Arab Drums Poem by Emmanuel George Cefai

Arab drums
and
Arab words
and
Arab singers
and
Arab verse
and
Arab dancers....


on and on
the song
slow and rising
as a lovely snake
amidst the desert
immensities
so
wound the song
the Arab song
as water that willed
not to stop
amidst those parching
sands

ah! desert civilization
fair world
as chains are cut
as you
in those immensities
hide
and yet
still on the Earth abide

For little lovelier
for little sweeter
be
than
Arab drums
and
Arab words
and
Arab singers
and
Arab verse
and
Arab dancers.