"Falling Song" is a Canadian native poem that glorifies nature as personified by the geese who fly through the city "like bells that celebrate." The simile of the geese to the bells illuminates the imagery later in the poem when the first person narrator feels as if "I'd missed a parade." It is a a celebratory event when the geese appear through the weather and the narrator wishes "to follow" out of the city that is filled with the images of dreariness illustrated by the "rush hour streets," sooty windows, and "a window shade dull sky." This poem is fairly easy to understand: picture yourself in a large city on a dreary, rainy day filled with humanity and grime. Then, you see geese flying south, and recall the beauty of nature and the pleasure of taking a journey, to a sunnier, warmer climate. Wouldn't you, too, want to follow? For more information on the poet go to his website.

"The reader senses a struggle to attain self-knowledge as if Moses is feeling his way through the contradictions and puzzles of his life. Individual in both style and thought, possessing a striking original sensibility and a probing intelligence, Moses is an arresting poet."   

The poem is about the flight of geese, that the author celebrates with longing. 

The city where he lives obscures his view of the geese as they fly in formation through the misty sky.  He marvels at their purposeful flying, and the wonder of how the birds know their destination. 

Their instincts and the patterns that they make in the sky impress him.  He wants to follow them, in the simplicity of their flight for survival.  For him it is so joyous to see these birds, it is like a parade that celebrates an event. 

He reflects on how anyone feels when the fun of the parade has passed by and is only a memory.  He is longing to be close to nature again.

"He sees colour, texture, and movement with the eyes of a painter. His mood is romantic and nostalgic; his quiet, casual tone is made fresh by his spontaneous joy in ordinary things and in the processes of rural life and nature."

"Moses writes about the places and people he knows, on and around the farm where he grew up and the city where he works."