Cefalu! Poem by Emmanuel George Cefai

Cefalu!



Sea and ancient
Spume of sea
United joined
To scent of ancient
Unique Cefalu!

How many tales
How many nights
How many tales
Between your streets
Your walls your green
Up to the houses and
The stones.

If stones could speak
Speak Beauty and
Speak Venus
Arising from an early
Sea-shell marble-type
They would speak
And speak loud:
Cefalu!

The houses here dream
To seagulls’ screams
Under the wings of
Morpheus
The songs of Mnemosyne
Under the spell of island
Where you stay
Under the distant smell
Of burning Aetna.

If stones could speak
Speak Beauty and
Speak Venus-Dawn
They would speak
And speak loud:
Cefalu!

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