is yet to deliver one poem
of eternal brevity



Poetry by Bob
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Written on 2015-09-28 at 08:55

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Deeps
all i can say is- its beautiful
2015-09-30


countryfog
I like this a lot Bob, very original and stunning images, different and yet fitting, and fitting together into an evocative completeness. My Eastern sensibility though would say that the dragonfly itself is its own poem.
2015-09-28


josephus The PoetBay support member heart!
Bob, to me the first two lines are simply superb! They capture the title's essence for me. As I read the rest of the poem, I find the same feeling in the first two lines of each stanza. You have written two distinctly different poems here.

The song I am tonight falling
Is me to you in a whisper

There are women beneath the bridge
Unnamid water churning

Slender and constantly dying
The dragonfly of one day only

And the other
2015-09-28