ode to the unnamed bell

“Ode to the Unnamed Bell”

 

Awakened by a toll that has no name,

Your brazen voice unfolds the dawn’s regret.

You summon every ghost to ink its claim,

And mark our hours in shadows unforget.

 

Through hollow bronze your ancient longing rings,

Reminding us of footsteps never walked.

Each peal a rite that trembles on its wings

To seal the vow in which our grief is locked.

 

O keeper of the hour that none recall,

Your echo whispers all we dared not say.

In you our nameless loss lives after all,

A lantern burning through the dark of day.

 

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Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

I could name one bell this reminds me of.

The Bell of Amherst (E.D.)

Your poem could almost make me like rhyme...I sure do like this one.I wonder sometimes how much grief we can store in that locked place...

[redd Brick Keshner]

And what if we unlock that place as Pandora had that box 📦!