contemporary poetry

and as we walked the grass was faintly stirred
all those treasures that lie
babylon-where i go dreaming
the body may confine
to come so soon to this imagined dark
thoughts through my head
from song and dream for ever gone
did you ever hear of
the lightning flashed, and lifted
dear wife
it tells of good old times
they ask me where i've been
muffled drum's sad roll has beat
thou unrelenting past