Corner Of Your Eyes Poem by Emmanuel George Cefai

From the corner of your eyes
You look
At the seasons:
Not in their face
But askance
You that is I:
So let go further in verse
Thus….
I decided to ignore the
Seasons
Then knowing I am a
Poet Seer
They come alone knocking
Knocking at my door
One after the other
Queuing:
A season has grown slender
Since I last saw it
Another has grown fat
Since that we met
Each season enters
Into my room I stay
On one side the season on
The other
We look at each other,
Askance generally
Not face to face
Say not a word
Break not the noble silence.
We must have patience sitting
In these ways:
Till
In this trial of mental
Strength
One yields and rises
Goes away
Leaving the field to the
Other.
Then when I am the loser
I make up whilst walking
Walking
In the opulence of thought
That comes alighting
Alighting
And
The season stays locked
Inside
Inside
The water's edge
That grows and
Stays
Around the room
Instead transforms in
Deep fog and mists
Arising
Arising….

Deep
In
The
Fields
Gorge
Your
Thoughts
See
There
Be
No
One
To
Make
Obstacles
The
Tourist
Round
The
Waters
Of
The
Swimming
Pool
Hanging
Shout
Upon
Shout
Shout
After
Shout
Of
Children

From the corner of your eyes
You look
At the seasons:
Not in their face
But askance
You that is I:
So let go further in verse
Thus….
I decided to ignore the
Seasons
Then knowing I am a
Poet Seer
They come alone knocking
Knocking at my door
One after the other
Queuing:
A season has grown slender
Since I last saw it
Another has grown fat
Since that we met
Each season enters
Into my room I stay
On one side the season on
The other
We look at each other,
Askance generally
Not face to face
Say not a word
Break not the noble silence.
We must have patience sitting
In these ways:
Till
In this trial of mental
Strength
One yields and rises
Goes away
Leaving the field to the
Other.
Then when I am the loser
I make up whilst walking
Walking
In the opulence of thought
That comes alighting
Alighting
And
The season stays locked
Inside
Inside
The water's edge
That grows and
Stays
Around the room
Instead transforms in
Deep fog and mists
Arising
Arising….