POETRY: Not Waving but Drowning by Stevie Smith

 

    
     NOT WAVING BUT DROWNING 
     by Stevie Smith


   Nobody heard him, the dead man,   

  But still he lay moaning:

  I was much further out than you thought   

  And not waving but drowning.

 

  Poor chap, he always loved larking 

  And now he’s dead

  It must have been too cold for him his heart gave way,   

  They said.

 

  Oh, no no no, it was too cold always   

  (Still the dead one lay moaning)   

  I was much too far out all my life   

  And not waving but drowning.

    Stevie Smith, “Not Waving but Drowning” from Collected Poems of Stevie Smith. Copyright © 1972 

















     










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   May the Goddess watch over you, and those you love, 

   kerk hiraeth

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