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Poem by Robert Creeley


Water Music


The words are a beautiful music.
The words bounce like in water.

Water music,
loud in the clearing

off the boats,
birds, leaves.

They look for a place
to sit and eat—

no meaning,
no point.



Robert Creeley


Robert Creeley's other poems:
  1. The Rain
  2. The Conspiracy
  3. Ballad of the Despairing Husband
  4. I Know a Man
  5. The Warning


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