Before The Flood Poem by William Stanley Merwin
Before The Flood
Why did he promise me
that we would build ourselves
an ark all by ourselves
out in back of the house
on New York Avenue
in Union City New Jersey
to the singing of the streetcars
after the story
of Noah whom nobody
believed about the waters
that would rise over everything
when I told my father
I wanted us to build
an ark of our own there
in the back yard under
the kitchen could we do that
he told me that we could
I want to I said and will we
he promised me that we would
why did he promise that
I wanted us to start then
nobody will believe us
I said that we are building
an ark because the rains
are coming and that was true
nobody ever believed
we would build an ark there
nobody would believe
that the waters were coming
a poem with a message? that every body cries when some one dies!
To build an Ark before the flood! Thanks for sharing this poem with us.
Presaging verses about the coming of waters so to build an ark.....interesting
ONE: To understand this poem, we must know what occurred before. I will tell that here:
'under the kitchen'..I'm thinking he means 'kitchen window' And was the Ark ever built, not even a Small Ark; IS there such a thing?
And for the length of the poem I'd be looking for it to divided into stanzas. Oh, well, it IS interesting and SOUNDS like how a young kid might talk without stopping.
Well it seems William didn't believe in capitalization OR punctuation for this poem. I guess this could be called 'free verse'? ?
William Stanley Merwin (September 30,1927 - March 15,2019) was an American poet who wrote more than fifty books of poetry and prose and produced many works in...'
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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10/14/2024 4:25:26 AM # 1.0.0
Promise.... thanks for sharing......