Tiny Oars Poem by Emmanuel George Cefai

Tiny oars
That had from the heavens
Fallen
Fallen the silent seas
To ply
In to that paradise nocturnal
Where sweet palms
Flourished all secret over
The waters though coast by
Yet whose roots
Uprooted from the soils of earth
Now rested on the liquid seas
There were the waters that
Flashed by
And danced rising and falling
As dolphins of the night:
As dolphins do by day and morning
So
The relished silver spouts arose and
Fell
And played
And Poet Seers would hear them
Gargle and chuckle as fond water-babes
In fairy tales of deep and ancient age