Burning Of Desire Poem by Emmanuel George Cefai

Fire
Fire
The burning of desire
Penance is burning
Burning in a pyre
O the subconscious is
Beginning its reign
Come shrouds and ghosts
Of night
And with you satyrs wild
And fauns and nymphs
And
Naiads
All dance
All dance
All dance with cup
All
All
Al

Fire
Burns
Fire
Burns
Fire
Burns
I
Had
In
Me
The
Existential
And
With
The
Subconscious
Began
Away
The
Conscious
Ran
Away
Away
Dusk
Changed
To
Night
And -

The Timbrels started rolling
- figures dressed as animals
- roaring
- roaring
- dancing
- dancing

Dante with Beatrice
Is dancing
The sexton with the tree
The water-wave with the desert sand
The races of Earth
Together
Face to face, land to land

The wind is rising
The flowers bend not
Dusk pleasant blows
With Zephyr;
Circe with Ulysses
From her far cave
Pines at the Dusk
Soon
Will the night-stars
Deck the sovereign
Face of Night!



Zum zum zum zum
Zum

Hum hum hum hum hum

Hum

The lakes are filled
Of water
The reservoirs glitter
With water
The small hamlets sleep
Surrounded by the snows
And by the waters

The wind is rising
The flowers bend not
Dusk pleasant blows
With Zephyr;
Circe with Ulysses
From her far cave
Pines at the Dusk
Soon
Will the night-stars
Deck the sovereign
Face of Night!

Let me see the Dusk
Displaying

And
Let me see the Dusk
Wavering
And
Playing

And with the beauty
Of the flush-faced
Sunset
Vying!