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.

From The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975. Copyright © 1983 by The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Used with permission. Originally published in Words (Scribner, 1967).

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Poems by This Author

A Poem by Robert Creeley If the water forms A Wicker Basket by Robert Creeley Comes the time when it's later Age by Robert Creeley Most explicit-- America by Robert Creeley America, you ode for reality! Kore by Robert Creeley As I was walking The Heart by Robert Creeley

Further Reading

Poems about Language Etymological Dirge by Heather McHugh I Am Much Too Alone in This World, Yet Not Alone by Rainer Maria Rilke please advise stop [I was dragging a ladder slowly over stones stop] by Rusty Morrison Poem by James Schuyler Primitive State [excerpt] by Anselm Berrigan The Composition of the Text by Adriano Spatola The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart by Jack Gilbert Tonight No Poetry Will Serve by Adrienne Rich What Is an Epigram? by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Yes by Denise Duhamel Poems about Music A Book Of Music by Jack Spicer A Score for Tourist Movies by Mary Austin Speaker Alexander's Feast; or, the Power of Music by John Dryden B-Sides from my Idol Tryouts by Harmony Holiday Beagle or Something by April Bernard Fiddler Jones by Edgar Lee Masters Go Greyhound by Bob Hicok Here and Now by Stephen Dunn Honky Tonk in Cleveland, Ohio by Carl Sandburg Hymn to God, My God, in My Sickness by John Donne Hymn to the Night by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Interlude: Still Still by Robin Behn Latin & Soul by Victor Hernández Cruz Little Fugue by Marianne Boruch Lost Fugue for Chet by Lynda Hull Lullaby in Blue by Betsy Sholl On 52nd Street by Philip Levine Passing Through Albuquerque by John Balaban Record by Katrina Vandenberg Street Music by Robert Pinsky The Day Duke Raised: May 24th, 1974 by Quincy Troupe The Everyday Enchantment of Music by Mark Strand The Guitar by Federico García Lorca The Last Evening by Steven Kronen The Owl and the Pussy-Cat by Edward Lear The Supremes by Mark Jarman The Waltz We Were Born For by Walt McDonald The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes The World Doesn’t Want Me Anymore, and it Doesn’t Know It by Sean Singer Two Pages, 122 Words on Music and Dance by John Cage Untitled by David Meltzer